effective. The story is about teenager Ethan Wate, who is obsessed with his urge to finish high school and go to college in order to leave behind, the small, weird town of Gatlin. Everything changed the moment when Ethan met Lena Duchannes, a mysterious girl who just arrived in town, Ethan found out that Lena was the girl in his dreams. Lena had a lot of problems from the time that she moved back her hometown. Lena told Ethan her dark secrets (being a caster) and family history, the story starts with
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Enduring Love is a postmodern novel that explores themes of narrative and knowledge through the relationships of the central character, Joe Rose. Joe is a science journalist in a "childless marriage of love" with Clarissa Rose, an English professor of Keats. Although Joe approaches the world through rationality and Clarissa approaches it through emotion, they are happy together and have a stable, comfortable world. Joe is the main narrator of the book and he often makes references to narrative choices
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There’s something indescribably gorgeous about how fleeting life is. When I die, I want everyone I love to attend my funeral wearing the brightest and most colorful items in their closet. My cousin Audrey will be wearing her Pocahontas Indian princess outfit of Halloween 1995. My friend Cindy will run around in her furry bear suit and pirate hat. I want my send off to commemorate who I am by retaining every vivid ounce of energy that rushes through my body every time I laugh so hard I can’t breathe
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voices, The sleepy face of Moritz with his white hood on his head making girly voices to Svenja and making her really mad, but the great mad that we all love, and Rashid with is never ending coffee in his hand saying “ OOO, THE ALEXANDRAS ARE HERE!” and asking for the hand cream or talking about “ceai” with us in the break. The Italian girl that loves Berlusconi saying “ Svetlana, speacke!” and talking fast to the don’t care and annoying without noticing Ivan, first you want to kill him but after we
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genre of my story is romance; however it changes slightly nearer to the end of my story into a horror. I’d liked to have read this book because I like reading about romance and horror separately, so the two ideas together would be interesting for me. I think that people in high school and college from the age of 13-20 would mostly like this story, particularly for female readers as they like romance more than male do. It shouldn’t matter whether you’re married, single or engaged, this story can entertain
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Love in a man’s life is indispensable. To exclaim this in the words of Max Muller: just how a flower cannot blossom without sunshine, a man cannot live without love. However distressing love’s consequences and imminent conclusion may be, to have loved, suffered and endured is to have lived life to its truest and fullest sense. A life without love is like a flower without petals, a perfume without fragrance, a rainbow without colors. So when Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson writes -- Tis better to have loved
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Grace Ogot was born in Kenya's central Nyanza district in 1930. Much of her fiction stories are based on customs, history and traditions of the Luo tribe which is the second largest ethnic group in Kenya. They lived for the most part near Lake Victoria. The Luo migrated from the Nile region of Sudan around 15 century. Originally they were pastoralists but later became fishermen and farmers. The story is set in Kenya, where the Luo tribe had settled near Lake Victoria. The village was
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also wrote “The Time Traveler’s Wife” which became a global bestseller and won several prizes including “British Book Award”. It is told by a 3rd person narrator, and the point of view changes between the different characters in the book. The story mainly takes place in a block of flats in London. A woman called Elspeth lived in one of the flats, until she died of leukemia. Elspeth was a self-centered woman, who always got what she wanted. And even after her death that did not change. As a
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the same story later in life with my own children I can without a doubt say that Ariel could be a role model for not only me but my daughter also in the way she stays true to who she is. Her character is one of open-mindedness, strength and abundant love. Throughout her story, Ariel is faced with opposition and obstacles that force her to define and think about who she is. King Tritan and the rest of the water creatures try to push and mold Ariel into what they feel is "customary." The story of The
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forgotten. The day that you love me The rose that adorns, Will dress in celebration With its best color And to the wind the church bells Will say that already you are mine, And the crazy fountains Will tell about their love. The night that you love me From the blue of the sky The jealous stars Will watch us go by. And a mysterious ray Will nest in your hair, Inquisitive glow-worm that'll see That you are my consolation. The day that you love me There’ll be nothing but harmony
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