A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana is a 2001 memoir by Haven Kimmel. The book recalls Haven's ("Zippy's") childhood in a small Indiana town and the people she lived with. Her mother is a bookworm, her father a gambler, her intense older brother and her unenthused sister. Zippy has adventures with her friends and neighbors, often revolving around animals: she saves a pig, raises a chicken and rescues her cat.
Dead Witch Walking is the story of Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter working in Cincinnati. Rachel works and hunts in the Hollows, a magical underworld ruled by sorcerers and undead vampires. Other supernatural creatures, exposed by a runaway virus that affects only pure humans, have been exposed and their integration into Earth's mainstream culture has been less than smooth. Rachel is quickly drawn into a brutal murder mystery in the Hollows, one she must solve or risk death.
Red Mars is the story of human colonization of Mars in the latter half of the 21st century. One hundred colonists form the seed of a society that grows and flourishes in tandem with Earth's total consumption by transnational corporations and subsequent collapse into civil war over dwindling resources. Debate erupts among the colonists as to whether to leave Mars "red" or Terraform it, rendering it "green" and more Earth-like. Eventually the transnational corporations seize power and crush the colonists, driving survivors into hiding under the polar cap.
Duong Thu Huong writes Paradise of the Blind intending to expose the poor workings and of Communism and demonstrate the adverse effects felt by the people effected Huongs sees that Hangs self discovery and acceptance of her dissatisfaction with life heavily characterises the novels final passage By the end of the passage Hang has come to terms with her place in her Vietnamese culture deciding she will leave all this behind Huong establishes this decision through the use of contrasting natural i
Chapter 15 of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very significant part in the story It is important in showing how much Okonkwo has changed since being exiled from his village and going to live in his motherland We heard in the previous chapter of his first couple of days but this chapter is set 2 years later when he has become accustomed to the very different atmosphere of the village of Mbanta During this chapter is his first contact with Umuofia his old village which comes in the form o
ENGL220 Assignment 1 MINJI KIM Setting in the late nineteenth century Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour illustrates a womans emotional changes after she heard of her husbands death Although it is written long before and it is just a short portrayal of an emotional repression of a woman of that time The Story of an Hour still is a thought provoking story even for the contemporary readers Louise who has heart problem is carefully told that her husband Brently is killed in a railroad accident She