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advice is"Stay alive." Just before we went in the game arena. Haymitch stops Peeta and me. "Katniss remember who the enemy is." Then Cinna comes and says see you later maybe. Then I say, "my dress was fantastic last night."Then the door swings open, and two peacekeepers come in and arrested Cinna. The peacekeepers started to hit Cinna with metal-stubbed gloves. I'm screaming my head off; banging on the unyielding glass trying to reach him. The peacekeepers ignore be and dragged Cinna's limb body from the

In the small southern town of Macomb, there are different citizens and personalities that make it up. There are the Finches, Cunninghams, Ewells, Hecks and many others that add to the unpredictable town itself. They bring songs to the musical of Macomb County whether they’re light and positive or dark and dangerous. The main character and narrator Scout is all about not caring what others think, doing what she feels comfortable with, and unapologetically being herself. I think she would sing the

What Makes My Name Special? My name comes from a flower. Not a Rose, not a Lily, but an Alyssum. An Alyssum flower, like me, is small, cute and is usually used to complement other, bigger flowers. Like the Alyssum flower, I have always been in the background, never really stood out in a crowd of bigger, more vibrant, flowers and am only recognized when being commented on how small and cute it is. The Alyssum flowers name comes from Greek origins meaning “sanity” and was formally thought to cure

Marisa Silver’s collection, Babe in Paradise, transcribes a theme of loss located in Los Angeles. In the collection, every character copes with loss in various scenarios. What defines the term loss in Silver’s work? A central theme in Babe in Paradise inhibits losing a family member. However, many characters deal with loss in their version, which comprises of hope, pride, mental state, and reality. After loss, an individual’s personality can change either in a positive or negative forefront, this

In The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, a pair of raccoons, Bingo and J’miah, become the Official Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Appelt 3). Bingo and J’miah go on special missions to serve the Sugar Man, a creature that rules over the swamp, and heed to the “Voice of Intelligence” that comes from a junky old DeSoto car abandoned in the swamp (Appelt 3-4). One day, Bingo and J’miah hear a rumble in the swamp and figure out that it is a herd of wild hogs, who are trying to eat all

just as of late been characterized by researchers. Aphantasia: An existence without mental pictures Numerous individuals with it haven't the faintest idea that they are diverse to any other person. When we examined it on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 various audience members approached to let us know that we were depicting their experience of life; that they had aphantasia. Adam Zeman, a teacher of psychological and behavioral

her long white hair was carefully arranged as though she wanted to leave this world as beautiful and blameless as her life was. At the beginning of the story her character was introduced as a "sweet soul that lived in that body," who managed to raise two successful children alone by "arming them with a strict moral code, teaching them religion, without weakness, and duty, without compromise."

Total Opposites In the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, the author uses characters in the story that have very similar characteristics, except for one, "Uncle Billy." John Oakhurst is a big time gambler in Poker Flat. He took large sums of money from many people in town. The residents of Poker Flat were very upset with him always winning bets and all of their money. Out of all the people that are banned from Poker Flat, Oakhurst possesses the best qualities out of the group

In Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow, a girl from the Andes named Fausta has an odd disease contracted from her mother’s milk. Because her mother was raped and tortured during the Peruvian Civil War with Fausta in her womb, the mother’s milk is contaminated with the disease, according to the local people. This condition causes symptoms such as rarely leaving one’s home by will, avoiding men, rarely speaking, and walking close to the walls of houses for fear of having one’s soul stolen. In the film

A Relationship Left in the Cold “Let It Snow” by David Sedaris is a short story that magnifies the extent to which children might go in order to grab the attention of their parents. It is full imaginative details that would help the reader understand what it feels like to be a child. Sedaris starts with these imaginative details from the beginning of the story to the end and this keeps the interest of the reader. After the reader begins to read he/she might get the assumption that the story will