Beginning Summary Without giving away the ending Gregor takes his sister Boots to the park to go sledding but she disappears by a rock with no snow to its side. So Gregor pushes the rock aside and finds himself in a tunnel where he is being followed by two rats. This tunnel was originally going to be a New York subway tunnel but was forgotten about. Ending Summary In the end Gregor gives the Bane to Ripred, a character from the first book. Gregor does this with his bond Ares, a bat that is bigger than a buffalo, elephant, and hippo combined after taking the Bane to Ripred Gregor and Ares return to Regalia mourning the loss of his sister Gregor found...
Emma Thurston English 12 Mrs. Frelich 5/23/12 Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me Kristen Chandler's novel is a classic coming-of-age tale set in Montana shortly after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. KJ Carson, 16, lives with her father, who runs a business as a guide for hunting and fishing parties. While on a hunting trip with him, the teen watches a wolf get torn to pieces by other wolves. Her father tells her not to forget it. He explains, "The minute that wolf backed down it was all over."
Written by Mark Helprin, Jesse Honeys Mountain Guide, this adventurous story takes place in San Fransisco were homeless Hardesty Marratta set out early one June and finds his way to Oakland. Once he got there, he jumped onto a train in hopes to travel around the world when he ends up in the mountains of the far west. Hardesty is the protagonist were as his train mate he picked up along the way Jesse Honey, is the dumb self proclaimed expert guide. Hardesty follows Jesses expert advice and finds his arm dislocated and the train burning. The two men travel through the mountains of the far West with Hardesty following Jesses continual bad advice.
Characters Joss McMillan is a normal 14yr old teenage boy when his sister is murdered by a vampire. This tragic event turns Joss world upside down. While at the funeral of his beloved sister he meets his Uncle Abraham who is a vampire slayer. His uncle talks him into going to a cabin in the woods to train Joss to become a vampire slayer. Cecile McMillian is Joss's 9yr old sister who is murdered by a vampire.
In the legend, a boy and girl freeze to death in a blizzard. A red fern is discovered growing in between their bodies when they are found months later. The legend states that red ferns never die, they can only be planted by an angel and their presence makes a spot holy. 4. He lives in Arkansas 5.
Donahue, a forty-three-year-old advanced skier, was skating (skiing slowly) across the slope toward the parking lot. Peterson and Donahue knew that falls, collisions, accidents, and injures were possible with skiing. Donahue saw Peterson “split seconds” before the impact, which knocked Donahue out of his skis and down the slope ten or twelve feet. When Donahue saw Peterson lying motionless nearby, he immediately sought help. To recover for his injures, Peterson filed a suit in a Minnesota state court against Donahue, alleging negligence.
He spends time on Tralfamadore, in Dresden, in the War, walking in deep snow before his German capture, in his mundane post-war married life in the U.S.A. of the 1950s, and in the moment of his murder by Lazzaro. Billy's death is the consequence of a string of events. Before the Germans capture Billy, he meets Roland Weary, a jingoist character who constantly chastises him for his lack of enthusiasm toward war. At their capture, the Germans confiscate everything Weary has, including his
The cave was home to a Cyclops. He was going to eat my men and I but I got the Cyclops drunk which caused him to pass out. Then, I poked the Cyclops eye with a red hot burning stake. Several of my men and I made it out of the cave stealth from tying us to the bottom of his sheep because I knew that the Cyclops always, as a daily routine, let his sheep out to do their business. "The Cyclops bellowed and the rock roared round him, and we fell back in fear.
In 1937, Ulysses Everett McGill (Clooney), Pete Hogwallop (Turturro), and Delmar O'Donnell (Nelson) escape from a chain gang at Parchman Farm and set out to retrieve the $1.2 million in treasure that Everett claims to have stolen from an armored car and buried before his incarceration. They have only four days to find it before the valley in which it is hidden will be flooded to create Arkabutla Lake as part of a new hydroelectric project. Early in their escape, while still chained together, they try to jump onto a moving train with some hobos, but fall off due to Pete's inability to get on. They then encounter a blind man (Weaver) traveling on a manual railroad car. They hitch a ride, and he foretells their futures.
After they ventured through the mountains they had reached the forest where they were kidnapped by wood elves, and attacked by spiders. When they got through the forest they had gone to another mountain, called lonely mountain. Where they fought smaug and the wargs. In the begging it was summer time and as they near