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Josephine Alibrandi
844 wordsLooking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta - Book Review Looking for Alibrandi is a passionate story about a young girl's painful and enlightening journey into adulthood. The story centres around Josephine Alibrandi - an a gressive, di satisfied, and confused final year student of Italian extraction. She has one burning ambition: to find her place in affluent society and to break free from her embarrassing, stifling italian family. As the story progresses, Josephine discovers a vital truth throug...
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First Chapter In The Book
1,404 wordsAs students sit in class and look up at their female professors they do not think of all of the women who sacrificed themselves for the opportunity for other women to be seen as societal equals. Each of us should place ourselves in the birthplace of the women's movement that Constance Backhouse depicted in her book Petticoats and Prejudice. After reading this book all man ought to be ashamed of being part of the heritage that contributed to the hardships that were forced upon women of the 19th c...
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Picture Darren And Steve
986 wordsBook Evaluation Cirque du Freak The book I read was called Cirque du Freak The Saga of Darren Shan. This is a quick and easy to read thriller for the whole family. Darren Shan tells this 266 page "true story" about his life as a child wonderfully. This story is an attention grabber and once you start, it will be hard to put down. The setting itself is pretty simple. It starts in what I assume is about a fifth or sixth grade classroom and then falls into the circus. Of course, this is no ordinary...
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Narnia And Aslan
1,598 wordsNarnia. Is a land of fantasy and adventure where magic and a Great Lion prevail. A land where so many people wish to be, a land from start to finish in The Chronicles of Narnia. Seven books written by Clive Staples Lewis have proven to be the most enchanting and mesmerizing books of all time. Pure beauty and amazing imagery allows the reader to become an explorer of Narnia and take part in the fascinating adventures bound to happen. Readers become one with the pages, not wanting to put the book ...
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Edmund's Ego
852 wordsJust whom is Edmund Gosse's Father and Son written for Is it for the Father, or for the Son, or, as Edmund Gosse tells us, for the public, so they can have a record of life in a rigidly religious family Edmund begins his book by telling you that it is a historical record, an important chronicle that is to be used, basically as a reference for a period of time. Yet, in the first sentence of the first chapter, we can see that this is truly not his purpose. The first words on the page does not refe...
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Will Justice
829 wordsIn A Time To Kill, by John Grisham, two drunken white men violently raped, beat, and nearly killed a 10-year-old black girl named Tonya Hailey. Her father, in a clouded rage, executed the two rapists with an M-16 on their way out of the courthouse. His vigilante form of justice was not well taken by many in prejudiced Ford County, Mississippi. On the other hand, he had lots of support from the black community and from any white person whom dared to step into his shoes. A young, thirty-something ...
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Kessa And Grace
722 wordsAnalysis of The Best Little Girl in the World The author of my book is Steven Levenkron. Warner Books published this book in September of 1978 in New York, NY. The genre of my book is fiction with suspense. The Best Little Girl in the World could be based on a true story, but it is not completely true to life. It would fall under the suspense category because the reader does not know if Kessa will live or die. The all-important purposes of this book are to inform and to narrate. The author does ...
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Help Of Don Quixote Cervantes
1,258 wordsBy far, book Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra is the most famous and respected book in the Spanish literature. Originally Cervantes intended to present this work as a derision of the popular ballads, but it appeared that he also made a parody on the chivalry romances of the time. as a result of Cervantes ambitions, he created a book that became one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time, presenting two most interesting characters of the fiction genre Don Quixote and Sa...
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Long Book
764 wordsSet in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. They live in a world shaped by passivity. The place lacks feeling and hope. Three high school buddies, 2 male and 1 female, venture down very different paths after graduation. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern College and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege. In this immoral world every...
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Author Frederick Lewis Allen
1,256 wordsThe Authors Point of View Since yesterday talks about a time in history that was very unstable. The author Frederick Lewis Allen writes this book which is based on the 1930's to portray to the reader that the 1930's along with the rest of America was prejudice. This book attempts to explain to the reader some of the major events that occurred in 1930's. Frederick Lewis Allen shows the reader that the 1930's was a tough time period to live in. He accomplishes not only by words but explicit detail...
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One Example Of Humbert's Obsession With Lolita
1,241 wordsMy analysis of Lolita In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov created two of the unrelenting characters in the history of literature: Humbert Humbert and Lolita Haze. His narrator's voice and main character, Humbert Humbert, explains the complex story of a man and his obsession. To set this book off from other books about obsession, Nabokov gives Humbert possibly the most socially unacceptable obsession of all: pedophilia. This Lolita causes much of the controversy in the book. Is she an innocent child who is...
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McCourts Interpretation Of Reality
1,531 wordsHe is just another poor Irish boy. His story is of poverty, emotional struggles, and growing up. Have we not read about that already Everyone thinks their childhood is unique, but do we not all have basically the same experiences Frank McCourt experiences events similar to other children, but that fact is forgotten once the reader begins Angelas Ashes. Actual reality becomes less important than this little boys perception of reality, upon which the focus is set and remains there throughout the b...
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Mitten And The Cat In The Hat
1,487 wordsCompare and Contrast The Cat in The Hat by Dr Seuss The Mitten by Jan Brett by Kirk Jordan There are many children's books that capture the attention of children and adults. These books are often written by authors that know their audience and are able to get certain points across. Among the well-known authors, Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss and Jan Brett have written a number of books, which are considered to be all time favorites. On March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel was born ...