Tally By John Dexter In Castle Valley, By Sylvia Nobel

Chester Li Hodge English 9B 23 May 2016 Unit 7: Reading Activity "An Ancient Gesture" What is the "ancient gesture"? I think the “ancient gesture is when someone wiping his/her tears out of the the eyes by using his/her apron. I know this because the writer mentions Penelope and she have done the same thing--wipe their eyes with the apron.

With Dan unaware of his actions, and constantly facing mild dissociative disorder, a police officer was assigned to follow his every step. The last section of the novel, Asylum by Madeleine Roux, included many obstacles the protagonist had to face. Dan Crawford, began the novel by spending his summer in the New Hampshire Prep program, as he began to uncover secrets hiding in the dorms he uncovered secrets about his past. With residing at Brookline, a shutdown mental hospital, many spin tingling secrets began to rise. Since Dan is a foster child and his biological parents decide to hide, much of his history has been covered.

People will do amazing things to ensure survival and they’re not going to be thinking about anybody but themselves. Thinking about others every now and then is okay but doing it too much is going to hold you back. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Sold by Patricia McCormick, they are fighting for survival. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see that both of the main characters are more focused on the survival then family which is important because their family isn’t wasn’t what was going to set them free.

The Chicago World Fair stirred many emotions in this great time of industrialization, but not only was Chicago shining in the spotlight from the fair, it was also promoting something much more sinister, this dark enclosing spotlight shined directly on H.H Holmes. Burnham the leader of the World Fair and H. H Holmes the notorious serial killer, are the two main characters in this novel that Erik Larson uses the balance between light and dark between these two’s personalities. In the novel The Devil in the White City Erik Larson uses Imagery, paradox, and alliteration to show the balance between the light and dark in the ever growing city of Chicago. Imagery paints an ever expanding picture for the audience, the detailed descriptions such as “but his eyes are as blue as ever, bluer at this instant by proximity to the sea" (Larson 3).

John Wayne Gacy- The Clown That Killed John Gacy was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy and his siblings grew up with a drunken father who would beat the children with a razor strap if even perceived to have misbehaved; the man also physically assaulted his mother too. Growing up, Gacy was a quiet boy who was never really popular, but was liked by his teachers, co-workers and friends. But a heart failure stopped him from playing with other children.

Have you ever read The Angel of Death? If not, save yourself some time and find a new book to read. The Angel of Death, written by Alane Ferguson, is a forensic mystery where the main character’s-Cameryn’s-former teacher was suspiciously killed in his home. Cameryn must find and solve the clues that trace back to the murderer of Brad Oakes. The Angel of Death has its ups and many downs, but there were still some good things, bad things, there some relatable parts, and I will give recommendations on if others should read this book.

After Jody passed, Janie hadn’t really felt any feelings of remorse for him, because the relation between them had worsened. At this point, she felt a true feeling of independence. These were a couple of examples of how she was

Sutherland starts off the essay with a narrative about her husband’s lost keys. While she uses to chase her husband around helping him in the search, she now ignores his racket and continues washing the dishes. While she loves her husband, there are little quirks about him that she wishes she could change. She describes him as “well read [and] adventurous…but also tends to be forgetful, and is often tardy and

Death of a Salesman BIFF’S PHILOSOPHICAL CONFLICT - Schema L Biff’s self before realizing his father is a “fake” can be illustrated by Lacan’s Schema L illustrated on the right. Biff Biff recognizes Willy as a model.

The Barry award winning The Deceived is another incredible novel in the Jonathan Quinn series. As a professional freelance contractor, Jonathan Quinn knows that his line of work has no room for any emotion. But everything changes when he turns up for a cleaning job only to find that the body in the shipping container is that of an old colleague and friend who once saved his life. With the skill to battle with the very best of spies and killers, Quinn and his friends embark on a mission to find out the killers. Their investigation takes them from the bustling street of Singapore to the corridors of power in Washington where the tale ends in an explosive finish that we have come to expect from Brett

In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, It doesn’t matter if someone is ugly or if they are pretty; treat people the same it doesn’t matter how they look. On page 6, the author Scott Westerfeld said "Of course, Tally was nothing here. Worse, she was ugly. But she hoped Peris wouldn’t see it that was. Wouldn't see her that way.

Rex Walls is a very intellectual man who has a strong passion towards math and science. He is a skilled engineer and electrician and hopes that one day he will make his family rich and build them a glass castle. Unfortunately due to his abusive past, economic situation, and his inability to hold a stable job to provide for his family he resulted to alcohol for comfort which made him a very unstable role model. He would spend whatever remains from his family’s tight budget on alcohol and gambling. He even stole money from his wife’s pay check and from his children’s saving fund.

The stress of abuse and depression was too much for him to handle and he saw that there was no other way out. His motive was for the sake of his life. Crime

Book report: “A Dead in Jericho” A dead in Jericho is a suspense book placed on a small town called Jericho. It talks about Inspector Morse, an old, unattractive inspector, who has to solve the mysterious death of Anne Scott, a pretty, young woman he had met on a party some time ago. One night, Inspector Morse decided to visit the woman who seduced him. When he gets to her house, he finds himself on a hard situation, the door was open, he was a little doubtful, he did not know what to do, but he still chose to enter to the house.

All characters are accused and redeemed of guilt but the murderer is still elusive. Much to the shock of the readers of detective fiction of that time, it turns out that the murderer is the Watson figure, and the narrator, the one person on whose first-person account the reader 's’ entire access to all events depends -- Dr. Sheppard. In a novel that reiterates the significance of confession to unearth the truth, Christie throws the veracity of all confessions contained therein in danger by depicting how easily the readers can be taken in by