Title: Wonder Name: Jack Fitzpatrick Author: R.J. Palacio Due Date: Number of pages: 315 Per. 7-8a Genre: realistic fiction Summary: This book is about August (auggie) who is a boy that’s face is badly deformed. He is sent to school for the first time in his life, but he is scared of what the other kids will think of his face. Throughout this story, he is bullied but somehow still makes friends despite his face. Other characters in the book are: Olivia (via), Miranda, Jack Will, Julian, Summer, Charlotte, Henry, Miles, Justin, Jamie, and Mr. Browne.
A wild boy is born, doesn't like his dad's work, and learns some magic from his witchy aunt. The boy uses that magic to defend his town when raiders attack. 2 Because of his success with the raiders, the boy is taken in as an apprentice by the mage Ogion, who gives the boy his true name, Ged. Ogion tries to teach Ged about magic and the balance of powers. But Ged wants more power (partly to impress a girl…you know how it is), so he almost summons a shadow monster.
The novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is about a group of buddies known as greasers that stick together through a battle of social classes is told. This group is confronted with many dilemmas in a short period of time that threaten the bonds that they share. The main character, Ponyboy Curtis is top of his class at school, but almost bottom of the class socially. Being intelligent like he is doesn’t mean he doesn’t act like regular people at home, when he argues with his brother, but when he’s around the people he is everyone knows when to keep their trap shut.
Often Ponyboy thinks that Darry is yelling at him or is disappointed in him. But Ponyboy doesn't understand that Darry is just worried for Ponyboy and hopes that he go farther than Darry could. Darry was a sports star and got excellent grades in school. He would have loved to go to collage, but the money wasn't there and Darry couldn't go. He took a
Simply stated, he is the man voted most likely to do anything in his senior yearbook. That anything turned out to be an English teacher, or better a life teacher, to a group of young men who were naive about the world they lived in and everything outside of their small boarding institution. Meet John Keating, the teacher played by Robin Williams in the influential movie Dead Poets Society. The teacher who used all aspects of the word ethos to motivate and transform his students’ lives. Ethos can be described as the nature, character, or unique values peculiar to a particular human being.
Simon ends up taken coops girlfriend from him. Then after Simon finds out secrects abouts his new friends, He uncovers a dangersous and burtal side that no one likes. Glass got so cought up into his new friends that he cheated for Coop on his ACT and changed his grades in the computer so that he could take a different class, with his father knowing. Althought Simon was a nerd, he was independently wealthy .Simon starts turn his new friends agaisnt each other. Simons smarts was going to take him far in life, but who know that his new friends was going to bring it to an end very fast.
As a youth Ted was terribly shy to the public and in school, he was often teased by his fellow student in his junior high school. All this change all of a sudden during his high school years he became popular and was known as well dress and exceptionally well manner. he finish school and went off to collage at a university in Washington. He was very focused on his grades and studies. Yet his focus changed during the spring of 1967 when he began a relationship that would forever change his life.
The excerpt form Henry James’ story, “The Pupil,” describes three characters who all share a deep relationship. The author uses elements of diction, tone, and point of view to convey the influence of each character. These elements coincide with each other to show that the young boy is innocent and unknowing, willing to take orders at no questions; the cunning and extravagant Mrs. Morgan Moreen who seem to be the recipient of wealth because she doesn’t mention her rise to riches; and Pemberton appears to be playing the role of a nerdy, unpopular kid who wants to ask the popular girl out on a date. All of these characters, through being describe by such elements, had a definite factor in their relationship between them, which is without a doubt a game of big man on campus. Firstly, in this excerpt, the author seems to categorize each character
In the novel, the author Daniel Keyes developes a theme that science and technology may or may not increase the quality of human life. The story follows the mind and life of a mentally retarded man, Charlie Gordon, who is 32 years old. Charlie attends a night school in hope that he will one day be intelligent like his teacher, Miss Kinnian, who he considers a "genius." When offered the chance to have his IQ tripled, despite the risks and the chance of losing it all, he agrees. Throughout the time of his knowledge he experiences love, betrayal, heartbreak, embarrassment, loneliness, loses his job at a bakery due to his intelligence and grows in many other ways.
Remy Mermelstein March 25, 2014 English 9 Honors/K. O’Connor Period 4 A&P/Brain Essay Remy Mermelstein - March 2014 In John Updikes short story, A&P, the impulsive and rebellious behavior of Sammy and the girls is highlighted in relation to the logical and more socially un-awkward adults. A normal day at an A&P is punctured by the rash and unexpected decisions of teenagers in a sort of coming of age story of a boy [Sammy] realizing his stance in the world working in an A&P in the middle of nowhere, with no sign of a really good future while he admires three girls who to him seem to be way out. Three girls walk into the A&P, wearing nothing but bathing suits in a place far from any water or beach and immediately captivated nearly everyone in sight. The girl’s decision to walk into a public store in bikinis suggests that they really do not care what other people think about them, almost as if they are at the top of the