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    Annotation Berger‚ S.‚ & Cartwright‚ A. (2010). Goldilocks and the three bears. New York: Scholastic. Once upon a time‚ there were 3 bears and a girl named Goldilocks. The author adds their own twist to the story‚ but still teaches the overall moral of the original story that includes teaching manners and never falling asleep in a bear’s home. This book engages the read and keeps them interactive with the way the book was put together. At the end of the story‚ the discovery is made to who was eating

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    “If Phineas had been sitting here in this pool of guilt‚ how would he have felt‚ what would he have done? He would have told me the truth.”(Knowles 66). Gene made a horrible mistake‚ but his first response is to do what Finny would do. They are best friends‚ Gene and Finny‚ because they balance each other out. Gene is quite refrained and a follower‚ but Finny is more outgoing and a leader. The problem with Gene being so refrained is he never talks about his feelings‚ instead he bottles them up until

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    Situational Irony - There is situational irony near the end of the story. This happens when Nathan retells the story of how he saved Delia over Eunice. The reader expects Nathan to explain how he didn’t choose who he saved‚ due to the fact that it was too dark. Nonetheless‚ the reader finds out that Nathan knowingly saved Delia first‚ after identifying the fur of Eunice’s coat. This creates a plot twist‚ and increases the reader’s interest in the story‚ despite it happening in the last few lines

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    Imagine a town. This town’s buildings were all the same and they looked identical to each other. The people living there all had perfect friendships and even acted the same way. Each person had the same morals and strived to be the same thing. The cars were the same and so on. Nothing would be different‚ would it? It is okay to have certain attributes alike with other people or things‚ but after a while someone will want to search for something- anything- that would make them stand out from the others

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    A Separate Peace‚ a book placed at an elite all boys school during World War II. Though the resolution of A Separate Peace isn’t the typical “happy ending‚” by studying the development of the plot‚ one can realize that this is the happiest ending possible for Gene‚ Finny‚ and Leper. Gene‚ Finny‚ and Leper got their happiest ending possible because of the war‚ past‚ and future.Gene got his happiest ending because of war because even though his friend died he still ended his war‚ and became the person

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    Gene Forrester is the main character in the deeply moving novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. The book starts out with Gene as an adult looking back at his time spent as a teenager at Devon. Gene is a really smart‚ un-athletic kid who is best friends with a kid named Finny who seems to get away with everything. Gene is the smart kid‚ and Finny is the athletic kid that everyone loves including the teachers. Throughout the novel Gene looks back to the tree where he shook Finny off and he broke

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    Annotation

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    English 1302 11 April 2012 Annotated bibliography Anderson‚ Matthew. “ Record Marijuana Arrest Feed The Prison Industrial Complex.” 30 Jan. 2009. Social Medicine. Social Medicine‚ n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2012. Retrieved from http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/01/30/uncategorized/record-marijuana-arrests-feed-the-prison-industrial-complex/ Matthew Anderson reports that in 2007 the Department of Justice reported the number of drug arrests and how many of those accounted for marijuana. Anderson

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    Comparison and Contrast Essay A Separate Peace and The Catcher in the Rye The coming of age novels‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ written by J.D. Salinger‚ and A Separate Peace‚ written by John Knowles‚ both interpret the lives of adolescent boys journeying through their conflicts and inner confusion to reach the level of maturity. Salinger and Knowles both discern the literal ways a typical teenager grows up with the help of literary elements such as plot‚ setting‚ character development‚ conflicts

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    In the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ one of the main themes is the effects of realism‚ idealism‚ and isolationism on Brinker‚ Phineas‚ and Gene. Though not everyone can be described using one of these approaches to life‚ the approaches completely conform to these characters to create one realist‚ one idealist‚ and one isolationist; thereby providing the foundation of the novel. The realist is Brinker. Brinker’s realism takes on a very morbid quality after Gene decides not

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    In the novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles writes about the internal struggles of a young friendship during World War II. Knowles adopts a serious tone in order to develop to the idea that war is inevitable. The author uses devices including characterization and symbolism to develop the theme. Knowles illustrates that war is inescapable through the use of characterization. For example‚ on page 104‚ “I pulled that off revealing an army fatigue shirt my brother had given me. ‘Very topical’ said

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