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    life forever. Enn‚ from the story by Gaiman‚ is an awkward teenager who afraid of girls but is talked into attending a party anyway by his friend Vic. Tommy‚ from “Gryphon‚” is a typical fourth grader in a very atypical situation. In both stories‚ eccentric female characters spark and ignite the changes that the boys need to come of age. Enn and Tommy grow as characters and discover that adults do not always have the answers‚ that new experiences are crucial‚ and to be accepting of all ideas no matter

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    “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” Is it real or is it fake?”The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is a teleplay about how all power on Maple Street seemingly stops for unknown reasons after something flies over the street that looks like a meteor. After the power goes out it doesn’t take long for everything to go horribly wrong and all of it just because a child says that it’s a monster and everybody believes him. Everyone thinks the other is a monster that has shut of the power and because

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    "Gryphon" is a short story by Charles Baxter that was published in 1985. The first person point of view Baxter chose allows us to understand the story better. It also allows Tommy to portray his personal feelings toward his substitute teacher‚ Miss Ferenczi. The diction Baxter uses for Miss Ferenczi is rather interesting. Sometimes‚ when she talks to the children‚ she uses words that most forth grade children wouldn’t understand. Our understanding of why Baxter chose her complex and confusing diction

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    wears you down.” Page 4 This quote really stuck out and resonated with me‚ especially when you take into consideration how the book ends as a whole. Kath’s quote has quite a bit to do with the theme of this novel. Kath ended up falling in love with Tommy‚ but he led on to break her heart by not wishing for her to be his carer anymore. All she did was try to make things go well for him‚ but ended up driving him away. Quote 2: “But that’s not really what I want to talk about just now.” Page 45 This

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    following. He is finally convicted after Henry Hill testifies against him. Tommy "Two-Gun Tommy" DeSimone- was an Italian-American gangster and an associate of the Lucchese crime family in New York Loose. He had loose grip on reality‚ thought nothing of killing men‚ and played a major role in the Lufthansa heist. He killed at least a dozen men‚ probably more‚ and even killed a close friend for an honest mistake. Tommy goes absolutely insane and kills Billy Bats forcing him to live on the run‚ until

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    of his marvelous works. The events of this story take place in distant future‚ 2157. There are no real schools here‚ the books printed on paper are replaced by screen books and human teachers are replaced by mechanical ones. The hero of this story Tommy once finds a very unusual book in which words are static. This book describes a school from centuries earlier‚ where children used to gather in one large building to be taught by a real person. Margie‚ Tommy’s younger friend‚ is very curious‚ but her

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    version. The first moment that captured the difference between the story and film is when a young convict named Tommy comes to Shawshank prison who later expresses to Andy that he knows what really happen to Andy’s wife and lover is suddenly killed by the warren in the movie. However‚ in the story it says "Tommy Williams is no longer an inmate of this facility" which indicates that Tommy might not have been killed and instead was transferred to another prison. The second moment is when Brooks a prisoner

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    Two Kinds Essay In the story of Two Kinds Jing mei the main character and her mother that left everything behind in China never had a good relationship and always got into fights and wanted her to be the next Shirley Temple or a prodigy. The Main conflict in the story is that Jing mei didn’t want to listen to her mother. Her Mother always wanted Jing mei to be the next shirley temple or a prodigy. Her mother would test her every night on magazines she got when she cleaned people’s house and apartments

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    respect the freedom of Tommy in making his own choices and decisions without the constraints imposed by others. (Toriello et al.‚ 2003). The principle of autonomy assumes that individuals have the right to decide how to live their own lives‚ as long as their actions do not interfere with the welfare of others. The key role here is in determining if Tommy is competent to make his own decisions and establish whether or not he has the information needed to make a personal choice. Tommy as a substance abuser

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    escapades of Tommy‚ the black retriever dog establish the plot of the narrative. Tommy’s good nature and the challenge of a game with his friends build into a chase scene which has become synonymous with bush larrikinism and legend. The male characters hit on an ingenious plan to catch fish‚ by blowing them out of the water with a special cartridge made from explosives. The cartridge is retrieved by Tommy who chases the men that are running away from the inevitable explosion. Tommy‚ however‚ is

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