Nolan’s Dog and the Dimensional Warriors It was a dark and stormy night. My friend and I were surrounded by darkness‚ monsters in every corner‚ lightning striking every haunted house‚ and . . . zombies coming out of their nooks. We finally reached the haunted castle. When we got in‚ there was a picture. It was a puppet‚ and this puppet was no ordinary puppet. It was. . . . Creak! Creak! We had no time to lose. The puppet hit me in the eye‚ and Nolan dropped his bag. We both ran outside and heard
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Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior novel‚ is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories that chronicles her childhood in California. The main characters‚ Kingston‚ Brave Orchid‚ Moon Orchid‚ and an unnamed aunt‚ are all mentally and emotionally abused by the society in both America and China. Kingston is judged and ignore by the people at school because she is Chinese‚ and in turn blames her mother‚ Brave Orchid‚ for her problems. Moon Orchid moves to America with the help of her
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In the excerpt from The Woman Warrior‚ by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ the purpose is finding one’s identity through the hardship of family struggle because if not‚ they will forever be lost. This passage shows the purpose through the acts of irony‚ anecdote‚ and imagery. Kingston struggles with finding her identity through the participation in forgetting her aunt. She believes by not mentioning her aunt’s name will wash away any sins her aunt caused‚ but the irony is that she still speaks of her
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In the fantasy novel‚ Warriors‚ The Apprentices Quest‚ Erin Hunter shows how not all things are what they seem. Erin Hunter uses the forest as her setting. In the novel‚ a young apprentice named Alderpaw receives a vision to go and find what’s in the shadows‚ and save a long-forgotten clan. He decides to go on a journey to save Skyclan. On the way‚ Alderpaw’s close friend and leader of the party‚ Sandstorm dies. But they continued their journey. A young ShadowClan apprentice named Needlepaw helps
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To say that the Stephen King novel “IT” is simply a horror novel about a monster is to say that Alan Paton’s “Cry‚ The Beloved Country” is just a novel about a man losing his son. There is much more to it than that. Published by American writer Stephen King in September of 1986‚ “IT” is a known suspenseful‚ horror story that not only pulls back the vivid memories of your childhood fears‚ but makes you relive them as well. Taking place in Derry‚ Maine between the years of 1957 through 1985‚ “IT” is
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In the book‚ Worriers Don’t Cry‚ by a woman named Melba. Melba and eight of her former class mates‚ now in their forties‚ black men and women return to their childhood home of Little Rock‚ Arkansas to meet with the former governor‚ Bill Clinton. As the narrator and author‚ Melba explains how the then small gathering of students known as the "Little Rock Nine"‚ is returning to visit their high school‚ Central High School. In 1957 as late aged teenagers they were the first nine African-American students
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Farley‚ Mowat’s “Never cry wolf‚” is a book based on the research of the lifestyle of wolves in the Arctic Circle. Mowat uses his experience to educate the society of the social ills conducted by the hunters towards the wolves. The book displays the risk that the wolf pack families face due to the human activities in the area. The title of the book acts as a symbol in reference to the story of the boy who cried wolf. The book thus enables the reader to think beyond the tile so as to form an opinion
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Baka: A Cry From the Rainforest is a sequel documentary to Baka People of the Rainforest. The Baka were living in subsistence within the forest‚ using it for easy access to food‚ medicine‚ and education (on hunting and medicinal plants). 25 years after the first film‚ viewers see how the Baka tribe’s (an indigenous hunter-gatherer group in Cameroon) centuries-old methods of hunting and gathering erode within a few decades. The Baka use machetes as their main weapon‚ and lose their ability to diversify
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The fight for equality threatens to end the ego of rich men‚ yet people still rise up against it. Alan Paton‚ the writer of Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ and Abraham Lincoln‚ the great speaker of justice and our 16th president‚ both fought‚ in their own ways‚ for our rights. They fought their entire lives for our right to equality‚ and wrote beautiful works that are in our hearts and minds until this day. Because Paton’s book and Lincoln’s speech demonstrated their strong faith with the biblical references
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argument include increased attention span‚ an overall more enjoyable reading experience‚ not to mention the comfortable environment comedy will give for the writer to communicate their ideas. Enter humor columnist Dave Barry and his essay‚ “Road Warrior‚” which introduces the quality of road rage that is said affect the American public today‚ and he also sheds a humorous light on how easily people are angered. His use of various techniques in his writing makes his approach to the problem of road
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