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The story of Night tells of Eliezer’s experiences in the Holocaust. Elie’s faith in God changed numerous times. In the beginning, Elie worshiped God unconditionally. He remained faithful to God during the deportation of the Jews and even made a thanksgiving prayer after their sudden arrival at Auschwitz. Elie struggles to cling to his faith…

All over the world, humans express fear and reply to violence in similar ways. Violence and fear are two recurring themes that appear throughout three novels– The Hate U Give, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Zeitoun. While each tells a unique story, their protagonists grapple with the same problem: fear. Angie Thomas’ The Hate U…

Narrated by Richard Wright himself, Black Boy is an autobiography following Wright as he began to comprehend the significance of race/color in America and how it was used to determine the value of a person. While telling his childhood story, Wright is perfectly clear in his writing that he was not only raised in an…

The Book Thief is all about a girl named Liesel. During world war two she stayed in Germany. She is not afraid to steal things or even ask for help. The things that Liesel usually steals are books. The only thing off about this whole thing is that she can’t read at all. She can…

Cells are very important to all human beings because they contain all genetic information for us to pass on to our offspring, without cells we would be nothing. Rebecca Skloot wrote, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” which is an effective story because she’s discovering data about Henrietta Lacks and her family and, telling the…

Imagine someone was alone on a lifeboat, drifting in the middle of the ocean. This person has gone through traumatic and unspeakable horrors that resulted in the loss of his family. Now this person was running out of food and clean water without anyone to help him. If you were this person, do you think…

A horrendous murder without motive. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood recounts the murder of four members of the Clutter family: Nancy, Mr. Clutter, Mrs. Clutter, and Kenyon. The book follows both the Clutter family as well as the two murders, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock (Dick). Additionally, Capote gives the reader information about…

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”- Hunger games. The novel “Then again, Maybe I won’t” is a work of young adult fiction about teens experiencing puberty and understanding the different parts of sexuality. This novel was written in 1971 by Judy Blume and was published by the Macmillans. The book is about a…

Have you ever googled or had a thought about what slaves experienced through during enslavement for a long time? In the book twelfth Year a Slaves, it talks a lot about a slave outlook and their past events that they appeared in. The key concept of the story of 12 Years A Slave was to…

The book, “In Cold Blood,” by Truman Capote was written in a way that was so different than any other book I have read before. The nonfiction novel was endearing, complex, gruesome, and so descriptive to the point that I felt like I was a community member of Holcomb, Kansas. In the town of Holcomb,…