“You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.” In the novel‚ Burned‚ by Ellen Hopkins portrays a story of a young girl going through a rough life with no way of escaping from her past. Pattyn‚ the protagonist‚ grows up in a busy household with 7 other sisters‚ a mom‚ and an abusive father at the age of 17‚ her household was never quite peaceful due to her father who abuses the mother and herself both verbally and physically‚ till Pattyn finally stand up herself. She dreamed on meeting the
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by Son on Thanksgiving On Thursday‚ a man murdered his mom and stepdad during thanksgiving dinner. The man was arrested without commotion but his motives behind the killing remain undiscovered. Ellen DeLoach was Dustin Ray Dixon’s sixty years old mother who had married Mitchel Brad DeLoach in 2010. Ellen was also reported to be mother of a daughter and a grandmother of one boy as well. The pair was slaughtered in their home in Acworth‚ Georgia‚ while two of the relatives looked in mortified shock
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Journal 2 In this roller coaster of a book‚ I am currently on page 326 out of 537. The author of this book is Ellen Hopkins. When I started this book I thought it was just another story about a teenager that didn’t have any friends but that all changed when she went to Nevada. Throughout this journal I will be visualizing‚ predicting and questioning. To kick off this visualization‚ the first thing that really stood out and made me really think about what I was reading was when the main character
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30 Feet Under... One dark stormy night‚ it was just me in my back yard digging when I came upon a large‚ red‚ wooden door with a rusty door knob right in front of me. The first thing I thought to myself was‚ WOW! There’s a door under my house. They I thought why is there a door under my house? I stood there and thought if I should go in but I didn’t want anything to happen. So I climbed out and went in my house and I went on the computer to see if there was anything about the door and why would
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Would you save someone who is very close to you even if it is illegal? In The Adoration of Jenna Fox‚ by Mary E. Pearson‚ Jenna gets into a horrific accident. In an accident so severe as this one‚ most people would have been killed or crippled for the rest of their lives. Jenna’s parents‚ Matthew and Clair Fox‚ take the choice to save her. They basically remade Jenna into a new one. This was dangerous and illegal but they thought it was the right decision. I also very strongly think that saving Jenna
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It began not with a knock but a whoosh as the door opened and my mom poked her head in. What was going to be a nice morning cuddling Aaron quickly became a panic as we realized what happened. My mom was just happy I had a really close friend to be anything but overjoyed when I asked if he could stay the night. Teens dating did what teens do that night. What could’ve been a nice morning of going to school holding hands was quickly shattered in this moment. Have you ever had a moment that changed your
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Gabe Bentz J. Wegner ENG 111 15 December 2014 Finding Nemo Finding Nemo is a 2003 Disney film about a fish that gets lost at sea. Nemo is a brave little clownfish that believes he can touch the edge of a boat in the open waters. Little does he know‚ divers are lurking in the depths waiting to capture helpless sea creatures for a dentist’s aquarium. After he discovers the disappearance of his beloved son‚ father clownfish‚ Marlin‚ goes on a manhunt. Along the way he meets a dim-witted fish named
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Graded Assignment Journal: Macbeth Answer these questions in complete sentences. You will need to turn in this assignment to your teacher by the due date to receive full credit. Score 1. Macbeth is a play that remains relevant and interesting over 400 years after it was written‚ as is the case with many of Shakespeare’s works. Why is Shakespeare still worth reading? Answer: Shakespeare is still worth reading because the stories are interesting with amazing plot twist and characters. For
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Although past traditions have installed norms and standards regarding who may be considered as true ‘family‚’ Ellen Goodman effectively employs a variety of rhetorical strategies including figurative language‚ perspective‚ and Aristotelian appeals to highlight that in choosing to disregard these pre-established conditions and/or labels‚ individuals have the ability to progress with society in a manner that will encourage them to ultimately embrace the many intricacies of an extended family. To begin
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The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence’s story of The Stone Angel is about the life Hagar Currie an emotionless‚ stubborn and proud woman. Margaret Laurence uses this stone angel‚ originally bought by Hagar’s father‚ to embody the qualities of Hagar. These virtues are often identical to those one assumes are possessed by the stone angel and are paralleled many times by Laurence. Throughout the novel‚ Hagar relives her life through her memories. Over the course of the novel‚ one realizes that
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