1. Title a. My Sister’s Keeper 2. Author b. Jodi Picoult 3. Genre c. Young Adult Fiction 4. Quotations and Significance d. "They don’t really pay attention to me‚ except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn’t even be alive‚ if it wasn’t for Kate being sick." i. This quote explains Anna’s mindset of her purpose in life. She considers herself as being used and not cared for as a person. The reason for her being born was because the doctors
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The supercilious assumption that on a Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do (pg24) It seems to me that the narrator is rather annoyed about the assumption that he has nothing to do. It gives a bit of insight into the narrator’s and Tom’s personality. Knowing more about how characters think and respond to each other is crucial and this tells a bit of that. (words:51) “I want to see you” said Tom intently. “Get on the next train.” (pg26) Tom seems to be in control of the
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Chapters 15-19 a lot of important events occurred that will impact the end of the story I think. Such as in chapter 15 we right away found out about the dark truth of Rudy. It was an extremely shocking new‚ I was not expecting that at all. I used to think Rudy was probably a nice guy mostly after finding out that he was priest. That maybe he had just felt disappointed about the religion or something and therefore he would drink a lot. However now I know the truth I don’t really know how to feel‚
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Keaton Nishimi5-29-13428 Chapter 1Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. Chapter 3 You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
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As the driver headed to my residence‚ I knew Gatsby was still confounded about tonight’s events. I knew better than to assume Gatsby would let Daisy take the blame for the death of Mrs. Wilson. I was aware that this night had intimidated him. Gatsby was not easily frightened but tonight would alter his future‚ I was more than terrified to leave him there all alone. But I did. When I returned home I headed straight for the mattress. I was sound asleep until it crept to the hour of one‚ the sound
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Three mini-bottles in‚ Darcy determined he had enough liquid courage and was ready to deploy the necessary means to secure her in the bed until morning. Glaring at the drawer where he placed the method‚ he groaned at the absurdity of it all. Was he really going to do this to the woman of his dreams and future wife? Fingering the forth bottle‚ he wavered. “Darcy‚ come on. Let me out.” Walking over to the door‚ he leaned closer to speak. “Madam‚ you do not play fair.” “Like you serenading me with
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Word Vex: 1: To bring trouble‚ distress‚ or agitation. 2: to bring physical distress to. 3: To irritate or annoy by petty provocations. “I fret about nothing on earth except papa’s illness‚’ answered my companion. ‘I care for nothing in comparison with papa. And I’ll never—never—oh‚ never‚ while I have my senses‚ do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself‚ Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than
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It wasn’t the soft‚ ethereal glow of dawn’s early light peeping through the ill-fitting curtains that gently lured Tom from a restless night’s sleep. It wasn’t the promise of a new day‚ free from the nightmares that still plagued his tortured mind or the pleasing chirrup of the house sparrows greeting the sun with their morning song of joy. It was something more physical‚ something visceral‚ an inherent perception of a long-forgotten pleasure slowly rising from within. His body was awakening.
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SLAVE GIRL “They call me Rain. I have long forgotten my real name as I was very young when they came into my village and took me. I can’t remember much from my life before being a slave girl‚ but my masters have told me I am from a small village in West Africa.” Late one night‚ in a small village in Africa‚ when all had gone to sleep‚ they came like ghosts in the darkness. They took Rain from her mother’s arms and bond her father. They were crammed into pens on the
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Economy (pages 7 – 65) I see young men‚ my townsmen‚ whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms‚ houses‚ barns‚ and cattle‚ and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. (pg. 8) So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle‚ throwing the stones over their heads behind them‚ and not seeing where they fell. (pg. 9) “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself‚ than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart with
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