The Pearl By: John Steinbeck Book Report THE PEARL John Steinbeck was born in February 1902 in Salinas‚ California and died in December 1968. Steinbeck enrolled in Stanford University however he never graduated. After an unsuccessful try to establish himself in New York he returned to California to do what he did best: write. Steinbeck’s first novel was published in 1929 but his first critical success was achieved with Tortilla Flat which won the California Commonwealth Club’s Gold Medal
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Minority Autobiography Analysis (Book Report) Title: Honky Author: Dalton Conley Summary "Honky" is the true story of Dalton Conley‚ a white kid‚ growing up in a minority community. The story takes place beginning at the end of the 1960’s and concluding in the early 1980’s and takes us from the authors early childhood to college. Dalton Conley was white‚ with a Jewish mother and an Irish/English father. Both of Dalton’s patents were artists. His mother‚ Ellen‚ grew up in northern Pennsylvania
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Divergent Book Report Divergent is a novel by Veronica Roth. This story happens in Chicago in the future. The city is separated into 5 factions based on personality traits. The factions are Abnegation(selflessness)‚ Erudite(intelligence)‚ Candor(Honesty)‚ Dauntless(bravery)‚ and Amity(peaceful). One day every year‚ all sixteen-year-olds take a personality test that will tell them which faction they are going to be in. After getting the results of their test‚ they have to decide if they want
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Katie Glasgow-Palmer Think of a landscape untouched by man. A rich blue lake surrounded by huge tussock covered mountains with sheer cliffs and angry rock faces. Pure white snow like icing sugar coats a charming little village by the lake‚ and curious looking wekas play hide and seek in the bush shrouded hills. A flock of birds soar overhead in v formation in the marbled blue and white sky. You feel dwarfed‚ and somewhat of an imposter‚ embarrassingly aware of your trivial human endeavours .It is
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The book‚ Zeitoun‚ by Dave Eggers‚ correlates a strong connection to me‚ because of the struggles and experiences Zeitoun faces after the destruction of hurricane Katrina. This book‚ dives into many different aspects of culture‚ race‚ religion‚ and the average citizen‚ but what makes this book so intriguing‚ is how people were treated because of those things. It gets us thinking‚ that America isn’t this perfect society that we think of it to be. And we have so much more things to improve. I personally
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chose the quote‚"You cannot open a book without learning something" by the Irish proverb because I can relate it to my favorite book‚"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton which taught me lots of stuff that I did not know about. The book is about a 14 year old named Ponyboy and his two brothers Darry who is 16 and Sodapop who is 20 years old. Darry is in charge of them due to both of his parents dying in a car accident. They are all greasers in a gang and often watch over Johnny ‚who is another greaser‚ because
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Everdeen. Katniss is a persistent young women and she overcomes many obstacles over and over again in this series. Gale is another protagonist in this book. Even though he has been in the other books this is the first time he’s played a major role. Gale is a courageous young man who has very strong feelings for Katniss even though she doesn’t return the feelings. Then‚ there is Peeta Mellark. He’s another protagonist. The book brings him up a lot but due to his capture and then mental breakdown he kind
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Harkirat Dhaliwal Ms. Macdonald SJ8 20th November 2013 India The title of the book is India. It was written by Marilynn G. Barr. The illustrator and picture researcher is Jaimie Holl. It was published by Lorenz Educational Press in 2003. The genre is non- fiction. It includes 48 pages to read. This book is about the country India in Asia. The main idea is to tell you about many different features of India for example landscapes‚ climate and weather‚ natural resources‚ population
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* Henry Dees – an old man who’s a Math teacher and a summer tutor * Katie Mackey – a nine-year-old girl‚ daughter of Junior and Patsy Mackey‚ Mr. Henry Dees’ summer lesson student * Gilley Mackey – Katie’s older brother; Junior and Patsy Mackey’s eldest son * Junior Mackey – Patsy Mackey’s husband‚ Katie and Gilley’s father who owns a glassworks in their town * Patsy Mackey – Junior Mackey’s wife‚ Katie and Gilley’s mother * Raymond Royal Wright – carpenter‚ a man with an alternate
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that strong”. In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken‚ Louis Zamperini demonstrated determination throughout his life to overcome difficulties in track all the way to surviving his Word War II bomber crashing into the Pacific Ocean where he was stranded for 47 day. Overall‚ Louis’s own ambition is what Hillenbrand highlighted throughout this book to tell his truly remarkable story. At the beginning of Louie’s life‚
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