Theme Theft is a central theme for the novel The Book Thief‚ by Markus Zusak‚ because of the time in which it is set. War is a power struggle‚ and a battle for dominance over people and territory. Hitler was stronger than the German people‚ and convinced them through his powerful words to treat those who did not meet his idea of perfection as inferior. Liesel’s somewhat trivial theft acts in juxtaposition with the larger theft of innocence and purity that Hitler causes. Hitler stole the lives
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happening to him PLOT Far into the future‚ where humans have started exploring the universe more vastly‚ humans encounter a alien race the book calls “buggers”. Eventually there is a outbreak of war between the two species‚ and the military starts recruiting kids to be able to train and fight them when they mature. This is where Ender comes in. The book starts off casually explaning the normal life of Ender‚ mentioning his family life with his brother Peter and sister Valentine‚ and some
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Adventures of huckleberry Finn by Mark twain. The reason I chose this book was because it sounded adventurous. I had always heard about the adventures of tom sawyer and I wanted to learn about his best friend huckleberry Finn. The setting took place down south along the Mississippi river. lots of ships and ferry boats traveled along this river. There were many islands in the middle of this river. Huckleberry and Jim lived on Jackson island for a little while. The main characters
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their work to target audiences. With regards to The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See‚ my initial response after reading them was that they were remarkably similar‚ what with their World War II settings‚ their female protagonists‚ the theme of abandonment‚ etc. This sparked my interest and led to my desire to examine how the different age groups of each novels’ target demographic
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English Book Project Book Review Book: Unwind by Neal Shusterman An astonishing and at the same time disturbing read. Took me some time to get into‚ but from then on I was hooked. The world Shusterman created felt so vivid and real‚ it almost scared me. Thought-provoking and highly original. I haven’t read anything like this ever before. Also‚ it contained one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever read - not on a graphic level‚ but more due to the fact that what exactly is happening is
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Why Books Are Becoming Obsolete Books are slowly becoming irrelevant. With the growth of the technology and the Internet are slowly becoming obsolete. The number of books American read is in a decline. Reading is a simple‚ quite entertainment that does not feast to many people as exciting. With the advancements in technology‚ the use of books is no longer in greater need than is past years. With the introduction of electronic reading devices‚ like the Amazon Kindle or the iPad in recent years
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Something Upstairs Something Upstairs by Avi is a historical fiction book based on the main character Kenny who has just moved into his new house in Providence‚ Rhode Island. He soon finds out that a ghost lives in the connecting room to his room because of the scratching sounds he hears coming from his closet. The ghost was a slave who was murdered in that house. Caleb‚ the ghost and Kenny are able to transport to the past‚ because of Caleb’s abilities. Kenny figures this is a great way to go
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The book opens up with an introduction of the narrator‚ Death‚ and his recounting of the three different times he saw the book thief through his work of carrying the souls of the dead away. A color is associated with all of these visits as he can see a very wide spectrum of color. The first sighting is white‚ the second black‚ and the third red all symbolizing the Nazi flag and the story of the book thief. After this‚ he proceeds to tell the story of the book thief. Death’s story first opens
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Summary The Help is not just a book about a white women in the 1960s trying to make a difference it is about so much more. The story begins August 1960 with the colored maid‚ Aibileen‚ raising her seventeenth white child - Mae Mobley. Aibileen lost her own boy Treelore months before
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their knowledge of a certain a thing. Recently‚ I read the book Unbroken and was put in a group that had books with hidden similarities that we had to uncover. All of of our books had to do with the topic of survival and lives being lost. As a group‚ we developed the question that in a situation that puts lives in danger‚ is it better to sacrifice life to finish a mission‚ or compromise the mission‚ but save lives? While reading this book‚ I learned that if you persevere through the hard times‚ then
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