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the young boy that the novel is centered around, finds a key in his Father’s closet and makes it his mission to find out what this key, the last ‘clue’ his father left him, opens. Oskar is dedicated to his mission as he walks all the way to Staten Island, the Empire State Building, Manhattan, and across the rest of New York City, without knowing that the answer is in fact ‘incredibly close.’ Meanwhile, the novel also follows the stories of Oskar’s Grandfather, who is suffering from PTSD and can…

a group of schoolboys who are stranded alone on an island, with no adult supervision. After their plane crashes on its way to safety from the ongoing war, the boys are left with no resources or hope of rescue in the near future and are forced to adapt. They must abandon their polished attitudes as well as, learn how to survive on an island. In The Lord of the Flies the boys all channel their inner savage in order to survive alone on the island. One of the first things the boy realize they will…

10 Things you Have to do in the Galapagos Islands Located off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are a true paradise and are known for their vast amount of endemic species, and their association with Charles Darwin. This chain of islands has remained relatively untouched, and due to their relative isolation, features a wide range of wildlife that cannot be found elsewhere in the world. Visiting the Galapagos Islands presents a traveler with a plethora of different activities and once…

place. A place encapsulates an entire community of people and the folklore that is associated within the place. One must embrace their surroundings in order to get the full feeling of being from a place. I consider my place to be the state of Rhode Island. I grew up in that area and and connected with the people neighboring me and got in touch with my surroundings in which no other place gives me that same feeling of home. To be from a place means that someone embraces the physical…

During my time at home celebrating my Thanksgiving break away from college, I decided to conduct my research in an area about an hour and 30 minutes away from my home known as Sag Harbor in Southampton. Southampton is an area of Suffolk County Long Island known for beautiful homes and wonderful living conditions, including many communities/villages of wealthy, upper class citizens. Many people who are unfamiliar with the hamptons location have probably heard about its wealthy society and…

what you would do or what it would be like to be stranded on an island with no outside sources such as guns, canned food, nothing at all but resources on the island. The characters in the Lord of the Flies never thought of that and in the end turned into savages because of it. The author of this book is William Golding. The main characters in this story were Piggy a boy with glasses and is an orphan and the other boys on the island do not like him much, also their is Ralph who is 12 years old…

During the seventy-three years since Amelia Earhart had “vanished into thin air” many theories have emerged about how and where the famous pilot died. According to some researchers, new discoveries on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro may bring us closer than ever to the discovery of what might’ve happened to her. Amelia Earhart’s daring flight around the world was cut short when her plane, the Lockeed Electra, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on June 2, 1937. Shortly after,…

Have you ever thought about what it might be like to get stranded on an island with your friends? Would you be able to take charge or vote for another to leader, get food and water and shelter, and get rescued; or would problems arise and complicate things? Well, getting stranded on an island is exactly what happened in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, but in this book problems arise pretty quickly. There is a constant struggle for power between the two main characters, Ralph and Jack, as…

constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of children whose plane crashes of an Island. Once on the island they realize their are no adults around the oldest being around 12. They appoint Ralph one of the older boys chief but the little kids don't listen anyway. Why does Jack becomes obsessed with hunting to the point he prioritizes…

Molly, one of the main characters in Orphan Train, has to serve community service hours for a crime that she committed. In order for her to get those hours done, her boyfriend gets his mom to help her out. She assigned her to an old lady’s house, who wants to clean out her attic and needs some help. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude” (Kline 52). She just wants to go in and get her hours done as soon as possible. As you continue to read the novel, you figure out that…