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    protagonist’s emotions and the way he views the world around him, Joyce uses color. The use and absence of color in the story helps the reader identify what the boy finds important in his life. This is done by using dark and sombre as adjectives and also not using color. Except, when Mangan’s sister (protagonist’s crush) is being described in the story. This when Joyce decides to use abundance of color to help create a contrast between the girl and the rest of the world. The author throughout the story persists

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    When a person is born into the world, it is not only they are assigned a sex that then they are given the characteristics that a human I supposed to possess. It is just after birth that a person is given a binary gender classification. Although there are many people that agree with the binary system classification, there are some people born into this world not pertaining to only one gender. When somebody is

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    through the violence in the world. None of the characters have names, They go by the man, the boy, and the bad. It is a father and son traveling alone to the coast. They do not know where they are going but are hopeful to reach a warm climate as the earth slowly gets colder and colder. They have to fight to stay alive as bad from the bad, who try to steal their things and kill them. The man fights to stay alive for the boy, the love for the boy keeps the man alive. The boy fights to keep the love

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    written by Nicola Yoon. The story is about a teenage girl that is allergic to everything. She soon meets a boy next door and they fall in love. There are many main topics in this novel such as sickness, love, and isolation. Madeline’s sickness is a big part of her life. Madeline has not been out of the house in seventeen years due to her sickness. For example. “Basically, I’m allergic to the world. Anything can trigger a bout of sickness” (pg.3)” Madeline could not go outside or she would die. Her

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    shoulders, and timid 14-year-old boy who lacks social skills. This is a story about a geeky kid who finds his way through the places and people he encounters. Although the film “The Way Way Back” contains stereotypes of a “boy meets girl” plot, it captures a teenage boy trying to find friendship and a place where he belongs. Each character’s performance plays an altering role in Duncan’s life along with the significance of the places where he reconnects to the world and himself. 14-year-old Duncan

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    author's take on a destroyed world where there are no true rules or laws anymore. There has been some kind of disaster, the nature of which is not clear throughout the book, and now a man and his boy are trying to survive in what is left. In this book the idea of justice is heavily considered. It can be seen through several scenes in the book, such as when they encounter a man in the forest, when they discover the people in the basement, when they find the bunker, when they meet Ely, when they reach the

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         Brave New World opens in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Center, where the Director of the Hatchery and Henry Foster are giving a tour to a group of boys. The boys learn about the Bokanovsky Process, which allows the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. During the gestation period the embryos travel in bottles along a conveyor belt through a large factory building, and are conditioned to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta

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    and David Levithan. The book is about two boys that are both named Will Grayson, who are living completely different lives. Later, their lives intertwine and suddenly they aren’t so different anymore. Through the book, they endure many hardships and discover things about themselves and the world that they didn’t know before, as the chapters alternate between their points of views. When the book begins, we learn about the first Will Grayson; a teenage boy with a best friend named Tiny Cooper, who

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    seconds to make an assumption about you? When you meet someone for the very first time, you'll round up your first impression based on their appearance. Now a day’s young girls are easily influenced by everything they see around them, which influences how they want to appear. One major influence is social media and television shows such as “Keeping up with the Kardashians” or “Love and Hip-Hop.” Some teenage girls, and a small percentage of teenage boys, assume that to be beautiful they need to look

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    My main focus of this story is the boy, whose name is Santiago. Santiago is the main character of the book, The Alchemist. He is the protagonist of this story and faces many challenges. This child was born in a small town in Andalusia, who attended the seminary, but now he travels around the world. Before he traveled around the world, he asked his father’s permission to become a Shepherd. His father agreed with him and gave him money. One night in an abandoned church, he dreamed of a child telling

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