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    Only a few hours until midnight would drape over the town, the car abruptly braked causing Courtney to jump from her sleep. Wiping the foggy window, Courtney imagined the brown brick home bordered with flowers from the website photo, but she was staring at a snowy dark abandoned shack. The house was five minutes away from the town, she wanted a low profile while she was staying, but what worried her the most was how long she could stay hidden. Few weeks before, she planned it all out. Tomorrow…

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    Newton Scamander was well accustomed by now to the endless taunting and ridicule he received from most of the other students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He'd figured out years ago that the best way to deal with hexes or a flying shoe was to put up a Shield Charm and watch the shoe bounce right back and hit the owner in the face. (The people who liked throwing their shoes had long since ended that habit.) Newt could deal with the people who skirted around him in the corridor…

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    who’s 16 years old (Salinger 21), getting over the fact that he’s just been expelled for his fourth school in the past couple of years. The story takes place in the late 1940’s. The plot is the events that take place in a novel/story. The story begins with Holden just getting his bad news. He doesn’t waste anytime packing his stuff and getting off the campus since he flunked out cause he hated the school and everyone in it. After yelling “Sleep tight, ya morons” (Salinger 52) to his “no longer”…

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    In the short story, “The Somebody”by Danny Santiago, self-proclaimed ‘Chato de Shamrock’ makes the decision to quit school and become a ‘writer.’ While disinheriting his father’s name, Chato decides to make it big on the streets of East L.A and goes around the city spreading his fame by writing his name on various buildings and street objects. Since Santiago writes in first person, the story is narrated through Chato’s perception of the world and his account may not be entirely accurate. However…

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    The Birds are chirping, a cool wind is blowing, and the sun has just come up at Mary Blue Bird Middle School. All is peaceful and the sky is gloomy. The grass is mushy and muddy since it is 1st period and the grass has just been watered. Suddenly a horrifying scream, echos across the whole black top. It seems as if time has frozen and all is still. All the children look over to Anna who is wearing her long blonde hair in a messy high bun with bright blue volleyball shorts, a gray top, and shoes…

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    governess suddenly disappeared. She arrived when it was just Flora and the housekeeper Mrs. Grose. Flora was an angelic beauty, always well-behaved and even volunteered to show the governess around the house. One day she received a letter from Miles’ school that stated he could never return. It was strange to the governess because Mrs. Grose only ever talked highly of Miles and how kind he was. When the boy arrived, she discovered he was even more attractive…

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    “Paul’s Case”: Gender Criticism “Paul’s Case,” a story about a troubled young man just trying to find his way that ends in a devastating fashion. Paul had dreams and admiration’s of living a theatric lifestyle that was different from the average boy. School can be a place to learn and make new friends, it can also be cruel and unforgiving world for those who don’t fit in. A father and son’s relationship can be special and of the most cherished relationship’s to have growing up, Paul and his…

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    Theories of Relativity tells the story of 16-year old Dylan Wallace whose reckless mother kicked him out in order to please her latest boyfriend, Dan. He is struggling to survive on the streets without taking the easy way out with drugs. Dylan settles outside two office towers and begs for money from passersby. This is where he meets Glen, a young employee at one of the office buildings. Another homeless teen named Jenna, works on the street across from him, in front of a church. She is an…

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    Care Unit (NICU) for five months and three days. I was born at twenty-four weeks and one day, four months before my due date on January fifth. I was not alone, however. My twin brother was born on January fourteenth—we were nine days apart. See, my story is not a difficult one to tell, but it has changed slightly over the course of my seventeen years. I could go on to discuss how I’ve had sixteen extensive surgeries. How I only have one working vocal cord. Or even that I was given about a ten…

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    the same place in my heart as other novels and stories, I cannot deny the brilliance in this work. The theme of silence versus conversation really hits me. This mild obsession with silence started a few years ago. Somewhere between the age of eight and twelve I read a book by Sarah Dessen. This book, titled Just Listen, introduced the importance of silence to me with a single quote. “Silence is so freaking loud.” In a more somber way, this story also hits home to me, and quite literally too.…

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