Book Report Project in English By Claire Andrea Pascual – III-Arezzo Title: Paper Towns Author: John Green Genre: Young adult novel‚ mystery Characters: 1.) Quentin “Q” Jacobsen – He is the protagonist and the one who is telling the story. He is childhood friends and neighbors with Margo‚ who he also had a crush on ever since they were children. As the years passed‚ their contact with one another has decreased. As the story progress‚ he tries to unfold clues he thinks Margo intentionally
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Looking for Alaska” by John Green “Looking for Alaska” by John Green is about a boy named Miles who is sent to boarding school. He meets 2 very important people there‚ “The Colonial” and Alaska. They are all best friends and do things like pull pranks‚ get drunk‚ and smoke cigarettes. Miles falls in love with Alaska but Alaska doesn’t see him that way until the night before she died. She was upset and drunk and went for a drive. After that Miles and the colonial start to get consumed by their
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In the book‚ Looking for Alaska by John Green‚ there was a lot of suspense leading up to the mystery of ateenage girl‚Alaska‚and how she was killed. The author uses the elements of mystery‚surprise and suspense to keep the reader interested in the story’s plot. The text says‚“ The eagle looked down. ‘Is everyone else here?’ ‘Alaska isn’t here’ ‘Okay Miles. Thank you.’ ‘We can’t start without Alaska.’”(Green 171) In the beginning of the story‚ Miles Halter went to college in Florida and is likes
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unfair it may seem‚ it happens to the best of us. To be specific‚ this is exactly what happens to John Coffey in Stephen King’s novel‚ The Green Mile. In the novel‚ John‚ a giant 6’8” African American‚ is sent to death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary for his alleged rape and murder of two young girls. He ends up in the care of Paul Edgecomb‚ supervisor of Cold Mountain’s death row‚ nicknamed “The Green Mile” after the color of the linoleum tiles. During John’s
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The Green Mile - Stephen King I have read the award winning novel from 1996‚ written by the very famous horror author Stephen King. He has wrote countless classic horror books‚ one of them being the world famous book version of the film IT. Stephen King is from Portland America‚ just like most of his books the green mile being no exception. The genre of the book - The Genre of the book The Green Mile is a mix between four different genres. Fiction‚ crime‚ dark fantasy‚ Gothic and historical fiction
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The Green Mile Set on Death Row in a prison in 1935 during the great depression‚ The Green Mile is the story of paul edgecomb the cell block head guard who develops a relationship with one inmate who has acquired a magical and wonderful gift that is both mysterious and miraculous his name is John Coffey. Even though john coffey is a man of massive size and proportion he seemed to have the witts and mental age of a child. This gift is what sparks the relationship between john and paul‚ this is because
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A fiction Red to Green by Maile Meloy is a story about a girl named Sam. This story is basically about a girl who is offered a scholarship to a boarding school hesitates to accept it then after what happened while her trip she decides to accept the offer. The main happening that affects her mind to accept a scholarship and leave far away from home happens when Sam‚ her father‚ her uncle‚ and her uncle’s client Layton take the float trip down the river. The reason she was hesitating to accept the
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The green leaves Leaves look green because of the chemical chlorophyll. The other reason is that they reflect light in the green spectrum. Chlorophyll absorbs light most strongly in the blue portion of the spectrum‚ and then some in the red portion. Leaves receive their green color during the process of trying to absorb energy from the sun. The sunlight strikes the leaves‚ which contain chlorophyll‚ and the chlorophyll reacts by emitting the green color. Leaves are green because that is the
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“Looking For Alaska” By John Green. Dutton Books. Fiction. This book is all about the story of Miles “Pudge” Halter‚ a gawky‚ intelligent teen who has a major obsession with famous last words. In search of what Pudge refers to as “a great perhaps‚” he makes new friends‚ enemies and discovers himself. Before Pudge’s adventure at Culver Creek Boarding School began‚ Pudge was just a typical nerd living in a small town in Florida. His studies were most important and he loved reading biographies.
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“The Little Green Monster” Literary Analysis Short stories are always much more difficult to review compared to novels‚ simply because the author uses so many metaphors and symbols within. Usually the audience reads it‚ and then analyzes it as a whole. In “The Little Green Monster” Haruki Murakami tells a story about a strange green monster that digs it way out from under the soil to ask the heroine to marry him. She responds in a very repulsed way stating that “It is rude and presumptuous” along
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