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    Steven Newberry 12/18/2012 Period 6 Title: Brian’s Hunt Author: Gary Paulsen Protagonist: The protagonist in this story is Brian himself. He is about 16 years old. he is a very strong and spirited person. He has many obstacles come his way but his bravery helps him overcome the obstacles. Once he was rescued he decides he wants to pack his bags and go back out the canadian forest and live for a month or so. Antagonist: Later in the story the bear becomes the antagonist. The bear has killed

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    Syrian refugees journey into safety faces many hardships and dangers as they take extreme risks with their lives‚ by crossing oceans‚ countries‚ and unfriendly border points. Some authors who apply this theme are Rick Riordan‚ Susan Collins‚ and Gary Paulsen. Some of the well-known novels that use this theme are Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief‚ Hatchet‚ and The Hunger Games. Many characters in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist embark on their personal journeys. Through The Alchemist‚ Paulo Coelho Focuses

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    person she would have experienced life just as he described it. His portrayal of an abusive slaveholder and the forbiddance of an education to slaves are mostly correct when comparing it to the narrative of Fredrick Douglas’ experiences. Although Gary Paulsen may have exaggerated at times‚ I feel as if his

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    happiness is a warm gun with People buying guns. • Residents of Virgin‚ Utah‚ a town that passed a law requiring all residents to own guns. • People firing rifles at carnivals and shooting ranges. • Footage of Denise Ames operating a rifle. • Footage of Carey McWilliams‚ a visually impaired gun enthusiast from North Dakota. • Footage of Gary Plauche executing Jeff Doucet‚ who had kidnapped and molested Plauche’s son. • The suicide of Budd Dwyer. • A 1993 murder where Emilio Nuñez shot his ex-wife

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    and there still has been no true action for or against gun control. As Jeff Cooper once said‚ “The rifle itself has no moral stature‚ since it has no will of its own. Naturally‚ it may be used by evil men for evil purposes‚ but there are more good men than evil‚ and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness‚ by propaganda‚ they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” (Cooper)  In short; guns don’t kill people‚ people kill people. A gun in the hands of an evil man

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    with Vietnam Syndrome‚ now known as PTSD. His behaviors confuse his son‚ Terry‚ and Terry tries to help his dad. In this story Paulsen uses figurative and literal examples to illustrate the impact of life after the war. For this reason I prefer and enjoyed reading “Stop the Sun” more than Tim O’Brien’s‚ “The Things They Carried”. Some of the figurative examples Paulsen uses to illustrate the impact of life after the war are seen by Terry’s explanation of his father’s behaviors and when he tries

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    to use these guns to their benefit which seems to be a reoccurring theme throughout the article. Deeper into the article Wilson writes about how law-abiding people use guns as self-defensive every year. Knowing this‚ Wilson provides evidence from Gary Kleck to state “guns are used— that is‚ displayed or fired — for defense purposes more than a

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    The Transall Saga Mark Harrison is a thirteen year old boy who is obsessed with hiking and backpacking. In the book The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen‚ Mark has finally convinced his parents to let him backpack by himself across an abandoned missile range and he couldn’t be more excited‚ until a strange blue light teleports him far into the future where the world has devolved into the days of swords and arrows. After‚ being in the new environment for a while mark begins to worry about

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    The fiction novel Out Of Focus by Margaret Buffie is an old‚ true sounding story about a teenager named Bernie Dodd with extra burdens‚ including looking after her younger siblings because their single mother is an irresponsible alcoholic. When Bernie was thirteen‚ she told her mother‚ “When you stop being drunk‚ I’ll call you Mom” (Buffie‚ 29). She is sixteen now‚ and still calls her mom Celia. Things started to look up for Bernie and her younger siblings Ally and Jojo; Celia is marrying Mario‚

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