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This is an appropriate title for this book because the story is about the main character, Miles, looking for a girl named Alaska. The title grabbed my attention because I knew it meant someone or something was searching for something by the word “looking”. I like the name of the book because it may make you think of something to do with the state Alaska but it twists your ways of thinking and is about and actual person named Alaska. The time period of this book is in the present day. This…

The Silver Lining Playbook, is a motion pictured film produced by David Russel that portrays the lives of two individual that have suffered or in a sense struggled with a mental/psychological disorder. The male lead character Patrick Solitano Jr. (played by Bradley Cooper) is a former teacher who after finding his wife, Nikki in a compromising position with another man, has a violent episode brought on by his un-diagnosed bipolar disorder where he practically beat the man close to death. After…

In the world before Gilead, Offred felt uncomfortable with her mother’s feministic ways, and she had an affair with a married man named Luke. Luke then divorced his wife and married her, and they had a child together. When Gilead started they took their daughter as they tryed to escape across the border into Canada. Instead, they were caught and Offred hasn’t seen her husband or daughter since. After her capture, she continues to mentally resist Gilead, but she submits to Gilead. Afterwards,…

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman easily fits into the category of ghost stories. It tells the story of a young boy whose mother, father, and sister were killed by a man named Jack when he was a baby. He managed to escape the house and make it to a graveyard not far from his home. There, he meets several ghosts, including Mr. and Mrs. Owens, who decide to take care of him. The baby is named Nobody, or Bod as a nickname. He lives among these ghost as the only living person in the graveyard but…

We can think of Grendel and the monster as two bullied high schoolers that aren’t part of any clicks. As they go through their lives, they are persistent in befriending anyone, however, because of their appearance, they are both rejected. Whenever they try to enter a click through any means, they are punished for it violently, which leads to their mental decay and instability, and possible their deaths. Grendel, from John Gardner’s Grendel, and the Monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, are…

In the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger” author Frank R. Stockton creates make believe kingdom. In this kingdom the ruler was a semi barbaric king. The king had an arena, and when a crime was committed the accused were put into to prison. They would await their day till they were put in the arena. The king let them decide their fate by picking between two doors. Behind one door held a hungry, ferocious tiger waiting for his next victim to open his door. Behind the other door was a fair,…

Thank you Kami for allowing me to read your story. The story was so suspenseful. I could not even stop myself from reading your story. I really wanted to find out what happen to Bartholomew and how it ended up in his father’s prison. I like how you went back and forth from the past and the present, it really added dynamics to your story. You did a great job of setting up the scenery so we could understand the world that Bartholomew was living. Your story read very smoothly and with great fluency…

Ehrenreich gave commendable data throughout her book. However, her process from beginning to end was anything but flawless. She lacked a great amount of authenticity in her experiment. The journalist’s entire journey was not a complete failure. One major aspect that really made her research a semi-success was her abandonment of her life. In the intro of the book she encourages, “…old fashioned…journalism” and believes it could gather accurate data about the lives of minimum wage workers…

“The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” was written by Wes Moore, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran. The novel was published in 2011 by Random House Publishing. I chose this novel because I was captured by it’s title and the background story. It’s based on a true story about two males, who have the same name, are raised in the same poverty and crime-infested area, but hold two completely different fates. Although they both had their fair share of committing crimes, one went on to be the…

Muhammad Ali is insisting that ‘impossible’ is used as an excuse to avoid taking on new, seemingly difficult endeavors. In one part he says that ‘impossible’ is used by people who “find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” This indicates that people use this word to do what they know they can in this world, and count everything they supposedly can’t as impossible. Ali says that they have the choice to validate more activities as…