Ranger’s Apprentice: The Icebound Land John Flanagan Random House Australia Children’s Books‚ 2006 266 pp.‚ $6.97; € 5.36 ISBN 978-0-399-24456-8 The Icebound Land is an adventurous fiction set in a gruelling country called Skandia and Gallica; a corrupt land with no ruler. It is the third book in the Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan. The book is an epic adventure that takes two faces; Will & Evalyn’s escape‚ and Halt’s & Horace’s search for them. It is full of suspense
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the ruthless actions of the holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jew who went through the terror of the holocaust and its concentration camps. He tells his story in his book Night. Night reveals how Wiesel lost his family‚ faith‚ and innocence to the evil of mankind during the holocaust. Wiesel believes it is important for people today to read this book because they need to be shown how important it is not to keep silent and let something like the holocaust happen again. I agree with him. Wiesel was born
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The main theme of The Jungle is the evil of capitalism. Every event‚ especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book‚ is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism in Sinclair’s view‚ inhuman and violent. The slow total destruction of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of a cruel and unfair economic and social system shows the effect of capitalism on the working class as a whole. As the immigrants‚ who initially possess an idealistic faith in the American Dream
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Authenticity Raising the Roof has built their organizational narrative in a way that promotes authenticity by using character and time to their advantage. By manipulating characters and time within their narrative‚ Raising the Roof has been able to stand back and remove themselves from the narrative‚ and allow people who have experienced homelessness become the narrators. Because the narrator within a story often influences character‚ by allowing homeless people to become the narrators‚ bias
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Book Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Date of Publication: 2002 Publisher: Laurel Leaf (reprint edition) ANALYSIS I. Setting: In an isolated Arcadian community at an unknown time in the future II. Characters and Commentary: A. Jonas – The eleven year old protagonist (turns twelve at a point) who has “bizarre powers” and is chosen as the Receiver of Memory. He has a wide variety of interests. For a pre-adolescent‚ he is extremely wise‚ curious‚ thoughtful‚ and has a much deeper understanding
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position. These points are; how Anton matured over time‚ how his surrounding places changed after the war‚ and how Anton held onto the events that took place in Haarlem‚ even though he as well as the places around him changed. Over the course of the book‚ Anton showed a significant amount of growth‚ from his childhood in Haarlem‚ all the way until he had reached an age that surpassed his own father in years. Anton was married
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Malcolm Gladwell is a self-reflection provoking book in which the author takes us by the hand and guides us through our mind on the unconscious side of things. To blink is to perform beyond the speed of light; a brief‚ rapid movement that is done in a quick flash and is typically unnoticeable. The book relates to this action through the examination of our minds and how we unknowingly react to high speed and on the spot situations. The thesis of the book is to convince a simple fact: that decisions made
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This is the issue Rush begins to portray in his book‚ Walls. Rush paints a wonderful picture of how we‚ as Christians‚ are to live authentic lives. He provides much Biblical insight in this book to help us break the walls holding us back. We might overcome these stumbling blocks by learning to trust and chase after our Creator with all we have. Only then‚ He will begin to unveil His plan and promises. One of the greatest quotes of this book‚ is Ryan’s definition of a wall. He describes them
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When I first saw this book‚ I wasn’t really sure what to expect of it‚ Luna by Julie Anne Peters. I thought totally negative about this book‚ I should have known better‚ because it turns out to be by far one of my favorite books. I was thrilled as I continued to read and notice that this is an absolute unique book. Not because it’s about transgenders - who are people that feel as if they were ’born in the wrong body’ - but it’s because it’s in a different view of living in the fear of homophobia
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