the book thief is a book about a Nazi family hiding a jew in their basement even though the consequence is death if they get caught. in the story a girl steals multiple numbers of books from the mayors house or anywhere she can find them. the girls friend Rudy is thought as an academic failure until he is involved in a after school program with boys his age. then he also is known as a great athlete after winning the 1500‚ 400 ‚ and more yard dashes in a row. Liesel also reads her stolen books to
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go; and where thou lodges‚ I will lodge: thy people shall be my people‚ and thy God my God: Where thou dies‚ will I die‚ and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me‚ and
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Consider the ways in which the author presents Mathilde as a selfish‚ self-absorbed woman. ‘The necklace begins with a short paragraph describing Madame Mathilde Loisel‚ and her character. Though she was‚ ‘Pretty and charming’‚ Mathilde and her husband‚ a junior clerk‚ are not very well off financially‚ and therefore the couple live a modest lifestyle. Mathilde’s selfish desires of a life of ‘refinement and luxury’‚ with servants and extravagant living conditions are somewhat alien to her simple
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An effective author uses a variety of literary proofs in order to support the ideas that they write about. As a result of the various examples of literary proofs‚ different authors use different methods of proof based on what they are writing about. In the essays‚ "The Not So Deadly Sin" by Barbara Kingsolver and "The Death of History is Bunk" by Patrick Watson‚ the authors clearly demonstrate the use of strong literary proofs. Within the essay "The Not So Deadly Sin" written by Barbara Kingsolver
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including Time Out and the Literary Review. His first book‚ a series of critical essays on American novelists‚ was published in 1992. Fever Pitch‚ his memoir of a life devoted to Arsenal football club‚ was published in 1992. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and was adapted as both a play and a film‚ the latter starring Colin Firth. In 2012‚ it was recognised for its Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing at the British Sports Book Awards. His fiction continues to explore male obsessions
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Haley Dorman English 113 Final Project Mrs. Luby The story of the Book Thief The book that I read was “The Book Thief.” This book was written by Mark Zusak in the year of 2006. Mark lives in Australia where he was raised by a German mother and an Australian Father. He has made a career as being a young adult author. This book has been given many awards and for a very good reason because it is a tale that is very worth remembering. It is about death‚ loss‚ and sadness‚ but that love can
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matter who you are. The book is about saving a super computer that Jon spiro‚ multi-billionaire computer designer and manufacturer stole from artemis.jon would have already broken into the computer if Artemis hadn’t built an eternity code into it. This eternity code is by name supposed to take eternity to break. The setting for most of the book is in the Spiro tower in New York‚ but there are many other places the book takes place too. The author doesn’t really specify when the book takes place exactly
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English Long Book Report Chan Hiu Tung Christie 4C (2) Title: Emma Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Pearson Education Limited What is love? How can we do to catch our own true love? I found the answer after reading the book‚ Emma. Emma‚ which talked about Emma Woodhouse‚ who is a beautiful‚ clever but with little spoiled girl. She is rich and she loves arrange marriage between her friends and neighbours in a village called Highbury. Unfortunately‚ she makes a lot of
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Children all across the world read books at high reading levels‚ but some books at higher reading levels have inappropriate stories to tell. I strongly agree that certain books should be banned from schools because of racial themes‚ violence‚ witchcraft‚ negativity‚ profanity‚ and alternative lifestyles. Switching to a parent’s point of view I could guess that I wouldn’t want my child to be reading about demons or treating African-Americans like slaves and taking advantage of people who don’t look
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1. The book had affected the narrator to a great extent. At first he did not care for the book‚ until the stranger selling Bibles said “the number of pages in this book is literally infinite. No page is the first page; no page is the last”. This intrigued the narrator’s mind. After he had bought the book‚ he began investigating. He noted down things in the book. He began losing sleep from the investigation and when he actually got sleep‚ his dreams were about the book. As it states in the short story
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