Water for Elephants – Journal 1 In our discussion on Friday‚ no one else read the book so I was stuck trying to piece together what they knew‚ what happened in the book‚ and how to write a decent report on what has happened so far. So far in the book‚ we read about Jacob living in the retirement home and coming in contact with a fellow who claims he carried water for elephants. Elderly Jacob flashes back to when he was twenty-three. His parents had just died in a car accident; he skipped out on
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was mostly about the Holocaust‚ when her family went into hiding. Anne’s family included herself‚ her sister (Margot Frank)‚ her mother (Edith Frank)‚ and her father (Otto Frank). This story was set in Prinsengracht‚ Amsterdam. I chose to read this book because stories that relate to war‚ really interest me. It all started on Anne’s thirteenth birth‚ when she received a diary from her parents. She was really excited because she wanted someone or something‚ she could tell her thoughts to. Even though
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GOLDEN GOBLET SUMMARY Chapter 1: 1.) Ranofer dreams of his father Thuthra‚ a great goldsmith who had died. 2.) Ranofer had hoped to become his father’s pupil one day but instead he now had to live with his half- brother Gebu who starves and beats him. 3.) He is forced to work-k as a porter‚ to sweep out the goldsmith shop instead of working as an apprentice. 4.) Ranofer makes friends with Heqet a new apprentice. 5.) Ibni‚ a Babylonian porter has Ranofer delivering wine to Gebu and Ranofer
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Repeating conflicts with Native Americans were violent in the Old West as both sides attack each other. In The Old West‚ Day by Day‚ written by Mike Flanagan in 1995‚ it states that Native American were in rage due to the advancing railroads and killed 99 white settlers and dragged the wives and children of the settlers. The Native Americans prove that they will try to do whatever they need to preserve their land. However‚ the main violent acts were brought to the Native American people (non-warriors)
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Sometimes I love my sibling. Other times‚ I want to shave all his precious hair off in his sleep. Depends on the day‚ depends on how much he decides to make my job actual hell. I really wish he would stop giving mortals goddamned ’visions’ to help them avoid death. I am Death‚ and if one thing is ever true about me‚ I never stop. Death comes for everyone‚ even if you try to be stupid and petty and avoid it. *** "Death?" "What small one. What in the universal world do you need now?" I raised one
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nicknamed Ender‚ a genius child who does the wrong things for the right reasons. The book was full of psychological thrills and requires a fair amount of intelligence to understand the decisions made in the story. The decisions made by Ender are crucial plot points in the book. Things as simple to defense against bullies to simulated attacks against the Formics‚ an alien race‚ could change the fate of everyone. The book starts as Ender is about to get his monitor taken out‚ a device that monitors Ender’s
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David and his whole family died from being suffocated by gas. What happened to David was not fair; he was a Jew in a time when Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews‚ and because of this David was always coping with all of the fears that he faced. This book‚ We Are Witnesses‚ journals the life of David Rubinowicz. David had younger siblings who were murdered with David from being gassed. One of the biggest obstacles
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The novel‚ My Antonia‚ begins with Jim Burden‚ who is a New York City Lawyer. He gives a friend his journal of his Nebraska childhood. It is in the form of memories from a friend‚ Ántonia Shimerda. Jim starts his story in Nebraska when he was 10 years old. He had arrived to live with his grandparents after his parents die in Virginia. Jim first sees the Shimerdas on his trip towards Nebraska. They are a Bohemian immigrant family who were on the same train. When he arrives‚ he discovers that the
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“...I got you to look after me‚ and you got me to look after you.” In the book Of Mice and Men‚ George is a true friend to Lennie. George has shown acts of friendship towards Lennie throughout the entire book. George took care of Lennie ever since he left his Aunt. Providing food and protection. George also defends Lennie when he gets in trouble. George is constantly telling Lennie stories to try to make him happy and tells him he can tend to rabbits‚ a dream of Lennie’s. In the final scenes in Of
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The story opens in 1919 after the war and we are first introduces to an old woman named Niska‚ a native American living in Canadaand we learn she is a medicine woman and healer. She’s one of the last of her clan to live in the bush‚ having fought off going to the reserves and governments wanting to take the Indian out of the Indian at the time. She hears that her nephew who’s been sent off to the war has returned and paddles a long way to get to the train station. She sees just how much the
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