Doctorow

Aftab Dhaliwal January 4, 2016 English 11: Mrs.Monahan Little Brother Approach Paper Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is the novel about Marcus, also known as W1n5t0n, and his group of four friends who skip school to play an internet based game that is a scavenger hunt. While the group of teens are looking for the next clue, a terrible terrorist attack occurs at the Bay Bridge in the exact same city causing a magnificent amount of terror, which leads to people running around trying to get back home

these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness’”(Doctorow

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Irony is used in many stories, and it has the intent to ridicule, and at times it is used for the central plot of the story. There are many different uses of irony. In Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” Sykes brings a snake to Delia, but the same snake finishes him. According to author Paul Auster "Irony is a powerful tool for writers to illuminate the absurdities of life and human nature". The main character is Delia, and she is married to an abusive husband. One day, he pulls a prank on her by

“The Book of Daniel” written by E.L Doctorow uses Daniels respective experience to capture a radical time in history. Daniel writes from personal experiences as a child living in the 1950s to an adult. Living through this time period, and having a strong connection to the issues surrounding this time, one would have the expectations that Daniel has strong emotional opinions as to his communist party parents. Throughout Daniels narrative, there are many voices, but in passages throughout the beginning

by Zora Neale Hurston 31) The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 32) All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren 33) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 34) Native Son by Richard Wright 35) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 36) Ragtime by E.L Doctorow 37) The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles 38) The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Bailey Hayes 21 September 2015 AP English Journal A 1.) John Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck has a very entertaining hook. The first paragraph had a really engaging tone, I could easily image the setting. I definitely wanted to keep reading. Right off the bat, I could tell the subject of the book would be about the two men traveling to find work during a tough time. They are going through the hardships of eating one can of beans for dinner, trying to get along with

of their current situation that they think that is all there is in the world. This is evidenced by the main character Andrew and his self-loathing, bitter attitude as well as his extreme lack of vulnerability. In the novel Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow, the author uses shifting narration, large vocabulary, complex thoughts from Andrew, and shortening chapters to give the reader a taste of the main character’s insanity. Throughout the novel, Andrew is talking to a shrink he refers to as Doc and

way Marcus did in this quote “[t]he sobs that came then didn't sound like my voice. They sounded like an animal noise, maybe a donkey or some kind of big cat noise in the night. I sobbed so my throat burned and ached with it, so my chest heaved.” (Doctorow 91) All of Marcus’s friends were giving up on him and he was just about to go crazy. That is, until a man on the Street names Zeb passed him a note from Darryl.

The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle and “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden” by E.L. Doctorow are similar in some ways and different in others. Tortilla Curtain is a novel that shows how an illegal immigrant named Candido lives and struggles in America. While living there he went through many difficulties. The circumstances were having multiple jobs but still being poor, which lead to him not having a decent home to live in his wife, Ameríca, instead having to live in a campsite. Also, Candido was injured