Barbra Kingsolver wrote the book The Bean Trees and uses many symbols for life. She not only uses symbols throughout her book, but also throughout each chapter. ... Many symbols are also used in this book also for death. ... The repetitions of a few symbols become pertinent after reading this chapter. The most frequently symbolized circumstance that Barbra Kingsolver uses in this chapter, as well as throughout the entire book, is life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book seemed to be written backwards because the last chapter, "The Lives of the Dead," is where O'Brien decided to talk about his first experience with death. In this chapter he talks about the true love he had for this girl named Linda, and after their first date he tells us how she was sick and passed away from a brain tumor. ... In the book, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien tells how he deals with death starting from the events of the war and going to his childhood in the last chapter. The book shows the readers the method of handling death, the way jokes are u...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak is a powerful novel following the life of Liesel Meminger during the harrowing years of Hitler's reign over Germany. The Book Thief portrays many heart wrenching themes, reinforced through strong symbols such as color, Hans' accordion, and books. ... The symbolism of color in The Book Thief was evident throughout the entire novel. ... Death states "Summer came for the book thief, everything was going nicely. ... By the final chapters of the novel we observe Liesel as a mature empowered young woman. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Loren Eiseley wrote about this back in the mid 1900's when he wrote the book, The Immense Journey. In this book he takes us throughout time and imagination to bring us a sense of evolution and of the human Mind. ... In the next three chapters the human past is examined from a scientific viewpoint. ... At the end of the chapter he recalls a story when he is detained by peon soldier. ... Throughout this book Eiseley gives the reader his takes on events in his life dealing with the evolution of mankind. ...

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The book starts off talking about the death of Kurt Cobain, which creates the perception that the book is going to focus quite a bit on Cobain's death and try to provide some explanation and theories into why he decided to take his own life at such an early age. ... After the first chapter on Cobain's death, the biography has a fairly chronological birth to death structure. The second chapter starts off talking about the birth of Kurt Cobain in Hoquiam; a small logging town 110 miles southwest of Seattle. ... Anecdotal recounts throughout the whole book provide an informative story a...

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What I learned from this chapter is that a person doesn't go through their whole life putting their values in the wrong things and then when you get older realize that they where wrong and should have put their values in something else. ... I really feel that young adults can learn a lot about themselves from this chapter also. ... This book really is an excellent book and although I only wrote about how it can benefit young adults I really feel that it is a book for all age groups. Everyone can learn from this book and I would highly recommend this book for everyone to read. ... I really...

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The next major accomplishment of the brothers was a portfolio of sixteen watercolors inspired by Kipling's "The Jungle Book." ... In Edward's next book his illustrations are what defined him to publishers and their clients alike. These were the 1909 works titled "The Fables of Aesop," which he produced 23 color plates and several pen and ink chapter headings. ... In 1911 alone he put out "The Live of the Bee", "Birds and Beasts" and "The Book of Baby Beasts." In 1912 came "Book of Baby Birds" and "Hours of Gladness" (published in America as "News of Spring"). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The majority of the book is written from the first person point of view, although there are a few chapters where the narrator is in the 3rd person. ... One of the main themes of this book is water. ... The drowning death of Henry Junior is one of the most vivid in the book. ... Love Medicine is a very powerful book. ... The book also shows the endurance of human nature. ...

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"Animal Dreams" is a novel rich in symbolism. There were symbols relating to Grace"s past, Codi's relationship with Hallie, and life. The references to bones in "Animal Dreams" were also symbols. The bones symbolize memory and death. For example, the "skeletons of cows" (7) in chapter two symbolize ...

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What interested me the most about Jack London was his book "The Call of the Wild." In the first chapter he plays a trick on me that so many authors of stories I have read recently seem to be doing. ... This essay will take a look at this "trickery" found in chapter one of "The Call of the Wild." ... The first sentence of the chapter, "Buck did not read the newspapers," is misleading. ...

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In part two of the book "The Depth of Sadness" Mark is becoming more comfortable with his surroundings. ... The main idea o this chapter is people working together and helping others when in need. Overall this is a good book because it teaches you about other cultures and that there are other ways of living and what other cultures are like. This is also a really good book because it teaches you that your life isn't always as bad as it seems. ... In conclusion this book teaches you about your life and the life around you. ...

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In the video "Science and the book of Genesis" it is discussed that there is in fact NOT a conflict between science and genesis. ... The book of genesis was never intended to be a factual story. ... As pointed out in the video science and the book of genesis it seems as though the book of genesis is written to avoid doing the work of science. ... In the video science and the book of genesis on of the men said that it was like only hearing a small piece of Beethoven's 5th symphony. ... The bible is not a science book or a history book. ...

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The book was very realistic. ... In the first chapter, Hannah told her listeners that she had two rules, to listen and to pass the tapes to the next person. ... The book taps into almost every aspect of teenage life. ... So while reading the book, I saw myself in Clay. ... This book teaches the readers that what you say and do, matters. ...

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The book is full of lessons. ... From this moment, Mitch begins a new chapter of his life?... I learned many lessons of life while reading this book. ... I'm sure that this book will stay with me the rest of my life. I recommend this book for everyone to read especially young adults. ...

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Page 33 Victor says this in Chapter 3 as he is explaining to Walton how his chemistry professor, M. ... Shelley details this theme in her book, making an allusion to the counter- humanist idea in chapter four when Victor warns Walton not to follow in his footsteps, saying, "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." ...

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The case study related in this chapter used not only the pastor, but also the family, the laity, and the liturgy of the funeral in dealing with the bereaved. ... I found this book to be informative and insightful. ...

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In Chapter 17, Black Elk tells about how there " power is not in us [them] anymore." ... The book challenges us to open our eyes, and our ears. ... A quote on the back cover states plainly that this book has become "a North American Bible of all tribes." ...

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Throughout the book Damned, Madison Spencer's character develops from a know-it-all, a hopeful person, to truly finding who she really is with the help of her new friends in the afterlife. In the beginning of the book, Madison already comes off as a know-it-all. ... And once every other chapter she repeatedly says how although she may be dead, she is not stupid. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact that I have read about in books. ... Finally, there is some special information to be gained from looking at sickness as a series of chapters in the ongoing narrative of a life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. ... Summer, being the last chapter in the book, should bring a feeling of relaxation and new life but hatred and self destruction through the "new" eyes of Pecola begs to differ. ...

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The pressure to excel is also enormous, and on the first day of the new school year the senior class is informed by their science teacher, "The first twenty questions at the end of chapter one are due tomorrow." ... When they find an old school book, they are curious to find out what their English teacher Mr Keating's involvement was with a particular society, entitled the Dead Poets Society. ... As the opening of the official Dead Poets Society book says "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!" ... Ripping ou...

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Victor makes the most "memorable" decision in the first chapter of the book by choosing his "future destiny" (pg.63) in leaving his loving family in Geneva to go study alchemy, natural philosophy and rudimentary physics. ...

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• Grade Level: High School