Going Home Summary of the story: The story ’Going Home’ is about a young man who’s turning twenty-one. He lives in Great-Britain but his parents have aboriginal roots. The story is told from when he was sixteen years old till his twenty-first birthday. This young man goes by a couple of names: Billy Woodward and William Jacob Woodward. Those two names symbolize the two sides he has as a ‘white’ aboriginal. When he is the ‘son of his parents’ and when he talks to other aboriginals, he’s called Billy
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Jane Yolen Jane Yolen born February 11, 1939 in New York City. Born as the first child to her parents Isabel Berlin Yolen and Will Hyatt Yolen. Her brother Steve Hyatt Yolen was born three and a half years later. Jane at an early age discovered her love for writing and arts. In high school she was the News Editor of the school paper. After high school she went to Smith College where she won all the poetry-writing awards. To date Jane has written over three hundred books. Take a look at the
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Wonderland she meets stranger and stranger, or, as she says, “'Curiouser and curiouser!'” (15), characters such as a hookah-smoking caterpillar sitting on a mushroom and a grinning Cheshire Cat who is not all there all the time: “'Well I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!'” (94). She runs into three gardeners who are painting the Queen of Hearts'
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Cat in the rain The short story, “Cat in the Rain”, by Ernest Hemingway, describes the relationship between two married American tourists in Italy, where one is striving to get a cat. The American wife wants to bring the cat into they’re room, but the husband is indifferent to her wish. Under these actions, there are a lot of important points. This cat is symbolic and reveals the psychological state and emotional desires of the American wife. The cat is caught by the rain. It needs help and care
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Dr. Seuss’ poem, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, exemplifies the features of a Marxist structure. The Marxist lens examines the social-economic factors and how it impacts the character’s beliefs, values, attitudes and ideas. The protagonist is Grinch, who lives isolated in a snow cave north of Whoville, where the majority of the townspeople live. Grinch “prefers” to be alienated from the community because he despises the ‘Whos’ and their annual Christmas traditions. However, it is not his preference
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Summary The story ’Going Home’ is about a young man who’s turning twenty-one. He lives in Great Britain but his parents are aboriginal. The story is told from when he was sixteen years old till his twenty-first birthday. This young man goes by a couple of names: Billy Woodward and William Jacob Woodward. Those two names symbolize the two sides he has as a ‘white’ aboriginal. When he is the ‘son of his parents’ and when he talks to other aboriginals, he’s called Billy. When he’s together with white
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I Want My Hat Back was written in 2011 and has since won the 2012 Theodore Geisel Award Honor and was recognized twice by the NY Times for its illustrations. This is the first children’s book written and illustrated by Jon Klassen. The audience for this book is 4-8 year olds and I feel that this age group and people of all ages will adore reading this book. New readers would not be able to pick this book up and read it by themselves, but they would likely appreciate this story being read to them
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you read the book about cat and rat The legend of the Chinese Zodiac and the story Called how cats and mice became enemies.In the story Cat and Rat the legend the Chinese Zodiac the rat in this story had betray the cat so that he can get his name on the Chinese calendar.In the other story How the Cat and Rat became enemies because the mouse ate the pumpkin boat while the cat was asleep.In these two stories the rat and mouse had betrayed the cat and in both stories the cat was asleep when the mouse
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Mountain Lion The topic I chose to research is a mountain lion because I find them to be an interesting living mammal. I have three cats at home and wanted to research the correlation that the mountain lion and cats share. Mountain lions affect society in way that they are an endangered set of mammals because they are known to attack people and children. They once roamed nearly all of the United States. They were prized by hunters and despised by farmers and ranchers who suffered livestock losses
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