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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I found that “The Book Thief” portrayed perfectly one of the greatest casualties of war – the truth. Markus Zusak writes about a young girl – Liesel Meminger – who is initially illiterate‚ however she realizes the importance and power behind words and stories and she hungers for them. She steals books in an effort to understand and eventually‚ under the tutelage of Hans Hubermann – her papa – she is able to immerse herself in the new ideas and truths conveyed in these stories. I believe Liesel Meminger
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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations‚ some by Rudyard’s father‚ John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England‚ he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont.[1] There is
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The Graveyard Book is a novel by Neil Gaiman. It is about a boy called Nobody Owens who lives in a graveyard. He wandered in as a toddler after his entire family is murdered by a mysterious man named Jack. He is raised by a man called Silas who is vampire and the ghosts of the graveyard. This tale contains all the elements of a gothic novel – supernatural events‚ the theme of belonging‚ a gothic setting and other gothic stuff. This book places value on love‚ friendship‚ family and uniquely‚ independence
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The Book of Job The Book of Job has been praised but also neglected all at the same time. Its literary work is written in a poetry sense with a prose format and considered one of the greatest pieces of literature of all time. The Book of Job is one of first book of five generally called "The Books of Poetry"‚ which contain Job‚ Psalms‚ Proverbs‚ Ecclesiastes‚ and the Song of Solomon. The Book of Job is written in the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible and the main theme that is seeks out is "Why
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to try something new‚ so they switched the rings that they were wearing and tried again‚ “one-two-three-go! Said Digory. And then jumped” (43). This decision by Digory and Polly to go exploring now has huge impacts on the rest of the book and even affects the books to come. While adventuring‚ they stumble upon Jadis will later on become the “White Witch” in Narnia. Another decision that was made was the decision by Digory is to get a seed that would produce a tree to keep the queen away from Narnia
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soldiers in the U.S. Army. She shares her experiences in the war in Iraq in a courageous way. Everything she says in the memoir is straightforward. She does not hesitate to say anything about what it was like to be a female in the war. The memoir was not only written to inform society of what life was like being a female in the war‚ but it was also written to empower women everywhere. It seems as though Williams wrote this in order to address the issues that females face being in the army as a major minority
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INTRODUCTION a. BACKGROUND This modern inspirational classic book entitled Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom has changed millions of lives. This book tells about the story of an old professor named Morrie Schwartz who is suffering from a disease called amyothopic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ it is a brutal unforgiving illness of the neurological system. And it has known no cure. Morrie’s doctor guessed he had two years left‚ but he knew it was less. But despite of knowing that
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In the book of Revelation‚ there are many apocalyptic events that occur. These events symbolize the return of Christ. In other words it’s the end of the world. This is a belief established by the Jews. The forces of good and evil will become more intense and God will intervene to save those who are righteous and destroy those who are evil. God reveals a lot to a mortal man on earth and tells him to do as He says to do. Many events occur that tell the return of Christ like rivers of blood and plagues
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A book review on: Sirish ko phool (The blue mimosa) This beautiful novel was written by one of the most talented lady in the Nepali literature sector‚ we all know her as Parijat. This book was published by Sanjha prakashan‚ in 2068 B.S.‚ this novel was also awarded with ‘Madan Puraskar’ in 2022 B.S. This story is basically about a person named Suyog‚ who was a former soldier in the British-Gurkha Army and had fought in the Second World War; he had retired after the war was over and now maintained
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