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    The feud that Huck stumbled upon raised the bar in intensity. The book has succeeded in keeping the attention of readers and keep them reading‚ even for teenagers! The only complaint to be had with the book is that the dialogue of the slaves is rather difficult to read‚ though it does show the book is keeping with the time period very well. I am glad that Mark Twain implemented this‚ however‚ as it shows how uneducated slaves really

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    Spikes | 1  Spikes | 2  Alias Grace  Margaret Atwood  Dialectical Journal  Date  Text  7/21/14  p. 5 “Out of the gravel there are peonies growing. They come up through the loose grey pebbles‚ their buds testing the air like snails’ eyes‚ then swelling and opening‚ huge dark-red flowers all shining and glossy like satin. Then they burst and fall to the ground.” 7/21/1 4 p. 5 “It’s 1851. I’ll be twenty-four years old next birthday. I’ve been shut up in here since the age of sixteen. I am a

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    Foreshadowing Bradubury uses the title fahrenheit 451 as an foreshadowing technique. 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper ignites‚ which has to do with the act of bookburning. Bradbury uses that to hint the readers of paper (books) burning. 4. Quote: Device: Foreshawdowng Montag is down at the fire station and the firemen are playing with the new mechanical hound. That hound doesn’t seem to like Montag very much‚ suggesting that something bad might happen involving

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    just getting off of work and smelling the perfume. I have loved how the kerosene smells on me. I was a fireman‚ a fireman who burned books for a living. I followed in my family’s footsteps and became a fireman‚ that only burnt books. Which soon turned into having to burn buildings because they contained books. Paper burned at 451 degrees fahrenheit. Burning books always seemed to make me happy. Ray Bradbury wanted people to know the good between bad. There were some very nice helpful people in

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    Great Gatsby 2. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. Genre/Type of Book Novel Body 1. When/Where book takes place: a. Time 1920’s b. Place Long Island 2. Who/what is the book about? The book is about Gatsby who built a castle next to his ex-girlfriend’s house assuming she’ll like him again. List principle characters 1. Jay Gatsby 2. Nick Carraway 3. Daisy 4. Tom Buchanan 3. Summarize Plot/Climax What happened in the book? Nick which is the main guy in the story went to college then

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    imagination. I am always guessing what Holden is really feeling or thinking. Holden’s outlook and perspective on life are displayed on each page and I can hardly ever put the book down. There are many aspects of this book that I truly enjoy. The complex character of Holden Caulfield is what I love the most about this book. He is very unpredictable and spontaneous. I never know what he is going to do next. He is truly a free spirit with a lot of troubles weighing him down. He has an interesting

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    The Life of Pi Yann Martel Steven van Ens V6‚ Bornego College (mel/lem/mle/lme) Chapter 1 & 2 Pi Patel is a graduate in Religious Studies and Zoology at Toronto university and held in high esteem for his knowledge in the zoological field. The author calls him‚ meaning to interview him about his adventure‚ being referred to Pi by a man named Francis Adirubasamy. He lives in Scarborough‚ Canada‚ is small of stature and speaks very fast. He says he misses India and Richard Parker‚ an unknown

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    In the book I am reading The Catcher In The Rye a lot happen in the last few chapters. The first thing that happen was Holden meet up with his old acquaintance of his for a drink. He ended up getting drunk. He left the bar and walked to central park and while he was in the park he decided to finally go home and see his sister. He snuck into his house and went to his sister’s room and he woke her up. She was really excited to see him. After that Holden called one of his old teachers at one of his

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    In the second chapter dedicated to Vardaman‚ he found himself captive in his own naïve and childish imagination. While staring at the coffin that Cash had created and being not fully aware of his mother’s condition‚ he got scared at the thought that the members of the family would have to nail shut the casket and that his mother would have no air to breathe. Until the end of the chapter‚ it became obvious that the child did not believe that Addie was dead and that he made incredible efforts to hold

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    Scene1: Scene 1 takes place in a small town. It is nighttime‚ very dark and very silent. Inside the Way-stone Inn there are five men drinking beer and listening to Old Cob telling stories. Old Cob is a very old man with a scratchy high voice. The men are in their early twenties. One‚ the apprentice that is always addressed as boy‚ is a hand taller than the others. Off to the end of the bar a young inn keeper is listening to the story being told. You can tell it is familiar to him. The Innkeeper

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