English Book Project Book Review Book: Unwind by Neal Shusterman An astonishing and at the same time disturbing read. Took me some time to get into‚ but from then on I was hooked. The world Shusterman created felt so vivid and real‚ it almost scared me. Thought-provoking and highly original. I haven’t read anything like this ever before. Also‚ it contained one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever read - not on a graphic level‚ but more due to the fact that what exactly is happening is
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science-fiction novel that follows a child named Ender‚ and his story on being trained from a early age to be a military captian to fight “buggers” that have been encountered in space by humans while exploring the universe‚ as he struggles to find logical reasoning as why all of the training is happening to him PLOT Far into the future‚ where humans have started exploring the universe more vastly‚ humans encounter a alien race the book calls “buggers”. Eventually there is a outbreak of war between the two species
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Adventures of huckleberry Finn by Mark twain. The reason I chose this book was because it sounded adventurous. I had always heard about the adventures of tom sawyer and I wanted to learn about his best friend huckleberry Finn. The setting took place down south along the Mississippi river. lots of ships and ferry boats traveled along this river. There were many islands in the middle of this river. Huckleberry and Jim lived on Jackson island for a little while. The main characters
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historical fiction book based on the main character Kenny who has just moved into his new house in Providence‚ Rhode Island. He soon finds out that a ghost lives in the connecting room to his room because of the scratching sounds he hears coming from his closet. The ghost was a slave who was murdered in that house. Caleb‚ the ghost and Kenny are able to transport to the past‚ because of Caleb’s abilities. Kenny figures this is a great way to go back in time and stop Caleb’s murder from happening. Eventually
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prohibition of any parts of books‚ films‚ news‚ etc. that are considered obscene‚ politically unacceptable‚ or a threat to security.” Censorship is shown through our society through book banning‚ parental advisory‚ and the V-Chip. Without certain books in our society‚ we would not know the history of our world. Books in our society should never be banned because of the knowledge we gain from them and the impact they have on the world. There may be some cases where book banning is necessary due to
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Summary The Help is not just a book about a white women in the 1960s trying to make a difference it is about so much more. The story begins August 1960 with the colored maid‚ Aibileen‚ raising her seventeenth white child - Mae Mobley. Aibileen lost her own boy Treelore months before
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their knowledge of a certain a thing. Recently‚ I read the book Unbroken and was put in a group that had books with hidden similarities that we had to uncover. All of of our books had to do with the topic of survival and lives being lost. As a group‚ we developed the question that in a situation that puts lives in danger‚ is it better to sacrifice life to finish a mission‚ or compromise the mission‚ but save lives? While reading this book‚ I learned that if you persevere through the hard times‚ then
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The book opens up with an introduction of the narrator‚ Death‚ and his recounting of the three different times he saw the book thief through his work of carrying the souls of the dead away. A color is associated with all of these visits as he can see a very wide spectrum of color. The first sighting is white‚ the second black‚ and the third red all symbolizing the Nazi flag and the story of the book thief. After this‚ he proceeds to tell the story of the book thief. Death’s story first opens
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The Alfred Hitchcock movie‚ The Birds‚ was said to be based on the DuMaurier story by the same name. Both versions included birds going wild and attacking humans. They also included some of the same things‚ for example‚ in the movie and the book‚ they boarded up the doors and windows to repel the attack‚ and someone is found dead at a farm with their eyes pecked out. However‚ the similarities are not as numerous as the differences. There are many contrasts between the story and the film‚ particularly
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Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ is an autobiography about her life during the Iranian Revolution and war. The film version of Persepolis is quite similar‚ however‚ the intention of the film is slightly different than the book. The book has many detailed panels that tell more of a dramatic story of Marjane’s life‚ while the film is less dramatic and detailed. The graphic narrative Persepolis uses black and white comics to tell the story of Marjane’s life. The drawings in the pictures
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