This making the book more believable. William Golding presented numerous themes and basic ideas that give the reader something to think about. ... You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation. It's better to examine the consequences of a decision before you make it than to discover them afterward. ... Like Simon, he was only an innocent child, and he also dies as a fault of the monster (Beast). ...

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In one point in the book, Morrie is discussing with Mitch the importance of being prepared for death. As he puts it, "Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it." This aphorism states that nobody lives each day ready to die; nobody thinks deeply about preparation for his or her own death. ... According to Morrie, "When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently." ... Mitch Albom at the beginning of the book is worried about his status, money, the kind of car he drives, and everything else that is important in the materialistic world. ...

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"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... In the first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and fall in love. ... The book is crowded with observations on American social life in the l920's. ... Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could fee...

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For example, he finds her by the window, where she is quietly reading her book. ... She reacts to John throwing a library book at her head for no reason. ... This is very harsh considering he provoked her by throwing the book at her and John does not get punished for this. ... When Jane is in the red room, she learns that Mr Reed died here nine years previously. ... In chapter 9, Helen Burns dies. ...

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An intermittent presence in his life, died when Douglas was around 10 years old. ... When Hugh Auld forbade his wife's lessons, Douglass continued to learn from white children and others in the neighborhood.   Douglass tried to escape from slavery twice before he succeeded. ... His mother, her name was Harriet Bailey and she died when Douglass was only seven years old. ... Before she turned all cruel she thought Douglass the alphabet and some small words. ...

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Bless Me, Ultima At the beginning of the Book, The author associates Antonio's concern about the changes in his life to his culture. ... The author shows Antonio's feelings about change by depicting his nervousness about beginning school, separating from his mother, and his future. ... Ultima also tries to teach Antonio a larger moral lesson regarding salvation and damnation. ... Before, he was largely concerned with sin and punishment. ... It could also mean that they are dying because they have changed too much to settle seamlessly into their old lives. ...

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One of the best of the English writers was George Eliot, who wrote many great novels including the featured book Silas Marner. ... Before her mom's death, Mary started schooling at Miss Franklin's school of Coventry (George1). ... Robert Evans, proud of his daughter, bought her any book she wished and arranged for her to receive lessons in German and Italian (George 2). ... Before Mary died she left a masterful work in the form of the novel Silas Marner, a story about the isolation of a man who later finds happiness. ... An excellent show of both Irony and the second theme of...

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This is a gothic horror novel about a scientist named Dr. ... From the overall summary of the book's plot, it is clear that Frankenstein is an intelligent man, highly respected about the town and has developed a good reputation. ... We know, then, that Frankenstein is going to die - Shelley could have written this so that the reader feels pity for him. ... In this way of thinking, Frankenstein no longer appears to be the kind, benevolent man he was before - he shows a side that is cruel and merciless. ... I don't think this practical' aspect had ever occurred to him before, and...

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He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. ... Vonnegut's anti-war stance only adds to the difficulty, since (as a filmmaker acquaintance remarks to him) writing a book against war would prevent war as effectively as writing a book against glaciers would prevent their motion. ... He graduates high school and begins training as an optometrist before being drafted. ... In 1968, Billy survives a plane crash in Vermont, and, as he is recuperating, his wife dies accidentally. ... The day the letter is published, Billy is hard at work on his second l...

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The two of them start talking about Mr. ... Stephen tells him that he has nothing to say about it. ... While walking home, once again they start talking about Mr. ... Gradgrind tells her in a round about way that she is sorry that she was never taught the real lessons in life just science. She died only a short time later. ...

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Soon Celie's mother dies, leaving her to tend to the family. ... Later, on another occasion, Celie thinks she sees her daughter who was sold six years before. ... Unfortunately for Harpo, this is not an easy task: his wife is much bigger than he is and when he tries to hit her, she retaliates, teaching him the lesson of obedience. ... Soon Sofia confronts Celie about what she said. ... As before, this news doesn't bother Celie at all. ...

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The object of all war is victory and defensive attitude can never bring this about.' ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ... Most importantly, The British learnt a lesson...

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The object of all war is victory and defensive attitude can never bring this about.' ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ... Most importantly, The British learnt a lesson...

