narrator of the story is Richie Perry. Richie struggles to come to terms with the grim reality of war‚ which contradicts the myths about war that he believed going into it. Richie Perry is the lead character in Fallen Angels. He is a 17 year old high school graduate who just enlisted in the army to help his alcoholic mother‚ who lives in the slums of Harlem‚ with their family and bills. When Richie first arrives in Vietnam he is lost and confused about himself‚ his life‚ and can’t grasp the brutal
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien‚ later fitted as a trilogy. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien’s earlier fantasy book The Hobbit and soon developed into a much larger story. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949‚ with much of it being written during World War II. It was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955‚ and has since been reprinted numerous times and translated
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Journal 2 In this roller coaster of a book‚ I am currently on page 326 out of 537. The author of this book is Ellen Hopkins. When I started this book I thought it was just another story about a teenager that didn’t have any friends but that all changed when she went to Nevada. Throughout this journal I will be visualizing‚ predicting and questioning. To kick off this visualization‚ the first thing that really stood out and made me really think about what I was reading was when the main character
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DJ Rising is the debut novel of author Love Maia. This book is about a boy named Marley Johnnywas Diego-Dylan. Marley is a sixteen-year-old boy who has to deal with a heroin-addicted mother‚ bills to pay‚ and a full scholarship to a private school to uphold. Along with that‚ he has a dream‚ a dream to DJ at the Fever‚ and elite club where the DJ is the biggest celebrity. When he is cordially invited to the Fever’s First Annual DJ Battle‚ he feels like he has one last chance to prove to his father
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Rebeca Ali Campbell Carrie Steltz English 098 Compare and Contrast Characters 20 October 2014 Bluegrass Drama Harlan‚ Kentucky- The sound of the banjo comes on‚ and you hear Gangstagrass singing‚ “I see them long‚ hard times to come‚” and you know it is time for Justified. The T.V series‚ based on the novels Pronto and Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard‚ is sure to entertain. Timothy Olyphant plays U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens‚ a good looking‚ gun slinging Marshall who is reassigned to his hometown
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Title: The Call of the Wild Author Jack London Setting Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley where he spends his days and nights including eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. Characters: The Main Dogs * Buck –a proud and powerful dog‚ half St Bernard and half shepherd dog‚ who begins life on a comfortable Californian estate as a family pet‚ yet soon changes when he is stolen and sold to work as a sled dog in the frozen North. * Spitz- Buck’s archrival and original
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TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES PREP SCHOOL INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED READING BOOK REPORT FORM Name Baris Tokel Date 6/04/2013 Title of Story/Book The Sugar Glider Author Rod Neilsen Setting: The story takes place in southeastern part of Australia Main Characters (with analysis) Don Radcliffe: a pilot‚ close friend of Paul‚ father of Judy Paul Copeman: a pilot‚ close friend od Don Judy Radcliffe: daughter of Don Radcliffe Sylvia: ex-wife of Don Beulah Copeman:
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SBA Journal 1. Title: The Phantom of the opera 2. Author: Gaston Leroux 3. Publisher: Random House 4. Text-type: Print-fiction 5. Genre: Mystery/thriller 6. Summary of the book: This book is about a boy who has a face like a skull‚ nose is sunk in‚ eyes are small and yellow and the body is a skeleton with skin. Moreover‚ he has a lovely voice and smart. His father and mother never love him. One day‚ he ran away from home and he leaned many things in the trip‚ but when he
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My book is Red Queen. It is written by Victoria Aveyard. My favorite part in the book is at the end when Mare and Cal are sentenced to death. They are fighting people with powers. Cal’s power is fire. He can make little fireballs and hurl them at people. Mare’s power is lightning. You see‚ people who have powers need it already there for them to work with it. Like with Cal‚ his power is fire right? Well he need a spark to create something bigger. With Mare though she can just make lightning she doesn’t
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Jeffrey Chang Moskovitz English 2 Honors 14 September 2014 AP Book Report 1. Title of Work: Fahrenheit 451 2. Author and historical time period: The author of this novel is Ray Bradbury. As he was growing up around the early 1930s‚ Bradbury was horrified by the Nazis burning books and Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. During the Great Purge‚ many writers and poets were incarcerated and often executed. These two events indicate political repression and destruction of intelligence. 3. Country
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