The Sympathizer follows a nameless narrator‚ a communist spy working as a captain for a South Vietnamese General‚ beginning just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The narrator is destined to be divided as a half-Vietnamese‚ half-French‚ American Educated‚ Communist sleeper spy working for the anti-Communists‚ raised with only his mother’s love. He most often plays the role of a loyal captain‚ who happens to be a spy‚ but he constantly reminds himself that the role is meant to be his reality. He
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I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger
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Incarceron Book Summary Finn is a prisoner in the infamous prison Incarceron. He cannot remember his childhood‚ or his life before Incarceron‚ but he is a star-seer. Finn can see things no one out Incarceron has. Incarceron is a prison no one can enter‚ and that no one can leave. The Inmates live in dark cells‚ dirt cities‚ and harsh wilderness. No one has ever escaped from Incarceron except for a man named Sapphique. Finn plans on following the legends of Sapphique with his oath brother to finally
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As Hana cares for the wounded soldiers‚ she witnesses gruesome injuries and horrific deaths‚ and these experiences are so traumatic that her personality is unable to recover fully. The omniscient narrator describes Hana’s work during the war as extremely disturbing and harrowing: “Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them.... They would carry a severed arm down a hall‚ or swab at blood that never stopped‚ as if the wound were a well‚ and they began to believe in nothing‚ trusted
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“What was it like to be a captive? I can tell you I was soon sorry that I had asked the river what it was like to travel...For when I was given what I was given what I asked for‚ it was not something I wanted at all.” This is a story of the famous journey of Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea. At age sixteen she is already married‚ a mother and taken from her home community. Sacajawea must find a way to live her life‚ still being a child‚ and help navigate across America with strangers. She tells this
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Mali may not be a location individuals typically think about or have a vast knowledge of‚ especially if it is knowledge on ancient Mali. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D.T. Niane is a fascinating collection of history and stories of ancient Mali told by a griot‚ which is a history keeper and storyteller. This book is centered around Sundiata‚ the son of Maghan Kon Fatta and Sogolom Kedjou. The compilation of tales shows the growth and evolution of himself‚ from being a small crippled boy who could
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Steven Dodd Professor Kang English 101 28May2015 Peace Meets Ciaos The short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene collides with good and evil with the surrounds full of destruction. Many scholars have tried to decipher the mean behind this story and have all agreed that it is the best story that Green has ever written. With the knowing and shocking outcomes readers will ponder the nature of what is read. "Graham Greene portrays a world in transition‚ a society moving away from respect for
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Many years ago the colonization in Canada has made a situation and condition that violated the right of indigenous people especially indigenous women. Some of the consequences of colonizer’s act are the violence that indigenous women are still facing. When the colonizers came to Canada‚ they constructed first nation as uncivilized and savages‚ and by this attitude toward them treat them as inferior to themselves. Moreover by laws and acts like Indian Act took many of their freedom and their rights
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The movie glory depicts an oppressed people to a proud people they later on becoming the regime under white officers and they are challenged by racism and the fortunes of war. This essay will tell some major events in detail that happened in the film‚ from discussing shoes to the religious meaning behind the night before the assault on ft. Wagner. The story of the shoes is that the people that were sleeping in tents is that their feet severe bruises by the marching they did in the camp. The colonel
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The Cursed by Michael Panckridge The Cursed took place in two main places‚ The Brazilian Rainforest‚ and Bridgewater College. In the story the Crusaders of the Light took over the school from the inside to set up their plot to become invisible. The Brazilian Rainforest is a mysterious place that Jonathan explored with Amanda‚ and a team of other explorers. They were exploring to find an invisible tribe which they did find and only Jonathan and Amanda survived‚ her husband died as well. The characters
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