Stormbreaker Quotes

As I hear Sanger Rainsford try to coax Ivan, I decide to come down the steps. Ivan clicked his heels together and saluted me, as he should.

The Glass Castle, a both heart throbbing and emotional story written by Jeanette Walls shares her life through her child eyes. Walls grew with a different lifestyle than what we would normally see today. A family that isn’t much of a family but is a sense of stability and security to her. Throughout her life her family has been through hunger, unstable homes, a drunk father and very little of outer family relationships. She struggled along with her brother and sister but with free-spirited parents for her that is all she needed.

“Rainsford said,Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.’” (Connell 70). Rainsford’s personality changes throughout this story, but, the trait of bravery stays true throughout the story. Through his personality trait of bravery Rainsford moves the “Most Dangerous Game” plot forward.

As Henry Miller once said, “Chaos is the score upon which reality is written” (“Chaos Quotes”). Miller seems to believe that no matter what actions we take, the world is destined to return to chaos. He seems to be right. Today’s world has been overrun by social issues such as hunger, segregation and depression. While government programs everywhere take action to prevent these issues, their efforts are futile. The truth is, to prevent these social issues, the world must kill the seed from which they grow. In Jeannette Walls’ book, The Glass Castle, she perfectly demonstrates how one social issue can become a source of many others. In the book, Jeannette’s father

"The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." Rainsford comes to seek vengeance from the general making a toy of him by attempting to cause insanity due to the loss of nerve. "I will not lose my nerve. I will not." is the type of mental toughness Rainsford shows during Zaroff's tortures. "The general sucked in his breath and smiled. "I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game."" The generals admit of defeat is not enough for Rainsford, thus Rainsford takes the situation to a brutal place and kills the General; "The general made one of his deepest bows. "I see," he said, "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds.

Despite having many differences the film remains faithful in capturing the novel and putting on film. While one may not get everything from the movie as from the book, the majority of it is there. So for die hard fans of the book there is no need for disappointment. All the main parts of the book are there, the characters, the plot, the setting

Towards the beginning of Kindred, when Rufus is a young boy, Rufus is very trusting of Dana, and in turn Dana is very willing to help and guide Rufus. At this point Rufus does not fully understand the concept of slavery, or black versus white. Rufus does see that black people are treated as below him, but he does not understand why nor does he take advantage of this, yet. Rufus simply sees Dana as a woman who dresses as a man who helps him when he is in desperate need of help. As a boy, Rufus is very trusting of Dana, as Dana is trusting of Rufus. As shown in, “Rufus grabbed my arm and held it, obviously trying not to cry. His voice was a husky whisper. ‘Don’t go Dana.’ I didn’t want to go. I liked the boy” (66). This quote takes place right

"When Roger came to the neck of land that joined the Castle Rock to the mainland he was not surprised to be challenged… 'Halt! Who goes there?'"

Brave New World Bernard Marx is an intelligent Alpha-Plus who was threated to be exiled to Iceland for acting out and threatening stability. As the book unfolds we learn more and more about the true rebellious and independent man. Bernard’s character in Brave New World reflects a person that is constantly going against the rest of society’s views and ideas and thriving for freedom and individuality. Following the earlier threat of being sent to Iceland in chapter 10, later in chapter 16, Bernard and his acquaintance, Helmholtz, are officially exiled to Falkland Islands by Mustapha Mond.

In John Gardner’s novel Grendel, he chooses to retell the story of Beowulf from the monster’s perspective in an attempt to destroy the prejudice that occurred during this time. Written in 1971, Grendel attempts to open people’s narrowed mindsets during the pinnacle of the Civil Rights Movement. The 1970s were marked by the struggle to improve upon racial reforms from the previous decades. However, racial prejudices were still rampant across the country. Since many whites refused to acknowledge black people’s dignity, Gardner wrote this novel to open people’s minds towards those perceived as inhumane.

Would you stop someone from achieving their dreams because you wanted to protect them? Sometimes you need to take risks and be brave, take a big leap into the world. In the novel The Wednesday Wars By: Gary D Schmidt, the Protagonist Holling Hoodhood Has an older sister, Heather. She is in high school and is going to be graduating soon and would like to go to college, although her father has denied her many times. I think that Mr. Hoodhood’s reasons for not wanting her to go to college are fairly reasonable. He does not want Heather to go to college because there are wars going on and people are dieing, I think Mr. Hoodhood just wants Heather to be safe, he also wants her to stay and work for him. I think that Mr.

In the book the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The advice that the Dad gives his children could get them in trouble.One quote that supports this is “Dad had always said that self-defense was a justifiable reason for shooting someone.” This quote is interesting to me because this is a girl that is barely eight years old and is being questioned by the police about neighbors hearing gunshots, and she said it was in self defense. But she didn’t need to shoot the gun at all, first off Billy was shooting them with a BB Gun, and three of them were safe undercover behind a table, and the fourth child made it upstairs, they could have waited for him to get tired of shooting or run out of BB’s. But the way their father brought them up, gave them the

         “The screw through Cinder’s ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle”(1). And that's my favorite quote from Cinder by Marissa Meyer. This science fiction book is a 5.8 level. I suggest this book to you if you like science fiction books but with a little twist on it.

All of the characters presented in the movie have a distinct personality, making the viewer engage deeply in the heart pumping action and drama.

The critics felt that the movie did not make a smooth enough transition from the novel, and felt that the overall content was too complicated. Richard Blake from America argued, "the complexity of the novel becomes simply confusion in the film" (1). Blake was also critical of the director, Jonathan Demme, and said, "[h]is use of sepia-tinted film stock and oblique camera angles calls attention to itself and distracts from the characters" (2). The article Beloved It's Not, from the Economist also responded negatively to the movie. The author states that "[t]he main problem is the film itself: most audiences are not eager to endure nearly three hours of a cerebral film with an original storyline featuring supernatural themes, murder, rape and slavery" (2). John Simon of the National Review also dislikes the complications of