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Proficient 31 percent, and Advanced 7 percent. These unacceptable scores are raising questions if children are reading enough, and according to the National Education Association, having kids read more is one of the crucial components of becoming a good reader. I think children should be required to read more because reading expands a child's vocabulary, reading skills relate directly to academic success, and reading enhances a child's imagination. Reading is superb for students because it's an…

explicit theme as in the Charlotte’s Web give the reader in plain detail about the friendship between Wilbur and Charlotte when he understands that “friendship is one of the most satisfying things in the world.” Using words directly on the page of the book, identifying clearly the theme. The implicit theme allows the characters to deliver the message of the story a little at a time creating a discovery of information, as in Anastasia Krupnik. The reader learns about her in small amounts,…

Due to my increased understanding and demonstration of what it really means to make a poem, I should get at least a low A. My growth was mostly shown in the difference between my two poems in tone. My original poem was written in a very straight-forward manner that was meant to be taken neutrally in a very literal manner. While not necessarily a bad thing this left the poem feeling very empty and “lacking” for a lack of better term. At the start of the poem I used the words “...simple room”, “..…

the mood horror and mystery. The two stories are told in one third person and the other in first person. The author in The Red Room tells this story in first person, the author is using his main character in the story to help with the mood for the reader to feel what the main character is feeling. In the story The Monkey’s Paw in third person to help the reader's mind go the way he wants it to go. In the short story The Monkey’s Paw the author tells the story in third person. He is like an…

‘Missing persons,’ a novel that is based on a character named Guy Roland. He is continuously interrogating the missing portions of his life. He suffers from amnesia syndrome. Due to this partial memory loss, he is not able to recollect the phase of his life that is before beginning his profession as a private detective or investigator. That’s not enough; the memory loss is so austere, that he is not even able to remember his name and nationality. Having a career where he unraveled other people’s…

When reading, many people do not pay close attention to facial expressions, colors, or the time period, however, once you deeply analyze them you start to uncover more secrets about a novel.ADD BROAD IDEA. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, incorporates the use of eyes and vision to display wisdom, emotions, and corruption. Scott Fitzgerald displays wisdom of his characters by using descriptions of eyes and vision. An example of this in the text is when we are introduced to…

I would compare “In The Woods” to “The Maze Runner.” Both books are about a main character that had something happen to them when they were young and they don’t know what happened or how to explain it. In “The Maze Runner,” the main character can’t remember anything about his past or his childhood, while “In The Woods,” the main character had an unexplainable event happen to him when he was young. In each of the books, there is a place that is mysterious and know of the characters know a lot…

Death in its retelling of the story of Liesel Meminger, the book thief, associates its meeting with Liesel through colors. Death states that it derives pleasure from colors, colors are its vacation from its melancholy occupation for no one can replace it. Death’s love of colors provides its relief from the pain of watching those who are “leftover”, the loved ones of those who passed. In the excerpt from the “The Flag”, death recollects on its last meeting with the book thief. The author, Mark…

In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, is a story about a boy named Ponyboy and how he goes through the troubles of life. The book which is fiction focused on the fight between rich and poor. It also focuses on the journey from youth to adulthood. The three topics addressed in the interesting book power of friendship, journey from youth to adulthood, and fight between rich and poor. First, the book addresses the significance of the power of friendship. One example of the power of…

One of the greatest abilities in writing is getting the reader to convey with the characters, to feel how they feel in that exact moment. This is a bond we gain between us and the characters, we learn to understand these characters. When a reader can truly bond or empathize with the characters, we can really know what they are thinking and relate to them on a more personal level. When we feel sorrow or pain from a characters actions or emotions, we know that the author has indeed bonded us with…