BOOK REPORT The Outsiders By: S.E Hinton(New York: Puffin Books‚ 1967) The outsider: The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. The title of this book is related to the story‚ because in the novel‚ Ponyboy and Johnny are outsiders. They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like
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No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel Published by Avon Books in 1998‚ 193 pages Nonfiction/biography Anita Lobel’s book is written on her childhood and experiences through the Holocaust. Many reviews say the book is a powerful and good read for all readers. The book report is being written for Mrs. H American History 9 class. I chose this book because it was written from the author’s experiences as a young‚ Jewish girl. In the book No Pretty Pictures‚ Anita Lobel tells her story as a Jewish
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war in Vietnam from his perspective. From the time he makes his decision to join the Marines in the beginning of the book all the way to making it to Vietnam as a Marine Scout Sniper. Among the Joseph T. Ward‚ Dave Young‚ Mike O’Grady‚ and Nick Herrera (whom all since childhood have been friends with Joseph T. Ward and decided to join the Marines with him) share six purple hearts. This novel shows a particular side of one of America’s most intense wars from a point of view rarely seen. He was honored
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kKayla Williams Book Report 19 November 2012 CD 225 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Christopher is very gifted‚ but has Asperger’s syndrome. The novel begins with Christopher finding his neighbor’s dog dead in the front yard. He picks the dog up because he feels bad that it has died‚ but his neighbor‚ Mrs. Shear‚ comes out and believes that he just killed her dog. She immediately calls the police. When the police get to the scene they question Christopher‚ but they struggle
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The book that I will be telling you about is called‚ “Red Sky in the Morning” which is by Elizabeth Laird. Elizabeth Laird wrote this book because of her brother Alistair. Ben plays the role/part of Alistair (Elizabeth’s brother). The other characters in the book are made up. The story starts in Anna Peacock’s house when Anna is 12 years old. Anna is really excited when her mother announces that she is going to have a baby. She felt that this was her chance to show everyone that she was grown up
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INTRODUCTION a. BACKGROUND This modern inspirational classic book entitled Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom has changed millions of lives. This book tells about the story of an old professor named Morrie Schwartz who is suffering from a disease called amyothopic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ it is a brutal unforgiving illness of the neurological system. And it has known no cure. Morrie’s doctor guessed he had two years left‚ but he knew it was less. But despite of knowing that
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Francisca Martinez Mrs. Smith Eng.9H Per.4 20 May 2010 Book Report 1. Things Fall Apart 2. Chinua Achebe 3. 209 Pgs 4. Tragedy 5. AP List 6. Although his father was a lazy man who earned no titles in the Ibo tribe‚ Okonkwo is a great man in his home of Umuofia. Okonkwo is selected by the elders to be the guardian of Ikemefuna‚ a boy taken prisoner by the tribe. For three years the boy lives with Okonkwo’s family and they grow fond of him. Then the elders decide that the boy must be killed. Rather
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though Polly doesn’t agree‚ “I’m not going to try any new pool till we’ve made sure that we can get back by the old one. We’re not even sure if it’ll work yet” (C.S. Lewis 39). Finally they manage to jump into an unknown pool‚ “they stood with beating hearts and rather and scared faces on the edge of the unknown pool with their yellow rings on and held hands and once more said one-two-three-go!”(41-42).the pool was not taking them to another world even thought they tried multiple times so eventually they
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English Long Book Report Chan Hiu Tung Christie 4C (2) Title: Emma Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Pearson Education Limited What is love? How can we do to catch our own true love? I found the answer after reading the book‚ Emma. Emma‚ which talked about Emma Woodhouse‚ who is a beautiful‚ clever but with little spoiled girl. She is rich and she loves arrange marriage between her friends and neighbours in a village called Highbury. Unfortunately‚ she makes a lot of
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For generations‚ Violence against women has been a grave cause for concern but it is only recently that women are beginning to stand up against violence such as sexual assault and molestation. The short stories “A Wednesday Circle” and “My heart is broken” give us an insight into our society merely a couple of decades ago and we see a large difference in how sexual violence was represented. Instead of it being characterized as a serious crime‚ it is deemed as something that should be kept secret
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