Book Report 1 - I Was Here Gayle Forman, author of I Was Here, is a famous young adult writer. As a result of “boredom, poverty, and escapism” Forman started writing novels at thirty four years old, but Before her novel writing, she was a journalist writing for Seventeen magazine (Forman). Not only have many of her books been nominated for different awards, her most popular book, If I Stay, has been turned into a movie.. Forman’s writing skills are evident through many of her successful, engaging
9 20 March 2015 The Book Thief Summer Book Report 3. What are the best parts of this book? Why? What are the worst parts of this book? Why? Give details with page numbers from the book to explain. I think the best parts of the book are where you see Liesel grow and understand the difficult times that she lives in with her limited knowledge of life. Something I really enjoyed this book was the characterization and background of the characters. One of the best parts of the book is when we see the first
This book is different than other books of the similar topics. Normally, when the topic of a book is about “technology” or “internet”, it is difficult for the book to be written in a fun way because let’s face it; this topic itself is a little tedious. However, this book showed us a brand new way of talking about Internet and the influence it has brought to our life. The way the author quoted the researchers’ sentences and theories helped us to feel more willing to continue reading this book. We used
It is a fool-proof system born to ensure absolute safety…but when it crumbles, would you go against everything it stands for just to save it? This is the platform that Philip K. Dick, author of the sci-fi short story "The Minority Report" (MR), has given us. Set in a futuristic New York City, we see Police Commissioner John A. Anderton as the founder of a promising new branch of policing: Precrime, a system that uses "Precogs" (mutated and retarded oracles) to predict all future crimes. However,
different characteristics about the personality of the main character - Tanya Thompson. Using the knowledge of what her interests are, I have gathered five books I believe would appeal to her charming personality. Adrenaline by Jeff Abbott is a fiction story belonging to the Sam Capra Series. I believe my character, Tanya Thompson, would love this book because she is a complete adrenaline junky. From lying about her identity, to motorcycle rides with strangers, Tanya has done anything she possibly could
Fahrenheit 451 could not of had a better plot. Not only was the novel thrilling the entire time but taught us knowledge over ignorance. I think that Fahrenheit 451 was a great book. The plot of story is Guy Montag starts out as a average fireman who loves doing his job, which is burning books. He’s married and lives a normal lifestyle in an unspecified city in a society where reading is illegal, and being intellectual is frowned upon. That would be the exposition of the story. On his way home
The Arts are an important part of education. They allow students to express themselves and enriches their learning experience. By integrating the arts into everyday education it makes school a place students look forward to coming to. They can get excited about assignments and events that involve the arts. Not only is the integration of arts fun for students but also helps meet the needs of many learning styles. A sense of community is formed among students when arts integration is involved. This
then moves back to her grandmother’s. As a teenager Maya gets nervous about her sexual identity and tries to discover it. Through these harsh times, the naïve and softhearted Maya grows to become a strong, independent woman. A major theme in this book is about God. Seen in, “If there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakeable God.” (23) Maya’s grandma is a firm believer of God, and since Maya moves in with her, she forces Maya to go to church every Sunday
Dakota, and he has just received information regarding the amount of fallout protection his home would provide his family in the event of a nuclear attack. The Bureau of the Census provided the information as part of the Home Shelter Survey. The report was not what the man wanted to hear. The protection factor of the man’s basement was nowhere near the recommended minimum of forty. The man thought of how scared his wife was; he just wanted her to feel safe. The man wished he could be more like
We both sat in silence in that small diner. There was nothing to be said as the call that morning had confirmed our fears. Both me and Anderson were pilots, well technically he was a navigator even though he was much more skilled than I was. Us and two other pilots were hired to fly deeper into the Russian dead zone than anyone had gone before. Known as the “bone yard” for people like us, because of all of the hundreds of planes that had been scrapped because of either radiation jamming or some of