Introduction/Background Info Basically this story takes place in Japan during the end of World War II. Also everyone is zombified but a few people because when the United States dropped bombs on Japan the radiation had strange effects. And this book turns extremely dark towards the end like extremely dark. DAY 1 As the smoke cleared Charlie could barely see anything there were no words to describe it everything was destroyed or being destroyed. The air smelt like death and there was no sign
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Passage 1: “My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless‚ that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America‚ and over the years they were proven right.” (29) Response: James’ mother was always consistent in saying that money means nothing. School and Church was all you really needed to succeed. His mother was deeply religious and her and her kids went to church every Wednesday and every Sunday. Her kids went until
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1. Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop . . . [s]omehow it was hotter then . . . bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon‚ after their three-o’clock naps‚ and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there
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#8: “The stars were shining‚ and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl‚ away off‚ who-whooing about somebody that was dead‚ and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die‚ and the wind was trying to whisper something to me‚ and I couldn’t make out what it was‚ and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood
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In the letter from Scout to Jem‚ we see Scout’s’ point of view and how she feels. It shows that she is sad that Boo gave them so much and they did not give him anything in return like a good neighbor should have. To convey this‚ a flowery background symbolizes a neighbor’s job to look after one another and the items in the pouch exhibits what Scout and Jem were given I feel that this establishes a feeling of growing maturity because the flowery background also symbolizes the growth of a young girl
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2) “I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough‚ of a dirty lavender color‚ they kept wrapped in leaves‚ and now and then swallowed a piece of‚ but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance. They were not enemies‚ they were not criminals‚ they were nothing earthly now nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation‚ lying confusedly in the greenish gloom.” In this quote‚ when Marlow was traveling
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1. Title a. My Sister’s Keeper 2. Author b. Jodi Picoult 3. Genre c. Young Adult Fiction 4. Quotations and Significance d. "They don’t really pay attention to me‚ except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn’t even be alive‚ if it wasn’t for Kate being sick." i. This quote explains Anna’s mindset of her purpose in life. She considers herself as being used and not cared for as a person. The reason for her being born was because the doctors
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The supercilious assumption that on a Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do (pg24) It seems to me that the narrator is rather annoyed about the assumption that he has nothing to do. It gives a bit of insight into the narrator’s and Tom’s personality. Knowing more about how characters think and respond to each other is crucial and this tells a bit of that. (words:51) “I want to see you” said Tom intently. “Get on the next train.” (pg26) Tom seems to be in control of the
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Chapters 15-19 a lot of important events occurred that will impact the end of the story I think. Such as in chapter 15 we right away found out about the dark truth of Rudy. It was an extremely shocking new‚ I was not expecting that at all. I used to think Rudy was probably a nice guy mostly after finding out that he was priest. That maybe he had just felt disappointed about the religion or something and therefore he would drink a lot. However now I know the truth I don’t really know how to feel‚
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Keaton Nishimi5-29-13428 Chapter 1Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. Chapter 3 You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
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