Holding Up The Universe Summary

In Hideout by Watt Key, the author writes in a way that allows the reader to feel like they are in the story. “Something croaked to my left. On the right the cane rustled and a tree branch shook and trembled… I saw small birds flitting about in the underbrush,” (p. 9). The author is able to do this by using descriptive language so the reader can imagine everything that takes place in the story.

My favorite book is “Smile” by Raina Telgemeier. It is an autobiography about a girl who trips, and loses 2 teeth and has a long journey to correct her teeth while struggling to fitting in during middle school and finding her the true friends in high school. WHat I found most compelling about this story is the message of perseverance. Raina had to persevere when she had to get all of her orthodontics done like getting her braces and wearing headgear.She also had to persevere when she was left without any friends during middle school high school. They became mean to her and abandoned her. With all of her effort, eventually she got a great new smile and a bunch of new, better friends. BYthe end of her journey, she would happy to smile with confidence.,

I liked the Truth about Truman School story. The reason why I like this sorry is because it was talking about popularity, cyber bullying, revenge, and friendship and it's interesting reading what happened with all these topics. I also like this story because at the end when Lilly, Zebby, and Amr start to talk and they all get involved in making a new page on the

He explains that readers can create a literary data base that include quests and meals. In short terms, readers have restored a common figurative language, such as metaphors and symbol, which they can use for different texts to analysis what the authors are saying. Quote: “every work teaches us how to read it as we go along” (Foster 248). When we analysis the context and the plot, we are able to dissect what the author is really trying to tell us through his literature.

Authors use literary elements and techniques as tools to convey meaning. These devices are the means by which authors bring richness and clarity to a text. They express moods or feelings that allow the reader to connect with the writing. In On Writing, the author, Stephen King makes use of literary elements to tell his story. The techniques King uses are effective in portraying vivid images and feelings in the reader’s mind.

The term setting is defined as an environment in a story. The setting may provide useful information about the location or timing, thus, the setting might also be very descriptive. Social conditions and depictions of unique features can be observed through the setting of a story. Although, the setting may or may not have an impact on characters in diverse fashions, the overall setting influences the characters throughout the novel because it had affected each character’s decision or point of view of a certain subject. In the novel The Other Side Of The Bridge, the author Mary Lawson displays how the setting influences a character's decision in life through the lack of opportunities forcing the characters to leave Straun. Eventually, Jake left Straun for a different city to portray his dream, his conversation Ian and trying to convince him to leave Straun as well and his emotions through his father's death. In addition, Ian going to Toronto for university, the pressure of becoming a doctor and his decision of not returning home. Furthermore, Ian’s mother leaving Straun for Toronto as she would like to go to a big city and not stay in a small city for the rest of her life.

Using this technique allows Lewis to make a connection or to reach out to the reader so that they can relate back to the characters. This adds believability and intimacy to the novel. Obtrusive narration is again evidenced in “this lasted longer than I could describe even if I wrote pages and pages about it.

One cannot simply define the perfect family. It is something that needs work on. Something that takes years to work on and change. A perfect family is not necessarily “blood”. It’s less of a Van Gogh and more of a Picasso, a different and unconventional look.

In Steven Universe, there are a variety of different gem types introduced throughout the series. So many, that it would be impossible to list them all here. Therefore, I will be taking those that are the most archetypal or ones that are the most relatable and explaining their characteristics and personalities. Note that not all the same types of gems act the exact same way-- I’m simply listing the stereotypical personalities we have seen from a portion of the same-gem population:

Hey, I just finished the book called Dork Diaries, Tales from a NOT-SO-Happy Heartbreaker By Rachel Renee Russell. My 5th grade teacher recommended it to me because she thought I should read books that have a little bit of everything that I like in a book, I agreed.

My knowledge of different worldviews have been small since I went to a private school from kindergarten to 12th grade and the teachers were focused on teaching the students about the Seventh-Day Adventist beliefs and worldview, I had known that there were other worldviews but I had never really read or learned more about them until this year at college. When I first stated reading The Universe Next Door, I really liked how the author stressed that worldviews are not stories but they can be expressed as stories. That made me start looking at the worldviews a little differently as I read. The Worldview I really enjoyed reading about was the Clockwork Universe it was interesting how there are cold deists and warm deists. It was shocking to learn

The kind of literature they use was a climax, conflict, and foreshadowing. These impacted the story because they were talking in these kinds of ways throughout the whole story. I think the most powerful one in the story was the climax because it was one of the stories that had you out of your seat wanting to know what will happen.

In segment 1 several things struck me. One thing that came to my attention was when Dan explained that something in our universe that doesn’t add together. He was explaining how there’s a meaning to the start of the universe. While giving his input, he gave an example which was, one day a guy was walking around outside and a stage light fell out of the sky. The guy wondered where it came from but nothing added up. His example referred to how God’s made to create the universe. The thing is no one knows where God came from or how God came to be, just like the stage light falling from the sky. Since no one knows where God came from and how he came to be, many do not believe in him. That was the second thing that struck me. In my opinion, people

The book I chose is the fault in our stars, because I like romance movies and books. The author of this book is John Green he published this amazing book on January 10, 2012 their are exactly 313 pages in this book . The differences between the book and the movie in my opinion really isn't that much , but I believe that the book gives you more details than the movie really does. The Fault in our stars is about two cancer patients falling in love. The young girl that has been diagnosed with cancer at a young age is Hazel Grace . Hazel's mom makes Hazel go to classes to talk about how she feels about cancer and to make friends because she really doesn't talk to anyone . She meets this Guy there named Augustus Waters. When they first spoke to

As a 17-year old girl, I enjoy reading romance books. Books that are full of emotion and leave one crying by the end of the last page. Honestly, I think romance is the only genre I have read in quite awhile. I recently read the book If I stay by Gayle Forman. A book that most definitely challenges you to think about moving on, following your passion and continuing with life after a tragedy. Something that isn’t very common among the regular romance books. This was the kind of book that showed the power of love and how strong it can really be. It was something different, and in my opinion was a very good read.