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    without magic – unthinkable. Contrasting to Alice‚ who comes from a world where talking animals don’t tend to be a common feature in day to day life. On her journey Alice encounters many strange characters‚ from a rabbit with a watch to smirking cat. Unlike Lyra‚ Alice has great difficulty in understanding and getting used to the creatures she meets – much like the residents of Wonderland don’t understand the “curious child” who has stumbled upon

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    have been overrun by these creatures‚ we need backup immediately‚ do you understand immediately!? Isaac if you can hear this I love you‚ don’t look for me‚ get out of here if you can‚ I love you so much Isaac”. Message played back at December 19 2216. Isaac falling to the ground bursting in tears from hearing his wife’s voice‚ knowing that she most likely got over run by the creatures. He realizes he needs to get off the ship to worn earth about the creatures. Days before the disaster occurred

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    Outsiders In Frankenstein

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    Sebastian Baum  Mrs. Acres Scott  ENG 3U1  12/8/2014    The Sociological Implications of Extraterrestrials and Outsiders on Society in  Frankenstein and Close Encounters of the Third Kind    Two novels‚ written more than a hundred years apart‚ explore the social acceptance  (and   rejection) of outsiders in an established society. Like Richard E. Yinger once said‚ “If we   ever discover life forms in a biological sense‚ the implications will be largely sociological   for our planet.” In many cases

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    their contact ends there once again almost as if seeing each other was too uncomfortable. Then oddly enough both women end up going back to the forest looking for some kind of resolve. In “The Thing in the Forest” the two little girls encounter a terrifying creature that profoundly affects their sense of reality; this results in similar personal traits and shared sense of searching for what’s real despite that they never talk of it. When the two girls meet not much is given about their characters

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    Death In Phantom Dog

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    and in the scene with the bear seekers. Apparition Dog’s regard for the living is compared with his adversary‚ the mafia. So why might steady concentrate on death make such a regard forever? One cases is that we are creatures toward-death. In spite of the fact that we can’t encounter our own particular passings or the passings of others‚ we are in any case going to kick the bucket

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    Book Review

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    Genre #1:Histoical Fiction Critique #1: Fever 173 Critique #2: To Kill A Mockingbird Critique #3: Number the Stars Critique #4: Little Women Genre #2: Adventure Critique #5: A Series of Unfortunate Events Critique #6: Dragon Rider Critique #7: The Hunger Games Critique #8: Curious George Genre #3: Picture Books Critique #9: The Polar Express Critique #10: The Giving Tree Critique #11: Olivia Critique #12: Where the Wild Things Are Genre #4: Science Fiction

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    characters in the story (Robert Walton‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ or the creature). The problem in this piece was created not only by Frankenstein’s hands‚ but also by Shelley’s imagination. Mary Shelley uses imagination to discover truth behind human nature‚ and knowledge. Shelley critiques human nature through the various encounters the monster and Frankenstein face during the story. The monster views human society/nature as “strange” and “queer”‚ explaining how odd it is that we praise humans who can

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    animals and other mythical creatures and it was ruled by Aslan the lion but the White Witch is the self-proclaimed queen. Lucy‚ Edmund‚ Susan and Peter are the four kids who discover the wardrobe and find their way to Narnia and help Aslan fight with the White witch who froze all the Narnian warriors. The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia‚ leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books. Narnia is a strange blend of magic‚ myth and Christianity

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    Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Wide Reading Assignment Term 3 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde‚ or Jekyll and Hyde for short‚ is a mystifying short horror story written by Robert Louis Stevenson and set in Victorian England. It encounters the mystery of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde through the eyes of mild-mannered lawyer‚ Mr Utterson. Stevenson has skilfully characterised Jekyll‚ Hyde and Mr Utterson‚ who is the ultimate Victorian‚ into a complex and baffling plot based upon

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    The narrator in the poem Ulalume expresses the nightmarish terrors of obsession particularly in the second stanza‚ which utilises an epic simile in order to reveal the narrators feelings in the past and present. Physical images are used such as “my heart was volcanic‚” to express feelings and emotions that cannot be described using words‚ reinforcing the idea that this stanza is an epic simile. Furthermore like classical poetry it makes references to Greek mythology as evident with “psyche‚” which

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