What does the average reader from the twentieth century want to see from a novel? The average American nowadays has very different standards and expectations when they read a novel. One character from a modern novel may not be very compelling to someone from one hundred years ago, but Jurgis, the main character of The Jungle, has characteristics that appeal to such a reader. His virtues and beliefs are examples of what Americans back then admired, and those admirable and relatable qualities help
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Questions for Reading and Discussion 1. What did Arthur’s confession reveal about his experiences as a slave? What kinds of work did he do? With whom did he associate? How might his experiences have differed from those of a young, freeman of the era.? 2. Why was Arthur able to escape so often? How did his master and his employers treat him? What did they and his parents expect him to do, and why? 3. What did Arthur’s confession disclose about relations among slaves, Indians, and whites in eighteenth-century
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I am submitting my third quarter book report for “Read and Comprehend a Literary or Non-fiction Text”. I read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson. The report includes the title, author, a short summary of the book, and three questions I would ask the author of the book. I wanted to know if Kate Larson ever met Rosemary. Furthermore, wanted to know if she believed that Jack’s presidency affected Rosemary, and what exactly Rosemary’s disability was. If the author had
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is the tragic hero. The features of a tragic hero usually are: usually from a noble birth; usually introduced by other characters before we meet them, this is true for Macbeth as he is introduced to us twice before we actually meet him, by both the witches and Duncan and the captain; the protagonist, again true for Macbeth as he starts of the play as a good and heroic character; has a tragic flaw, which we will learn in act 1 scene 4, and finally will undergo a reversal in fortunes where the hero’s
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Fisher , a visually impaired middle school student. . (2) The novel is about how the choices Paul and other characters make impact the lives of other positively or negatively. (3) Paul’s choices over the novel end up with Paul standing up to other characters and letting the truth come out even if it can affect someone's life for the good or bad. (4) One important choice that the character Erik Fisher makes that affects Paul physically is blinding , his little brother, Paul Fisher with spraypaint
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The chapter starts with Hollis Mason calling Sally Jupiter to catch up and tell her the news of Dan and Laurie’s tenement rescue. From their conversation, we learn that Halloween is close by. Then we transition to the newsstand where the old man talks of his late wife. He sells a paper to Dr. Long as he is walking home. You can tell its him by the way he is dressed and the way he refers to Rorschach as Kovacs. All the while, the young teen is reading The Black Freighter. Where the stranded sailor
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Chapters 1-4: I personally like this book, so far. It has a good subject matter and a good set of characters. You have Hurry, who is a judgmental and overall stubborn person; and then you have Deerslayer, who is a very kind, understanding and knowledgeable person. Both Hurry and Deerslayer are set in their ways, yet they try to bring each other to their side of thinking. The words that are used when talking about the environment are very descriptive, but not to the point that it feels tiresome. It
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Heroes are people who make a difference in a person's life for the better, and enjoy doing it. Heroic people don’t have to be strong or brave, they just have to be willing to make the world a better place, and stand up for what they believe in. Not all heroes wear capes; Sharon Draper is one of those people. The details of this hero’s early life are similar to most. Sharon Draper was born in August 1948. She went to Pepperdine University in 1971 and continued her education at Miami University (Ohio)
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lords a vast amount of land to grow drug crops to sell to European, Asian, and African countries in exchange for keeping illegal immigrants from transporting from one country to another and the restriction drug sales in their countries. The main character, Matteo Alacrán, is a clone to the king of Opium, El Patron. He was harvested inside a cow and grew off of a piece of skin
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The Lovely Bones: A Comparison The book/movie “The Lovely Bones” is about a 14 year old girl named Susie Salmon who gets murdered on December 6th, 1973. The setting of this story takes place in a small town in Pennsylvania. Her murderer was a creepy middle-aged man named Mr. Harvey who was new to the neighborhood. Meanwhile, while no one suspects it was him who killed Susie, her family struggles throughout the book, and movie to cope with the loss of their daughter. Although the book and the movie
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