2 - 2.3 Extended Text Excellence answer Topic 2: Readers will often think about characters long after a text has been finished. Analyse how the writer made a character or characters memorable for you in a text you have studied. In The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold the main character Susie Salmon is made memorable to us through the use of narrative point of view‚ symbolism‚ setting and her actions. The novel is based around the rape and murder of her and she narrates the process of grief and
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In Cold Blood was the story of two men whom were on parole when they brutally killed the Clutter family‚ a successful farm family from Holcomb Kansas. Perry Smith along with Richard Dick Hancock were hanged for the murders. Perry was a short man with a tall temper he never married; Perry was mentally and physically abused by his father as a child. Dick‚ on the other hand‚ came from more of a normal background. Truman Capote the writer of the book also had a terrible upbringing where he was
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Adulthood “It is not that adults produce children‚ but more importantly that children produce adults” (Peter De Vries). In the novel‚ Salvage the Bones‚ Jesmyn Ward takes the readers on a quest through the life of Esch. Esch is only fifteen years old when she realizes that her life is collapsing in on her. She is the only girl in a world full of men; from her drunken father to the love of her life‚ Manny. Esch’s mother died when she was giving birth to her seven year old brother‚ Junior‚ forcing
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In The Farming of Bones‚ Edwidge Danticat uses a unique point of view to place the reader into the story through the use of ‘you’ and common senses. By using the trigger word ‘you’‚ Danticat helps the reader connect to the story in two ways: emotionally and physically by describing common senses or feelings that one can relate to in their own life. Emotions are experienced by everyone on a daily basis in various degrees‚ depending how sensitive a person is. “At first you are afraid to step into the
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Rick Riordan is the author of the book The Maze of Bones. He has written many books in the fantasy genre‚ and the adventure genre such as Percy Jackson and The Olympians and The Sea of Monsters‚ which made into movies. He as won many awards such as Author of The Year for the book The Lost Hero. The Maze of Bones written by Rick Riordan is a fiction‚ mystery‚ and adventure book. The book targeted a young adult audience‚ and this book is meant to entertain the reader. The title is interesting and
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BLOOD DIAMOND BLOOD DIAMOND Casey Maas 10.7 English What have you learnt about life in Africa from watching this film? From watching the film Blood Diamond I have learnt that Africa can be a beautiful place when it’s calm‚ but most of the time it’s dictated by violence and mis-understanding. In the film there is some beautiful times‚ like at the start when Solomon and his son Dia go fishing early in the morning and it’s all so peaceful and quiet and near the end when Danny rings up Maddy
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protective. "See‚this means that we’re blood brothers‚an’ that we always have to stand by each other.” Mickey and Edward are now close friends and this is parallel to their separation as they now consider eachother brothers anyway. "There’s no such thing as a bogey man.It’s a-a superstition" Mrs Lyons‚ talking to Edward‚ sees the same trait in her son as his real mother‚ and hates this‚ so quickly snaps him into reality. "I don’t want you mixing with boys like that!" She
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Management in Blood Banks Harshal Lowalekar and N. Ravichandran Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques Area Indian Institute of Management Indore 18.1 What is Blood? Blood performs many important functions in the human body such as carrying oxygen and nutrients to the various cells and tissues of the body‚ waste removal‚ fighting against diseases‚ regulation of the body temperature‚ regulation of body acidity‚ etc. [1‚ 2]. Blood contains three different kinds of cells: red blood cells (RBCs)
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1. Blood type “O” is very important for the people that are in need for extra blood. Say if someone got into an accident and lost extremely amount of blood‚ the surgeons will have to use type “O” blood to give them the amount of blood needed. It can be transfused to a patient with any blood type. Blood banks being low on type “O” is a huge problem in today’s society; without type “O” blood injured people wouldn’t be able to make it. Blood donors are encouraged to donate blood to hospitals and different
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minute of every day‚ someone needs blood. That blood can only come from a volunteer donor‚ a person like oneself who makes the choice to donate. When one makes a blood donation‚ they are joining a very select group. Currently only three out of every one hundred people in America donate blood. From its beginning‚ the American Red Cross has formed a community of service‚ of generous‚ strong‚ and decent people bound by beliefs beyond themselves. The American Red Cross blood donor embodies this principle
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