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The Boy Who Dared is based in Hamburg Germany. It takes place during WWll and is about a German boy trying to go against the Nazis. Helmuth is the protagonist in the story. He is a German boy and was 17 when executed. Helmuth was a boy who was sentenced to death for listening to illegal radio and putting up flyers about the Nazis. Helmuth is smart and brave and wants to fight for his country. The conflict in the story is Hitler becoming leader and the war starting. The book starts with…

his beloved wife. Odysseus being in the Trojan war was crucial to the Greeks' victory. It was he who created the trojan house to help win the war finally! In my life i would say my hero would have to be my sister. Much like odysseus me and her have traveled long ways to get where we are now.…

book, Ralph first summons all the boys on the island by blowing into the conch. He then goes on to be voted as chief and decides that there should be rules to make sure everything works as a normal society and whoever is holding the shell is the one who speaks. The conch in the story represents power and authority and all the…

One may wonder while reading Emma by Jane Austen, who is the better suitor for Miss. Harriet Smith, Mr. Elton or Mr. Martin. I think that Mr. Martin is the better suitor for Harriet because he is properly direct, good hearted, and humble. Mr. Elton is too prideful, obnoxious, and too roundabout with his feelings. Mr. Elton is not straightforward with his feelings; he is very roundabout. Being straightforward can be a virtue because then no one is lost on what one is saying when expressing their…

the burning of the same. The irony of the plot of this book is that the firefighters trained to put off fires are responsible for destroying books by burning them. The characters of Fahrenheit 451 include Guy Montag a firefighter, and the protagonist who is in conflict with the laws about the burning of books, which he came to love. Clarisse McClellan, Guy’s neighbor is a lover of nature rather than technologies making everybody at her…

Adrian Castellanos Mrs. Kroll January 15, 2016 USHH1 Research Paper The Tappan brothers, who were they? Throughout America 's History there have been many people who have fought for the rights & freedoms of other less fortunate groups. This set of "Freedom Fighters" was known as the Tappan brothers. They fought for the abolition of slavery and for the equality of Black Americans in the United States. They did so through their many actions both as businessmen and as individuals. The brothers…

When John Proctor was introduced, he was described as a quick-tempered adulterer. At the end of the play he was a noble man who wanted to fix his relationship with his wife. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Hale was a confident man who wanted to help the people of Salem. At the end he was very guilty for what had went wrong in the town. He knew that the people who were sentenced to death were not guilty and that it was Abigail’s fault. He left Salem not as assertive as he was when he…

When you hear the word “responsibility” what comes to your head? When I think responsibility I think someone who has an obligation and takes a course of action to get that duty done. A responsible person is someone you can always count on when in need of truth or guidance even at the darkest of times. In the tragic drama Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the readers experience a forbidden love between two rivaling families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. Romeo and Juliet are star…

whenever and easily? The answer, no, not at all; it took Dorothy and her friends a good chunk of time to finally meet with the wizard of Oz. Also he wasn’t keen on helping them, almost as if he would rather lose at chess then deal with the group who had traveled so far to seek his help. Would the God of the…

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the preset controls the past.” The quote is a representation of what the party believes in. In the novel 1984, this quote is used to illustrate to the audience that the party controls its citizens and how this quote is also used as the Party’s slogan and what the Part represents. This is quote establishes a tone for the novel, which is darkness and illustrates to the audience that the party was falsifying the records and changing the…