YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
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time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...
these farmers in the characterization of a single family, the Joads. From what was left of their Oklahoma homestead to their jour...
man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...
or "Do you have home room all year?" Kaufman throws the reader in at the deep end by not using quotation marks, or telling us whos...
the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...
some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...
can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...
only three and doctors are only able to save one eye. He spends months in the hospital, which proves to be a grueling experience t...
are far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts was not something that would ever be carried through in any...
legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...
marriage is highlighted in the intriguing book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled Love in the Time of Cholera. Love in the Time o...
named "Geek" explains, "Its like a death gene, sir. A self-destruct mechanism. They splice it into the DNA of a plant and trigger ...
of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains" (Hemingway 3). The t...
owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...
to those who fight it but everyone who is touched by it. We begin with gender, because of the persona Hemingway created, and with...
them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...
traditions and practices. It may not really even matter if the details are incredibly accurate in light of the fact that they may ...
a short period of time, it should be said that what is distinguished is Bolivars story. The novel is biographical more than it is ...
earliest in 1881, and again in 1920, 1925, and 1938; the strike that Sembene uses in his novel is the one that took place in 1947 ...
- a small fortune at the time - for the party. They are starting their marriage already deeply in debt. Jurgis and his family are ...
smooth and convincing as he states the following: "If they had politicians back in those days, they said, Gimme, just like all of ...
play in the street amuse themselves with a dangerous pastime: jumping onto the freight as it rumbles down the street (Puzo, 1998)....
about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...
on the other hand, believes strongly in not using pesticides or otherwise strongly interfering with nature, although she also does...
than a drug culture. The Cold War was continuing, with western fears of the "red menace" exacerbated by events such as the Soviets...
multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
"varied and prolonged dependence on others" that follows the birth of a normal human (Yousef 197). The creature himself associates...
Amber begins to grow up and learn and see the world in a very kind way, thinking more about others than herself in the end. She is...
is probably much closer to Wildes intent that these expressions of love and beauty be considered in a much more abstract way: Gray...