Book Report On The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo

To teach young children that being yourself is the best way to live, taking chances, being respectful and opening up always goes a long way. I feel she wants to show us that reading and writing are great separate but together it shows within. Words are taught to people from books, so if no one reads new words how will the next person learn the meaning.

What elements in the story “The Dragon” represent the Freudian Conscious mind? 
Make sure to provide quotes and references from the story to support your answer. (3 Marks)
Throughout the short story, it is evident that at times the psychiatrist retreats to his conscious state often. This is shown when the psychiatrist unwittingly sits in Kirk’s chair and looked at his office as if it were his first time there. Unknowingly the psychiatrist had “moved around to the other side of the circle and lowered himself into Kirk’s chair”. This shows his conscious mind making decisions revealing his true feelings, that the psychiatrist deeply relates to Kirk and can easily put himself in Kirk’s shoes.

John Gardner creates a humorous tale in medieval time with fantasy. I know this because the dragon in the story starts talking witch is definitely not real. I know he likes medieval times because nowadays kings and queens have guards not knights.

Mrs. Flower’s lesson changed the way Marguerite feels about books and words when she spoke about people who are not able to go to school. She stated that they are not necessarily dumb, but can be just as smart as a college professor. She explained this to Marguerite when she was sent to live in Stamps.

During her educational and personal life she had developed a love for learning and literature at an early age in a household that encouraged reading. She had been honored as a Presidential Scholar, being ranked at the top 100 high school student in the high school, and as a National Merit Scholar attended Ohio’s Miam University, graqduating 1973 summa cum laude. She studied abroad in Germany before returning to the states and earning her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.

“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them”. Slaying my dragon was an exhausting rollercoaster ride. My journey was not simple. Switching schools, making new friends, and dealing with change was difficult--but not impossible.

Every person who is living and who has lived has a story and a past that makes them the individual they are or were. For Margaret Peterson, a young girl who lived on a farm with her parents and siblings started her passion for reading as a young adolescent. Margaret had grown up in an time where electronics and technology was up and coming. No families in her time and area had TV, cell phones, video games and almost anything that is found in the average home today. For entertainment and hobbies she would spend hours reading at home, in the car, and even on vacation. She lived in an densely populated area, that was not prevalent. Her father was a farmer, like most men in the community were. She lived at home with 3 siblings, 2 brothers and

John Gardner, the author of “Dragon, Dragon” makes this story humorous. He brings humor through the characters and in the setting. He also uses modern day technology in the medieval times. Along with all the humor John Gardner teaches a lesson.

The history of the Vanger family that is presented is definitely not one most people wouldn’t be proud of. The family has deep roots in the Nazi party and one of the surviving members from that generation still proudly displays his Nazi memorabilia inside his own home, which we see in his home near the end of the film. The general atmosphere and tone that is presented is reflects the environment of the cold and depressing Vanger island, which seems to slowly engulf the two main characters. The island greatly heightens Mikael’s isolation and alienation from the rest of society since his major court

The second novel in the Millennium series does not deliver on the same gripping mystery as the first novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it is much more put together in my opinion. There are still a number of subplots, but aside from one having to do with a staff member at Millennium, they all are connected to the main plot of solving the murder and proving Salander’s innocence. The narrative flowed well and other than a few characters being added halfway and three-fourths of the way through the novel and a kind of useless first section of the novel while Lisbeth is abroad, I don’t have any huge complaints about the craft of this novel.

Sometimes she would have stories from her childhood memories or old traditionally Mexican legend stories or whenever I was tired from all day she would get any small book such as "The three little pigs” or "Snow White" or any kinds of children’s book there was to read aloud until I fell asleep. Now that I mirror to it there was always a good moral to these stories if it wasn’t enjoying your time with family or honesty, there was a always a good value to each story she would share with me. Which in fact it turned effect with whom I consider the person I am today. As I grew older and older the literature books got deeper and deeper, especially when I changed from one school in a country to another country. From the very first day I ever went to school till the last day I spent in high school. and now into college there has not been one single day that haven’t had to read a book. Whether it was “ Cat in the Hat “ in elementary school, “To kill a Mocking Bird “ in middle school, or “Shakespeare” in high school, Literature has always been in existent in my school life. In between all the literature reports and the comprehending of Shakespearean literature there is no uncertainty that my literacy and writing has progressed significantly thanks to

The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is about a crime that took place in Sweden 40 years ago but Henrik Vanger devotes his life to uncovering the cause of his great-niece Harriet's death. Dirch Frode is Henrik's lawyer and confidante, Frode is the one that introduces Mikael Blomkvist to Henrik. Frode bought Blomkvist to Henrik under the impression that he would be writing Henrik's autobiography. Little did Blomkvist know that he would be investigating Harriet Vanger's disappearance, although now Blomkvist is not stuck between a rock and hard place, he either has to do this investigation and almost lose his job as magazine writer or forget this investigation and go on with his normal job with the magazine company. Blomkvist is finding out clues and new information on this case but he's not understanding what is going on so he asks for help. Lisbeth Salander had exceptional hacking skills and was introduced to Blomkvist to assist him with this case. Once these two understand everything about one another, putting the puzzle pieces together for this crime is great because everything is just coming to them two and they're finding things easier than before when Blomkvist was just by himself. Blomkvist and Salander have put of their ideas together and got lost on one thing that was leading back to the Vanger family and was coming back on Gottfried Vanger. Before telling Henrik, himself they told Dirch Frode, his lawyer. Frode told Salander and Blomkvist that Gottfried Vanger is dead. Now they had two people to choose

Our participant, whom we shall call by the pseudonym Masami, is a 42-year-old female part-time English teacher at a public junior high school. The school is located in a lower-middle-class area in the suburb Tokyo. She was educated in one of the prestigious universities in Japan, where she received a B.A. in English in 1996 and M.A. in English Teaching in 1998. When she was writing her M.A. thesis, she became pregnant, and immediately after she completed her Masters, she got married and started a family. After 12 years of being a homemaker and a mother, at the age of 36, she began working as a part-time teacher.

The influence of Marcy’s mother was significant in shaping Marcy’s literacy early on in life. Marcy stated “My mother was very instrumental in getting me started.” Her mother would often read her the Dick and Jane books, which were very memorable for Marcy. A lot of Marcy’s early childhood was spent with her mother. Marcy recalled how her “mother had a big influence because she was a stay at home mother, so she had the time. “[…]She read me Alice in Wonderland twice, and read me a book of fairytales.” Marcy’s motherly influence made her realize how much she loved literature. However, it would be Marcy’s education that would give her the determination, and the passion, needed to become an English teacher.

Legends tell of gigantic lizard like creatures flying through the sky and being slew by humans. Beowulf, and Saint George killed dragons in their lives. Dragons lived in places that only crazy people would ever trek. Dragons are very interesting creatures because they are in legends,heros slew them in epic battles, and may have hidden themselves in places no mortal man can travel.