through the lives of several characters‚ many of which you grow to love and feel for. Several times in the book I was bawling my eyes out or crying for pure joy‚ it really gets to you on an emotional level. It has holocaust themes (obviously) but I would say that they are quite mild. People who are sensitive to these themes can quite easily skip over the details and continue reading on as the book will still make total sense. Reading this book my views of WWII completely changed--as this is not an Anne
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The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th century Middle English alliterative romance. It explores the notion of temptation through the quest of a hero. It presents this quest as a game between the green knight and Sir Gawain and involves numerous sets of laws and codes of chivalry that need to be adhered to. The question of whether Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that is a social critique of medieval society or a challenge to personal morality and virtue causes much debate
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The death of Liesel‚ the book thief‚ starts out the book for us. They are on their way on a train with their mother to their foster parent’s home. This also sparks Liesel’s love for reading later in the book‚ and it also was one of the moments that Liesel had constant nightmares about. Liesel arrives on Himmel street terrified and not knowing what her foster parents will be like. This also sets the setting of the novel and we meet some more main characters‚ Hans and Rosa Hubermann. The Hubermanns
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Brianna Gaebel Due Date: Wednesday 22nd Journal 9 I am reading Awake by Natasha Preston‚ and I am on page 100. The book is about a girl name Scarlett who losses her memory when she was four years old during a house fire and 12 years later she gets into a accident and starts to recall events that happened when she was younger. In this book I will be predicting. G I predict that Scarlett was going to be murdered and her orginal family want her back Y Noah states R dad says not her fam
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Molly fell in love with Jacky because to her he was her demon lover. Jacky was a simple country boy. He played in a gospel group. The group was called The Rag Mountain Ramblers on Saturday and the Angel Band on Sunday. Jacky loved Molly with all of his heart. John aka BJ was Jacky’s Cousin. They couldn’t have been any closer‚ they was born only a few days apart. BJ likes to protect the people up on Bobcat. He likes to make nightly rounds to check on everything. BJ was also in love with Molly Petree
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Summary of the book Arielle Donovan is a fifteen year old girl who has just lost something very important to her‚ her best friend. On a dark summer night‚ Jenna leaves Arielle’s home without her insisting she’ll be right back‚ but never returns. Arielle suffers through a summer alone‚ desperate to find out what happened to her friend‚ but lacking the energy that the experience of loss has drained from her. On the afternoon of her fifteenth birthday however‚ Arielle has a dream. She sights Jenna
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February 1st 2012 True Love and its Obstacles Love is one of the most important things to the survival of the human race‚ because it allows humans to work together and connect with each other. To live life without love is not living a fulfilled life. Finding true love may seem like the difficult part of a relationship with another human being‚ but the obstacle that hinders the relationship coming together is the most difficult part. My essay will explore the theme “true love” and the obstacles that
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The Book Thief‚ by Markus Zusak‚ tells of a nine year old girl named Liesel Meminger who lived through World War II. At a young age‚ Liesel and her younger brother‚ Werner‚ got on a train with their mother to go to a foster home in Molching‚ Germany. Halfway into the trip‚ Werner dies‚ leaving Liesel traumatized for many months. When Liesel and her mother arrive in Molching‚ she meets her foster parents‚ Rosa and Hans Hubermann. Hans plays the role of the perfect father for Liesel. He always comforted
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writing about Undertow by Michael Buckley. When you first look at the title‚ you’d think that the book would be about lifeguards or something to do with undertows. But in fact‚ the true reason that this book is named Undertow is because it drags you in and never lets you go. From the hook that drops you into an alien environment‚ to the drama packed halls of Lyric Walker’s high school‚ Hylan High‚ this book truly drags you down‚ deep into its pages. Lyric Walker is the only child of a hard working cop
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Love is something that means very different things to different people. For some‚ love can be purely romantic‚ or even purely sexual. For others‚ real love is utterly unconditional and only truly exists between family members‚ or between people and a deity. And for some people‚ love is fluid‚ ever changing‚ and everywhere‚ and is felt for family‚ friends‚ partners‚ pets‚ and even inanimate objects‚ dead artists‚ and fictional characters. None of these people would be right or wrong‚ but one thing
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