The Book of Eli

It originated as just a normal October Wednesday in Pillager, MN. Eli was awoken from his deep slumber by his Dad at 9:00 am, just like every other day of the week. Once he finishes climbing out of his deep slumber, Eli grabs some clothes and gingerly heads up the stairs. Now Eli isn’t like most kids his age, which at this time he is 15 and in 10th grade, he has chronic hip pain and sleeps close to 18 hours a day. He has visited many doctors, been diagnosed with Lyme disease and many other…

This month I read the book The Compound by S.A Bodeen. This book was well written and fast paced, I like the suspense and the voice. I, however, thought that some of the plot points were a little predictable and at some points even drawn out. Overall I would rate this book an 8/10. In this book Eli and his family are forced into an underground bunker after a nuclear bomb leaves them shell-shocked and heartbroken. Eli just wants to get to the end of his 15-year stay in the compound. As life gets…

depressed. Bret Easton Elis, the author, says, “All we’re doing is setting ourselves up to be sold to — to be branded, targeted and data-mined.” Society wants us to be the same and to accomplish this, they make us believe we are all special. Then, if everyone is special, no one is. We are taught to think and express ourselves in ways that won’t offend anyone since that takes away another’s specialty. Then Elis throws in a twist, “Now all of us are used to rating movies, restaurants, books, even…

Baudelaire discusses the wonders of our imagination and where it will take us. In The Voice, there are two voices that visit the speaker, both encouraged the speaker to travel and discover the world that is outside the book. It also discusses being the hatred of being tied down as a human. Eli came into Oskar’s life like a voice that never quite left him. They begin to confide in each other and Oskar’s view of the world grew. He discovers another world through her, a darker world that both…

The Student I observe is name Eli Cornelius, Eli is ten years old. His hobbies are playing video games, ride his bike and playing football with his friends. He is in a big family, lives with his mother, step father, two sisters and two brothers. He goes by his father on the weekends and on holidays over there his family is father stepmother, two sisters, and grandparents. Eli has couple uncles, aunts and cousins that he sees throughout the year. His interests are becoming a great artist,…

religion, fulfilling the role of worldmaking and establishing a code of conduct. Brent Plate’s book Religion and Film demonstrates the similarity between film and religion when explaining that “Religion and film are akin. They both function by recreating the known world and then presenting that alternative version of the world to their viewers/worshippers” (2). Placing a focus on the 2010 film, The Book of Eli as an example we see stylistic choices in the direction lead viewers to experience an…

Eli was born in the winter which was on December 8, 1765. He spent his youth on a family farm near Westboro, Massachusetts when he was eleven the fighting at nearby Lexington and Concord ignited the Revolutionary war. Eli showed a native skill for mechanical work (he made a playable violin at twelve). Since war came prices for nearly eatery thing shot up, for instance nails. Eli talked to his father into letting him install forge. On a machine he made he began producing nails cheaply so that…

late 1900’s in a form of a book that Briony writes of Robbie Turner’s and Cecilia Tallis’s undying love. On the other hand, DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, is a story that takes place in the Old West during the late 1800’s. The Sisters Brothers, is written from Eli Sisters point of view. Eli Sisters and Charlie Sisters are hitmen that work for Commodore, a underworld lord. Commodore assigns the Sisters brothers to assassinate Hermann Kermit Warm. On…

In appearance Eli fits the description of a mean cowboy: bulky, tall and rough-looking. However, Eli’s thought processes strike the reader as dissonant with his profile (Vanja 138). Different from the typical western gunslinger, Eli is revealed as a man who empathizes with people and animals, this is displayed in the opening paragraph of the novel, setting the tone, Eli narrates: “My new horse was called Tub…Tub was healthy enough animal but…

My entrepreneur was a great man who only wanted to serve the citizens of America….and make money. His name was Eli Lilly and still today his good name lives on not only through his family, but also through his company. He was born on July 8, 1838 in Baltimore, Maryland and died on June 6, 1898 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His childhood was like any other, he was the son of Gustavus and Esther Lilly. His family was from Swedish decent, they moved to the low country of France. His grandparents…