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The object of all war is victory and defensive attitude can never bring this about.' ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ...

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G who cared about me and my fellow students just like she cared about the students she had. ... G had never taught before. ... They were all so shocked to see that so many of the people and kids that they got at the museum all died and just the fact that they were so young. ... They kids were impacted so much by the book that they started fundraising for the women who hid her and her family to come and speak at the school to the kids. ... I think she would have been more successful with her students and her lesson plans and also could have focused on her life and marriage as well. ...

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On one level, this book can be read as a story about Charlie Marlow's (the novel's protagonist) journey to discover his inner self, or as a commentary on human identity in general. ... Before the start of his voyage, Marlow is an ordinary English sailor, an Englishman through and through. ... (p 24) Marlow is horrified by the sight of a curled up man dying at his feet. ... He appears to be the only white person who is affected by the scene of men and women dying in the streets and in the grove of death. ... The more he learns about this man, the more intrigued he becomes. ...

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As British perceptions of the Irish during the 1840's was one of inferiority, they believed that forcing the Irish to fend for themselves in time of dearth appeared a useful and necessary moral lesson for a people with such potential for improvement. ... Palladius died soon after. 432 AD Arrival of St. ... Patrick dies, after having achieved his dream of introducing 550AD Onwards Both Roman Civilisation and the Christian Church to Ireland. ... He became a priest and became first Abbot of a church at Derry. 561 Battle of Culdremna. 563 Columcille sails to Iona, where he Christianised...

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This was his first working experience in life, which was good because it also taught him lessons about life (384). ... Then in 1920 she died from her complications with the disease. ... After extensive travels he died in 1930 in a sanatorium in Vence, France. Ever since his great love for writing had expanded he never stopped writing, even in months before his death (Slade 71). ... From the very beginning of the book you can tell that the relationship between Mr. ...

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Larson talks about the history of hurricanes, and also gives us a meteorological lesson on how hurricanes form. ... There was not a sail to catch the hurricane-force winds and toss the ship about. ... Five men died instantly, and five others were badly hurt. A waiter was dispatched to find a doctor, however he drowned before he was able to. ... The highest wind speed the station's anemometer picked up was 100 miles per hour, before it blew away. ...

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Regarded by many as one of the greatest American writers of all time, Vonnegut has created a truly delightful yet deeply sinister book. ... Although regarded by many as Thompson's opus, the author himself describes the book as a "failed experiment in "Gonzo Journalism". ... It is also similar to Breakfast of Champions tone and Closing Time's surrealism near the book's end, as Thompson's book is littered with fantastical set-pieces - this infusion of fiction and non-fiction helped convey the drug-addled mindset of its author. ... Despite being markedly different in style...

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I started dancing school, swimming lessons and did occasional modeling. ... When i was about six my dad met Lisa. ... I rememeber she begn to walk over to the car and yelled at my dad for cancelling a date they were supposed to go out on the night before. ... My papa died of a massive heat attack while eating breakfast at some restraunt. ... They day he died i rememeber running into my dads room asking to talk to papa on the phone. my dad looked at me, his face was beat red, for the first time i saw tears streaming down his face. ...

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Leyden, about 50 kilometres from Amsterdam, on the 15th of July 1606. ... Rembrandt portrays this understanding in some of his earliest paintings when he depicts Jesus teaching the prophets in the temple and in the drawing of a family group seated around a book on a candlelit table. ...

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African peoples have long relied on oral histories to learn about their past. ... There appears early, too, a strain of religious interest in showing the lessons of history, religious and ethical. ... In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... This German school made history wri...

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At the beginning of the book the reader sees him through the eyes of a young writer, the narrator of the novel: a very dull, quiet man, not in the least interested in literature or the arts(34), a typical broker. ... He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker, but there was no reason to waste one's time over him. (39) It was an average family in the middle class - a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him. (41) The rest of the book shows how wrong the narrator's first impression ...

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A book can be the window to a whole new world. ... Books help people to understand something they have never understood before. ... Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... It would take the arrival of her children, or rumors about town to finally bring them to the reality that the lovely young woman they hired was black. ... He began to pay more attention to the way the people in Michigan spoke to him and about him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School