Into the Wild by John Krakauer is a book about Chris McCandless and his journey in the wild. He was a smart person‚ but lacked certain survival skills. I believe he would have been alive if he had been more careful and studied more about wilderness survival. Chris McCandless went into the wild because he wasn’t satisfied with his life at home. He had a very privileged background and was doing great in school. Then he decided he was tired of it and left a life many people wish they could have. He
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The Stranger The book that I read was called The Stranger written by Albert Camus. The book is globally famous and was translated to many different languages and texts. The original was called L’Étranger which was written in French in 1942. The plot of this story involved a man in his late twenties or early thirties. The man’s name is Meursault. In the beginning of the novel‚ Meursault is notified that his mother had passed away in the nursing home that he occupied her to. Meursault’s income
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novel is Ellen Raskin. During her book there were major events that took place. Somewhere such as being forced to go somewhere‚ and finding out clues to the bombings that took place in the book. The book has one big setting that takes place in the Sunset towers where all the people live.The main events where very important because these were the very places the setting of the book took place. The things that took place in the book where pretty shocking. In the book a bomb goes off and one of the things
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the party when the cops arrived. In the book‚ it did mention that the party was broken up but it left me wondering if her friends got in any trouble or if parents were called. Instead of focusing on how Melinda got home by walking barefooted I would explain the problems that she caused for all of her close friends to hate her as much as they did in the story. I rate this book a perfect 10 because of the amount of interest I had while reading it. This book is written for young adult and is great
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If you are an environmentalist‚ ‚ or just someone who wants to protect the environment‚ then you would really like a book called “Hoot”. “Hoot” is a book written by Carl Hiaasen and follows two main characters with their own story in the book. One of the stories is about Roy Eberhardt‚ a middle schooler a Trace Middle School‚ and another story follows Officer Delinko‚ a police officer at the local police department. Roy just moved from Montana to Florida and overall was quite unhappy about it‚ Montana
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her father‚ Mortimer‚ but she calls him Mo. Mo is a bookbinder which means whatever he reads comes to life. When Meggie has nightmares she reads in her father’s room. Nothing allows her to fall asleep better than a book and Mo’s soft breathing. When she sleeps she swears she hears the books whispering to her. Mo has told Meggie the truth about everything or so she thinks. Mo is a tall young fellow. He has a twelve o’clock shadow and dark brown hair that flows backwards no matter what.
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There are many things that one can learn from the book Hatchet. While on his way to meet his father for Summer vacation at the oil grounds in Canada‚ Brian Robinson finds himself stranded within the Canadian northern Wilderness. The plane he’s flying in crashes when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. Over the period of the summer Brian is determined to survive and hopes that someone will come looking for him before it becomes too late. Brian’s parents’ recently divorced leaving him to live
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scared of change. The crystal merchant is an example of a life that is unfulfilled. Santiago then meets the Englishman in a warehouse. The Englishman is also on pursuit of his Personal Legend. The Englishman is very well educated and loves to read his books. The Englishman knows a
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“The sky was the color of cat vomit” is the first sentence of the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The hook sentence of Uglies already shows Tally’s pessimistic view of things. Uglies is set in the future because it is a dystopian book‚ also because it is a negative way of seeing the future. In this book characters are born looking “ugly” until their 16th birthday where they get mandatory plastic surgery. After the surgery they are called “pretty” and will live somewhere called New Pretty Land where
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blindspots‚ therefore‚ nobody is “good.” With this in consideration‚ making the world‚ and this campus a better place is difficult‚ but there are ways to bring humanity closer to unity every day. The selection of “good people” to be in the title of this book is for two main reasons. The first reason is they used it as a play on words. There is no single human being on the planet that is exempt from judging others at
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