City of Ember (2008) Plot Summary Showing all 3 plot summaries When mankind is about to come to an end‚ a group of scientists decide to create and populate a city deep underground. The city of Ember is to last for 200 years after which its inhabitants are to retrieve from a strong box instructions to return to the surface. Over time however‚ the message is lost and life in Ember is rapidly deteriorating. Their power supply is failing and food is being rationed. It’s left to two young adults to
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My Brother Sam Is Dead My Brother Sam Is Dead by Coller and Coller is a story about a boy named Tim Meeker and how his family falls apart during the Revolutionary War. Throughout the story‚ Tim is confronted with a life changing dilemma. His father is a Loyalist and his elder brother Sam is a Patriot. He knows that no matter what side he chooses in this war‚ he will end up fighting his flesh and blood. As the story progresses‚ Coller and Coller paints a vivid picture of how Tim changes
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My Father Goes to Court Summary The story is set in a city in the Philippines. The young narrator begins by describing his large family. Though they are poor they are full of mischief and laughter. The children are all strong and healthy even though they often go hungry. In contrast‚ their rich neighbor’s children are thin and sickly although they are given plenty of good food‚ which their impoverished neighbors enjoy smelling over the fence. Consequently‚ the rich man brings a charge against the
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A role model is important. For many people‚ it is a professional athlete‚ a lawyer or an author. For me‚ it is my brother. My brother plays the most important role in my family because he cares a lot about my education‚ he is responsible‚ and helpful. For one‚ my brother is my role model because he cares a lot about my education. To begin‚ when I was in sixth grade in Mrs. Tijera’s math class‚ it left me with a bad experience. For example‚ I remember when we had math tests‚ homework assignments
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According to Dictionary.com‚ a “brother” is “a male offspring having both parents in common”(“Brother”). However Dictionay.com definition doesn’t do the word “brother” justice. From being a “brother” for over then 12 years I believe I truly know what a brother means. A “brother” is so much more then just a male offspring that have both parents in common. The true meaning of “brother” is that a brother is someone I can always talk to‚ someone who will always have my back and someone who will make me
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to be very significant in literary theory. He believed that a plot with reversal of situation‚ recognition‚ and transformation‚ is the greatest way to write a story or play. He defined plot as the arrangement of incidents and‚ according to him‚ tragedies where the outcome depends on a tightly constructed cause-and-effect chain of actions were superior to those that depended on the character and personality of the protagonist. The plot would have to be interconnected with a story or play as a whole
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A Marine‚ A Hero‚ My Brother Laying my hotel bed at the Days Inn in Camp Lejeune‚ North Carolina‚ I wondered if I would ever see my big brother again. Words can not express the feelings of emotions that were going through my head that day he deployed for Iraq‚ the feeling that one hopes they will never have to even consider in ones lifetime. For me that feeling came when I was in the tenth grade and my big brother‚ Jeffrey‚ was off to do bigger and better things. Just entering high school I was
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In my version of the story‚ I had the older brother plan to kill his younger brother. The older brother was planning to kill his younger brother because he was a burden to him. The youngest brother never intervened with his older brother’s life or popularity‚ but it bothered the older brother. This led to the older brother to plan a murder for his brother. He hid a shovel in the forest and went out early every morning to dig a deep hole to put his brother in. In the town‚ there was property damage
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without contentions of war? This is what who can be assumed as brothers and pacifists‚ James and Christopher Collier‚ are trying to tell us through their novel‚ My Brother Sam is Dead. The example they use is the American Revolution. So many people‚ innocent or evil‚ were killed. “My Brother Sam is Dead” takes us through these events using the perspective of Tim Meeker‚ a young boy that watches the war completely change his life. In my Brother Sam is Dead‚ although multiple sides are shown‚ authors Collier
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