The book I decided to do my book report on is The Last Olympian‚ written by Rick Riodarn. This book is set in Manhattan. There is a camp of halfbloods‚ or people with one mortal parent and one immortal parent. The titan lord‚ Kronos‚ has just been reborn and is trying to kill the people at Camp Halfblood. The main characters of the book are Percy‚ Annebeth‚ Nico‚ Luke‚ Kronos and other assorted campers. Luke had been taken over by the titan lord‚ Kronos. He was trying to
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creatures are born with good intentions‚ but this innocence is soon snatched away by the gnarled hands of life. The monster‚ when he is first created‚ wanders until he finds a family which he observes intently. At first the monster would steal some of their food‚ but “when [he] found that in doing this [he] inflicted pain on the cottagers‚ [he] abstained” (Shelley 99). The monster has been alive for a very short period of time and knows little of social norms‚ yet he has an instinctive predisposition
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When Victor returned to his place of birth under strange circumstances involving the death of William Frankenstein‚ isolation is seen in his journey where he finds the monster he created almost six years before. As he strolls through the woods during a horrible storm everything is changed. “No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night‚ which I spent‚ cold and wet‚ in the open air. But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes
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The little research that has been attempted always focused on the “invisible” father
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In chapter four of Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ Victor is completing his intense two-year study to create the monster. As he works‚ he realizes that the monster would owe him its allegiance. Victor shows his excitement about completing his project. He states his feelings “bore him onwards‚ like a hurricane…”(55 Shelley). Victor implies that there is a force driving him through his project. We see “like a hurricane”. An uncontrollable‚ unpredictable‚ destructive force of nature. Victor says “in the first
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novel. He discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent monster feeling increasingly guilty and ashamed. Victor realizes how helpless he is from preventing the monster from ruining his life and other people’s lives as well. The story takes place in Geneva in the 1800’s. Where most of it takes is in the frankenstein’s house in the town of Switzerland.There are a few different characters like Victor Frankenstein‚ the monster‚ Robert Walton‚ and Elizabeth Lavenza. Victor’s father is very sympathetic
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Monster’s Inc. Monster’s Inc. is a fictional tale about two monsters facing adversity. The soundtrack original score was composed and conducted by Randy Newman for Pixar. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture‚ Television or Other Visual Media. The score lost both these awards to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring‚ but after 16 nominations‚ the song "If I Didn’t Have You" won
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He goes to boarding school in New York‚ and has been kicked out of several schools before. One day‚ he and his class are on a field trip‚ and during that trip his math teacher turns into a monster and tries to kill him‚ but Percy kills her instead. When he gets back to his class‚ they say that the monster Percy just killed never existed. He realizes something is wrong‚ and finds out that he and his friend‚ Grover‚ are going
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metaphor of an Invisible Knapsack is powerful and fully agree with the idea of viewing the unprivileged. We are grown to believe every race is equal. We have the same opportunities are capable of achieving the same goal. When in reality it is the Invisible Knapsack that protects the idea of “equality.” When introducing the Knapsack it enables a better perspective of advantages. Growing up the lesson‚ was we are capable of so much with determination. That is broad and containing the Invisible Knapsack
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While these two repeatedly hunt each other for revenge‚ they differ than the Christian way to just "turn the other cheek". Yet it is revenge in the end that gives Frankenstein and the monster a link to the place they are tearing down for themselves. Revenge all starts by one little thing. Just by neglecting his life form he created‚ made a disastrous revenge that soon became an endless nightmare. The only person that Frankenstein had to
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