The book I chose is Ransom by Lois Duncan. This is a story about five teenagers‚ Dexter‚ Jesse‚ Bruce‚ Glenn‚ and Marianne‚ that get kidnapped and their parents are contacted to pay a ransom to get them back. The teenagers are from very different backgrounds and have different social statuses at school. They all live in a “rich” known neighborhood called Valley Gardens which is how the kidnappers chose them. Ransom is a crime thriller and the mystery of not knowing what’s going to happen next keeps
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way for every person to agree on the same thing and be able to like the way it is. People have different views on the way anything should be done and not every time people agree. A utopian society will never be accomplished. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry the people live in a utopian society and everyone lives with like emotions. The people of The Givers community feel no pain‚ no happiness‚
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Dexter Roberts Prof. Wright MAN 314 Homework # Lois Quam Case 3 Case 3 Lois Quam 1. How does Lois Quam use emotions and moods in her speeches to covey her viewpoint? Cite examples to support your statements. What is emotion and mood? Emotions are a strong set of positive or negative feelings directed towards someone or something. Moods depict positive or negative feelings; moreover‚ a state of mind. In Lois’s quest for green economy it is quite clear that she is a buoyed‚ by a positive approach
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In the movie Shrek directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson‚ a significant theme is judgement. This is shown through people’s first reaction when they saw Shrek‚ Shrek’s conversation with Donkey and subversiveness of Princess Fiona. The significance of judgement is shown through people’s first reaction when they saw Shrek. “Oh… An ogre! It’s hideous.” is often what comes to people first‚ they stereotype “ogre” as bad and negative characters. “They judge me before they even know me.” It shows
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literature for children each year. Upon reading “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry‚ the Newbery Medal winner in 1990‚ one can easily understand why this great novel won the coveted John Newbery Medal. There are many reasons as to why “Number the Stars” obtained the Newbery Medal but two main reasons stick out: The use of italics as a descriptive device‚ and the central theme pertaining to the difficulties of growing up. Firstly‚ Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars” focuses on Annemarie Johansen‚ a young protestant
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Down a Dark Hall was written by Lois Duncan and is a book about a girl named Kit Gordy‚ going to a boarding school miles away from the closest town‚ which is a small village called Blackwood. So she comes to her new home for the school year with her new step father Dan and her worrying mother‚ who are ready to go on their honeymoon. When they see the boarding school that Kit would be staying at‚ it looked surprisingly different from what they saw in the brochure they were given. The three of them
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phone.” This is shown through The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ and through “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury. The Giver takes place in a utopian society where there are no feelings and there are many rules to follow to make it so “perfect”. Authors use futuristic plots and incorporate the overuse of technology to show how‚ when used too much‚ technology can be negative. Authors use futuristic plots‚ events that do
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Giver‚Lois Lowry‚ 8‚12‚15)They believe that if they let people make their own decisions‚ they would make wrong choices‚ so the leaders think for the people’s safety‚ they shouldn’t let them make them. If compared to our society‚ there would be many similarities of how they run the government but differences in lifestyles. First‚ the government in both societies are run similarly but also have a huge difference. In The Giver‚ they elect a new chief elder every ten years (The Giver‚ Lois Lowry‚
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instead of smack he was hit with the Discipline wand in the hands for minor misbehavior. (Author: Lois Lowry Page:52). This doesn’t really solve anything that they were trying to teach were trying to teach Asher. Everyone would laugh at him and say snack not smack and over and over again he would say it again. People with the discipline wand would come over‚ and give him a quick slash in the hands. (Author: Lois Lowry Page:53). “As you can see” like I said this never solved Asher’s problem and he kept saying
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jobs under false names. He eventually infiltrates a scientific discovery of a Kryptonian scout spaceship in the Arctic. Clark enters the alien ship‚ and it allows him to communicate with the preserved consciousness of Jor-El in the form of a hologram. Lois Lane‚ a journalist from the Daily Planet who was sent to write a story on the discovery‚ sneaks inside the ship while following Clark and is rescued by him when she is injured by the ship’s automated defenses. Lois’s editor Perry White rejects her
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