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    During Laura’s trip to the market, she did not have money to buy the fruit, instead she exchanged a lock of her hair for it. Laura was eager and did not have much self-control over her actions at the time. She was drawn to the fruit and the goblin men. Her experience is depicted as pleasant and compelling. For example: “(the fruit) ..sweeter than honey from the rock, stronger than man-rejoicing wine, clearer than water flow’d that juice; she never tasted such before..” When Laura was eating the…

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    As I stared across the bullet-torn battlefield I wondered how I ended up here; hiding behind a crumbling wall, clutching my gun as though it were a lifeline. How the young kid I'd once been now bore a dirty, camouflage patterned uniform. There I was, contemplating my life in the middle of a battle. I shouldn't have been surprised when a hand suddenly shot out in front of my face and smacked me upside the head. It was so unexpected that I nearly stumbled out from behind the rubble and right into…

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    Life In The Giver

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    In the book ‘The Giver’ we are first introduced to how life is in their society. They live in a very strict and rule tight society where everyone is the same and are expected to live up to specific standards in their life . They get assigned jobs that are most suited for them . They also have no emotions and live a very colorless and bland life . The main character Jonas is very different and gets chosen for a special assignment that not just any pupil can have he is given the assignment to be…

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    figures out a way to get Philip and his mother onto a ship called HATO. As luck would have it, the HATO is torpedoed. Philip gets knocked out during the evacuation. When he comes to he is not on the life raft, but on a little makeshift raft. He sees a black, West Indian man with a thick accent. He identifies himself as Timothy and his cat, Stew cat. Philip develops blindness from a Philip and Timothy end up on an island called The Cay. They must work together to survive this horrific…

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    STAGE RIGHT is another telescreen and a lavatory pan. Concealed lamps are hanging from the prop bar. LIGHTS UP: Winston Smith is fixed on the camp bed and cannot move. O’Brien stands by his side. A male in a white gown, carrying a hypodermic needle stands on the other side. Five men in black kick his belly, his limbs, his ribs simultaneously. O’ Brien switches on the electroconvulsive shock device. O’ Brien: Don’t be afraid Winston, I’m here to save you, and make you perfect. Winston: (with a…

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    produce a resonance of tone by informing the reader of the description and characterization of the main character. King then described, There was a swatch of brown fur caught in the bushes to one side of the guts, and on it she could see a spatter of white spots. This was the remains of a few, one of the two she had come upon in the beechnut clearing, she was quite sure. Further into the trees, where the woods were already darkening toward night, she saw an alder tree with more of those deep…

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    They walked back to the city, the closer they got the more debris they saw. Parts of buildings scattered across the burnt, crisp, brown grass. Montag was beginning to feel uncomfortable and more weary about going back, afraid of what he would see. “Everyone I had ever known, gone, everything I had ever known, gone, the city is a cemetery of thousands of citizens,” he thought to himself walking slower by the step, dragging his feet across the ground. “I know this is going to be difficult for…

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    You will feel like the world is yours for the taking, but there are times that you will feel like destroying your world. You experience stress, loss, and happiness. That is what it means to be a high school student. You go home from school dead tired from all the stress and schoolwork that you have. As soon as you get home, your mom yells at you for having a dirty room. She yells at you for being on your phone too much, she yells at you for being in your room too much, she yells at you for…

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    She is trying to get into Julliard for playing the cello. In the book, she loves the artist Yo Yo Ma and plays many challenging songs that are especially difficult to play on the cello. In the film, her music comes to life. Her music is the background of the entire film and is the glue that keeps the film together. The movie really demonstrates the great impact of music on Mia’s life. She grew up around music as her parents were rock stars themselves. Because of the movie, anyone can see the…

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    Taeh Scream: A Short Story

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    The day had come for Taehyung and you to have lunch with your parents and he showed up at your door particularly dressed to impress. Even if he looked like he was about to play a round of golf, you knew your mother especially would eat it up. You were mostly quiet on the way to the restaurant, nervously nit picking at the hem of your light blue sundress and fidgeting with your thumbs while staring out the window of his car and sighing occasionally. He asked what’s wrong multiple times, even if…

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