Allen Zadoff's Boy Nobody

Throughout history, people all over the world have discovered the importance of freedom, the difference is how each person reacts to it. In The Boy Who Dared, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Helmuth, the protagonist, lives in the dark, tragic time of WWII, under HItler’s rule. Everyday, in Germany, a freedom is taken away, one by one. Helmuth is one of the few, who dares to stand up against the Nazis to fight back for his freedom. In this novel, the author uses techniques such as symbolism, flashbacks, and descriptive language to emphasize the importance of freedom.

The book, Stormbreaker, by Anthony Horowitz is about a boy named Alex, whose uncle had just died in a car crash (or so they say). He finds out that his uncle was really shot by a man named Yassen Gregorovich. Alex’s uncle, Ian Rider, really worked for MI6. He was a spy that was hired by MI6 to figure out the secret behind Herod Sayle and his Stormbreaker computers that he was donating to every school in England. Ian Rider had figured out the secret, but before he could reveal it to MI6, he was shot and killed. Alex’s uncle was the only family he had left, and so it deeply affected him. MI6 decided that they were going to give Alex either the choice of becoming a spy and taking the mission his uncle

From the beginning, the viewer is informed that the bombers have two hours before they attack, and the almost continuous temporal relation between plot time and real time evokes suspense. For instance, in the “War Room”, the large map of Russia that displays the progress of the planes towards their targets coincides with actual screen time, creating increased anticipation and consternation.

“The Interlopers” and “The Sniper” are two thrilling stories that captivate your attention by adding the right amount of wits and feelings, to the right amount of action and adventure. In these stories, two men, both unaware of the other’s true personality and character, yearn the destruction of the other. “The Interlopers” and “The Sniper” are two stories that have both similarities and differences in the conflicts of the plot, moral values in the theme, and irony of the unexpected twists of the two stories.

Our novel first introduces us to Jim and Will, two thirteen year old boys whom despite being described as complete opposites, are best friends. As the novel progresses it becomes clear that the boys are good-hearted individuals alongside other characters such as Charles Halloway. In spite of having goodness in them, they too, face evil battles within them. For instance, Jim Nightshade and Charles Halloway are fighting a battle within themselves against age and their sense of acceptance with who they are. These weaknesses make them more susceptible to being influenced by the evil around them as well as the evil that rests inside of them, but it 's their final choice that sets them apart from the evil

The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, outlines the tragedies and events that take place in Liesel Meminger’s life, in Nazi Germany. Throughout this young girl’s struggle of living in the oppressive Nazi regime, she is able to learn crucial lessons about life and the art of survival- some that follow her to the grave. The most important lesson she learned and the pivotal theme of the novel is that rebellion can be and beneficial in certain situations.

Even though the soldiers join the war as naive youths, the war rapidly changes them and they develop into young men. Surrounded by death, the boys are bound to foresee the fragility of their own lives and are stripped of the carelessness and brazenness of youth. The dreadful horrors around the boys bound them to consider a world that does not accommodate to their childish and simplistic view. They want to only see a separation between what is right and what is wrong, they instead find moral doubt. Where they had wanted to see order and meaning, they only found senselessness and disorder. Where they wanted to find heroism, they only found the selfish instinct of self-preservation. These realizations destroyed the innocence of the boys, maturing and thrusting them into their manhood.

The novel takes place in futuristic communist like world; the year is 2081 and the government controls everything and everyone. No one acts out against the government or thinks outside or the social norm. But rather content with the way life is, no problems no concerns. Thus, there is one family with a lot of concerns and problems, the Bergeron family. Fueled and lead by the son Harrison Bergeron, Harrison a smart and curious 14 year old boy who does not like the world he is living and has the courage to speak up against the government. A country that is thriving off of fear, the government uses Harrison as an example and throws him in prison.

