Dead And Gone Book Report

The power of the story has been very much a part of the lives of humans throughout time. The story is able to bring the past to the present and the dead to the living. The story can make the blind see. The story is able to make others feel for events in time that they have never experienced. The story has a profound effect on both the teller and the audience. As the audience is thought to be the beneficiary or the storytelling process, the teller is able to relive the times of old, or even teach a valuable lesson to his or her audience. Thus, allowing both parties to gain something intangible throughout this process. In “The Lives of the Dead,” O’Brien conveys the importance of storytelling and imagination by suggesting that the dead can be brought back to life in the minds of the people who hear it.

     Some say that people never change. They may be right, but no one really knows. What people do know is that every living person has one thing in common, something that will never change. Everyone will die, there’s no way around it. Every “new” and “old” generation will succumb to the same ghastly fate. The differences in the “old” generation and “new” generation sometimes collide in life. The contrast between generations in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is similar to the contrast in the generations today. The “baby boomer” generation is the old fashioned generation preoccupied with hospitality and tradition, where as, “generation x” is the new generation, preoccupied with knowledge and intellect.

Part One: Compare and contrast this persona of Death with the familiar personification of the Grim Reaper. How is Death from The Book Thief like the Grim Reaper, and how is he significantly different?

In the novel The Dead, Gabriel Conroy, who is the nephew of Julia and Kate Morkan, is the main character of the story. One night he and his wife attended a party, which was given by his two aunts, and there were many other members in the party. The story revolves around their life and memories.Gabriel Conroy felt a blur between his soul and the dead. Some people died, but they are still alive because they have true love. Some people are alive, but they are still dead because they never love.I like the story for three reasons.

The novel that I am reading is All we have left and it’s by Wendy Mills. Aila is a Muslim and she got caught with cigarette in her hand. Her parents don’t trust her anymore and she wants to go to a program that is a NYU and it’s for drawing program she just can’t go because of her mistake. Alia told her mom that she hates and her mom and runs out of the building and the reason why they don’t trust her because the last time she ran away from home. Now, Jesse is going to Nick’s house and her friends are telling that he’s not right for her but she thinks he is. She goes to his house and he tells her about the bombing of 9/11 and she remembers her brother’s death in the twin

This summer, I read the book The Dead by Charlie Higson is a novel about a large group of kids, left to live by themselves without guidance from their parents. In this run-down setting of London, England, people who are over the age of 16 turn into kid hunting, flesh-eating zombies. The younger kids are forced to live on their own, fighting for life against the wrath of the Adults. The message Higson showed in his book is: after people are forced to rely on themselves without experience, their lack of experience and knowledge will lead them to failure.

When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead by Jerry Weintraub showed me that one of the most valuable things in the world are the relationships that I possess with the people close to me. It helped me recognize that some of the greatest investments in life are the ones that you invest in other people. It drastically changed the way I saw my relationships with other people, I started viewing them as more than just friends and family, I began to see them as extensions of my being. I started to invest more and more into their lives and found myself genuinely invested in their happiness. This book has helped me build relationships that will last for an eternity as well as the tools that I need to build more of

The novel, The Dead and the Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, is about a 17 year old boy having to be responsible for his two siblings, 12 and 14, in New York, after a natural disaster that affected many places throughout the world. In this science fiction novel, the Earth’s moon is knocked off of its orbit, and closer to the Earth, after being hit by an asteroid. This was followed by tsunamis, earthquakes, and many other natural disasters, that made food supply and comfortable shelter/ homes low, expensive, and hard to find or get, because of the gravitational pull of the moon becoming much stronger. On the first day of this catastrophe, the main characters’, Alex, Bri, and Julie, mother, Mami, was called in from the hospital, and the three never received word from her after that day. As for their father, Papi, he had gone to Puerto Rico for his mother’s funeral.

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder is a true story based on series of event that happened during the turbulent period in Africa and later in New York City. It is a story about a young Burundian medical student named Deogratias, a Tutsi, who survived genocide and civil war in the French colony of Rwanda and Burundi. During the initial attack by the Hutu, he was an intern in the rural village hospital of Mutaho. Without any processions, Deo made his way into the woods to escape the chaos, during that period of time, he endured: starvation, illness, and traumatic experiences and memories. Deo was later saved by an unknown woman who took him across the border of Burundi into Rwanda where he took refuge in multiple camps, where further violence

The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not papyrus. Also the Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of spells which enable the soul of the deceased to navigate the afterlife. The famous title was given the work by western scholars; the actual title would translate as The Book of Coming Forth by Day or Spells for Going Forth by Day. Another translation would be Book of emerging forth into the Light.

Gone” by Micheal Grant is the first novel is a 5 booked Series. The novel follows the story of the children of Peridido Beach, a small town located in Southern California, who are one day suddenly abandoned - and forced to grow up extremely quickly - when everyone over the age of 14 disappears into thin air. Throughout the book I read and experienced a story of anger, intelligence, determination and most of all bizarre events that left me hungry for more. This creepy, unrealistic yet haunting novel captured and reeled me in from the first paragraph making it an overall intriguing and entertaining read.

Melissa Olson was born on June 3, 1983 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. She has a degree in Film and Literature from the University of Southern California and a Master’s degree from the UW-Milwaukee. She lived for a while in Hollywood before she moved to Madison in Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and two kids.

The book that I read was “Hope To die” by James Patterson. It is part of the Alex cross series about detective, Alex Cross, and his many adventures. I chose this book because I really liked other books that I’ve read by James Patterson. I think this book is very cool and unique, because it doesn’t give the killer’s name and motive at the end, like most murder books. The author switches the chapters between the detective's perspective, and the killer’s perspective, so that you know each trace that the killer leaves behind, and every clue that the detectives picks up, and at the end everything unfolds into a brilliant ending. I think this book is called hope to die, because the killer, Thierry Mulch, takes Alex Cross’s family, and he always leaves

Peri Jean Mace has returned to Gaslight City to tie up a long list of loose ends. Sell Memaw’s house. Try for the billionth time to hook up with Wade Hill. Find Hannah Kessler.

We are told from our director that Dr. Fred Schiff, the associate professor from communication department, passed away in July 29th. It was pretty shocking to me because we are supposed to have a meeting and record his lecture tomorrow. He visited our office once during this semester to talk about redesigning his course. I watched his lectures a couple of times to find out what we can do for him and his lectures. I can tell he is very passionate about his subject, critical role of media and culture in society.