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    The novel opens with Alexandra, a strong and independent woman, visiting a doctor’s office in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, a town that looks out of place on the vast prairie. The streets are empty except for one young Swedish boy named Emil, Alexandra’s little brother. Emil is distraught; his gray kitten was chased up a telegraph pole and has no way down. Emil and the shivering kitten wait for Alexandra to return. Upon her arrival, Alexandra disciplines her younger brother, then goes to find…

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    Mood: For the mood of this book I wanted it to be suspenseful because when I read the book I was always in suspense. I picked music that gradually got faster and more intense to help make is slowly pick up pace and make you want to see more. I also ended the trailer with a question so that it will make the viewers want to read it and answer find the answer to that question. I thought that the book seemed more suspenseful than humorous so I made sure to make the trailer suspenseful. Themes:…

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    We all know someone that’s a total jerk.There is no bigger jerk than Craig Feodoore. Just because he has great abilities at everything (except for anything that includes using his brain). He thinks that he can do whatever he wants.He literally takes candy from babies. Then there is Guiseppi St. Paul he is the nicest guy you would ever meet. He donates money to the orphanage he even goes hungry to feed homeless people. Guiseppi is a baker while Craig is self employed a.k.a unemployed. Craig stole…

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    In the suspenseful book, And Then There Were None, ten strangers are lured to a remote island. While they are awaiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording tells accusations on each of the ten guests. One by one each guest is murdered. How their murder was executed was based upon a nursery rhyme called “Ten Little Indians”. The thrilling novel And Then There Were None, written by Agatha Christie, was one to keep readers up all night who were unwilling to put the book down. The mystery…

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    god.I first heard about the Holocaust in Ms.Fox’s room in 6th room.But when I started to read the story I felt sorry for the jews.In the book hannah was a 13 year old girl who had braces,and also she had a brother named Aaron.In the movie she was a 16 year old girl.In the begging of the story she was a at the tattoo pallor.Her brother was never mention.In the book and the movie she the main character.Hannah and her family drank wine as they prepared to open the door for Elijah.Hannah traveled…

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    My adventures in Boy Scout summer camp You should really go to boy scout summer camp. Here is a short story on why you should go. The first day after we arrived at camp we chose our bunkmates and tents I selected a kid named Daniel. Upon getting set up, a group of people who brought phones walked, up the trails on the mountain once we got to the top we found the sweet thing called cell service. We stayed up there for hours. On our way down, a kid tripped and hurt, his ankle so half the group…

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    My book that I read was “A mother’s reckoning.” This book described and culture and empathy in two parts. The first part of the book took you through empathy and how she felt when she found out her soon was a shooter and how she handled it. She reached out to the victims and wrote letters to many of the parents, some took it as an apology, others were enraged by it and called for her arrest because they looked for somebody to blame. The second part of the book talks about our culture today and…

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    There are times in life when you live, read or even witness something that it stays forever in your mind. This is what happened to me when I read the book Modern Slaves by David Duster. The book is about how slavery is still present in our world in the twenty first century. However, Duster is not talking about the metal chains or physical tortures. He is referring to human trafficking, economic globalization, capitalism and its forms of slavery. The one appealing to me the most and that should…

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    being a successful inventor and entrepreneur. I started a new book called American Lightning, by Howard Blum. I'm 170 pages in, and I can say the story is quite intriguing. As of now, I have half the book read and will finish it up this week to meet my reading goal of a book per two weeks. American Lightning is a non-fiction --a thriller more like--that accounts the crime committed in California and the birth of the film industry. The book divides the perspectives of the filmmakers, detectives,…

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    situation where Haroon’s family is unable to fly because they are put on a no fly list, again this is because they are Muslim, the police assume they could have terrorist affiliation with the use of racial profiling. One of the biggest events in the book, is when the football team decides to vandalize peoples homes during a Halloween rampage. Most of the vandalizing happens to adults who have had confrontations with the football team, like a neighboring team’s coach, and a teacher who tried to…

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