Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day drowsily reading over her sisters shoulder when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running by her The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch exclaims that he is late and pops down a rabbit hole Alice follows the White Rabbit down the hole and comes upon a great hallway lined with doors She finds a small door that she opens using a key she discovers on a nearby table Through the door she sees a beautiful garden and Alice begins to cry
Tomorrow When The War Began is the first book in a series of seven that were written by John Marsden and published in 1993 This novel is set in present time outback Australia The story is written in 1st person using past and present tense by a girl named Ellie It is about her and her seven friends six of whom when returning on a camping trip with her into a supposedly impenetrable ravine called Hell find that their homes have been invaded and their family and friends held hostage at the Wirrawe
Values of an American Girl Henry James issues the reader a direct challenge to determine Daisy Millers system of values or value system In Chapter 1 of Daisy Miller when Winterbourne upon first seeing Daisy in the distance says of her American girls are the best girls a remark instantly rebutted by Daisys brother Randolf who says My sister aint the best The story then proceeds to examine the idea of whether Daisy is the best or not the best of girls James makes one thing perfectly clear at the
Catching Fire Book Analysis The second page turning chronicle of the Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins embellishes the idea that absolute power and perfection cannot co exist with the modern world for all is vulnerable to corruption Collins defends her belief through her literary works in Catching Fire by emphasizing the cruelty use of President Snows tactic and what it resulted in fighting the controversial subject of the existence of eternal absolute power by form of betrayal with
Major Themes Walls The building of literal walls is not a hidden theme in the novel much of the controversy from the start concerns the building of first a gate and then a wall for Arroyo Blanco and the entire novel is based on the consequences of immigrants jumping the wall of the Mexico U S border The literal wall appears in several other ways as well The coyotes must get over the Mossbachers fence in order to grab their dogs and they are able to do so with skill and cunning similar to the wa
The Notebook was written by Nicholas Sparks in 1994 Based on a true story Its a classic yet brilliant love story of two people Allie and Noah in the 1940s living in Seabrook South Carolina Noah who is unimpressed with striving for success no matter the cost He is a blue collar worker who spends an unexpected inheritance on restoring a beautiful plantation home He is a hard worker in whatever he engages himself but will never be sucked into a job that keeps him away from nature and the beauty of
The namesake book and the movie differences I read the book first which made me understand the movie better I could enjoy the movie without reading the book but the novel gives a deeper dimension to the characters When I watched the movie I noticed that there were a lot of things missing from the book which means some of things were on the book they were not on the movie For example in the movie where they live is in New York City but the book said they lived in Boston since they moved to Ameri
What kind of reader are you Do you like history romance science fiction biographies Genres within genres have transformed all of us into unique readers Our reading types are as unique as our DNA special to our personalities Our lifestyles and our place in the world will always shape a persons reading habits differently What is your concept of the ideal reader It seems as though that is impossible to determine Every time period seems to have its standards as well Certain types of books seem to b
Crash is a provocative treatise on racism woven together with a series of overlapping threads Written and directed by Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis Crash was inspired by an incident in which Haggis was carjacked at gunpoint in Los Angeles Racism is a universally recognized affliction but Haggis victimization at the hands of black robbers caused him to explore how living in a city where everyone is cocooned in their car contributed to the problem One theory he posits via detective
Everybody has their own aspect of what a perfect world is or a utopian world In John Steinbecks book Cannery Row is illustrated by outcasts in a type of perfect world that are shown as being gods yet at the same time they hold traits that are completely opposite Above each of these outcasts Doc is held up as being the godliest of them all Though at the same time negative aspects can be observed about him Doc is a very brilliant and compassionate man Though his being the only highly intelligent