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    through Molching. Liesel watches each face every time

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    Why do you think the thief was an outcast? Suggest reasons why his fingers had been cut away. Why do you think the thief responds to the boy by surrendering? Explain the man’s punishment of the thief. Do you think he did the right thing? How does the boy feel about his father’s action? The thief was an outcast because he was by himself without anything but the butcher knife and the clothes on his back. The fingers on his right hand had been cut away most likely because he was an outcast probably

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    Identity Thief: Character Misjudgement in A Separate Peace and The Poison Tree The quality of individuality and the vital role it plays in a human life is a theme often explored in literature. It is difficult to argue against the importance of being true to oneself and maintaining a strong‚ independent character. However‚ many times the miscalculation of the identity of another is equally as damaging as losing individual identity. In A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles highlights the consequences of

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    INTRODUCTION Time management systems have become exceedingly popular in recent years... and with good reason. The ultimate potential benefit of such systems is the ability to optimize how you spend your time in order to extract the best possible results in the shortest period of time. Such systems do come with a price‚ however‚ and that price is the time you must spend first learning and then maintaining the system. Generally speaking‚ the more complex the system‚ the more costly it is to use. The

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    Synopsis The novel follows a classical tripartite structure‚ and the titles of each book are related to Galatians 6:7‚ "For whatsoever a man soweth‚ that shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing"‚ Book II is entitled "Reaping"‚ and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose

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    The narrator is Death. He sees life in terms of colors because he views the world in terms of color. He understands his role and task in the world by using color The thing that was ironic about the first book LieseI stole that she didn’t know how to read yet she dug up a book that was about grave digging in a graveyard. The thing that is ironic about is that it relates to heaven‚ and the street didn’t have anything to do with heaven in the war. This statement should not be taken literally because

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    way or another. It is educational but does not lack strong characters with which you can connect with emotionally. You are taken on a heartbreaking journey through the lives of several characters‚ many of which you grow to love and feel for. Several times in the book I was bawling my eyes out or crying for pure joy‚ it really gets to you on an emotional level. It has holocaust themes (obviously) but I would say that they are quite mild. People who are sensitive to these themes can quite easily skip

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    Children in Poverty Markus Zusak‚ author of The Book Thief‚ does a wonderful job portraying the life of Liesel Meminger‚ a poor German girl suffering the effects of poverty‚ yet trying to make the best of life where it seems most unlikely. He expresses her hardships in such a realistic way that makes the reader feel sympathy for his characters--all of which are struck with poverty. Child poverty has been around for years and is still caused by problems in family structure‚ educational issues‚ and

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    does not have one of the elements‚ please list that as well. 1. Magic Magic is the most basic element of fantasy. Magic is that in which charms‚ spells or rituals are used in order to produce a supernatural event. - In the book “The Lightening Thief” by Rick Riordan‚ there is a lot of magic. The book is about the all-powerful Greek Gods and half-bloods (half human and half god). Within the book the Greek God Zeus’s magic lightening blot and the Greek God Hades’s helm of darkness get stolen. It

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    Liesel as we know in the beginning of the book is given up for adoption to the Hubermanns‚ exactly why at the moment is unclear but as we learn more about Liesel’s past we make connections to why exactly this happens. ““We put an end to the disease that has been spread throughout Germany [...] The immoral! The Kommunisten!”” (Zusak 110) ‚ Liesel while at the speech on Hitler’s birthday a Nazi tells the people about all the immoral others such as Jews and Communist‚ etc… Though as Liesel

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