The book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a description of the real murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb in 1959. In spite of being based on a true story‚ describing true events that happened to real people‚ the book shows all the qualities of a novel‚ complete with dialogues and other characteristics of the genre‚ in what the author mentioned to as a non-fiction novel. What caught most critics’ attention‚ was the use of filmic establishment in the development of the story. The book was later
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Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Synopsis: In Nazi Germany a young girl named Liesel Meminger catches the attention of Death himself‚ who is also our narrator‚ though not for Death’s usual reason. What with WWII‚ Death is pretty busy‚ and needs all the distraction he can get his hands on. Liesel Meminger‚ the girl who became a book thief at age nine when she stole a book from her brother’s gravesite‚ is just such a distraction. Liesel’s first stolen book begins a life-altering relationship
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From the edge of apocalypse‚ humanity has reorganized itself into five factions‚ each of which preserve and live by a single value. People who believe society fell apart because of greed formed the faction of Abnegation (the Selfless)‚ sworn off of practices considered self-indulgent and pledged to act selflessly. Those who believe the collapse was due to ignorance pledged themselves to the Erudite (the Intelligent)‚ sworn to a never-ending path of complete knowledge acquisition. Those who feel that
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Preface and Acknowledgement The present work "An intensive study on the course book “NEW DIRECTIONS” is an indispensable part of my practicum as well as a golden opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience. It is an academic activity to be undertaken by the students of M.Ed. second year while conducting their student Teaching. I got an opportunity to go deeply through the course book of B. Ed first year book entitle new directions during my practice teaching at Sukuna Multiple Campus Indrapur
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reading. Books are our best friends. They never deceive or desert us in our hour of need like so many of our human friends‚ and the advantages once received from the reading of books remain with us throughout our lives. Books are written by learned persons. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Literature is said to mirror society. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings‚ but also what they observe and find in society. The books of the past
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Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes is a gripping tail of a young African girl named Aminata‚ in her life as she is abducted at a young age and forced into the slave trade. This is not a challenging read as it does not have a high level of vocabulary so it is readable by almost all ages. The story progresses as Aminata grows and matures physically and mentally‚ through horrendous conditions and mistreatment. The journey is full of twists and turns‚ and you can’t help but root for the determined
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BOOK REPORT The Outsiders By: S.E Hinton(New York: Puffin Books‚ 1967) The outsider: The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. The title of this book is related to the story‚ because in the novel‚ Ponyboy and Johnny are outsiders. They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like
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Significant Passages Book One Chapter 1: "And now I am old" I have escaped violent endings even as they have surrounded me. But I never had the privilege of holding onto my children‚ living with them‚ raising them the way my own parents raised me for ten or eleven years‚ until all of our lives were torn asunder. 68 • The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long‚ it must be for
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Jonathon Rzasnicki Mr. Nash English 4 28 October 2014 Literary Conflicts and Lessons Learned in The Fellowship of the Ring It is often very useful to find the moral of a story. The moral of a story teaches the reader something he or she can improve about themselves or the way they live. JRR Tolkien makes the moral of his story‚ The Fellowship of the Ring‚ known through the conflicts of the characters. Tolkien uses three distinctly different literary conflicts in The Fellowship of the Ring to critique
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