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    Short Story Author: Evan Hunter Date Read: 21st February 2017 The last spin by Evan Hunter is a short story about Danny and Tigo from two opposing gangs that got into a bit of a rumble. Danny and Tigo are chosen from their gangs and forced to settle the bad blood by playing a very dangerous game of Russian roulette. Danny and Tigo commence the game hesitantly. Throughout the game, Danny and Tigo get talking and realise that each other are not that bad and actually become friends. The friendship then

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    the winter months in which it is closed. He hopes that the solitude that the hotel brings is exactly whats he needs to succeed. The hotel has a daunting and frightening past, as it has been a home to violence and other unthinkable acts. Jacks son Danny has a strange gift to see parts of the future, who is convinced the hotel isn't safe. By the end of the film Jack seems to

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    Tiffany Marie has a brother named Frank. He is in a gang of white supremacists, and they abuse anyone who is not white. Danny and Sang Le face discrimination from not only them, but from naive Americans and shopkeepers. When Sang Le is trying to get a job at Tilson’s Grocery Store, Mr. Tilson says, “‘I heard you were a Vietcong’” This is a great example of how Sang Le and Danny face discrimination, which makes it a struggle to find a job. Mr. Tilson assumes that Sang Le was apart of the brutal, communist

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    Stephen King has been a remarkable and honored author throughout the years. Stephen King is known for his genre focus, horror. His novels introduce innovative gruesome concepts that no one would ever imagine. The vast majority of his films demonstrate the horrific theme, murder. The inspired movie from The Shining novel, The Shining, directed by Stanely Kubrick, and Stand by me, inspired by The body, directed by Rob Reiner, and Children of the Corn directed by Fritz Kiersch meet the theme criteria

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    Therapy: A Short Story

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    Colorado for the fall break. Danny is a husband married to Susan for 17 years now and a father of three children; Mark, Louise, and Becca. Mark and Louise are 12 year old twins, and Becca is 16 years old. After the hotel disaster with Danny’s imaginary friend “Tony” and after Jack had gone crazy, Danny has been going to therapy for the past 35 years. Danny’s mother goes to therapy occasionally, but refuses to go most of the time saying that she doesn't need help. Danny suggests otherwise because of

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    Mystic River

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    suspected of murder. In this movie there are several key angles and stories that show parallel stories that all have that one similarity which is finding Katie’s killer. The first part is showing Danny’s story. In this section you learn more about Danny and his family and how he was actually abducted and what that did to him to gain the role of the “potential suspect.” During this whole time everyone pins this murder on this innocent person who just wants to be left alone and to “hide” from his actual

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    Mexican White Boy Quotes

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    Danny and Uno got off on the wrong foot in the beginning when they first met, but they took a liking to each other. During the Derby, before Danny met Uno in the first place, Danny accidentally hit a close friend with the baseball bat they were playing with. The author of Mexican White Boy is Matt De La Pena. Danny and Uno meet each other in an unlucky turn of events. Little did they know though, it would spark their friendship throughout the book, and even outside of the book. They had very similar

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    Danny Hucker

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    Danny Hupfer is a bold, jittery, thoughtful, and coarse type of person, and he’s also an hot-headed, loud person and shows even more traits later in the book. However he learns how and why he needs to help others, to let himself be heard, to keep going, and to stand up to and for others. At the beginning of the book danny is shown to be a loud, rude person. Like during the soccer game, when Danny kept roaring at holling to get in front of doug swieteck’s brother “Danny screamed again “IN FRONT!”

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    2067 Alternate Ending

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    2067 It was Saturday, April 22nd, when Danny McArthur and his friend Brandon’s lives would change forever. Or so they thought. Brandon had come over to Danny’s house the previous day. It was a normal day and they had a good time like usual. They went to bed at around midnight in Danny’s room, and before they knew it their lives would be completely different. They woke to the sound of books soaring through Danny’s room, windows rattling, bed trembling and many bright lights. “What is happening

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    I don’t know how I will get back to the hotel. I’m biking with Danny to go explore downtown. Me, Danny, and my mom and dad all headed to Los Angeles for a basketball tournament. Danny is my best friend that I’ve know since we were babys.My mom and dad didn’t like the idea of exploring but what's the worst that could happen...Right? We came upon an old abandoned car garage. “Ben don’t you think we should turn back?” Danny asks “Why? This is so cool!”. The car garage felt peaceful yet threatening

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