|Lock and Key | |2. Author of the book |Sarah Dessen | |3. In one sentence say how you came to read |I had already read a book of Sarah Dessen and I liked her writing style so I wanted to read| |this book. |another book of her.
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Aunt Alexandra comes to the Finch residence at the end of chapter twelve‚ declaring that the family decided that it would be best for Scout and Jem to have some feminine influence in their lives. Scout knows that Alexander usually dictates what she wants upon the family‚ and uses the term the family decided to make her an even greater point of authority in the Finch family. Usually her dictations give her chances to impress her views on others or increase the family name and work towards the ideal
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Throughout the last couple of weeks‚ I finished Sarah Dessen’s What Happened to Goodbye‚ which was 402 pages long. I also started Sarah Dessen’s Keeping the Moon and I am currently on page 211. What Happened to Goodbye ended with McLean and her friends building a model for the city and in the process of doing so‚ her friends found out about all of her previous identities. They forgave her right away but were curious what made her choose to live her life like that. As promised to her mother to avoid
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I have used Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan many times in a guided reading group. It is the story if Sarah‚ who moves from Maine to the prairie when she answers the advertisement for a wife. She decides to try this out for a month and care for Anna and Caleb whose mother has dies. Sarah tells the family that they will recognize her when she arrives because she is "plain and tall." She brings with her a cat and gifts from the ocean. The story revolves around Caleb and Anna and their
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Sarah Emma Edmonds Sarah Emma Edmonds was born in Canada in 1841. Her father was both physically and verbally abusive which forced her to run away from home at an early age. In fear of her father catching her‚ Edmonds disguised herself as a man. She cut her hair‚ dressed like a man‚ and took on her first new identity as Franklin Thompson. Still in fear that her father would catch her‚ by 1856 she fled to the United States. During the Civil War‚ she decided it a patriotic duty to enlist in the
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The poetry collection I decided to analyze is No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay. Sarah Kay is a young American female poet‚ known for her spoken word poetry. Kay is also the founder and co-director of Project VOICE‚ which uses spoken words poetry to promote empowerment‚ improve literacy‚ and encourage empathy and creative collaboration in classrooms and communities around the world. I appreciated Sarah Kay’s collection due to its modern voice and style‚ which made her poems easily relatable and
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Rich being the niece of Aunt Jennifer; therefore‚ personal feelings are exposed throughout the piece. The speaker speaks in an admiring‚ sincere‚ tone and her sympathy is apparent because she herself is a female. Rich’s poem‚ "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers" is about the trials of an older woman in distress because her marriage is in trouble‚ and she is too afraid to leave her husband. The most apparent point in the poem is the ongoing contrast between the fictional tigers and Aunt Jennifer. The tigers represent
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In the poem “Making Sarah Cry” the theme is being different‚ and in the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” the theme is also being different. Both these passages show this theme. In the poem “ Making Sarah Cry” it shows being different in a different way than “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” because sarah was being made fun of because of all of her actions and what she did‚ but in the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” it was representing the theme being different in a different way because
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The Significance of Sarah‚ Jimmy and Doalty Doalty‚ Sarah and Jimmy Jack Cassie have three main roles in Translations. Firstly‚ they represent those Irish people who will be left behind during the development of the country by the English. Secondly‚ they all contribute to the concluding scene and its outcome. And thirdly‚ they all in some way represent Ireland as a whole. Unlike Maire and Owen‚ none of these three characters has any desire to leave Baile Beag. When Jimmy Jack sets
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outcomes that she expected from her diary. It can only be assumed that perhaps‚ one day she thought her family may read it and be informed on some of the experiences she went through. The authenticity and reliability of the document is under debate. Sarah Frost‚ a legitimate woman from the 1700’s is an authentic historical woman who did indeed write a diary about her experience on the Two Sisters ship. However‚ the original manuscript of her diary in its entirety has still not been found. Due to that
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