Book report

The book Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction (as described by the author) written by Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author; it was a great success in the year of its publication and was a finalist for multiple awards. The book takes place in a dystopian future where humans have been killed off by a deadly man-made virus, and through a series of flashbacks from the sole survivor readers are told of what had taken place. It transports readers from a post apocalyptic world where a man named…

it. Not knowing till later that his wife would soon bring 3 slave servants into their home. Helper loved to read books. That was his favorite thing to do. After reading the self-published book, The Impending Crisis, a bookstore clerk from Salisbury, North Carolina, Helper published an out breaking…

heads. This juxtaposition is what gives this book uniqueness as it talks of keeping faith in the unknown. In the real world, those who can’t comprehend the unknown or incomprehensible are in doubt, as those who don’t know or understand something are worrisome.This is a idea of which Susannah experiences which she utilizes to develop her plot. Susannah Cahalan talks of her past experiences of how she was diagnosed with a mysterious condition. As the book progresses, she hooks the reader even…

someone open's it and lets him free once again. The theme of this book is to never give up, because James is trying to unravel the…

children? In the novel, The Cellar, the main character, Lily is taken from a small town called Long Thorpe. She is locked in a cellar for six months and meets three new girls. The book Sun-Kissed is about three girls living the dream in the Hamptons. I am able to relate three songs to different characters in these books. First, Lily, the main character in The Cellar is a strong, and independent teenager. The song “Fight Song” correlates to her personality. After being locked in a cellar for…

create characters that are both intriguing and realistic. Jackson’s writing has been described by the New York Times as having “warmth and a hard-won wisdom about the intersection of race and poverty in America”. When I asked him how he describes his book his response was “pick it up for the language and there’s a story in it”. He chooses what he reads using the same benchmark. “The first thing I’m looking for is, are you singing? If you’re singing then I’ll give you the space to show me…

McCreight Pages read in book: 180/382 Total pages: 361/400 Imagine that one day, you hear that someone close to you dies, but nobody knows how; or do they? What would you do? Reconstructing Amelia is a book about a mom named Kate, and her “goody-two-shoes” daughter Amelia. Amelia gets in trouble at her prep school, and Kate is instructed to pick her daughter up from school. When Kate gets to the school, she sees something she never expected. There are many emotions throughout this book such…

after Willow met Mai, she lost both of her parents in a car accident. Willow was devastated and stopped doing everything she used to love. Gardening, investigating in medical conditions, and even counting by 7s. It wasn’t until near the end of the book when Willow realized she could still be happy if she kept doing what she enjoyed. The novel teaches readers to not let grief prevent them from…

company which led me to writing my book in WWII. I drew over 400 cartoons in 2 years. One of my favorites published was Dr.Seuss goes to war. I ended up joining the army as a Captain and a commander of the Animation Department. While I was in the army I was awarded the Legion Of Merit. I next a had a major motion picture Gerald McBoing-Boing and I won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. When I returned to California with my wife, I wrote a lot of books. But after all the joy and fun I…

“childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” In the book lord of the flies , The boys from a school in England have crashed on an island in the pacific because of world war two . The boys had realized there were no adults and they had to become the adults and or think like an adult. They had struggled to grow and take care of themselves everything had started well then it became chaotic. The end of innocents all started with the brutal killing of a momma pig . The boys had been stalking…