Give a Boy a Gun Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser describes school shootings by looking at one school‚ shooting that happened in Middletown‚ Colorado. This book is loosely based upon the real events at Columbine High School in Littleton. Two students were teased and harassed by their peers. Eventually‚ they take them hostage at a school dance. Gary and Brandon were very close friends and they both have something in common: they were both teased and harassed and teased and sometimes even physically
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The Boys in the Boat is a memoir‚ it tells a part of the lives of eight rowers. The book is intended for all people who enjoy sports history. It is a beating the odds story meant to entertain‚ motivate‚ inspire‚ and teach of a forgotten story. The author is Daniel James Brown‚ he has written other books that all typically fall in the field of narrative nonfiction‚ by far his most famous work is The Boys in the Boat. The title is representative of the entire story. Each of the nine young men who trained
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Titel: Boy Tales of Childhood Author: Roald Dahl Publisher: Wolters-Noordhoff Year of Publishing: 1994 City of Publishing: Groningen Titel description: The story is bout the life of Roald Dahl and when he was young‚ his mother gave him the nickname "Boy". Information about Roald Dahl: Roald Dahl’s quirky and darkly funny tales made him a popular children’s author in the second half of the 20th century. His career as a salesman for Shell Petroleum
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Bruno a nine year old boy at the time of the war‚ stands completely oblivious to the horrific goings-on of the war that continue to take place around him‚ even with his father being a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this as Bruno perceives their concentration camp uniforms as "striped pyjamas". Deeper into the book we discover Bruno’s interpretation of many Nazi words which gives us further evidence as he is unable to pronounce these important names "the Fury‚" (the Furher)
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Boy overboard: class novel In the book Boy Overboard‚ the soccer ball is considered as a very symbolic object as it has many defining qualities about it. In this book‚ the soccer ball is used to represent freedom‚ hope‚ a way to keep families together and survival. The soccer ball has the largest representation of a symbol‚ as well as being the most important symbol. The soccer ball can be combined with a picture of a globe to provide an important visual symbol that everyone will understand‚ soccer
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Memory Boy The book that I choose to read this 9 week period is called Memory by Will Weaver. The book is based on the lives of a family of 4 people; Miles‚ Sarah‚ and their two parents. Memory Boy starts out in the Mid West after a mountain range in Washington erupts and spews ash what seems billions of feet up‚ and over the entire United Sates like a blanket. The ash is so thick that people have to wear dust masks outside to avoid the risk of breathing it in. Miles and his family finally decide
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A Rose for the Anzac Boys is a book written by Jackie French‚ an Australian author. The novel follows the adventures of Midge Macpherson‚ a teenager from New Zealand who desperately wanted to help with the war effort. As both her brothers were at war she attended an English boarding school where she met Anne and Ethel. All three of them travel to a railway station in France where they set up a canteen to feed hungry soldiers who come in on the trains. I think a very important decision that was
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First impressions in the opening of... “Master Harold” ...and the boys “Master Harold” ...and the boys‚ by the white South African playwright Athol Fugard‚ is a naturalistic play set in a Tea Room in Port Elizabeth on a rainy day in 1950. Two black servants‚ Sam and Willie‚ and their white master’s son Hally (‘Master Harold’)‚ have deep conversations about the good time they had together when Hally was young. In the beginning of the play‚ Sam and Willie‚ practice their dancing techniques
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A completely different world in which a present day teenagers mind will never be able to grasp‚ is the kind of place in which Richard’s life revolved around in the book Black Boy by Richard Wright. A lot has change during the century in which Richards was shaped up in and the one in which this youth lives now. He lived a harsh live in where everybody was his enemy with the exception of his own mother and brother. He had to plan out every movement he made and thing he said Richard was looked down
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In John Boyne’s novel “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas”‚ it is proved that evil tends to arise out of the tendency of ordinary people to follow orders‚ to accept what their told by authorities‚ and to conform. The characters effectively show how influencing a conception can be by the exaggerating changes of their behavior and speech. When Bruno had asked about the people on the other side of the fence‚ his father had explained in a way Bruno could not understand. “Those people...well‚ they’re not
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