Kylie Scott is a New York Times and USA Today Best selling author. She loves B Horror, rock n roll music, and love stories. She lives, reads, and writes in her home located in Queensland, Australia. She has written the "Stage Dive" series, the "Flesh" series, "Colonist's Wife" series, and the "Heart's A Mess" series.…
was transferred to a nursery home. Roylin felt real bad and finally decided to give in, he really wanted to go to the cops but his mouth wouldn’t let the words come out his mouth.…
In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls describes her childhood and her views of the world as she grew up. She pushed herself through poverty to eventually become successful. Throughout the book, Jeannette describes her horrific ordeals and crazy adventures her family had. They moved to dozens of different places and even lived in the family car for some time. The Glass Castle shows Jeannette’s power of forgiveness, a common theme in the book.…
In his novel, The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad uses strong imagery to fully describe the characters and the relationships they have with one another. Throughout the story the pattern of imagery used by Joseph Conrad would be seen in the early twentieth century of the corrupted London society. The story written by Conrad can be related back to the time error it was written in. This novel was written in an error where terrorist threats were becoming increasingly more popular. Joseph Conrad would commonly use two men as his main characters whom were both of the Russian Activist “fan club”. These men would be the focus of Joseph Conrad’s pieces.…
In our lives, we all have secret places that allow us to hide parts of our lives which we want to keep hidden from the world. A place where we can feel safe, alone, or a mixture of both. In the novel Jasper Jones, the author, Craig Silvey, attempts to bring forward this idea: he uncovers the hidden truth about the places we keep secret in our own lives. By revealing Jasper Jones’ secret place and disclosing additional information about Jasper by doing so, Craig Silvey depicts how Jasper’s secret place sheds light on his life especially his outcast position in society and his life living in the enclave. Jasper is born an outcast and the outcast mentality has become a major part of who he is.…
In the thrilling and suspenseful novel, The Cellar by Natasha Preston, the main character Summer was followed on her way to a nightclub, when a stranger from behind abducted her, and took her to the middle of the English country side. She later was awoken by three strangers all smiling at her as she lay on the cold linoleum floor. The strangers were dressed like dolls, each matching with long sweaters and matching pants, the only difference was the delicately embroidered flowers on each of the sweaters. The three girls all looked as if they were zombies, all hypnotized by something, but showing only one emotion, fear. And that is when Summer realizes she has been kidnapped. The story shows, what it is like to feel powerless and for all freedom to be taken away from you, this challenge is faced by the main character Summer. From the beginning of the story, Summer is faced with the challenge of trying to get out of the too perfect basement.…
In the “Hunter” by Julia Leigh a man goes into the wilderness to hunt the mysterious Tasmanian tiger. The story is about the inexplicable thylacine and it is set in the wilderness of Tasmania. The story is told in third person, and it is in present tense it is a simple story. Leigh's central character, Martin Davis is sent to Tasmania to harvest a rare and elusive species he is hired by a pharmaceutical company to hunt the last thylacine cat, an animal many believe to be extinct. His journey brings into his life three people he doesn't want to care for, but does when they are rudely taken from him, he becomes even more absorbed in his goal. Readers can never be sure whether Martin or the thylacine is really the hunter. The most significant relationship in the novel exists between Martin and the thylacine. He pursues and tempts her like a lover. During certain parts of the novel I became unsure of whether Martin had actually seen the cat or if he was going crazy, imagining shadows and sounds in his desperate loneliness. When Martin finally closes in on his target, it is clear that he is the only one who understands this creature and will succeed where other hunters have failed. The stories central idea is about what happens when a man is lonely, broken and vicious as he goes deep in the Tasmanian darkness to hunt a prized creature the main question that was going through my head as I was reading it was what will the conclusion be and who, ultimately, is the…
