Jonas gives Gabriel calming memories that rock him to sleep, like the ones the Giver gave to Jonas. Gabriel and Jonas start a bond with each other. But Jonas finds out that he will be released or killed, Jonas becomes outraged and prepares a proposal with the Giver to bring back the world to its good olden days. Jonas goes on his journey earlier than expected because his father told him that Gabriel will be released earlier than expected. So Jonas takes Gabriel and sets off on his journey. Jonas travels on his father's bike. As Jonas travels to elsewhere there are oodles of dangerous terrains but he has to travel on them to avoid the search planes that are searching for Jonas. Finally, Jonas finds a sled, the one in his first memory from the Giver, they two slide down to a small village where he hears music and sees lights. Jonas thinks that this is where elsewhere…
Lily is ready to finish her journey in the return stage of the monomyth. In the hero’s journey, this stage is about the character coming to a realization that changes him/her. In this story, it’s about how Lily finally accepts that T-Ray will never live up to her expectations for a father. T-Ray constantly disappoints Lily so it catches her by surprise when he shows up at August's house. At first, she is happy that he came all the way to Tiburon to get her but then he makes it clear that the only thing he really cares about is his pride. T-Ray demands Lily to come home with him but she refuses and T-Ray starts having an emotional breakdown. He thinks Lily is Deborah and hits her multiple times because he is so upset and angry she left him.…
Eragon, a farm boy in Carvahall, finds a strange blue stone in a region of untamed forest called the Spine. He later finds out that this peculiar blue stone is actually a dragon egg. He secretly takes care of this dragon, Saphira, in a forested area behind his house. As time passed, Eragon realizes that he will soon have to reveal his secret to Roran (his cousin brother) and Garrow (his uncle) as Saphira grew and matured extremely quickly.…
In The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, we learn that Rosalind Morton, one of the main characters, is caring, supportive, and mature. Rosalind may be young, yet she manages to have a graceful and organized way about her and this shows how mature she is. The extenuating circumstances that Rosalind had to face when she was younger may have helped her to develop and learn these traits. Rosalind is also an excellent role model for Petra, when Petra was figuring out how to manage her telepathic abilities, Rosalind spent a long time teaching Petra and she was a very supportive mentor. She demonstrates just how caring she is in this passage, after she rushed to Petra’s side. “Rosalind rode under the tree and told her it was safe to come down...seated…
The reason why I chose to give Blue Sargent, from The Raven Boys, the “feminist” award is because there isn’t a moment in the book where Blue chooses to believe that one gender is superior to another, and if someone else thinks that, she’ll always correct them. Blue hangs out with a group of four other boys throughout their adventures and you can see straight off the bat from when they first met that Blue doesn't find herself inferior to them in any way. When Gansey asks Blue to go over and talk to his friend, Adam, and she refuses, he offers to pay her for it. Of course, Blue doesn’t take it. She instead moves on to teach him a lesson, saying, “You think you can just pay me to talk to your friend? Clearly you pay most of your female companions…
1. Models are analogies that allow us to clarify hypotheses—proposed explanations of relationships between causes and effects. What roles do models play in testing hypotheses?…
The story itself begins when an evacuation of Westerners is ordered in the midst of revolution in Baksul, India. A plane containing four passengers is hi-jacked and flown far away into the Keun-Lun Mountains of Tibet. The plane crashes and the passengers are welcomed to the valley of the Blue Moon, and the lamasery of Shangri-la. Here they see an isolated monastery shrouded in mystery, which combines Christianity and Buddhism with a focus on the progression of knowledge.…
Hello Barbie owners have a good reason to be concerned after the latest news form Bluebox. Bluebox is a security firm and they have explained how the new Barbie doll may have many kids privacy invaded. After this news, Barbie might have to bow out to Princess Elsa for the dominant female kids figure.…
By then, I had taken up almost every soul on Himmel Street. The only one left was Liesel. I felt bad for the little girl, she was so innocent. A sweet girl like her did not deserve to have almost everyone she loved taken away from her. I felt so bad that I almost put Rudy back in his body so that they could live a happy life together. I decided against the proposition, because the Boss wouldn’t be very pleased with me.…
Little did this man know that he would play a very significant role in the creation of a new world much like the one that he currently lived in. Torr was called into action when the Kinship found where he and many others were hiding. Only a few escaped the raid. He fled to a small and seemingly insignificant cave, which is now known as the Sakriya Caves. Inside those caverns is where Torr began to realize his role in the creation of the material world, for the Sakriya Caves is where Torr began his fierce battle with the visions of the many souls that were trapped within the gemstone-laden walls of the caves. As he caught glimpses of many lives and a myriad of diverse locations, his body began to deteriorate. By the time Torr left the caves, most of his skin had eroded away, leaving the weakened muscles and frail bones that remain. When Torr reemerged from the Sakriya Caves, the Grey Kinship had conquered all of Wisteria and Kaisog held the reigns to a very strict regime. It is said that the great sorrow that Torr felt in learning this is what conjured the gold chain into existence. Regardless of what is fact and what is myth, it is known to all that Torr took the chain directly to the enormous palace of Kaisog, where he solely defeated the guards of the tower, before…
When Robert was born his father was away with the army. There were complications at birth and his mother was at the mercy of everyone.…
People in his family died, so when people are revived maybe it’s like he is trying to bring them back in real life.…
At the entry of the underworld, Ceres stood waiting and pacing, nerve-rackingly excited to be reunited with her darling beloved daughter once again. Ceres’s excitement brought forth prosperity across the land, as the snow began to slowly melt away and the Northern wind nearly come to a cease. The end of a long and terrible winter has just…
Around a fireplace sit eager ears, hungry for the most exciting and creepy stories available to the human imagination. Christmas eve in England annual include stories full of ambiguity, frightening characters and most importantly of all, ghosts. Henry James wrote a tale that would be perfect to tell in this setting. His novel, Turn of the Screw is the quintessential ghost story. He includes all the necessary elements, but perhaps his best talent is in creating ambiguity. Fro some readers it is not exactly clear whether or not the governess is clinically insane or if the ghosts that haunt Blye are real. However, James does provide enough information to prove that the ghosts are real and not imagined by giving details confirmed by the housekeeper, showing the children’s relationship with them, and finally, in Miles’ death.…
There are five primitive setting that was mentioned in the story these are the following Ruby Pier, the battlegrounds on which he fought in the war, mountains, various wedding receptions and a river.Earth and heaven was the prime setting that was mentioned in the story. It began at the Rubi Pier where Eddie grew up with Rubi Pier. This was the first place that was reffered in the story. It simply because the father of Eddie worked for their needs and necessities in life. The place or the setting of the story in Eddie’s childhood was Rubi Pier because of his memories about his childhood incidents at that place. It was also the place where Eddie started to work to as a maintanance and the place where Eddie was killed on his own birthday. At first Eddie met the Blue Man, in heaven, at Rubi Pier. Yet, it was not the Rubi Pier that he was killed at the very first beginning. It was the Rubi Pier that Eddie reminisced his childhood memories. He woke up and observed the amusement at the park and the white paint. He ran through out around the Pier Eddie seen the fortune tellers, weight guessers, dancing gypsies. Eddie was happy and carefree. Eddie was not yet discourage enough. As a child the white paint of the rides represented Eddie's purity as a child.…