Summer Independent Reading You cannot open a book without learning something Irish proverb In every book there is a lesson to be learned something useful to be carried away or at least a saying or phrase that can help you to fulfill your life the best you can In The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay a sentence that I could not get out of my head throughout the entirety of my reading was when Hoppie Groenwald said to Peekay first with the head and then with the heart Hoppie ultimately inspired Pee
The Pigman Essay Question The very last lines of Zindels novel There was no one else to blame anymore Our life would be what we made of itnothing more nothing less Baboons Baboons They build their own cages we could almost hear Mr Pignati whisper as he took his children with him Zindel p 149 Perhaps hes making a comparison between the baboons at the zoo and the people in the story John Lorraine Mr Pignati The real baboons are locked up in the cages The human baboons are in cages as well Theyre
In Homers Odyssey there is a very clear causal relationship between an individuals actions and the outcome of their endeavors Through interactions the gods often influence the actions of mortals If one resists the guidance of the gods there are almost always ramifications In this way the Odyssey suggests that human beings should be reverent and obedient to the gods At times it proves to be hard for mortals to remain in the favor of the gods even if they may be in good favor with one or more god
Fahrenheit 451 Fire and a bird called a phoenix are two greatly important symbols in Fahrenheit 451 What is there about fire thats so lovely No matter what age we are what drives us to it Beatty blew out the flame and lit it again It perpetual motion the thing man wanted to invent but never did Or almost perpetual motion If you let it go on itd burn our lifetimes out What is Fire Its a mystery Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules But they dont really know Its a real beau
The novel 1984 story of a totalitarian society which is controlled by a character known as Big Brother Big Brother has the ultimate power over the people in society He controls the minds of the inviduals In this dictatorial society it is a man by the name of Winston Smith who stands out He realizes that Big Brother makes everything go his way He also has realize that Big Brother has the ability to change everything as he pleases even the past As the novel begins Smith is just as every other per
Liberty and Justice for all These are the words Americans live by America is dependent on a court system which just so happens to have a jury A jury is a group of people that decide whether someone is innocent or guilty The play Twelve Angry Men was about a jury system trying to debate about a tough topic that couldve affected a boys life forever Some of the jurors were very fair and others just wanted to get out of the court room fast Juror four represented the best of our American justice sys
Governmental Mind Control Nonsensical Myth or Startling Reality He gazed up at the enormous face Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache O cruel needless misunderstanding O stubborn self willed exile from the loving breast Two gin scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose But it was right everything was all right the struggle was finished He had won the victory over himself He loved Big Brother 297 In this powerful scene from his inf
If one is a scrupulous reader and also he have read most works of Shakespeare it is not hard for him to find that two themes present in many of Shakespeares plays That are the struggle of men to dominate women and the conflict between father and daughter and it are those two themes that form a large part of the dramatic content of A Midsummer Nights Dream In the first act both themes of tension appear when Theseus remarks that he has won Hippolyta by defeating her Hippolyta I wooed thee with my