The short story A&P by John Updike‚ takes place in 1961‚ at a grocery store called "A&P". Sammy‚ the narrator‚ is a cashier at A&P. One particular day‚ three girls came in they looked like they were fresh from the beach still in their bathing suits and did not have any shoes on‚ this was not the typical attire at the usually plain and very “cookie cutter” store. Sammy can’t help but notice them‚ he watches as they walk around and get the stuff they need. He also talks about how the “regulars” react
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Name: Michael Champion Title: What does it feel like? Author: Michael Morpurgo Text Type: Short Story Date Read: 8/2/18 2) This story is about a young girl names Sofia‚ who lives in a village. One moment she was going to school‚ the next moment she is hiding in the toilets and watching soldiers‚ taking everything and burning everything in the village. A grieving solider comes into the toilet and finds Sofia in the toilet‚ and has compassion on her and tries to save her. She realises how
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Lynn Dang Pre-AP English II The Book Thief 1. “His manner The quiet air around. When he turned the light on in the small‚ callous washroom that night‚ Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father’s eyes. They were made of kindness‚ and silver. Like soft silver‚ melting Liesel‚ upon seeing those eyes‚ understood that Hans Hubermann was worth a lot.” The significance of this passage is the description of Hans Hubermann’s eyes as the color represents his worth and personality. It
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In “A Fable for Tomorrow‚” Rachel Carson‚ a professional writer‚ scientist and ecologist‚ illustrates in her essay a small town in the heart of America being breathtaking and a site of beauty before the act of man desolate and ruin the environment with pesticides. The town is vibrant‚ full of life and color with fields of farms‚ animals and wild life. The author describes the town by seasons as having colors of flames abroad the oak and maple trees in autumn. In fall‚ foxes and deer travel across
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Throughout the novel of Beloved there are many occurrences of spirits or supernatural powers. From the first few lines of the novel there are dark powers that are summarized from traumatizing events of life at 124. The supernatural occurrences seem to stem from the dead child’s rage and from the beginning the women of the household knew of it. They spoke that they were “lucky this ghost is a baby. My husband’s spirit was to come back in here? or yours? Don’t talk to me. You lucky” (Beloved 5)
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Black Boy How would it feel to get beaten or get into a fight as a child in school or outside‚ in church? As a child‚ Richard Wright didn’t have a normal life like other kids. He would have to work for himself and his family. He would always move a lot and suffered a lot‚ especially violence and hunger. This is when Richard started to think like an adult and did something about. This became Richard’s turning point. Richard Wright used violence to unify his work as he explored his development educationally
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Peter Shaffer’s play Equus is about Alan Strang and his perception on horses. Alan is currently being treated by a Martin Dysart‚ his psychiatrist‚ for blinding six horses. His psychiatrist tries to get Alan to explain what was going on and he eventually begins to open up. When Alan was a child‚ his mother was a Christian who read the bible to him every day. One day‚ his father destroyed a picture of the crucifixion of Jesus and Alan decided to replace it with a picture of a horse. During Alan’s
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writing in Tagalog‚ bending earnestly over a piece of paper torn out of his son’s school notebook. "It’s about my boy Jose‚" he wrote. "He’s in the sixth grade now." He didn’t add that Jose had had to miss a year of school since coming here to Mindoro. "Since he’s quite a poor hand at looking after your carabaos‚ I thought it would be best that he go to school in the town. "This boy Jose‚ compadre‚" he wrote‚ "is quite an industrious lad. If only you can make him do anything you wish‚ any work. He
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Black Boy is an autobiographical work in which Wright adapted formative episodes from his own life into a "coming of age" plot. In the novel‚ Richard is a boy in the Jim Crow American South. This was a system of racial segregation practiced in some states of the U.S.‚ which treated blacks as second-class citizens. In his novel‚ Wright emphasizes two environmental forces of this system: hunger and language He shows how hunger drives the already oppressed to even more desperate acts‚ and his emphasis
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Reading Response: Malcolm X 1. Subject: This reading is about Malcolm X gaining inspiration to learn how to read and write during his time in prison and the many wonders of the world he learns of through reading. The topic is Malcolm X’s passion for learning and the main ideas are what he learns about which drives him to fight for the nonwhite man. The setting takes place in Charlestown Prison and Norfolk Prison Colony where Malcolm X was imprisoned in 1946-1953. Characters included in the reading
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