A literary element I liked about We Were Liars was theme. The theme of “We Were Liars” is the importance of family. In the story the Sinclairs aren’t a family‚ Cadence’s mother and aunts pressured the Liars into acting a certain way that grandfather wanted.So the mother and aunts could get Clairmount and the riches.”Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure”(2)This is all a lie‚ the Liars are criminals‚ Cadence takes these addicting meds
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In Coates’ book‚ We Were in Power for Eight Years‚ he explores Obama’s presidency throughout the years while reflecting on his own experiences during Obama’s two terms. Critics of Coates‚ claimed the book lacked crucial facts about Obama’s presidency and the questioned simmered to how should blacks be imagined in politics? Must blacks be obligated to involve themselves in racial‚ international politics‚ or socioeconomic issues? West and Mishra critiques evidently agree blacks should‚ while Kelley
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Can you imagine what must have gone through the minds of the young soldiers who fought in Hitler’s army as Russia began its overpowering resistance of the Nazi from Russian soil? I couldn’t until I read Soldier X. Young Soldier X also known as Erik finds himself alone but alive in a long deep trench. Although he is a German citizen he speaks Russian and has Russian ancestry. Aware that the German war front is crumbling in Russia he continues to obey military instructions with the idea that he must
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The title of my book was Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes and it was a fiction book‚ published in 2003. Soldier Boys was during WWII in Germany and Brighman City‚ Utah. It tells the story of an American and German teenaged boy. They join the war and fight in the battle of the Bulge. Spencer Morgan on the American side and Dieter Hedrick on the German side. Dieter at the age fifteen got promoted from the Hitler Youth to the German army. He wants to prove to everyone that he is brave and that he can go
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whose brain isn’t even fully developed yet in the military. I personally think that there shouldn’t be child soldiers that are still way too young in the military. First of all they’re too young. Second of all They don’t deserve to be put in this situation. And third of all no one there will care for them like they should be cared for. Like I said these kids that are in the military are too young. They’re still kids and they don’t know how to protect themselves‚ they’re going to obviously end up dying
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We Were Liars is a books that has had a presence on my TBR pile for a year now‚ and although I have had this colossal desire to read it for all that time‚ I found that I never could. There were many occassion where I would pick it up‚ read the first page‚ then slide it back into its dusty spot on the book case. And this happened many times‚ until the High Summer Readathon where I decide to finally dive into it. We Were Liars is not intimidating by any means; being only 225 pages‚ I know it would
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question "were the British soldiers ’Lions led by Donkeys?’" has been an ongoing debate since the end of the war. A war which is dominated by images of bloody battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele - futile frontal attacks against the machine guns. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the troops were ’lions led by donkeys’. The definition that the soldiers were ’lions’ in the war has never been questioned - due to the horrific reports of their lives in the war. The soldiers were just young
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Everyday children are being forced to be a child soldier‚ is your child next? Imagine your child having to get high off of cane juice and gunpowder. These boys and girls‚ some as young as 8 years old‚ serve in government forces and armed groups. They may fight on the front lines‚ participate in suicide missions‚ and act as spies‚ messengers‚ or lookouts. Child soldiers are being taken from their families and relocated in Uganda and Somalia. Although people may think it is just a recent event‚
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Once Were Warriors What do you do‚ if you left your ”tribe” to live with someone you think is the best person for you and your upcoming family‚ confident that he will put his family first and got what it takes to be a good father and husband. This is the story of Beth Heke in the movie ”Once Were Warriors”. The movie ”Once Were Warriors” is about a family know by the name Heke. In that family we have Beth‚ Nig‚ Grace‚ Boogie and Jake Heke also known as Jake the Muss. Jake is unemployed and
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The Trauma Caused by Tragedy “We Were Liars” is about a seventeen year old teen named Cadence Sinclair. In the book‚ Cadence experienced trauma in her life that must have been very tragic to her. In the book it states‚ that she accidentally started a fire in her house‚ and killed her whole family. Because of this Cadence expressed the possibility of an unstable mental health. Through evidence provided in the text which will be discussed further in this essay‚ it is clear that Cadence is suffering
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