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    begins to adopt a similar mindset as the German people; he puts his own beliefs aside for the safe of Germany. During a training exercise when a student is asked to pick out the weakest Werner willing joins the mob in chasing him down even though he knows it’s wrong. “Why they’re chasing this boy‚ and what they’re supposed to do if they catch him. Except in some atavistic part of his brain‚ he knows exactly what they’ll do” (Doerr‚ 169). Werner he goes as far as blaming the student for being weak‚ “Werner

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    forfeits reading the tabloids‚ as he now seeks more meaning in his life and knows that he will not gain this meaning from reading about celebrities and gossip. He is knocked over by a swarm of reporters chasing celebrities Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields‚ and it is then that Mitch realizes he is chasing after the wrong thing. When he returns to his home in Detroit‚ Mitch learns that the article he has worked so hard to write will not even be published‚ as the union he belongs to is striking against the

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    Below is a brief list of the behaviours covered so far that humans would find inappropriate. There are a lot of other behaviours covered but I don’t think most humans would consider them inappropriate. Chasing tail A dog chasing its tail can seem amusing or alarming as some dogs are growling as they chase it. It indicates frustration in a dog normally and often loneliness. They can do this for a significant amount of time even to the point of hurting themselves which is why we would consider

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    Sofa Monster lowered his shiny‚ quarter head and sat down on the floor. He started sobbing. Sammy quickly examined it and decided to run while it wasn’t looking. He headed toward the laundry room to find his mother. “Mom there is a Sofa Monster chasing me.” He tugged at her shirt to get her attention. “That’s nice. Did you put away your toys?” Okay mom’s busy‚ he thought‚ so he raced to the garage to find his father. Sammy made it as far as the kitchen when he noticed it peering around the doorway

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    dreams materialize. When The Chase Is Over There’s fresh excitement to grabbing that desire and seeing what it’s really made of. It’s a new kind of exhilaration to stop dreaming and start creating plans you can carry out. You can redirect all that chasing energy into taking concrete actions. New fears may pop up now‚ too. That’s not unusual. But here’s the good news: These fears pertain to reality‚ not fantasies. So they will have real solutions to them. Other people

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    Gatsby himself. Gatsby is‚ in a nutshell‚ the American Dream corrupted. He has worked hard to obtain everything he owns‚ often using illegal means to do so‚ but can enjoy none of it because he is so busy chasing something he will never be able to have. Daisy‚ the thing he is chasing‚ represents the American Dream as it to the lower classes of society during the twenties. She is chasable and appears to be obtainable‚ but is

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    sample question using details from the text. “For example‚ if the question asks: based on the details in the section titled Storm Chasing‚ what do you think it would be like to photograph a lightning storm up close? you should respond by saying something like: the sentence in the book‚ ‘suddenly‚ a jagged bolt of lightning shoots from the cloud’ makes me think that storm chasing is both scary and exciting..” 5. Checking for Understanding/Guided Practice: a. Answering comprehension questions using examples

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    with miners for a number of years he decided he wanted to leave something behind so people would know his importance. Vincent Van Gogh was constantly getting rejected by girls‚ he even got rejected by his cousin. Finally Van Gogh decided he was done chasing girls and wanted to devote his life to art. Vincent Van Gogh was famous not only because he was the best Dutch painter ever‚ but also because of his style. Van Gogh highly influenced 20th century art. Van Gogh also influenced the art style known

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    when he has an affair with a woman named Myrtle. The second betrayal is Gatsby betraying himself. Jay Gatsby could have easily been a very successful man and could have done a lot of great things with his life. He instead wasted all his potential chasing after Daisy and trying to get her to notice him. The last betrayal that takes place is Daisy’s betrayal of Gatsby. Daisy led Gatsby to believe that she loved him and not her husband Tom. Daisy then turned her back on Gatsby and ran back to her husband

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    Chasing your dreams Is there a deeper meaning to colors being used in novels? When someone hears the color blue or green they often times think of it meaning or signifying envy or sadness but that is not always the case. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many different colors used that signify much deeper things than just using the color to describe something. Fitzgerald’s emphasis on the green light throughout the novel plays a large role in relation to the

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