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Book Talk Activity Presentation Did you know that fiction books make you sympathize others? That’s because when you read, you go on an “adventure” alongside the characters and gradually relate to them. To achieve the effects, you must have a deep understanding of the characters’ personalities, thinking, backgrounds, attitudes, and more. Today I will be…

Plot Summary: Private Paul Berlin arrived newly at the Americal Centre combat centre in Chu Lai in June 3, 1968 . which is the single largest unit in Vietnam. It was by the sea. His hair was cut immediately on arrival. .Training started from the next day for all the new arrivals of 50 Training…

Quinn, David. “Detective Plotting” in Garcia Marquez “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”, Eureka Studies In Teaching Short Fiction, v2 n1 p.50-60 Fall 2001 Quinn analyzes the short story by Marquez from positions of formal logic and attempts to use critical approach to understanding the plot of the story. He notices, that throughout the…

            To be blue refers to a mood of being sad or depressed. The blues in music and poetry are reinterpretations of this mood by musicians and writers into an art form. Baldwin and Hooker are right when they declare that the blues are universal in that the mood or the emotion of melancholy is…

Throughout the epic poem, Homer portrays Odysseus as a leader who fails to meet the qualities valued by the Greeks. In ancient Greek society, loyalty, hospitality, assertiveness, and responsibility were highly esteemed traits in a leader. The Greeks upheld loyalty as crucial, as their social hierarchy revolved around devotion to the gods. This was evident…

Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire of Long Island, may be a fraud and a rimming but readers see Gatsby as a sympathetic figure and root for Gatsby. Gatsby is like any other person. As a young boy, Gatsby dreamed Of living a successful life like many young adults do. He equates a successful life to lifting…

“The Catcher in the Rye,” by J.D. Salinger, is one of the most recognized books in American literature. This literary gem eloquently captures adolescence, revolt, and self-discovery, making it timeless. Its realistic portrayal of these universal topics has captivated readers for decades. The story captures the spirit of post-World War II America. Complex and contemplative…

Octavia E. Butler was born in a African American family. Her grandmother was a slave who did the laundry for a white family. When she was in child, she felt ashamed that her mother was a housemaid. However, when she grew up she realized that her mother endured a lot of disrespect, such as employers…

The number-one bookseller today was born in 1971. Barnes and Noble’s (B&N) founder and Chief Executive, Leonard Riggio, started out with a stagnant Manhattan book store. Today, it operates over 1,000 store-chains. The chain includes about 504 B&N superstores, 507 B. Dalton mall stores, and 300 university bookstores. The college bookstores are leased and they…

In Cheap Amusements, Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women gives different clues to the ways in which these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the years of 1880-1920….