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#10 Name Kaila The Westing Game Chapter Summaries Chapters 1-2: Sunset Towers, which is on Lake Michigan, faces east (away from the sunset), is empty and ready to be populated. The building has great views, service, air conditioning, and is in a great neighborhood. The letters say there are only a few units left, and that the tenants should call right away. There's also space in the building for a doctor's office, coffee shop, and restaurant.
In “Abuela invents the zero” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Connie and her grandmother, Abuela, have many similarities and differences that make each person unique. In the story it says, “My mother and father paid for her way here so that she wouldn’t die without seeing snow, though if you asked me, and nobody has, the dirty slush in this city is not worth the price of a ticket”(Cofer 2). This shows that Abuela would like to see the snow before she dies. It also, shows that Constancia doesn’t think it’s worth coming to see. The text states, “It is January, two inches of snow on the ground, and she’s wearing a shawl over a thick black dress.
Since nobody knows exactly what is going on with Icy, she has to be there for a while so that the doctors can study her behavior. Icy has to miss Christmas at home with her family, and she falls into depression for a short period of time. Although, with the strength deep down inside of Icy, and the help from Icy’s friend new friend Maizy, she gets out of the hospital, assuming she is now ready to take on the world. She is still undiagnosed, but she has learned small tactics to help her cope with the spasms and jerks she
Ender’s Game is a 1985 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Key. Set in the future where an insectoid alien species, the Formics (or the buggers), have attacked Earth twice with devastating results for the human species, Andrew “Ender” Wiggins is humanity's last hope. A child prodigy and main character of Ender’s Game, Ender is sent to Battle School to learn how to fight and destroy the buggers. He is chosen because his characteristics are perfect to be a commander. Some traits that are very important in making Ender who he is are his calculating judgments, creativity, and compassion.
Being alone is often questioned by humans with you if you were; that why a common job interview question is "What three things you would bring to a deserted island? " It's because individuals do like not being alone and isolated. The irony, mood, and conflicts show how this is an overall theme of the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme. In this short story, where two individuals are in an underground bunker during the cold war. They are the men that when told launch the missile they would turn the key.
Conflict is prevalent in Game by Barry Lyga. The plot relies on multiple separate conflicts that were established in the first book finally being united in a concoction of trouble. The first book of the series, I Hunt Killers, lays out the scene and allows the readers to get to know the characters and serves as a baseline for the conflict that is now about to spike. Jasper Dent faces trouble from numerous angles, including from another character, from himself, and from society. Jasper, the protagonist of Game by Barry Lyga, faces a “character versus character” conflict with his sociopathic murderer of a father, Billy Dent.
The line, “In spite of endless glasses of water, her throat is parched,” is the first hyperbole of chapter 2. It conveys the great bounty that is available in America, yet it also foreshadows the fact that she feels unsatisfied and unfulfilled. “They sit in silence, the three of them as still as stones, “ conveys a circumspect mood. “Again he thinks of the night he was nearly killed, the memory of those hours that have forever marked him flickering and
I supposed you’re going to rush to market with a sensationalist story about ice-nine now. I tell you again, it does not exist!” “And the springs feeding…?” “They’d freeze, damn it!” he cried.
Hello Professor Clement after reading over the scenario again I feel that his death could have been caused by an accident because he could have been with some friends who were trespassing on the property and drinking. Therefore, given his age he could have been drunk and fell which may have caused him to hit his head. There is also the fact that he could have had a medical condition which no one knew about which could have caused him to have a sudden heart attack because a heart attack has no age of person. Furthermore, if the victim was not murdered and there was others with him but they were trespassing they would not want to get in trouble for being on someone else’s property without permission plus they could have been drinking and had
In this essay we are going to analyze one of the “side stories” from the poem Beowulf, the lament of the last survivor (Anonymous, 81). This small passage is an important incision in the main body of the poem, one last explanation to mythological facts and founding elements of the world the author opens in front of our eyes, and how they shape its environment. With an incursion into a declamation by an unknown person until that moment, but who, with his last actions is defining the fate of our hero, Beowulf. The passage has to be understood in the main context of the poem, as it is a past action that leads the poem in the present to its definitive ending.
In Helena Maria Viramontes’ novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, Estrella starts off as angsty and confused, but then shifts to a state of contentment and understanding, caused by life experiences. These character traits are revealed through the selection of detail, figurative language, and tone. Initially, Estrella is immediately characterized as “very angry” when she finds Perfecto’s “foreign” toolbox. She uses a tone of confusion that illustrates her unfamiliarity with the objects in the tool box by using words such as “funny-shaped”, and using a simile comparing her confusion with the tools to the alphabet which Estrella “could not decipher”.
Someone doesn’t have to be a doctor or a psychologist to understand this depressing story that turns out to be an analytical case study. Paul’s thoughts, emotions, and actions are followed closely in a form that reveals a lot about his character. Paul appears to be a typical, troubled adolescent. However, his character has deeper demons that haunt him throughout the story. His is preoccupied with art, beauty, success, love, and himself.
As the first two verses represent the voice of the narrator, in the following lines the narrator’s voice shifts into an implied other person who sings “Bury my heart / Cover it with the coldest stones / So it will suffer longer / Like I did in your arms”. These lines can be interpreted as the narrator’s memories of the woman, but also insinuates his feelings of guilt and sorrow that these memories evoke. In the following lines the focus returns to the narrator as he continues “You led me into the darkest night”.
To kill or die. Exhibited phrase in the short story “The Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell presents the protagonist Sanger Rainsford with this choice. Rainsford a big game hunter who is heading into the treacherous amazon, falls overboard nevertheless ends up on an island known as Shipwreck island where he meets a distinguished looking man known as General Zaroff. Unfortunately General Zaroff hunts moreover kills humans for sport. Rainsford, the prey, now consequently is going to die.
She remembered waking up after the terrifying fall saying “My teeth crunched a gravelly mouthful. Ice water seeped down my throat” (98). After suffering from a nasty fall that could have killed her, the first thing she notices after regaining consciousness is that ice water is in her throat. This hints that it was the water was allowing her to ignore the pain of having a broken leg and feeling alive and well in that moment. She felt so well that she actually wanted to go down the hill again but was not allowed to.