His replica of the small details in his life, assist to highlight the tremendous changes he undergoes to become a child soldier. Here the detailed descriptions of loading the guns, attacking others, and the unending cycle of killing and death are interspersed with bland scenarios about his internal musings. Instead of being able to consider his ambitions of performing in a local talent quest, he is traumatized by the nightmares or flashbacks of being a ‘green snake’, the most effective killing machine he once was.

As the novel Fallen Angels opens, the hero, an innocent seventeen-year-old named Richard Perry, has as of late enrolled in the armed force, a decision borne out of an absence of better alternatives. Notwithstanding his not as much as stellar inspirations for joining. Perry harbors high trusts throughout his life in the armed force; he is greatly hopeful. The novel is written by Walter Dean Myers and is about a 17 year old boy. Be that as it may, the more he stays in his squad, the more his visually impaired confidence blurs away, and it is in the end supplanted with a more reasonable, common go up against the armed force and life all in all. As the novel advances, Perry's opportunity in the armed force molds him into the individual he will

A ruthless rouge agent whose name is Pike Logan, leading a task force that will stop at nothing to save and defend their country. A group of Americans that have turned against their country and are now calling themselves The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys are a small terrorist group that works for ISIS, led by Jacob, a white American male. I am reading The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor. The Lost Boys are on their way to America.

In this essay, I will discuss how Tim O’Brien’s works “The Things They Carried” and “If I Die in a Combat Zone” reveal the individual human stories that are lost in war. In “The Things They Carried” O’Brien reveals the war stories of Alpha Company and shows how human each soldier is. In “If I Die in a Combat Zone” O’Brien tells his story with clarity, little of the dreamlike quality of “Things They Carried” is in this earlier work, which uses more blunt language that doesn’t hold back. In “If I Die” O’Brien reveals his own personal journey through war and what he experienced. O’Brien’s works prove a point that men, humans fight wars, not ideas. Phil Klay’s novel “Redeployment” is another novel that attempts to humanize soldiers in war. “Redeployment” is an anthology series, each chapter attempts to let us in the head of a new character – set in Afghanistan or in the United States – that is struggling with the current troubles of war. With the help of Phil Klay’s novel I will show how O’Brien’s works illustrate and highlight each story that make a war.

The developmental stage of a young child’s life is very crucial and can be impacted by the media. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger is a young girl living in a very important part of Germany’s history, the Second World War. Liesel’s childhood unfolds and develops against the backdrop of a time when words, books specifically were used for power and control. Liesel is someone who has a love for reading and, as such, books become very important to her, not only for her education but for her rebellion and discovering her true identity. Throughout the novel, books become a crucial symbol used to convey the desires and discovery of identity for the main character as her childish ignorance changes to her mature adulthood.

As long as there has been war, those involved have managed to get their story out. This can be a method of coping with choices made or a way to deal with atrocities that have been witnessed. It can also be a means of telling the story of war for those that may have a keen interest in it. Regardless of the reason, a few themes have been a reoccurrence throughout. In ‘A Long Way Gone,’ ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ and ‘Novel without a Name,’ three narrators take the readers through their memories of war and destruction ending in survival and revelation. The common revelation of these stories is one of regret. Each of these books begins with the main character as an innocent, patriotic soldier or civilian and ends in either the loss of innocence and regret of choices only to be compensated with as a dire warning to those that may read it. These books are in fact antiwar stories meant not to detest patriotism or pride for one’s country or way of life, but to detest the conditions that lead to one being so simpleminded to kill another for it. The firebombing of Dresden, the mass execution of innocent civilians in Sierra Leone and a generation of people lost to the gruesome and outlandish way of life of communism and Marxism should be enough to convince anyone. These stories serve as another perspective for the not-so-easily convinced.

I. Daniel appeared to be dealing with the adolescent stage. Daniel seems to have developed his sense of self worth by mimicking his older brother. Daniels significant relationships, since his brothers incarceration has been derricks old friends (the skin head group). The scene in the principle's office shows that Daniel is trying to live up to what he believes are his older brother's ideals, which he believes are following in the foot steps of Nazis. Hate anyone that is not white and