Allen Poe once said ¨Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.¨ By using descriptive language the author allows the reader to create a picture of the story in their head. In the story ¨Stop the Sun¨ by Gary Paulsen‚ the author uses descriptive adjectives and figurative language to develop the setting mood and characters. In ¨Stop the Sun¨‚ the author uses descriptive adjectives to develop the setting and characters. In the story the author described
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In the story “Dirk the Protector” Gary is a street kid that came from the wrong side of the tracks and he finds himself stuck in a tough spot were Dirk comes to his rescue. Will they survive? Dirk was a street dog with an instinct to survive. He had many character traits. Some of them were violent he bit happy. He was also protective because when Gary was getting beat up by happy he bit happy and he and his gang ran away. He is also thankful because Gary gave him Ritz crackers and hamburgers‚ also
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locking on mine as I went beneath the surface.” Later on “there was a large noose-knot on the end and it tightened and started pulling up and when the knot hit I grabbed and held and the dogs pulled me out of the hole and back up onto the ice.” (Gary Paulsen) I think this means that dogs will do anything to save their master and that includes pulling them out of frigid ice‚ and since they know what’s going on in an instant they saved him before he drowned. Later in My Life in Dog Years‚ “Two steps
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Winterdance‚ a non-fiction narrative by Gary Paulsen‚ is a firsthand account of Paulsen’s journey in the Iditarod‚ where the main character‚ Paulsen‚ exemplifies bildunsroman throughout the book by altering his perspective of animals. Paulsen’s attitude toward nature changes dramatically as well throughout Winterdance due to his companionship with the sled dogs‚ experience with other animals along the race‚ and adjustment to trail life. Not only did the dogs guide him physically through
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Woodsong is book about a man named Gary who is training to join the iditarod‚ with more than a dozen fun and adorable dogs.Woodsong is a book filled with adventures and lot of mysterious events that all happened in Gary’s life! Woodsong talks about the adventures of the wildlife and how to always expect the unexpected in the woods.Gary paulsen is a great book writer‚ and most of his work is based on wildlife‚ his personal adventures and life in the woods.If you love adventure‚ fun and the wild‚ you
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Turning points are events in people’s life that can affect their life in good or bad way. In “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros‚ “Middle School Loneliness”‚ and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen had all faced life changing events (Turning Points). They all adapted to their turning point‚ but it wasn’t easy doing so. “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a drama about the main character‚ Rachel‚turning eleven‚ but still feels ten‚ nine‚ eight‚ seven‚ six‚ five‚ four‚ three‚ two‚ one. Rachel’s turning point is
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Hatchet‚ a novel from Gary Paulsen‚ is the story about a 13-year-old boy named Brian Robeson‚ who went flying in a single-engine plane to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. But when the plane crashes into a lake‚ he has to learn how to fend for himself for 42 days. Brian is the main character in this whole story. the side characters are his mom‚ the pilot‚ and the dad. The mom is one of the most basic characters in the book‚ but she is the one who is hiding the "Secret" from Brian.
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In the novel Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen‚ chapter 4‚ Sarny recalls a memory of three slaves who were all made examples of by either running away‚ sneaking off plantation‚ or getting caught too close to the white house. In the first case‚ Sarny recalls a girl named Alice. She tried to run away when she was on the plantation but she was caught. In return the dogs caught her trying to run away and she was whipped until her skin was bleeding and rippled. Clel Waller decided that instead of killing her
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The passages Brian’s Winter By Gary Paulsen and Call of the Wild By Jack London are stories about two characters that are trying to survive in the wilderness. They both come across something an obstacle that they both have to face on there own. First off‚ in the passage Brian’s Winter‚ Brian is sleeping in camp as he wakes up to the rear end of a very large bear. He finds out that what he had done was a terrible mistake. In source a it states “Brian pulled back a foot. “Hey get out of there” he
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The low comedy in Harris & Me is more humorous because of the physical mishaps‚ pain‚ and slapstick comedy create more humor than the higher comedy‚ such as the witty language‚ do. Harris & Me was written by Gary Paulsen‚ and he creates more humor with the low comedy than he creates with the high comedy. The high comedy‚ such as the subtlety of the line‚ “Purely from an artistic viewpoint‚ of course…” creates less humor than the low comedy does. First‚ in Harris & Me‚ there are a lot of physical
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