The Boxcar Children

Harry Potter, Junie B. Jones, Narnia, Lemony Snicket, Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, Goosebumps, Magic Tree House, and the Boxcar Children: Popular book series that most kids get into. I never did. Ever since school required mandatory reading, I perceived books as hassles. School effectively turned me off of reading for pleasure. Going into middle school, where students have regular book reports and summer reading, I faced a challenge. To make it by I had to learn to live with books, as they played

Throughout my elementary school years, story time, which would take place right after recess, was almost as exciting for me as recess itself. Our teacher would select a book, or sometimes a series, that they felt we would all enjoy. The most prominent memory of these times comes from the end of fifth grade. Mrs. Donley, my fifth grade teacher, loved story time as much, if not more than her students did, and her room reflected that. She had her reading chair set up in the back of the room, right

Is wearing a silver locket with the prayer engraved outside of it. As mentioned before, one of the symptoms that individuals often experience, is nightmares when sleeping. We know Billy Pilgrim is having a nightmare when he falls as sleep in the boxcar that is taking him to Germany because prisoners don’t want to sleep next to him due to that he is often kicking and whimpering, which is also what individuals with this disorder do. But in reality Billy is just trying to fall as sleep but keeps on

an airtight slaughterhouse. When the war was over, Vonnegut married Jane Cox and had three children: Mark, Edith, and Nanette. In 1952, his first novel, Player Piano, was published. A few years after his first major publication, Vonnegut’s sister Alice Adams died of cancer. Him and his wife then took in Alice’s three children. Approximately 12 years after the Vonnegut family took the children in, his famous Dresden novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, was published. So it goes. This is the common phrase

reading was a part of my daily and nightly routine. Without even knowing it, my mom was embedding a love for literature deep in my soul. A desire to learn is not the output from going to school at an early age, but by influences from home life. Children pick up on even the subtlest, minute mannerisms the adults around them carry. I consider myself lucky knowing this fact, for I was a constant witness of my mom reading, writing in a journal, and motivating my brothers to do their schoolwork. Whether

The Holocaust and the Cultivation of Bigotry and Hate      In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe was about 9.5 million people. The number represented more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population at that time, estimated at 15.3 million. So how could two out of every three European Jews be dead by the end of World War 2? The answer to this question lies in the hands of Adolph Hitler. Adolph Hitler has helped destroy the lives of millions of families around the world, but how was he

and live. In the book to the movie there are many differences like in the book there is Hannah or known as chaya’s uncle Shmuel and aunt gitl from when she went back in the time of the Holocaust and there is a butcher named Yitzhak.Also, he has two children in the movie none of those characters are there like in the movie there is a new character named Ariel in the book there is no character like him and she has no interactions at all with him or any character like

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” (E.L. Doctorow). Writing is a skill that anyone can become good at. Our creativity and imagination is used with our vocabulary to create a story which we completely control. Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Mystery, Thriller and Romance; They all begin the same way, with a few words on a piece of paper and an active mind. Writing is an evolutionary process. The experience we gain changes the way we write over time; basic and fragmented

Eating and drinking is not only a necessity, but also a pleasure. Humans have known and experienced this since the beginning of man. Food plays a very important part in everybody’s daily life. However, the role of food in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath vary immensely. The complexity and need for sustenance differ between the books, but both reflect the events, viewpoints, and attitudes of the time periods they are set in. The complexity

9 Honors 15 December, 2017 Research Paper Draft Billy Pilgrim is Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut always wanted to be a write and in high school he was the Tuesday editor of the paper. After he graduated high school, he attended Cornell University, in New York. When it came to his family life, he was not so fortunate or lucky. His mother overdosed and killed herself on Mother’s Day, his brother-in-law died in an accident, and his sister died of cancer. Vonnegut enlisted and went into the Army for