maintaining his audience's attention throughout the entire story of Feet in Smoke. He does this by leaving the readers with questions and causing them to want to continue reading for answers. It was a suspenseful story, and I personally think that it was written very well because it did a great job of maintaining my interest due to curiosity. Although, it wasn’t just the curiosity and suspense that kept me reading, it was the way it was written as well. Throughout Sullivan's writing, he gets his audience
Emma Watson, the most notable Hermione Granger in Harry Potter films, is now 27 years old. When this film franchise was launched, Watson was a little girl of only 11 years old and performed in eight films of the same role, while she also starred in other film projects. The actress was from those people who grew in focus on the media, and she was more than positive about it. Sixteen years after her appearance in a known franchise, and several other film projects behind her, Watson is not perceived
War is a terrible thing and kills many people physically for some sort of power or will. Some return from war with their bodies though and are suffering mentally with what was known at the time as “shell shock”. This is the case in the story “Soldier’s Home” where a young man Krebs Krebs comes home from war destroyed, mentally. We are faced with a character who is suffering from “shell shock” and has returned home from war seeing traumatic war experiences. Although he is lucky that he was not a physical
The book Black Like Me was based on a man named John Howard Griffin. The time setting was in the 1950’s, when segregation was still at its high point. Griffin sparked a brilliant idea even when he knew his life would drastically change. He gave readers a first hand account of what black life during a time of racism entailed, and how better to experience the life of racism than to become someone who would know. Black Like Me is a book full of events. Griffin—a white man and a writer—had a seemingly
controversy all over the Internet. Mockingbird is a piece of literature that English teachers just can’t get enough of, but it’s sequel, Watchman, is a book that readers refuse to read and teachers refuse to teach. So much has changed from the last time we visited the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout, the eternal 10-year-old and narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird, is now 26 years old, living in New York, and prefers to be called her formal name, Jean Louise. Her older brother, Jem, is now dead
quick high from a cigarette and reading the Sun-Times were the only things that made my mornings worth living. Sports, politics, international and local news, and even the comics, I would read that paper front to back. There was only one section I wouldn't consider worth my time, the adds. I don’t know if it was the buzz from the cigarette or a morning daze, but something was drawing me to the personal adds that day. Looking at all these lonely souls and reading there hopes for companionship intrigued
Imagine if your parents had the option to unwind you. You would be taken away by the cops and put into a camp where you would live until your unwinding date came up. Once it was your time to be unwound, the doctors would take apart your body, piece by piece, while you are still alive, although unable to feel anything. Laying on the operating table, you slowly know your life is being taken away from you. After your unwinding, you are grafted onto other individuals where you live your life in a divided
showed the worth and influence of the individual. For instance, Petrarch’s writings concerned his own worth, and how he was important. Petrarch also goes into living the life of solitude, or vita contempletiva. He believed that he should sacrifice his life with people so he could focus mainly on his writings rather than the world around him. Petrarch had confidence that this would help him to create superior writings, so that he could provide the best to his readers. Petrarch’s readings elevated the
and his crew was altered after reading this chapter. Not only was he and his crew inhuman to the Native Americans, but he was also far from the first to reach the new world. There were dozens of groups of people to come to the Americas before him including Afro – Phoenicians and the Chinese; yet we still celebrate his voyage. We do this because we were taught at a young age that Columbus was a great man who worked hard to accomplish his goals, and it is hard to refute what we were taught when we were
couldn’t just die. That’s how Will, the main character, felt as he saw his mentor, the great Ranger Halt, nearly perish in the book, Halt’s Peril, by John Flanagan. It’s an amazing novel full of action, adventure and suspense, which makes it an exciting read. Read this book for those action-packed scenes, its relatable characters or maybe just its suspenseful plotline. First of all, the action-packed scenes make the book well worth the read. For instance, the scene in which Halt and Will attempt to