“Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” -Louis Pasteur. Forge, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about Curzon, a boy that turns into a young man as he faces the hardships of Valley Forge in the winter.
Films that are based off books create a scene for the audience while bringing the words on the paper to life. They usually address the same issues as the original content, but adds additional details to stand out from the book. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book that was transformed into a movie in 1966. The book and film discuss similar themes such as censorship, dystopian society, and propaganda, but does different work with the same story of books being destroyed in a society. This is especially true when considering how the film introduces new ideas, eliminates characters, and changes important scenes from the book.
The book Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline and the movie produced by Steven Spielberg had many outstanding differences between the world Earth and in the world called the Oasis. The dystopia culture on earth from the book to the movie was a disappointment. There were many differences in the changes between the book and the movie. For one the scenery in the movie is very different and gives the movie less of a dystopian world than it was being portrayed in the book. “The people of Planet Earth had other concerns.
Ready Player One is a book by Ernest Cline. In this book, Wade Watts, a gunter, finds a key within a game called the OASIS; this leads to other keys which lead to an Easter Egg; the prize of finding this is 200+ Billion dollars, which causes war and mass murders throughout the story to find it, but in the end, Wade prevails with the Easter Egg of 200+ billion dollars. Wade’s perseverance to take down the Sixers and find the 240 billion dollar Easter Egg and to control the OASIS throughout the book; The lesson that I learned is that no matter what situation I am in, there is always a way to achieve what I want. Wade shows perseverance in the book when his trailer park dwelling blows up, losing his family and close friends. Wade had found
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government is a novel surrounding government myths. This novel is written by Garry Wills. From militias to sovereign states, many things that we as a society believe about our history is what he proves wrong, in this book. He brings light to the myths we all believe revealing what truthfully had happened. Garry Wills not only attacks myths that we have made but also different views we have.
Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline, is a sci-fi story about a teenager named Wade Watts, also known by his avatar as Parzival, who hates living in the real world and the only way he can escape it, is by using the 3D OASIS gaming console. Wade is an 18-year-old, who dislikes the real world and tries to avoid it as much as possible by spending most of his time being "jacked" into OASIS. After Wade’s parents die, he endes up living with his with his aunt, her boyfriend and a bunch of other people in what they refer to as the stacks. The stacks are dozens of trailers stacked one on top of another held together by "a network of metal girders,” and were the primary source of housing for disadvantaged families. In 2045, most people that live
Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game was published in 1985 and brought about many opinions and views. One such opinion turned into an essay by a person named John Kessel, who published Creating the Innocent Killer in Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction in 2004. John Kessel detailed how Card created Ender for the purpose of garnering the audience’s sympathy to distract them from Ender’s bad deeds. But Kessel’s argument provides many facts and statistics from different qualified people, so whether people agree with him or not, he makes several true points and arguments that nobody can disagree with.
Morgan Newton Debbie Kincaid English 12 8 February 2023 Into The Wilderness Into The Wild written by Jon Krakuer in 1997, sheds light on the true story of a twenty four year old man. Christopher McCandless’ 113 day odyssey, which was cut short by a fatal mistake. McCandless’ journey took place in 1992, and his body was discovered after spending approximately four months in the bush. Christopher Mccandless’ journey or even life was full of chance and bad luck, but unfortunately during his odyssey his bad luck outweighed his luck.
Did you know that producing a solid relationship with your parents and demonstrating empathy can lead to a more nourishing lifestyle? Coming of age is the way a young kid is tossed into the real world as he or she grows up and matures. One tremendous element of growing up are the affinities you build with your parents. Another is the way you comprehend how to convey empathy toward others. Developing empathy towards others along with forming the status of your relationship with your parents creates a more capable and more tenacious personality and a greater insight into life.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, took place in a mental hospital during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The narrator, Chief Bromden was a patient in a mental hospital for ten years. In the beginning of the book Chief was dominated by his fear of the Combine. The combine was “a huge conglomeration that controls society and forces people into conformity.” (SparkNotes Editors)
Ready Player One We are introduced to a different category of genres in Chapter 5 of Literature for Young Adults. The novel, Ready Player One could fall under several of them such as fantasy, science fiction and utopias. The novel is a long book about a world that’s inside a world. It contains a love story along with a high level of technology that can help one create their own perfect place.
The play Twelve Angry Men written by Reginald Rose the jury decides whether or not the boy is guilty of murder in the first degree. Juror Eight votes not guilty because, he needs more evidence. Juror Eight is compassionate, when all the other jurors voted the boy guilty. He tenderhearted proclaims that voting him guilty isn’t easy he implies, “Look this kids been kicked around his all his life.” Juror Eight doesn't want to just send the boy off to prison without further investigation.
Player One: What is to Become of Us? Only five short hours make up the timeline of this novel, but in such a short period of time the reader surprisingly finds themselves very involved in the story. In a small airport lounge on the outskirts of Toronto four people meet for the very first time. Luke the runaway pastor, Karen the outspoken ‘cougar’, Rick the unlucky bartender, Rachel the robotic beauty, and Player One the more humane alter ego of Rachel all tell their side of the story as it unravels. It may have seemed like a typical day for these people until the unthinkable happens and the life of everyone in that small airport lounge would forever be changed.
In Sanity and Responsibility, Fred Madden explores themes of self identity from Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The story is told by Chief Bromden, a half Native American and patient of a mental institution. Randle McMurphy, a charismatic man gets transferred into the hospital and creates chaos. Many consider McMurphy as the central character of the novel.
“The Contender” by Robert Lipsyte is a really good story that should be read from ages 10 and higher only if you're mature enough for the words The setting is in a BIg dark really poor city back in 1970’s this is where Alfred was growing up Alfred he's 17 years old and he dropped out of school and wants to be a boxer
