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Diversity In The Book Thief
Cyrano
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Romeo and Juliet
The Book Thief
Recognizing Diversity
In the story, there is a war going on between the Spaniards and the Frenchmen. Cyrano and his cadets, are sent by De Guiche to the frontline of the war to fight and defend France. There is a spy under the command of De Guiche that tells the Spaniards to attack, basically sending his own Frenchmen into death.
Junior lives on an poor Indian Reservation, but goes to school at a rich, white people school. He was shunned at first because of his skin tone, but he was accepted by the students after he showed that he could stand up for himself. Roger was agitating Junior when he first arrived at the school, after Junior punched him in the face, he started to respect Junior, even though
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The reality is that Junior might live the rest of his life in the reservation, similarly to his parents and grandparents.
Both Romeo and Juliet are under the impression that they can live happily ever after with each other, despite the fact that their families hate each other, and may kill the other is they ever find out about the lovers. In reality, they end up killing themselves because they can not peacefully live out their lives together, without fear of their own families.

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Climax, foreshadowing, and personification. Cyrano personifies his nose and gives it a variety of human-like characteristics in a speech when Valvert asks him about his nose.
Foreshadowing, imagery, paradox and personification. A paradox is used to describe money as both an ugly and beautiful thing. Money is needed to live a good life, but at the same time, money is the thing that ruins many people’s lives.
Prologue, foreshadowing, iambic pentameter, sonnet, aside, classical allusion, oxymoron, etc. In the prologue, Shakespeare foreshadows the ending of the play by saying that both lovers will die and the feud between the two families will end with their

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