Intrduction By Jumanji: Board Game

Contrary to when Janie lived with Tea Cake, the neighborhood would “Hold big arguments here like they used to do on the store porch. Only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to.” (Hurston 134) Tea Cake was able to offer the opportunity to be relaxed around each other and have fun. He allowed Janie to be herself completely as he had suggested beforehand.

We play that for about two hours and after gabi nearly breaking the TV by throwing the controller at it. It’s still ridiculously cold in that room, so instead of moving to another room we decide to go outside and start a bonfire. At this point its midnight out, and we can’t get the bonfire started. Mollys mom tells us to pour gasoline on the wood and that will help. We find some gasoline, pour it on the wood, then light a piece of paper on fire and throw it into the bonfire pit. The fires started. So after about an hour, we all decide that were bored and needed something to do besides go to sleep. Molly remembers we still have fireworks from the fourth of july. She goes inside, opens the tea drawer, and pulls out some bottle rockets. She comes outside and tells me and Gabi to go grab some bottles from the recycling. The only thing we can find is beer bottles so we grab those and head back to the backyard. Basically, we start lighting bottle rockets out of beer bottles and they’re really

4. The theme of this book is when kids bully or pick on other kids they think it’s a joke. No one is hurt but it affects them for a long time, and after time the bully’s think they did nothing wrong to you, and clam they were nice and your best friend. “Maybe other people made fun of you, but I was

He asks, "... if there were any cigarettes in the house. ... old Jane wouldn't answer him ... So the guy asked her again, but she still wouldn't answer him. She didn't even look up from the game. Finally the guy went inside the house.

As another dull afternoon at the store was going by slowly, Janie decides it would best to close up early. Everyone has gone to the game, and it seems as if she is the only person in town. A strange, yet spirited man walks threw the order, and the connection between this man and Janie is almost immediate. Together, they join in friendly conversation, and soon decide to join in a game of checkers. Surprised at her invitation, Janie agreed, flattered. Somebody asked her to play a game of checkers! Janie glows inside (Hurston 96), as Hurston describes her reaction. “Somebody wanted her to play...she looked him over and got little thrills from every one of his good points” (Hurston 96). Enjoying their time together, Janie and the man spend the

The book talks about a young boy named Lockie Leonard who moves to a new town and starts at a new high school, lockie meets a girl called Vicki and falls in love. The book does not just entertain us however and helps us learn what lockie is going through. This teaches us, as readers because the book is for kids around the age of Lockie who will go through the same thing as him. The book talks about how lockie is just about to

Tea cake’s recognition of Janie being his equal is portrayed through his invitation to play checkers, as it shows his ability to overlook the social norms for the time. This is

There were two kids named George Beard and Harold Hutchins. They were very bad kids and loved getting in trouble at school. They had an old tree house in George’s backyard that they always went to. Harold loved to draw and George loved to make up stories,and together they always spend hours to write and draw comic books.

The novel is a life lesson for the children of our generation, especially in since everyone lies to get their way through and hide the mocking truth. It makes us realise that we can’t trust anyone, since things such as lying or “fake friends” are becoming more and more popular. The author made me reflect on what people would do

The book and the movie of Jumanji compare and contrast. They compare because the tone is the same, but they also contrast because of some of the events. One of the reasons the tone compares is because both the book and the movie are crazy. Another reason is because they are both interesting.

A few months after Jody’s passing, a new man, Tea Cake, strolls in town and begins wooing Janie. At this point in the novel, Janie knows herself quite well. She is not worried about her grandmother much at all anymore; however, that does not mean she does not have doubts. The townspeople, her friends, are telling her to be careful as he may only be after her money. Janie cares little for that as Tea Cake is the first man to treat her as an equal. During their first meeting, Tea Cake challenges her to a game of checkers and all Janie is thinking is “somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice” (Hurston 96). She had been treated as an inferior all her life so when a man is treating her like another

The two kids are left alone at their house and after playing with their toys they decide to take a walk in the park, where they find Jumanji a Jungle adventure game. After this they go play the game after setting it up the instructions creep the kids out but they continue setting it up. When they roll the dice and move for the first time they don’t expect much but then they read the description in which they are terrified to see a real lion and it looks hungry. Then one of the main characters books it and manages to trap the lion in a room.

There was a box with a mini-gun. The other box had a tree full of mini boxes with hand grenades. With the help of box girl, they will kill the mini boxes in the tree. As soon as she hopped to the entrance, “BOOM.” The girl box blows up by a mustache with a rocket launcher over his shoulder. Then, the mustache came up to use and said that he helped the boxes. All of the boxes started to blow airhorns all over the place. To the other side, the Box said that it sounded like an atomic bomb was heading right for them. Then, out of nowhere a hat came up to the mustache and said that he wanted to fight him to the death. they both chose one weapon of there choice. The mustache chose a rocket launcher, and the hat chose a golden charm that looks like a

In the play area “J” goes to the science cabinet and took blocks out from the cabinet. And the teacher saw what he is doing. She went over to him and said: “Not right now!” He didn’t like what the teacher said to him and he threw the blocks across the classroom. The teacher didn’t like what he did, and told him: “You could have hurt someone”.

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu deals heavily with Japanese religions and its influence on Japanese society. Themes of jealousy, responsibility and guilt are also mixed in with the religious themes. Religions and ideals clash through the course of the novel. Shikibu focused on the two religions of Buddhism and Shinto. Buddhism represents the modern day religion in the novel and Shinto is viewed as the old religion. As the novel progress the readers start to see the fusion of the two religions. Throughout the novel several people such as women and priests live their lives according to the religion they choose to follow. This work of Japanese literature also includes demons