The Book of Eli

The Title of my book is Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis. The book takes place in an environment where water is worth more than anything to humans because there is very little water around there. A girl named Lynn and her mom have a house in the middle of nowhere and they have a pond with water, so there job is to defend the pond from other humans. Lynn’s days consist of gathering wood, purifying water, and keeping watch over the pond from her roof top with her mom and their rifles. People…

The cotton gin cotton gin was created during the 1793 period by Eli Whitney and patented it in 1794. He started working on the cotton gin after moving to Georgia. A lot slaves were used on cotton farms where they separated cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The fibers were used to create linen and other fabric products. The seeds were planted to create more cotton plants to produce more cotton. Speculation have come about as to who is the inventor of the cotton gin with some historians claim…

In the short story “Speech Sounds”, it is evident that the limitation of communication makes a society dysfunctional. Limitations have the power to withhold or improve us. Communication is the platform that helps to develop the relationships between people. Let’s consider the visual of strangers. Two strangers need to have a somewhat interaction, exchange information and then get to know each other in order to form a relationship. Communication can help us convey our ideas, and it, at the same…

1. The book of Deuteronomy began at the end of when Moses had passed on which has him “giving the law.” It was introduced twice in two different parts of the book. There are two major keywords – Listen and Love. In Hebrew listen means more than just listening to what you hear it also means responding. In other words, for Israel, it means responding to God’s grace and obeying the laws of the covenant. While love is the true motivation for listening and obeying the laws. Israel will not obey…

One of the many major scens of the book is when Eli’s father flashes back and tells the story of how the compound was built and kept secret he first stated how the workers had to walk miles and miles to a buss station where they would be blindfolded and bussed to the compound. He said it would be hard to find due to everything looking the same. In another conversation Eli dosen’t want to listen to his dad when he thinks they should start cloning humans. He said his sister lexie was on board…

but some chapters of the book, are told from third person. Subhi lives with his older sister, Queeny, and his mother who he refers to as ‘maa’. Subhi was born within the camp, and therefore has never experienced the ‘real’ world, beyond the fence. However, Subhi’s sister and mother both once lived outside the fence, before they had to flee from the violence in their country. Subhi’s best friend is Eli. They share everything with each other, but things change when Eli is moved to a different…

fiction book that will take you on an adventure full of emotion, self discovery, and a circus made up of colorful characters (and a tiger!) The book begins in New York, New York, where Xandra and her father, Gavin, live in an apartment. Her mother left when she was still very young, but the wound is still fresh in Xandra’s heart. Xandra attends school at a private academy that her father paid for in full, and even though she hates the school, it is where her two best friends, Bailey and Eli,…

many dangers. While Cassia is searching Ky is trying to get to the society to find her with a boy named Vick and a boy named Eli. Then they climb to the caves they where they find provisions, books and maps collected by Anomalies or farmers, returning to the Carving to shelter for the night. The next morning, Ky awakens to the loud noise of something bombing the nearby river. Eli tells him that Vick had gone out fishing. When the noise stops, they investigate and discover that the Society has…

The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, is mainly about a rich, young boy named Eli and his family that were forced into the compound, a so-called ‘sanctuary’, that their father built and the hardships they faced living there. Throughout the novel the author displays how traumatic events in life deeply shape a person mentally and physically along with their relationships. This notion is executed once they arrived safely in the enclosure after a nuclear attack on the U.S. Ever since that happened,…

coherence, unity, and emphasis” are also absent in the Amish schools and writings (Fishman 246). Saying that someone's writing is incoherent is somewhat insulting. More noticeably, Fishman describes the differences between mainstream education and Eli, Jr.’s education in a negative manner. She writes that the differences are “terrifying” (Fishman 245). This section of her piece is very confusing and misleading to the reader. It is unclear if Fishman means that the differences themselves are…