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    science fiction book written by Wendy Isdell. Wendy is an American author and artist. She is best known for her young adult works which put math and science into fiction. Her most popular novel was published in 1993. The Chemy Called Al is a book about a girl named Julie and how she finds herself on an adventure to try and stop a powerful-hungry horse from taking over. She later found herself walking down a path and eventually having to fight the wolframs to save her friends. Along the path they…

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    Maria, dying of cancer. It then switched her mind to write about feeling pain. After the death of her mother, Emily's aunt moved in to help raise them. "Emily Bronte is best known for authoring the novel Wuthering Heights" ("Emily Bronte"). In this novel, Emily displays the pain as revenge. The novel is about Mr. Earnshaw bring home Heathcliff, an orphan. He was raised with Hindley and Catherine. Catherine loves Heathcliff, but Hinley hates him for stealing the affection…

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    had a major impact on his writing. In fact, it inspired his popular novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, as it serves as the setting where the main character Tom Sawyer attempts to enjoy his summer while fleeing from parental authority (PBS). In this novel, Twain addresses the lack of freedom in society while society refuses to acknowledge it as a prevalent problem. Twain grew widely popular as a writer after publishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and received high praise for demonstrating…

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    A Final Chapter This novel is designed in a disconnected manner, it doesn’t simply tell the story of a man on a ship. Meandering thoughts and disconnection is at the start of any process. Melville has used this part of the process in his favor, his book is full of meandering storylines and disconnected threads. In the beginning of the novel Melville writes “Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down a dale and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in…

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    The novel “Memnoch the Devil” is based around a vampire named Lestat. In the beginning of the story he starts off cocky and without fear. He believes himself one of the most powerful vampires and invincible. As the book progresses, Lestat finds himself cloaked in fear. Fear was a feeling he normally inflicted not felt himself. This dramatic change Lestat goes through, describes a complex character. A complex character is someone in the story you has changed over the course of the story. In this…

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    is something not so sincere. Accidentally pocketing a friends pencil or even picking up a dollar that was found on the floor could result in the feeling of “Did I do the right thing?” Sometimes, simple things can cause the emotion, but other times, novels and movies depict that people don’t always live such uneventful lives, and they take it in their own hands to make sure that they do something that they’ll never forget. In I Can Stand Him No Longer, a poem by Raphael Dumas, the theme of guilt…

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    The inner-most “Me” ring, which consists of genetics and social environment, would include the fact that Oskar shows signs of Asperger’s syndrome as well as his PTSD that results from the 9/11 attacks. All through the novel, the author suggests that Oskar may have some form of autism by including his passions for inventing things, constant playing of the tambourine to calm him down, and, most notably, his visit to the psychiatrist. Although the whole conversation is not…

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    Isolation In Siddhartha

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    excruciatingly long journey to prepare herself. In Great Expectations, a Victorian novel written by Charles Dickens, the protagonist, Pip, struggles to determine his morals as he becomes an educated, wealthy man. Siddhartha, an interwar novel written by Herman Hesse, focuses on the protagonist, Siddhartha,…

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    Huckleberry Finn Flaws

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is an adored novel by many Americans today. Many consider this novel to be the greatest american novel, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since( Ernest Hemingway).” Many Americans as well as critics, tend to overlook the flaws this book contains. This novel is still of great importance in American…

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    The Flies: Savagery

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    Lord of the Flies explores the black side of humanity, the savagery that underlies even the more civilized human things. William Golding intended this novel as a tragic copy of children's adventure tales, illustrating humankind's intrinsic evil nature. He presents the reader with a chronology of events leading a group of young guys from hope to disaster as they attempt to survive their uncivilized, unsupervised, isolated environment as rescued. In the midst of a nuclear war, a group of British…

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