In the book Push precious is similar to one of the prisoners in “Allegory of the Cave” because they both started in the cave. This is true because while they were in the cave they both faced some similar oppression. To begin, when precious got out of the hospital and straight home her mom tried to kill her so precious says ¨Gonna kill me wif her ¨BARE HANDS¨ it's like a black wall gonna crash on me¨ (Precious 74). This is significant because when precious return home as well the ¨cave” she is getting oppressed by her mom when she describes that her mom is going to kill her since she had a baby. This connects to “Allegory of the Cave” because so she is trapped inside the cave just how when the prisoner came back and told the other prisoners…
In the piece written by Joan Acocella called “The Child Trap The Rise of Over…
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The title of this book is The Hiding Place. The author of The Hiding Place is Corrie Ten Boom. The Hiding Place was published by Bantam Books. There are 241 pages in The Hiding Place. The genre of The Hiding Place is a biography.…
Becca Fitzpatrick is not a well-known author and is still trying to get her name out there in the world. Her genre of writing is mainly young adult fiction with fantasy, romances, and a little mystery mixed in. Becca Fitzpatrick has only been writing for about fourteen years and has six published books. In Hush, Hush, Fitzpatrick’s main focus is fallen angels, angels, touches briefly on Nephilim, the powers they possess, and what their mission is here on the earth. Throughout Hush Hush Fitzpatrick uses archetypes such as, Nora and Patch, that people can relate to, especially teenagers, for years.…
Natalie Angier is a great example of an influential writer. She was born in New York on February 16th , 1958. In college she studied Astronomy and English , at both the University of Michigan and Barnard College. She was hoping to start her own science magazine after college, but instead she was hired to work on one. When she was 22, she became a writer , as well as staff reporter for a science magazine named Discovery. This is not the only job she had at the time though. She also was an editor for the woman's magazine , " Savvy" , a professer of journalism at the New York University in the graduate program of Science and Environmental Reporting. In 1990, she got a big break , writing for New York Times about many different topics involving science. She wrote about animals , from cockroaches to turtles , as well as human issues , such as depression , men's self harm , and bad mothers. Her hard work paid off when ten months after she started writing she recieved a Pulitzer Prize in the category of Beat Reporting for a series of 10 articles she wrote. Her writing has since won her many awards , appeared in many different publications, and has made its impact. She currently, has four books out , Natural Obsessions, The Beauty and the Beastly , Woman : An Intimate Geography, and The Canon : A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. In the books ,she tackles several different topics. (Natalie Angier)…
The author of my book is Carolyn Mackler. She was born in Manhattan on July 13, 1973. When she was one, her parents moved from Greenwich Village to Syracuse and then to Brockport, which is a small village in Western New York (and the setting for many of her novels and stories). Carolyn graduated from Vassar College in 1991. In 2003, Carolyn's second book came out. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things went on to win the Printz Honor. Carolyn writes about literature-fiction, romance, and young adult. Carolyn stated, "People always ask me, 'Why do you write books for teenagers?' Lots of reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that I honestly believe that, along with certain friendships, I was saved by the books I read during those years as a teenager. They spoke to me in a way that nothing else did. They helped me feel less alone. They made me laugh. They made me feel like there was a world bigger than my high school." Now Carolyn lives with her husband and son in New York City.…
On April 24, 1940, Sue Grafton was born to Cornelius Warren, an attorney and novelist, and Vivian Boisseau (Harnsberger) Grafton, a high school chemistry teacher, in Louisville, Kentucky. ("Sue Grafton" I 1) Her father, also called Chip, wrote and published three psychological mysteries and a novel as C.W. Grafton. ("Sue Grafton" I 1) With her parents being a lawyer, writer, and teacher, there were various books around the house that her mother labeled: dirty, dull, or good. ("Sue Grafton" I 1) At an early age, Sue Grafton was already pursuing her love for literature given that her parents allowed her older sister, Ann, and her to read any book of their choice. ("Sue Grafton" I 1) As Sue was indulged in adult crime novels, her friends were only reading Nancy Drew mysteries. ("Sue Grafton" I 1) Even with both her parents being alcoholics, she credits them, her father more so than her mother, for her initial love and inspiration in detective fiction and reading in general. ("Sue Grafton" I 1)…