reading this book for quite sometime now‚ and I had this review set in my Note since. The reason I waited this long to post it‚ was because this book was rather difficult to review‚ mainly due to it had involved a sensitive topic. A controversy topic that if not threaded careful‚ may backfire easily. But since I had lot feelings after reading this book‚ I decided to post it after all. I want to be clear that in no way I blamed Elena for what happened in this book (Part II of the book). I would
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Persepolis is a historical book yet an entertaining story of a girl during a frightening time in an important era in her country. Author‚ Marjane Satrapi writes about her experience in Iran as a child. She includes humor as well as sentimentality in this book to express her view on how times were. As a reader of this book it helped me understand the dark times that the Iranian people faced. With this book being a memoir it further helped understand the Islamic Revolution and the actions taken by
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The book I chose to read for my book report is called Spellbound by Janet McDonald. The plot starts with Raven living with her mother in the projects in New York City. Raven had a baby at sixteen and had to drop out of high school to take care of her baby boy‚ Smokey. She wants to be better than another high school dropout‚ project girl with few prospects. She wants to do it for her mother’s sake. Her baby’s sake. And for her own sake. She wants to show the ambition she has inside of her and to do
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The Outsiders by‚ S.E. Hinton was an awesome book that included drama between two groups. Before the book even starts‚ one of Greasers named‚ Johnny gets jumped by the Socs. Also‚ before the book starts‚ Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ and Darry lose their parents because of a car crash. Then‚ when the book finally starts and all of the characters are announced‚ the main character‚ Ponyboy gets jumped by some Socs as well. Then‚ when the book is about three fourths done‚ Johnny kills a Soc‚ named Bob. After that
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Book Report English Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Setting: A controlled‚ utopian community Sometime in the future Protagonist(s): Jonas Antagonist(s): The Community Relationship between the Protagonist and Antagonist Jonas‚ the protagonist of the story‚ is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in a place called The Community‚ which is the antagonist of the story. In the Community‚ led by a Committee of Elders‚ almost all aspects of every citizen’s lives are controlled and planned
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The book 1776 by David McCullough tells the story of the military aspects of the American Revolution. McCullough writes the book from both the British and American point of views‚ creating a better understanding of what both sides were undergoing during the war. Not only does he have a degree from Yale‚ but McCullough has also been awarded with the nations highest civilian award‚ the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In addition to this‚ he has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice. He has also written
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Curiosity Changing When you imagine a great journalist you think of someone who gives great details when writing a story in a newspaper or magazine. However‚ in the novel Black Like Me John Howard Griffin gives us his actual journal of what he really went through. Griffin is a white journalist who decided to travel the deep south as a black man. Griffin was curious‚ depressed‚ and eventually hopeful. Griffin wanted to know how it felt to be black in the segregated deep south. “If a white man became
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In the novel‚ Black Like Me‚ John Howard Griffin was invested in racial fairness. He did not think it was fair for Caucasians should be superior to African Americans. In this novel‚ he is the main character and he goes to get a temporary darkening color of himself to set himself out into the world through a different point of view. He was also allied with a magazine that would document his whole experience. John Griffin expected to find prejudice‚ cruelty and hardship but he didn’t think it was going
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18 March 2013 Lost in Death The title of the book that I read was Everlost. The genre of this book is fantasy. The book was published in 2006. The author of this book is Neal Shusterman. Shusterman was born on November 12‚ 1962 and grew up in Brooklyn‚ New York. He still writes today and recently came out with the sequel to the book called Everwild. Neal is also a screenwriter and television writer. This story takes place in a place called Everlost. Everlost is a world between life and death
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The book I chose for my report is Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution by James E. Crisp. In my book‚ Crisp follows the Texas Revolution along with the battle at the Alamo which took place between 1835 and 1836. He tackles the questions of why and how myths are made and shows how the environment around someone can influence attitudes that people develop about certain historical events. Crisp also challenges are beliefs of history and wants us
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