Summary Of The Goblin King By Shona Husk

The Princess and the Goblin is a story about self-realisation and the expansion of limits. The princess, Irene, is able to come to certain conclusions about herself with the help of her grandmother, who lives in the attic upstairs in the palace. The grandmother guides Irene through her rite of passage into adulthood, and helps to bring the princess and Curdie together in the end. However, the reader never really knows whether the grandmother even exists, and it is this uncertainty that causes the reader to question whether she is a personification of a force within Irene that is driving her to achieve all that she does. There are many elements of fairy tales that exist within the grandmother's

There is such kind of monsters, remain their appearance as a human, yet the things they do can only describe as monstrosities. They are not monsters in books and literature, a fear of unknown or sexual desires. People were, or still are facing actual brutal violence or psychological terror from those monsters. More importantly, the monster being talked here is one of our kind. They are human, yet described as “inhuman”, under the inhuman category of Stephen T. Asma’s book On Monsters, a bloody history, a dark past of humanity have been introduced as a monster. It is Khmer Rouge’s infamous security prison S21: the representation of the massacre took place in Cambodia in 20th century and this kind of monster, unfortunately, is still relevant to the world, even till this day.

How would you feel to be put on trial for a crime you did not commit? In the book, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, this is the case for a sixteen-year-old Harlem boy named Steve Harmon. Steve is on trial for felony murder because he has been accused of being involved in being the lookout for a robbery that took place on December 22nd in an uptown convenience store that resulted in the shooting of Alguinaldo Nesbitt, the convenience store clerk. Steve Harmon is innocent for the reasoning’s of he does not know who Richard Evans is, the convenience store was not empty, and there was no signal.

The social sciences, the study of human in society and the relationships between humans, connect with how humans interact with each other. Especially how they treat each other after problematic issues, like when their goodness is at stake impacts human behavior. Thus, leading to the expression “throwing someone under the bus” and causing distress to both parties of this situation. The first example is a classic Christmas film, Elf. The second example is an episode from a popular TV show, Gossip Girl, based on a novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar. During these difficult circumstances of throwing someone under the bus, someone will always be hurt in the process, whether it is physical or emotional.

Mopping unsanitary floors on hands and knees but looking out the window seeing joy-filled kids. Behind cold steel bars in a lonely cage, however able to relate to other prisoners who have faith for the future. The Monster masterpiece by Walter Dean Myers puts Steve Harmon—a sixteen year old black kid in jail—on the hot seat for the crime of robbery and felony murder of an innocent man named Mr. Nesbitt. On trial are two men--Steve Harmon and James King—that not only have a chance to be given a minimum sentence of 21 years and 3 months but a maximum sentence of life in jail. While being called a Monster by the prosecutor, Mrs. Petrocelli. this dark time for Harmon results in having no true place to escape where only doubt runs through his mind. However, the progression that Harmon makes, not only in jail but during the trial with his defense attorney, Miss O’Brien, allows us to understand that during many situations, doubt and hope intertwine.

Rowling. The main character Harry Potter, discovers that he not an ordinary boy, he is in

Reality sometimes appears like it is a fulfillment of a dream. In Monster by Dean Myers, various characters portray the theme of Dream and reality. The story demonstrates what is like to be in a courtroom, jail and various struggles one family faces due to the action of judicial system. Dean Myers demonstrates more realistic picture of what it means to be in jail. Sometimes to be behind bars it is to be far from being in a state of freedom. We see the dream and reality through Steve Harmon, who is the main character, who is involved in robbery of drug store but not in the actual killing of the owner of the store. He faces a possible life imprisonment for his participation in the crime, on the other hand two of the robbers possibly face a death

In “The Monster” by Walter Dean Myers, there are many things in prison that most affects Steve Harmon which can cause him to change. First, within the prison, is said that all they talk about is drugs and sex. This is important because it affects Steve because he has nothing to do with that and now knows what it is like which could change him to be like that. Also, in that terrible place they call jail there are many fights that occur in it. For example, Steve Harmon mentions in the story that someone was hit in the face with a tray during breakfast. This shows that Steve hates fights and does not want to be in any. This affects him because of he in jail with a bunch of grown men which start the fights. Finally, prison is a place where Steve

The story of Parvana- a young afghan girl who disguises herself as a boy to help and support her family. In 2002 Deborah published the sequel, ‘Parvana’s Journey’.

A Synopsis This is a summary of The Great Questions of Life, Chapter 5 Getting the Horrors by Don Cupitt. In this chapter, one of the principle focuses that the author discusses is the manner by which in Christian and post-Christian culture, individuals keep on associating religious convictions with convictions that conjure a higher and all the more capable extraordinary world. The author feels that individuals are trapped in a war with themselves amongst good and evil. He thinks that everyone must take a gander at the master plan and live life to its fullest.

The Different Kinds Of Monsters by Seth Chambers follows the hunt for an Allosaurus fragilis out on a vindictive blood-lust for the Armitage family, after two of the members of the family, who helped unearth her bones, die protecting her, spilling blood on her dug up bones and waking her up from her eternal sleep. Along the way to the dinosaur being finally put down to rest again, different kinds of monsters are revealed. From child molesters to troubled, hot-headed, absent fathers to pedophile teachers and wife beaters. The book follows two narratives; one of Dylan Armitage, a descendant of the men who once dug up the ancient bones and died protecting it and the other of Emily, an Allosaurus in the late Jurassic period, first to hatch and

Within the story The Witch and Wizard the two main characters who are brother and sister, find out through tragic events that they both posses magical powers, but don’t know how to use them or how exactly they function. At the beginning of the story their home was raided by an anti-witch and wizard squad, and they were taken to prison. Prior to being taken away they are granted to take one belonging with them, so their parents quickly walked around the house and the mother had given Wisty (The witch/sister) a drumstick. Soon after the father gave Whit (The wizard/brother) a book with blank pages. Little did they know that the drumstick was a witch's wand but was disguised as a drumstick, and the book was actually a spell book, and a guide

She has five books in the Underland Chronicles series and also has The Hunger Games trilogy. The more popular series of the two, Hunger Games, has received many positive criticisms. As a result of these strong reviews, Collins’ reputation as a writer is marvelous. Her first series, the Underland Chronicles that has five books, gained positive reviews. In the first book, Gregor the Overlander, a Publishers Weekly critic noted that the author “does a grand job of world-building, with a fine economy of words--no unnecessary details bog down either the setting or the invigorating story”(Authors and Artists for Young Adults 7).

Eldest is the second book in a long series. The first book features a young farm boy, named Eragon. He finds a strange stone. Mysterious strangers show up in the town he lives in asking around about a stone like the one he found. The stone hatches into a dragon that quickly grows. THe strangers attack Eragon’s house while he is out and his cousin is working at his job. They kill Eragon’s uncle and destroy their home.

Victorian England was notorious for, along with top hats, its outdated “justice” system. Fraught with corruption, expired methods, and disorganization, the Victorian judiciary system was a severe flaw in the royal kingdom that was partially fed by the crime-fearing public and indifferent servants of the law. Growing up in an oppressive environment reminiscent of Victorian England’s own corrupt justice system, Pip’s journey from childhood to adulthood illustrates a gradual realization of the willful blindness of his fellow man to the injustice served to the convicted criminal, and indicates the cyclical nature of how poverty and fear feed the public consensus on crime. As explored by John H. Hagan Jr.’s article entitled “The Poor Labyrinth: The Theme of Social Injustice in Dickens's “Great Expectations”", in which Pip’s own life, as well as the lives of those around him illustrate how socioeconomic differences played a significant role in how individuals perceived the law and one another.