Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Josephine Alibrandi is beginning a new school year as the vice-captain of St Martha’s school in Sydney. She promises to be good but already gets in trouble on the first day. Josie introduces herself to the reader as an Italian living in Australia. She lives with her mother‚ who had her before she was married‚ doesn’t know her father‚ and has a close relationship with both her mother and nonna (grandmother). When Josie arrives
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Rule breaking – covertly‚ openly‚ and constantly. Depew (New York) School Board‚ the school boards of Knox and Sumner Counties in Tennessee and some conservative organizations banned‚ challenged and/or advocated against John Green’s 2005 novel‚ Looking for Alaska being taught in high school English classes‚ and even being available in school libraries. Of course‚ they were – and are – completely wrong and incredibly shortsighted in attempting to do so. All they had to do to allay their fears
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Looking for Alaska I have read ”Looking for Alaska” by John Green published in 2005. Looking For Alaska is about sixteen-year-old Miles who lived a very dull life in Florida until he decided to move to a boarding school in Alabama. There‚ he meets new friends‚ ”The Colonel”‚ Lara‚ Takumi and Alaska. Alaska is everything Miles isn’t‚ she’s beautiful‚ interesting‚ complicated‚ fascinating and fun. The book is divided into two parts‚ before and after. The event that splits the book up is to
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In the book‚ The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor‚ the classic story of Alice in Wonderland is flipped on it’s side. In Beddor’s novel‚ Queen Genivieve of Wonderland’s daughter‚ Alyss‚ takes an interesting journey‚ but in the end‚ ends up back in Wonderland. When Alyss is young‚ Redd kills King Nolan‚ which is the first time evil comes to Wonderland. Soon after that‚ Redd attacks Heart Palace and Queen Genevieve sends Alyss into the Pool of Tears but Alyss sees Redd kill Genevieve before she is
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“Looking at Women” by Scott Sanders was first published in spring of 1989 in the Georgia Review and was later reprinted in Sander’s essay collection titled “Secrets of the Universe” (1991). In this work‚ Sanders tells us his thoughts on how men look at women‚ hence the title; he explains to us that he feels that men turn women into things rather than people by objectifying their bodies. He goes into great detail about how a lot of women feel their role in today’s society is to exist for the pleasure
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In Looking for Alaska by John Green‚ the element of surprise took me when one of the main characters dies in a horrific car accident. The title Looking for Alaska adds to the plot of how determined Miles ends up towards to finding out the result of the fatal crash. Events leading up to this involve real life situations. For instance‚ building peoples guilt to try thing‚ whether good or bad. During the book‚ I was and still am astonished that the Alaska was involved in a fatal car accident. The night
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The Book I chose was Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. The genre of this book is young adult fiction. It takes place in the forest of Canada. The book doesn’t mention the time that the story takes place. Although‚ it does say the his mother dropped him off in Hampton‚ New York in the beginning. This book is about a boy named Brian Robeson who is riding in a private airplane to Canada. At the beginning of the ride‚ the pilot invited him to help in the cockpit and then the pilot had an unfortunate heart attack
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Canyons is a fiction book written by an author by the name of Gary Paulsen. Paulsen wrote the book was written in the year 1991. Paulsen wrote this book and all of his other books because he has a passion to write. Paulsen has written over 45 books for young people since 1966. This book called Canyons is not one of his most popular books. His best selling book is called Hatchet written in 1987. Paulsen has written many books and won many great awards for his books. The book‚ Canyons is about a young
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Mean girls and looking for alibrandi Today I will be doing a speech on looking for alibrandi and mean girls I will be focusing on the teenage adolesces I will be comparing the relationship differences between Regina Georges family and Josie alibrandi’s family and I will be also focusing on teen relationships. Regina’s family is very different from Josie’s family; Regina’s family is a typical American family laid back and Regina gets all the freedom that she desires in the movie Regina says
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Do you think you’re brave and intelligent enough to survive all on your own? No one else…..just you and a hatchet? This is the exact scenario that occurs in the novel Hatchet‚ by Gary Paulsen. After being the survivor of a horrific plane crash‚ the main character‚ Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian Wilderness and depends solely on himself for 54 days! This was a stunning achievement‚ and through it all Brian went through numerous changes that molded him into a strong human being. There are
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