that we have all heard at least once in our lives‚ and it relates to many aspects of life. Not to mention‚ it also relates to our outlook on life. For example‚ if you have a negative outlook‚ you will receive a negative outcome. The story “Three Skeleton Key” by George Toudouze mentions a Breton in the lighthouse by the name of Le Gleo. His outlook on life is pessimistic‚ he jumps to conclusions‚ is easily frightened‚ and loses hope easily. This would later seal his fate‚ when he eventually lost hope
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Name: Justin Hight ! Essay Skeleton Thesis statement: (Should be a clear argument and a full sentence) Marriage equality should be legal throughout the United States. The main reason why is because love isn’t only determined by the gender‚ but the person‚ regardless of sex. ! Body Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence: (Should be one reason why your thesis statement is true) A lot of the world allows same sex marriage‚ so why is it so hard for us? ! Evidence: (Should be a direct quote or at least information
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I am reading Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz and I am currently on page 356. Before the current state of the plotline‚ Alex continues his fieldwork throughout various environments for the special operations division of M16 that resides in London. However‚ the mission takes an entirely different angle as Alex is then anonymously kidnapped and held hostage by Desmond McCain‚ the CEO and president of First Aid; First Aid is a malicious company that advertises itself as being a beneficial
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Book Report Wahid Hashem English 4rth hour 1/9/13 Alex Rider Scorpia Rising Visualization Alex discovers bullet holes in a car. Someone was shooting that car. His job to find out who it was. Character traits Alex was brave‚ respectful‚ and daring. *He was brave because he goes super spy working for the MI6 goes on another one of his adventures to stop some crazed power-hungry lunatic. *He was
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Ruslan Babkin Many works or multimedia today follow the concept of the monomyth‚ like the book Stormbreaker by Anthony Horwitz‚ which is a perfect example of a hero’s journey. This is because‚ Alex‚ the protagonist‚ has to become a spy‚ and to do that he has to face many challenges to be able to face the man who killed his uncle. This is how the book resembles it. To understand the monomyth‚ I first have to explain it to you. It consists of eight parts. The monomyth begins when the protagonist
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I am reading Alex Rider Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz and i am on page 212. This book so far is about a man who went and planted a bomb in a nuclear plant and Alex was not able to stop him in time. The power plant blew up and sent a huge nuclear cloud in the air with very toxic fumes. Alex is living in Scotland with a host family Alex and the family go to a party at the loch that is being hosted by Desmond McCain. Desmond McCain is a very rich man that owns the loch and he owns a natural disaster
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The most important literary device to create suspense in Three Skeleton Key is danger. My first claim is that suspense literally means fear of danger. My evidence from the dictionary is as follows: “anxious‚ uncertainty‚ anxiety‚ condition of being undecided or undetermined”. That is the definition of suspense‚ and as you can tell‚ anxiety is worry‚ worry is fear of something bad happening‚ or fear of danger. Someone else might argue that fear is a feeling‚ and that represents mood‚ but you could
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Literary Analysis Tamper with time and the world you know can become a world you do not want to live in. The novel Time Riders the Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow is a book about three characters who time travel to the future and the past by using this relic to save the future and prevent time travel to destroy history. The plot of the novel Time Riders is filled with mystery‚ confusion‚ and chaos. First off‚ this novel is full of mystery because there’s a manuscript called the Voynich Manuscript
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year‚ “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling and “Three Skeleton Key” by George Toudouze‚ are suspense stories that have many similarities but also some differences. One important similarity between these two stories has to do with the characters. In both fantasies‚ the antagonists (or villains) are animals. Nag and Nagaina were snakes in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” that tried to kill Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and take over the garden. In “Three Skeleton Key”‚ fierce‚ vengeful rats that came ashore‚ attacking
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The Whale Rider Describe at least ONE effective technique used in the written text(s). Explain how this technique helped you to understand an important message. NOTE: Techniques could include vocabulary‚ style‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ structure‚ or narrative point-of-view. In the novel “The Whale Rider” there are many effective techniques that Witi Ihimaera uses‚ such as having a prologue to start the story‚ also an epilogue to finish it off. There are 21 chapters in the novel which include the four
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