The book I had chosen for my book project was Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. The main character in this book was Percy Jackson his father is Poseidon the god of the sea and his mother is a normal human. In the book he discovers more of his abilities he inherited from his father and he learns to like his half-brother Tyson. Tyson is also a son of Poseidon‚ but instead of a human he is a Cyclops. He is younger than Percy and embarrasses Percy all the time. Although he is not smart he is incredibly
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The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient manuscripts that were found at several sites near the western shore of the Dead Sea in a small community named Khirbet Qumran (Kee 62). The most important site was near Qumran‚ where eleven caves containing scrolls and artifacts were discovered. In early 1947‚ a shepherd boy by the name of Muhammed the Wolf was searching for some goats near a cliff on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Climbing up after one that had strayed away‚ he noticed
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Defeat is a decision. While people may not prosper in every battle they fight‚ their defeat is not necessarily inevitable. This is true for the protagonists in the parable The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and the boxing drama Rocky directed by John Avildsen. Although Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea lives in a fishing village near Havana‚ Cuba in the 1940s‚ he faces a conflict remarkably similar to that of Rocky Balboa‚ despite the fact that his story takes place in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania
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The Turtle is an allegory written by John Steinbeck. He symbolized every character and objects happening in the story to describe the experience of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. So here are the parallels between the Turtle and human struggling during The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Turtle was on a journey. This is like what people living on the Great Plains did. The environment in the Turtle and the Dust bowl was both arduous and painful. The highway was edged
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tragic flaw and caused him to be open to his mother’s manipulation. After that‚ everything kind of went downhill‚ to understate the situation a bit... There are many examples of how Santiago was tragic hero in the old man in the sea. Santiago in the old man and the sea was known as a loser he did not have any friends but he did mentor a young boy named manolin and had the worst of luck. Santiago was outlawed by manolins parent because he had the worst of luck because of this the boy could not go
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Tragedy is defined as "a dramatic or heroic or literary work depicting a protagonist engaged in a orally significant struggle ending in ruin of profound disappointment." Hemingway’s‚ the Old Man and the Sea is no doubt a very tragic novel. The story starts off with the narrator explaining how Santiago‚ the old man‚ had gone 84 days without catching a fish‚ making the reader feel sorry for Santiago right off the start. The boy is a companion of Santiago who’s been fishing with him‚ like an assistant
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Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre intertwined In Wide Sargasso Sea‚ author Jean Rhys uses intertextuality to tell the story of Antoinette Mason. Intertexuality is when an author bases their book/novel off of another text. In this case‚ Wide Sargasso Sea is shaped from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and it elaborates on the character of Bertha‚ who is Antoinette Mason in Rhys’ novel. By reading Wide Sargasso Sea we are enlightened on things in Jane Eyre that Bronte does not tell us about or elaborate
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played an important role in all of our lives for as long as we can remember. But what makes stories so important? Is it because of the entertainment and thrill? Or‚ are stories just a big waste of our time? Salman Rushdie author of Haroun and the Sea of Stories believes that stories are important in everyone’s lives. Stories are everything to Haroun and and his father Rashid in the novel. “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” (22). Stories are important because they can provide
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drugs we use to cure diseases (penicillin‚ for example)‚ not to mention the use of herbs in traditional medicine. Conservation of sea turtles Globally there are eight species of sea turtles‚ six nests on the coast of Central America and four in the Salvadoran coast: the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)‚ hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)‚ green sea turtle (Chelonia agasizzii) and the olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea). Of these four definitely the most common is the olive ridley
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great literature invites reading on multiple levels or re-reading at various stages in the reader’s life. At each of these readings‚ the enduring work presumably yields extended interpretations and expanded meanings. Certainly‚ The Old Man and the Sea fits that description. The novella invites‚ even demands‚ reading on multiple levels. For example‚ readers can receive the novella as an engaging and realistic story of Santiago‚ the old man; Manolin‚ the young man who loves him; and Santiago’s
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