SUMMARY It is very subtly indicated that the book takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. Some are ordinary students‚ while others arrive as a coherent body under an established leader (a choir). Most appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves in a paradisiacal country‚ far from modern civilization‚ the well-educated children regress to a primitive state. At an allegorical level‚ the central theme is the
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Percy Jackson and the lightning thief Author: Rick Riordan. Place: the books takes place in the United States of America‚ mainly in New York and Los Angeles. Date of publishing: June‚ 2005 Publisher: Miramax Books Number of pages: 384 Summary: This book is about the story of a boy named Percy Jackson. He’s 12 years old and on the first day of summer‚ just after the end of the sixth-grade year‚ he discovers there’s something wrong with him. He learns that he is a half-blood: half-human
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1. Based on the first chapter and the title of the novel‚ Nya is going on a long walk for water. 2. The people left Salva behind because he’s a child and they could’ve thought he was going to slow them down. The people were most likely worried that Salva would cause trouble and not help out the group. 3. The woman might be unfriendly to a child from her own tribe because she could not want any children to stay with her or is most likely angry because he slept in her barn without asking. 4. Nya doesn’t
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Jackson Jr. Examines the nineteenth century history of Germanic migration‚ seeking to find societal factors that motivated the movement of people. In addition‚ Kirril Shields utilises a fictional historical narrative‚ Markus Zuzak’s The Book Thief‚ in order to develop an understanding of how the lives of everyday folk relate to the institution of National Socialism in 1930s Germany. Shields utilises the work as a fictional source‚ paralleling with historical evidence in a way that provides evidence
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Death is the narrator of this story and begins by explaining his work. He talks about how the first time he saw The Book Thief ( Liesel Meminger) was when her brother (Werner) died on a train and he took his soul. Liesel and her mother get off the train to bury Werner and this was the first time the Book Thief stole a book The Grave Diggers Handbook was found in the snow when one of the grave diggers dropped it. Her mom then took her to her new foster parents in Mulching on Himmel street. Liesel’s
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The Lord of the Flies was a very interesting book. It was about these kids stuck on a island. The first boys to be on the island were Piggy and Ralph. They were just walking and talking about who they were and were they were. As they were walking Piggy found a shell. He was very happy to have found that shell he sounded it and told Ralph that they could use that to bring up others boys to where they were. When they were sounding it a lot of boys came out of the trees and came towards Ralph and Piggy
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Chapter 4: 1. Elie’s first impression of the camp at Buna was that it looked empty and dead as if an epidemic had hit. 2. Elie and his father have to work in a factory where they fix electrical circuits. 3. The Jewish dentist is caught stealing the prisoner’s gold teeth and was ordered to be hung. 4. The part of Elie’s body that is aware of the passage of time is his stomach because he goes a long time without getting anything to eat. 5. Idek accused Elie’s father of being lazy
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Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Golding‚ is a novel about a group of adolescent boys who are deserted on an uninhabited island that lacks adult supervision after they are separated from their friends and families during a time of war in Britain. From the beginning‚ an older boy named Ralph‚ the main character‚ establishes a system of leadership within the small group of about twenty to thirty boys that range between the ages of five to twelve years old. Ralph‚ the oldest‚ is named the leader
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The death of Liesel‚ the book thief‚ starts out the book for us. They are on their way on a train with their mother to their foster parent’s home. This also sparks Liesel’s love for reading later in the book‚ and it also was one of the moments that Liesel had constant nightmares about. Liesel arrives on Himmel street terrified and not knowing what her foster parents will be like. This also sets the setting of the novel and we meet some more main characters‚ Hans and Rosa Hubermann. The Hubermanns
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Haley Dorman English 113 Final Project Mrs. Luby The story of the Book Thief The book that I read was “The Book Thief.” This book was written by Mark Zusak in the year of 2006. Mark lives in Australia where he was raised by a German mother and an Australian Father. He has made a career as being a young adult author. This book has been given many awards and for a very good reason because it is a tale that is very worth remembering. It is about death‚ loss‚ and sadness‚ but that love can
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