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    In Rudyard Kipling’s fiction story‚ "Rikki-tikki-tavi"‚ the theme of survival is demonstrated through Rikki’s actions during his many conflicts within the story. For example‚ Nag and Nagaina discuss that they should kill the family to raise their young Cobras‚safely(28)‚Rikki-Tikki kills Nag in the bathroom to protect his family(29)‚ Rikki-Tikki kills Nagaina to save Teddy (33). Rudyard first introduces the idea survival in the scene where Nag and Nagaina discuss that they should kill the family

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    Milkweed During Hitler`s region‚ he and the Nazi region changed many lives of innocent people. Milkweed‚ a historical fiction by Jerry Spinelli‚ shows how the Holocaust impacted a multitude of people. Orphaned at an early age Misha‚ the protagonist‚ adopts the identity of an orphan gypsy a persona created by his friend Uri. Misha adapts that identity would eventually become Misha Milgrom- the Jew. Misha assumes the role as the Milgrom family “breadwinner”. After thousands of Jews including

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    written by Nadia Agular — both convey the theme of survival through setting‚

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    Milkweed Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli published September 9‚ 2003. The book is about a Gypsy kid who has no name. He meets a group of kids and they name him Misha. Another character is Janina who is spoiled and always gets what she wants. Uri is the character who is the boss and he tells everybody what to do. The story takes place in Warsaw‚ Poland. The time was during World War II when the Nazi’s took control of the Jewish people in Warsaw. In this book you will go with Misha through some of his

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    Milkweed Milkweed is about a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself‚ and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread‚ and mothers‚ and angles. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi‚ with tall shiny jackboots of his own-until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned‚ he’s a boy who realizes it’s safest of all to

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    Bonnie Opdyke Ms. Breland Honors English I 19 April 2013 Romantic Love Throughout time love has been a perplexing emotion. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ the two teenage lovers from Verona had a romantically tragic love affair. Romantic love allows both adolescents to break boundaries. Their love for each other completely alters their lives. The first instance of this overpowering love occurs at meeting; Romeo and Juliet experience the cliché of “love at first sight.” Romeo goes

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    post-apocalyptic United States‚ The Hunger Games tells the story of the young heroine Katniss Everdeen and her journey of survival in both the harsh conditions of her coal mining home in District 12‚ and the later dangerous climate of the Capitol and the hunger games. Survival is one of the major reoccurring themes that Collins weaves throughout the entirety of the story. In Katniss’ case‚ her survival is centered on the skills that her father taught her when she was young‚ (during their illegal hunts in the woods

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    Survival in Rikki Tikki Tavi In Rudyard Kipling’s fiction story‚ "Rikki-tikki-tavi"‚ the theme of survival is demonstrated through Rikki’s actions during his many conflicts within the story. The first one is when Rikki Tikki gets washed away in a flood (22). Another event is how Darzee builds his nest high up out of the reach of the wicked Cobras (25). Also there is a conflict for survival when Rikki Tikki battles the twisted Cobras Nag and Nagaina (25-34). Rikki Tikki shows that his actions

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    Survival in Auschwitz tells of the horrifying and inhuman conditions of life in the Auschwitz death camp as personally witnessed and experienced by the author‚ Primo Levi. Levi is an Italian Jew and chemist‚ who at the age of twenty-five‚ was arrested with an Italian resistance group and sent to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Poland in the end of 1943. For ten terrible months‚ Levi endured the cruel and inhuman death camp where men slaved away until it was time for them to die. Levi thoroughly

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    Stephanie Flores Per 2 Milkweed Book Report The book my class was told to do our book reports was on Milkweed. This book is written by the famous author Jerri Spinelli. In this novel‚ there are three main characters which are Misha Pilsudski‚ Janina Milgrom‚ and Uri. Misha is a young boy in the beginning of the story that has no family‚ lives on streets‚ and steals food from people to stay alive. He later joins a big group of kids who also steal food‚ and they live together in places that

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