A critique of the book is included. The critique includes questions that the author should have addressed/considered. It should be about 1 page.…
Firstly, the first section in the book is divided into chapters 1-4. Beginning with the first chapter it stresses how the author…
1 Summary: After listing the name of the book and author, summarize the book concisely in 500 “tight” words (no more than 2 pages). Prove that you comprehend the reading by writing a no-nonsense summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics, but rather a heartfelt, condensed, insightful synopsis of the longer, more elaborate book. Cite the book in text at least once per paragraph, and include page numbers for direct quotations.…
The summer before her freshman year of high school, Melinda Sordino, meets Andy Evans at a party. Outside in the woods, Andy rapes her. Melinda calls 911, but does not know what to say. The police come and break up the party. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her, and no one asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast, shunned by her friends for calling the police. She remains silent and sinks into depression. Melinda is befriended by Heather, a new girl, who clings to Melinda only to ditch her for "the Marthas". As Melinda's depression deepens, she begins to skip school, isolating herself from her parents and others who assume she is seeking attention. She slowly ignores her lab partner, David Petrakis, who encourages her to speak up for herself. The truth comes out about what happened at the party. Realizing the truth, the students no longer treat Melinda as an outcast but as a sort of hero instead. As Melinda was going about school days, her disguise used to make her stay in her own world alone, soon began to break apart as she learned how to speak up for herself.…
1. Summary: After listing the name of the book and author, summarize the book concisely in 500 “tight” words (no more than 2 pages). Prove that you comprehend the reading by writing a no-nonsense summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics, but rather a heartfelt, condensed, insightful synopsis of the longer, more elaborate book. Cite…
Allyson is the ultimate good girl, but toward the end of a surprisingly boring post-graduation tour of Europe, she makes an impulsive decision to skip the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's Hamlet for a street production of Twelfth Night featuring a striking Dutch actor. The next day, Allyson bumps into the handsome Dutchman, Willem, on a train ride to London, and they strike up a flirtatious banter in which he dubs her Lulu. After their two-hour trip, Willem offers to show "Lulu" around Paris "for JUST ONE DAY," and to her best friend's shock, she agrees. During their intimate day (and night) in Paris together, Allyson lets go of her inhibitions and enjoys taking risks, getting lost in the sights and sounds of a new place, and most of all, falling for this deep and enigmatic guy. But the next morning, Willem is inexplicably gone. Distraught and depressed, Allyson spends the entire following year coming to terms with how whirlwind romance changed the course of her life. Author Gayle Forman has already impressed readers with a moving novel about the difference a day makes, so it's no surprise she's taken the idea and inserted strangers instead of estranged exes as she did in Where She Went. Forman has created in Allyson's story not only the kind of intense 24-hour romance that quickens pulses but also a truly transformative coming-of-age tale that will inspire young women to take the Shakespearean line "to thine own self be true" to heart. By allowing Willem to rename her Lulu (he never learns her real name that night), Allyson starts off acting like a more adventurous spirit but slowly comes to realize she is capable of so much more than meeting her parents' straight-A, pre-med, Ivy League expectations.…
been respected as a publisher in many ways. He won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National…
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human”(Tim O’Brien).…
By carefully completing this assignment over the summer, you will be prepared to discuss the story in the fall, to take a summer reading quiz and to write an in-class essay using your book and packet as the basis for your responses.…
1. Using the information from the reading and from your online research, decide who you think should be named “Person of the Decade.” Then write a letter to the Time magazine nominating committee explaining why they should select your choice for “Person of the Decade.”…
Throughout his lifetime, with the inspiration from his Mother, Gardner accomplished many things in his novelist career. One of his biggest accomplishments was in 1972 when he was awarded the Nation Education Award. Again, in 1972-73 he received the Danforth Fellowship, and shortly after he had the same Fellowship named in his honor. He published many great and influential novels, the one novel that really put him on the map, as a novelist was Grendel.…
with the prestige’s award of the Pulitzer Prize winner for being a top journalism and literature…
The Coretta Scott King Book Award is a book award that revolves around the black experience. The awards are given yearly to black authors and illustrators of books that portrays admiration for African American culture. The award is in honor of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr., whom were both civil rights activists. The award was founded in 1969 by Mabel McKissick and Glyndon Greer,( The History of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards. (n.d.). Retrieved June 07, 2016, from http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/about). For my previous assignment I chose, How It Went Down, a book about a community after a sixteen-year-old African American teenaged boy who was shot and killed by a white shooter. For the one before that, I chose Gone…
Two Nobel Prize winners namely Mr. James Edward Meade CB, FBA winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, winner of the 2001 the Nobel Prize for Literature but one verdict:…
During the 1950s she was awarded three major literary prizes: The Carnegie Medal of the Library Association, The Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Regina Medal of the American Catholic Library Association.…