Keating‚ Charlie P.1 WSS 3/11/08 The Sign of the Beaver Book Talk For my Newberry Honor book I read The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. The genre was historical fiction and Matt‚ the main character‚ was a very brave‚ strong‚ kindhearted 12 year old boy who had
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In the book Maniac Magee‚ Jerry Spinelli‚ the author helps us to understand many important life lessons that mostly deal with racism and the importance of friends and family. Jerry also shows us that Maniac is patient‚ determined‚ and he really wants to be loved and understood. This book takes place in the late 1900s in Pennsylvania. It specifically takes place in West End‚ East End‚ and Two Mills. The main character is Maniac Magee‚ but he is known as Jeffery Magee in the beginning. Some minor
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STARGIRL From the beginning‚ Stargirl is a fish out of water. She’s the new girl at school‚ and that means she has a tough crowd to please. She was home schooled until now and she started school because she wanted to make friends‚ but she had a very odd way of because she ended up making the whole school mad at her. She is a girl with sand colored hair and freckles. She looked quite ordinary but she most defiantly did not act that way. She is a girl who absolutely cannot be boxed in‚ pigeonholed
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This is a story about a kid name maniac Magee. Maniac was an orphan he ran away from his Aunt& Uncle. He ran for 300 miles until he reach this town that was split in to two part. One side was all black people and the other was all white people. Maniacs pull off a miracle and made the towns be come one big town where whites and blacks could get a long. People said that Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They said his stomach was a cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. They also said that he
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Moreover the time period affects why the story was written because Spinelli might have deep thoughts about the time and Spinelli used it in the sense that we already know some about that time. I think the author incorporates imagery through Stoptheif’s dreams. For example on page 1‚" I am running. The first thing I remember. Running. I carry something‚ my arm curled around it‚ hugging it to my chest. Bread‚ of course."(Spinelli 1) Therefore‚ I better understand the story because I can see in my
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The author Jerry Spinelli developed Amanda Beale to be a very understanding person in the book Maniac Magee. Amanda is very understanding throughout the book‚ In the beginning of the book‚ Amanda was clearly revealed as understanding because she knew that Maniac wanted to borrow one of her books. Even though they were her only books and she hardly knew him‚ she knew that he was a person she could trust. Also‚ the fact that he looked like a hobo may have alarmed her but‚ she knew that he could be
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Elliptical Accident In the book “Knots in my Yo-Yo String” they were knots in Jerry Spinelli’s yo-yo string. Jerry Spinelli was the author of “Knots in my Yo-Yo String.”When Jerry came home from school there were a lot of knots in his yo-yo. What that means is that the yo-yo string is his life and the knots in the yo-yo represent the problems in his life. He must be having problems at home because he said he came home to knots in his yo-yo string. My knot took me some time to recover from. The knot
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Monica Naderi - Colon Language Arts 1/23/08 Knots in My Yo-Yo String In this book I admired many of the authors personal qualities. My favorite personal quality of the author is that the author actually wrote a book about his childhood. The second quality I admired most about the author is when he was a child he went to church every Sunday of his life. I admired that he went to church
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12-20-12 Crash Stereotypes The movie Crash is a film that begs audiences to question all the discrimination and all the wrongs that occur and are often unseen by the general public. Crash tells joining stories of whites‚ blacks‚ Latinos‚ Asian‚ Iraqis‚ cops and criminals‚ the rich and the poor‚ all defined in one way or another by racism. The plot revolves around the city of Los Angeles‚ a city surrounded by violence and fear. The issue of racial stereotyping is highlighted in Crash when characters
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Identify a character in the film that presented both their public and private self  I believe that Anthony is a character that showed both his public and private self throughout the film. He was very opinionated about not liking white people and he did not care about what people thought of it. Anthony was very proud to be an African American and it showed throughout the movie. You also got to see a softer side of him towards the end when he discovered the van full of foreign women and children
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