The main theme for “Ground Zero” by Suzanne Berne‚ is absence. After New York’s World Trade Center towers became destroyed in 2011‚ Berne felt like she needed to visit what people refer to as “ground zero.” Once she arrived‚ she noticed she was not the only person drawn to the site. Furthermore‚ since she was one of those who saw the disaster from televisions‚ and newspapers‚ she remained determined to find a way to better understand the emptiness she was looking at. She decided to ask people for
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Ally Yelton Mrs. LaGrange Senior Composition 5 October 2012 “Ground Zero” “Ground zero is a great bowl of light‚ an emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand‚ like a vast plaza amid the dense tangle of streets in lower Manhattan” (159). This is the feeling the speaker gets when she sees the World Trade Center site for the first time after the attacks on ground zero. The day on which the speaker went was a cold‚ damp March morning on the corner of Vesey and Church Streets (158). At
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Summary of the Hunger Games The book Hunger Games‚ written by Suzanne Collins‚ is a fictional story based in the future about an event in which cities (districts) participate annually by the coercion of the capitol. Two representatives‚ or tributes‚ are randomly selected each year to representative their district in this dreadful event. The plot is focused on a girl in her late-teens and her battles and struggles in the annual event‚ which is called the Hunger Games‚ or just the Games. The Hunger
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Mariah Alves Honors English- Book report Mrs. Smith 8 March 2012 Mockingjay For my book report‚ I did a diorama using a simple shoe box. My book is called “Mockingjay”‚ by Suzanne Collins; it is the third book of “The Hunger Games. This book is about the girl on fire Katniss Everdeen‚ is in district 13‚ with her mother and her sister‚ Prim‚ along with Gale. Peeta’s family is dead‚ along with everyone in district 12 who didn’t escape to 13. Peeta is captured by the capital and is being tortured;
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If I had to tell my book‚ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in two minutes I would say it is a book about a very poor-kind girl named Katniss who volunteers for her younger sister in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a game to death against other people in an arena and the last person alive wins. There is twenty-four people‚ two from each district and she faces many challenges in the book to survive in the deadly arena. Katniss makes allies to survive longer‚ but some fall along the way and
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel that depicts what life would be like in future day America if a dictator was to be in power. The hunger games is a competition in where 24 tributes from the 12 districts of panem are forced to fight in an arena to the death until one sole remaining victor remains. That victor is crowned and then gets to live the rest of his or her life in peace and wealth in victor’s village. On the day of the 74th reaping‚ Katniss Everdeen
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The Hunger Games Book Review The adventurous yet sensitive story about a teenager in‚ The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ portrays a girl facing many obstacles‚ she is put in many scenarios that could put her life in danger. Katniss is a 16 year old girl living with her mother and younger sister in District 12. Every year‚ there is an event called‚ The Hunger Games‚ where you must survive to win. When Katniss’s sister is chosen to participate‚ she decides to take her sister’s place. The Hunger
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Have you ever had something that you felt is or represents a special part of you? Maybe a lucky charm‚ idem‚ or animal that gives you strength? In the book “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins and the Hunger Games book series Katniss’s spirit animal/mascot that she was known for was the mockingjay. After her second hunger games Katniss rebelled against the capital and was well known as the mockingjay. the mocking jay symbolizes the strength and rebellion in Katniss. One reason mockingjays symbolize
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The hunger games is a great book by Suzanne Collins‚ about a city where each year 2 children from each district- a boy and a girl-were picked to fight to the death. This practice originated as a punishment to the districts for the rebellion against the capital seventy five years ago. But today it goes on only because of the cruelty of the privileged capital people‚ with the advantage of their children never having to fight. Ever since Katniss Everdeen’s father has died she took the responsibility
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On August 10‚ 1962‚ Suzanne Collins was born in Hartford‚ Connecticut. She was the youngest of four children and the daughter of an Air Force officer. For this reason‚ Suzanne moved a significant amount during her childhood‚ living in a variety of different places. To her family‚ history was an immensely important topic because her father taught this at a History was an immensely important topic in her family because her dad was a history teacher at a college level. Her father shared military experiences
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