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    parents, to the personality, but they have the same kinds of friends. Ponyboy and Hollings parents are completely different. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy says to Randy that his parents were really nice but they died in a car accident. “My parents are dead. I live here with just Darry and Soda, my brothers” (Hinton, 140) He had good parents but they died and now he has Darry as a parent making sure he does well in school and about his health too. “ My father wasn’t there. I guess the Bing Crosby Christmas

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    relationship was a lie. My assumption was completely wrong. In this novel, Alix is the character that stands out the most. Alix goes through this long journey of emotion. She deals with love, loss, anger, and depression, all while realizing how many times her dead girlfriend lied to her. This novel definitely makes the teenage mind do a lot of thinking and that is exactly why I would recommend it. Lies My Girlfriend Told Me gives people a

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    Danny had just gotten shot and was bleeding badly. They were outnumbered and knew it, but they never gave up until they had died. “The three of us kept going, shooting them down, hoping and praying their number would lessen, that we had punched a hole in

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    The Shining as an Exceptional Horror Movie Stanley Kubrick a.k.a. "The Master Filmmaker," was born on July 26, 1928 in the Bronx, New York City. By age 13 he had developed passions for jazz, drumming, chess and photography. In 1951 at 23 years of age, Kubrick used his savings to finance his first film, a 16-minute documentary short about boxer Walter Cartier. On March 7th, 1999, Stanley Kubrick died in his sleep of a heart attack. He was 70 years old. The Shining

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    themselves from other groups and form their understanding and pride in who they are based on race, ethnicity, religion, language and culture. Throughout the books, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and American Born Chinese, and the movie Dead Poet Society characters distinguish themselves from their groups in order to find their real identity. As the road to find their identity continued, the characters felt ashamed and were indecisive, but in the end it was worth it. In the comic, American

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    Carter), a young woman who was murdered on her wedding day for her parent 's money. Victor’s adventures in the land of the dead tear him between his new wife and his intended bride, while teaching him more about himself and those around him. Throughout the film, the elegantly lifelike clay figures portray the lifelessness of the living juxtaposed with the liveliness of the dead in Victorian Europe. The motion picture starts with a close up shot of a desk and hands that open up an empty book. The screen

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    It's watchin' us" Ralphie whispered. "Listen, I'm not gonna-" "No, Danny. Really. Can't you feel it?" Danny stopped. And in the way of children, he did feel something and knew they were no longer alone. A great hush had fallen over the woods; but it was a malefic hush. Shadows, urged by the wind, twisted languorously around them. Salems lot As she reached the driver's door of the cab, which hung open with vines twisting in and out of its socket of a window, lightening flashed again, painting

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    in a shooting, leaving his eldest son, Derek, the head of the household. Derek becomes enveloped in Neo-Nazi culture from the end of his adolescent years into early adulthood, and he becomes the leader of a gang. At this point, his younger brother, Danny, is an adolescent and begins mimicking his older brother’s behavior. But the turning point of the movie is when Derek is convicted for murdering a black man and serves three years in prison. This film is primarily an example of moral growth, ontological

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    and family. Estevan tells Taylor, “Three members Had just been killed, including Esperanza’s brother, but seventeen were still alive. She and I knew every one of those seventeen, by name. Can you understand that this made us more useful alive than dead? For us to go after Ismene us what they wanted,” (Kingsolver, ch. 9). Estevan and Esperanza are faced with the choice to go after their daughter and risk all the lives of them and the people they know that the gangs want, or to leave and hide to save

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    “Hey! Stop it, get away” little Danny bellowed as he was getting picked on by Billy the big bad bully. “Let me just eat my lunch in peace.” “What’s the matter? Are you going to go cry to your mommy for help?” Billy teased the little kid. Billy was a troubled kid who always seemed to enjoy bringing his own frustrations and problems out on others, mostly that were smaller than him. At home, Billy didn 't have the support from his parents as some others might have. Some seem to think this is why he

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