Nonfiction

She enjoys reading all types of books from adventure books, nonfiction books about historical disasters, cookbooks, and books with strong girl characters. Louise's reading notebook reflects the consistent effort she applies to improving her reading skills each day. Louise can decode the majority of text at her current…

I wrote a little, I don't remember what it was about, probably something nonfiction, but it only lasted for a couple months. I would love to make up a story if someone would do the physical writing for me. But, I don’t see that ever happening there for myself ever becoming an author I can’t remember ever learning to write, and…

had a daughter named Katherine. Sometime during her marriage she got severe depression and had a number of treatments for it. These treatments are believed to inspire “The Yellow Wall-Paper”. She is known for her fiction writing but she also wrote nonfiction-promoting women. One year after her second husbands death in 1934, Gilman found out she had inoperable breast cancer. She didn’t wait for the cancer to kill her as on August 17, 1935 Gilman…

Frederick Douglass was a formal slave who just wanted to be an educated human being, but his mem owner didn’t allow it. Robert Hayden is a writer poet who had succeeded and wrote about Frederick Douglass. He was famous for his poetry and more important for the poet he made named “Those Winter Sundays”. Quincy Troup was a very famous and successful writer who wrote dozens of poetry. He was part of the Negro league foundation. These men are very important to history and these are their stories.…

I read all kinds of books for pleasure, from biographies such as Unbroken to fiction like The Hunger Games to nonfiction such as Freakonomics. I am also genuinely curious about the natural world. When I participated in a National Geographic Student Expedition to Iceland, I became intrigued with endangered aquatic algae formations called “lake balls,” and researched…

Into the Wild is a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer. In the book the main character, Chris McCandless, gives up all most of his possessions and life. He then goes on an endeavor in which he attempts to live in the Alaskan wilderness where he dies. McCandless lived out his life the way he did due to inspiration by Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry Thoreau. Chris McCandless lived out his life to the extent he did because he was inspired by Jack London. “ The dominant primordial beast was…

209 Author’s Note) Also apparently many of the people and also some of the events that are mentioned in this book are purported to have happened in the history of Japan which is interesting that the authors of this book actually incorporated some nonfiction into it. The main theme is sometimes you don’t realize who you are until someone helps you find you and examples include when Yasuhito didn’t think he was emperor because Amaterasu, a goddess from Japanese mythology, didn’t visit him during…

We Were Liars is the book that I chose to read this quarter. The setting of the book is Beechwood Island, Massachusetts. Even though the main character lives in Burlington, Vermont, her family goes to the island every summer. The main characters are Cadence, Harris, and Gat. Cadence suffered a bad head injury during her childhood, but nobody will tell her what happened to her. She doesn’t know what happened, but she knows that her family does. Harris is Cadence’s grandfather, who built houses…

“Ebola is a rather simple virus- as simple as a firestorm. It kills humans with efficiency and with a devastating range of effects.” (Preston. R. 1994, New York.) The quote is from the book The Hot Zone Richard Preston and the ebola virus is kinda like Scfi in my mind. When you think of Scifi you think of awful scary things that could wipe out the whole human population. Thats what ebola is, but its real. Science fiction or Scfi is something that is fictional that uses future technological…

Throughout many writings and literary works, many elements and techniques are utilized behind the scenes to establish an idea. This is seen in Nonfiction books, Fictions books, Novels, Drama, and especially plays. Authors use characters to manipulate how the plot is going to be solved and how the rest of the story is going to go about. In A Dolls House and The Fall of Don Juan we see how (name of authors) use characterization and character manipulation to establish an intriguing reading. Henrik…