Smith wonders would he be used on top of a cake, or maybe to star fireworks. To Smith it did not matter what he was used for, just that he got out of the empty match box. It was nearly dark now and Smith was starting to get mad now. All day he had been waiting for his chance to set things a blaze. His red head primed and ready, the wood plank that gracious loud his head stability fresh and untouched. Smith was mad, a whole year he watched as his fellow Smiths would seek their glory in the
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Counting by 7's In the book Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan uses inner thinking and dialogue to show the characters motivation and how much of an outsider or "oddball" the main character, Willow Chance, feels. As we know the challenged or slower students sometimes fell excluded, but what about the advanced? If you were only 12 and mastered many languages and also read several medical-school textbooks, would think you'd fit in with just any average teenager at Sequoia Middle School? To Willow
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she put her cellphone back in her purse. She gave a loud sigh. Jenny was really exhausted since she had been working almost nonstop for the past few days. At least now, Jenny could have a well-deserved break. She slouched on her seat and began to read a magazine. As she was reading, she suddenly remembered that she wasn’t able to do the added task given to her by her boss. Jenny began to panic. She could not stop but thinking what her boss would say had she not submitted
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eyes, thus pushing the reader to expand their thinking as well as challenge their personal beliefs. Learning through life experiences, either personal or others’, is an opportunity to evolve as a person. Contemporary literature often has meaningful messages that pertain to a wide audience, hence why it is important to be exposed to it. This semester, students were required to read a variety of contemporary works. Two of those being the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the play The Laramie
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They would live forever. So one day he started to think, which was rare. He may not be able to kill a god but maybe he could kill their kids. He got treats every nine years,and they would come tomorrow, one eventually had to be a demigod. All this thinking
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very healthful shock." When I imagine someone reading this piece out loud I think that this part would be said with much feeling. 3) In this excerpt, Hemmingway is mainly focused on whether or not Cohn was a middleweight boxing champion and he also mentions that Cohn was a good football player even though we could have done without that information, this represents Hemmingway’s love for sports. 4) The sentence, “As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because
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is a bad boy. Sammy then tries to socialize with the girls by pointing out that the A&P is in the middle of the town and know where near the beach. Then Lengel, the store manager at the A&P, ridicules the girls for wearing their scantily bathing suits in the grocery store. In a last ditch effort to impress the lady’s Sammy tells his boss that he quits because of the way he treated the girls, try’s to saying it loud enough for the girls to hear him with no avail. After the girls leave Lengel
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situation like losing his father in the deadliest terror attack to ever happen at that point and time. That’s why I chose to explore Oskar’s mental health deeper than what the book let readers get. I want to better understand Oskar’s actions and thinking. For my creation I made a collage that represents Oskar’s brain and what’s going on inside. I tried to make it as chaotic, yet put together, as possible. Because in the book, even though Oskar tends to go off topic and some of the things he says
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I know what you’re thinking, with my home being a wreck, and even on fire at one point- why do I stay at such a place? To be honest, I basically have no other choice. Well, I do, not good ones. I could stay inside an old sewer. You choose which one you like best.. Another question in mind, what caused this? One word: Zombies. I for one never seen one up close, yet. I only hear them. Whether they walk around my house, or just start to act obnoxious or “wake the dead” loud in the far distance
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the radar in high school. Costa and Thomas are best friends. Costa is loud, outgoing, and wants more than anything to be popular and have people know his name. Thomas is quite the opposite, he is more reserved and only concerned about a girl he likes. Thomas’ parents decide to go away for the weekend, which leaves the house free for Thomas’ birthday party. Thomas has many reservations about the party but allows it thinking that the girl he likes will show up. After many invitations are extended
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