Primrose Everdeen In the novel Primrose, or Prim for short, is quite a prominent character, she is the sister of the narrator and heroine of the book; Katniss. Prim is 12 years old and lives in the seam of district 12 with her mother and sister, she has a pet Cat; Buttercup, and Pet Goat that she uses for milk; Lady. Although Primrose is not just the name of this female character but it is also the name of a flower. Plant profile - Primrose (or Primula vulgaris) is native to western and southern
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In the art of literature, the author has many techniques that they can use to their favor. One of these techniques is the plan of making the reader wait to build interest in the book. This is used by both Toni Morrison and George Orwell in their novels Beloved and 1984 respectively. The idea of making the reader wait plays a large part in these novels to drive the plot forward. In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, the idea of making the reader wait for plot details is apparent. Through the
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Dying” is a novel written by an author with an American origin William Faulkner. The author explained that he wrote the novel from midnight up to 4.00 AM, in a span of six weeks without changing a word. Faulkner wrote the novel while working at a power plant in 1930. It is ranked among the top best novels in literature in the 20th century. The author is uses various writing techniques, varying lengthy chapters, as well as multiple narrators (Faulkner, 1). The book is narrated by fifteen different
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Monroeville. Lee published her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1960 after a two-year period of revising and rewriting under the guidance of her editor, Tay Hohoff, of the J. B. Lippincott Company. To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize despite mixed critical reviews. The novel was highly popular, selling more than fifteen million copies. Though in composing the novel she delved into her own experiences as a child in Monroeville, Lee intended that the book impart the sense of any
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com/ebooks/TypesOfRenewableEnergy The book gives the reader a clear and concise view of the alternative energy options. Each form of renewable energy is defined and talked about. The book discusses the history, current technology, and advantages as well as disadvantages of each form of renewable energy. The author, Anindita Bhattacha, has studied at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India as well as the New York Institute of Technology, USA. Her areas of specialty are earth sciences
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live through in her child hood. C. Jeannette Walls is author of the memoir, The Glass Castle, which has been on the New York Times best-sellers list for more than four years, has sold an incredible 3.5 million copies in the US, and was named one of the "Top 10 Books of the Decade" by Amazon. The Glass Castle details Walls' life growing up in extreme poverty and describes the unimaginable obstacles she faced. From the desert of the Southwest to the mountains of West Virginia to her parent's homelessness
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The book titled Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin, portrayed the life of women in the struggle for America’s Independence. The author wrote the book to show that both men and women played an important role during the revolutionary war. According to her book, women played an amazing role during the war, but despite the facts that women contributed to the growth of our nation, most history books did not acknowledge them. She proves the important roles women played during the war by writing this
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income inequality. In the view of the author of this paper, Freeland tries to incite pity of the plutocrats. Regardless, she does provide an extremely important lesson for everyone, which is the significance of education. Therefore, this paper focuses on the book’s relevance, how income inequality could impact the economic futures of the next generation, and areas on the book that the author of this paper disagrees and agrees with. Relevance The book can be seen as a doom and gloom examination
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Transcendentalism : Significant Authors and Works Transcendentalism was a physiological and literary movement that began in New England in the 1840's. Many highly regarded scholars at this time attended meetings in Boston to discuss and write about spiritual ideas ; They called themselves the Transcendentalists. They had very radical opinions and were nonconformists when it came to organized religion. Their goal was to share a personal sense of spirituality and to tell that everyone had a private
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Our Stars book report In this book, John Green takes us to into a world of a sixteen year old girl’s life battling cancer and falling in love despite her views on love. The main character’s name is Hazel, who is fighting thyroid cancer. Her cancer is terminal, meaning she will die at some point in time. She says her best friends are her parents and a book called Imperial Infliction, which she claims is almost as perfect as the Bible. Her parents believe she is depressed, so they send her to a Support
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