Donisha Smith Period 2 3/7/11 Book Report: Killing Mr. Griffin My book report is on “Killing Mr. Griffin”. The author of this book is Lois Duncan. Lois Duncan is a female novelist who writes suspense stories for teenagers. This book was published by Little Brown on April 1978. The protagonist of this book is named Susan McConnell. Susan is a sixteen year old junior at Del Norte High School in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. She is a loner and mostly stays at home to study. She is a hardworking student
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"Killing Mr. Griffin Susan and Betsy are two very different people. The react to their actions and other peoples in different ways. Susan is a smart student‚ that doesn’t really have many friends. Betsy is a semi smart student‚ popular‚ and very pretty girl. Some ways that they are different are for example...the writing assignment for the "Final song of Ophelia."� Betsy told Mr. Griffin that‚ "I didn’t understand the assignment‚"� "How can anybody write a final song for Ophelia when she’s already
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Kye Schnittgen Kill In the book “Killing Mr. Griffin” written by Lois Duncan‚ there is a character named Mark and here’s a few of his attributes; He’s quiet‚ a leader‚ and he is pretty calm. Mark doesn’t talk unless he feels like what he has to say is important. He doesn’t even tell him family he’s leaving to school or answer any of his aunt’s questions. “Jeff came by for him earlier than usual this morning. He was honking the car horn out there at seven-thirty and Mark was out the door before
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their English teacher‚ Mr. Griffin‚ for various reasons such as marks or dislike of his teaching methods. Mark‚ who had failed the course and deeply loathed Mr. Griffin‚ brainstormed to kidnap and "scare" the teacher with the help of his friends‚ Jeff and Betsy. In desperate need of a distraction or diversion for this plan‚ Mark told his friend‚ Dave to ask the smartest girl in the class‚ Susan (who liked Dave) for help; she was expected to arrange a conference with Mr. Griffin on the kidnapping day
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Killing Mr.Griffin by the author of Lois Duncan is about a very strict and demanding english teacher whose name is Mr.Griffin. Some of his students are fed up with them working hard and getting bad grades and having to retake his class so a group plans to kidnap the teacher and teach him a lesson but after they get into the plan and put it into action they realize their plan had gone down the drain. Irma Ruggles is portrayed as sneaky and wanting attention but loving and kind. Irma Ruggles is
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Movies vs. Books From our mouths‚ to writing and finally to film‚ the way we tell stories has evolved over time and I must say thank God for its advancements. Reading a book can be nice but thanks to movies all the work of deciphering the message of the story is done through the director of the motion picture. He is responsible for researching the story to find the intent of the writers and will often consult with the writer to bring you the true meaning of the story. The director brings the
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Book vs. Movies A long time has passed since the idea that “The book is better than the movie” was accepted without question. There are almost no exceptions. Some key reasons why the film version of a book is so lacking relates to‚ one‚ the lack of depth of the story‚ two time constraints and‚ three‚ the inability for producers to include the full content of a story. Most of the time‚ if the movies follow an original script‚ and there is no book version to compare it to‚ it is most likely
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Luka Stojanovic Mr. Horner 9/13/2010 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Film vs. Book The book and the movie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde weren’t too different. The 1920 silent film‚ “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚” wasn’t too different from the book. Even though this film version of the book was silent‚ I could still tell what was happening in the movie due to the fact that I watched the movie as I read the book to be able to compare and interpret what was going on. The film
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been crying. David wanted to talk to her so he drove over to her house and picked her up so that they can go get something to eat. They got into the car and Susan asked David what they did to Mr.Griffin. David told Susan that Mark tried to scare Mr. Griffin but it did’t go as planned and Mr.Griffin didn’t get scared as Mark thought he would. Susan‚ concerned asked a lot more questions in regard to Mr.Griffin. Which resulted in her knowing that Mr.Griffin was still in the mountains tied up. Susan
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There are different ways to get a story from different sources in modern times. Books have been good sources for stories‚ but movies are getting more popular and have the same story with the books. Why people still reading books; and others are prefer watching the movies? Reading books and watching movies have a lot in common‚ but there are some differences that makes the readers remain faithful to reading books. Reading books and watching movies are similar because they are telling the same story. They
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