![]() Throughout The Hobbit, Tolkien uses examples of figurative languages, such as metaphors and similes, in order to depict various scenes. ![]() He uses words like “I am afraid” in this passage to make the revelation that “the dwarves might be eaten by trolls” easier to digest. The gruesomeness of the scene is masked by his light tone and the style he uses while writing. Tolkien is alluding to the many victims that the trolls have eaten without doing so in a way that would scare children. There were lots of clothes, too, hanging on the walls – too small for trolls, I am afraid they belonged to victims – and among them were several swords of various makes, shapes, and sizes. For example, these lines from Chapter 2 when the dwarves have been kidnapped by the trolls: There are several great examples of this in Tolkien’s depiction of scenes that could otherwise be quite disturbing. The text is meant to be fun to read and not too disturbing for young audience members. ![]() It’s structured as a children’s story, one that alludes to the darkness at the heart of the story but doesn’t go into detail about it. ![]() Tolkien used a light and fun tone to tell the story of Bilbo’s adventures. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The chocolate spies who try to steal Willy Wonka’s inventions for rival candy makers were not entirely a product of Dahl’s imagination. As a child, Dahl fantasized about working in a chocolate inventing room, an idea that came back to him when he began writing his second children’s book. ![]() ![]() The boxes contained 12 chocolate bars wrapped in foil-one “control” bar and 11 new flavors. When he was 13, Cadbury would send Dahl's school boxes of chocolates for the boys to taste test-kind of like an early focus group. AS A BOY, DAHL WAS A TASTER FOR A CHOCOLATE COMPANY.ĭahl based Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on his experiences as a taster for Cadbury. Did you know that in the first draft of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie is encased in chocolate and given to another child as an Easter present? Or that the book's original title was Charlie's Chocolate Boy? Or that Dahl was working on a third book about Charlie at the time of his death? Here are some more fascinating facts about the development of this classic children’s book. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder![]() ![]() ![]() It was about a boy, a farm boy, a boy who spent way too much time with livestock and crops. And I did always enjoy Almanzo entering the story in The Long Winter. My thoughts: I must have read the original series a dozen times growing up. (I couldn't help but think of Almanzo hauling ice in the television show). He spends a lot of time with horses, cows, pigs, and various crops like corn, wheat, pumpkins, etc. The focus, as you can imagine, is on his farm life. It begins and ends in (different) winter(s). (Presumably based on stories he told his wife through the years.) I believe it covers roughly one year of his life. The book (fictionally) chronicles Almanzo Wilder's childhood. (The first book is Little House in the Big Woods). Premise/plot: Farmer Boy is the second book (technically) in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Billows of snow covered the fields and the snow fences. It loaded the bare limbs of oaks and maples and beeches, it bent the green boughs of cedars and spruces down into the drifts. First sentence: It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Courtney allison moulton books![]() ![]() ![]() She was vapid, shallow, thoughtless, completely stuck in her own world and hopelessly self-centered. Ellie was certainly realistic – for a certain type of teenager. I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that there is nothing wrong with writing a realistic teenager. Would you really want to watch Buffy if Dawnnwere Buffy? ![]() This is Buffy if Buffy weren’t Buffy but Dawn was Buffy. Unfortunately, you want to at least stand up a little in the comparison. So what? Pretty much half the things published in YA these days are reminiscent of Buffy. This book was highly reminiscent of both Buffy and Bleach. I am not at all exaggerating when I report that I fell asleep twice within the first twenty pages. The characters, the story-telling, the writing, the themes… was there anything? I’ve thought long and hard to determine if there was a single aspect of this book that I even liked. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Impostors series book![]() ![]() On one excursion to check on his plants, Luke discovers that his garden has been trampled. ![]() He returns to the school but visits the forest whenever he can and eventually hides spuds and bean sprouts in his uniform so he can plant a garden. He is ecstatic to be away from the school for even a little while, but knows he can’t survive on his own yet. When no one else is looking, he ducks out and runs to the nearby woods. One day, Luke comes across a door that has been left open. Luke wants nothing more than to escape from his tormentor and from the classes he doesn’t understand. He forces Luke to do a variety of push-ups, sit-ups and other exercises each night. One student, whom Luke refers to as “jackal boy,” torments him daily before bed. Most of the other boys at the school have autism or phobias that keep them from interacting with each other, but some are different. This is close to impossible since Luke has had no contact with anyone but his family and Jen for his entire life. ![]() Talbot drops him off at the school and advises him to blend in. Talbot, obtained the new identity card for Luke. He is now Lee Grant, a new student to the Hendricks School for Boys. But now, because of his association with a rebel third - short for third child - named Jen, Luke has had to take on a new identity. For most of his life, he’d been safe, hiding within the confines of his family’s farm. Luke Garner is an illegal child in his family because he was the third child born. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments At first sight by nicholas sparks![]() ![]() ![]() I was excited to sit down to read one of Nicholas Sparks’ novels. At First Sight came to be as a result of a 45 page epilogue in Set in North Carolina, USA, at First Sight is the sequel to Sparks’ previous book, True Believer, written in the same year. 11 of Nicholas Sparks’ novels have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers.Īt First Sight is a romance novel by Nicholas Sparks, written in 2005. His 2016 novel, Two by Two, sold about 98,000 copies during the first week after release. He has also sold the screenplay adaptations of True Believer and At First Sight. The book is character-driven, with the emotional impact that protagonists in THE NOTEBOOK, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, THE GUARDIAN and THE WEDDING have left … Cuddling is extra intimate than a candlelit dinner, greater than a joint tax go back and definite, much more than intercourse.īy Nicholas Sparks True to his previous novels, Nicholas Sparks has produced AT FIRST SIGHT in a similar style and pattern. Download e-book for kindle: The Cuddle Sutra: An Unabashed Celebration of the Ultimate by Rob Grader. ![]() ![]() But to mountain climbers, Annapurna is the site of some of the greatest achievements in high-altitude mountaineering. Although it is the tenth highest mountain in the world and the first mountain above 8000 metres to be successfully climbed, Annapurna is also not as well known to the general public as Mount Everest simply because it is not the highest mountain in the world. ![]() Thus, although its name means "the Provider" or "Goddess of the Harvests" in Sanskrit, the hazards associated with Annapurna still make it a difficult mountain to see up close, much less climb. Its south face has the largest and most difficult "big-wall" ice cliff in the Himalayas. It is swept constantly by avalanches in the north. At 8091 metres in what was once a little-known part of Nepal, Annapurna is accessed from the north by a valley that was unmapped and unknown even by the villagers of Pokhara, its nearest town. ![]() SINCE 1950, ANNAPURNA has been known in climbing circles as one of the world's most dangerous mountains to climb. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Nostalgia vassanji![]() The novel, instead, is caught up in the mystery of who Sina's patient was in his old life-by all accounts an entertaining narrative, but one that lacks the claws and teeth of history's great dystopian novels. A chilling thought-and yet one that Vassanji backs off from making entirely clear. Vassanji seems uncomfortable writing sex, putting it off as long as possible before delivering a few brief, Harlequin-esque clichés: They made passionate, reckless love. This is a poignant and timely social critique the governments of the novel don't care about lengthening the lives of their citizens unless there is profit in it, and only allows the procedure to become popular because it allows them to rewrite and reroute individuals for their own purposes. Here, perhaps, is the true moral of the story: people cannot live forever, but money does. The only thing they are allowed to carry into their new lives is wealth. Vassanji (Author) 24 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 95. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Vassanji Nostalgia Hardcover Import, 20 September 2016 by M.G. ![]() For all intents and purposes, rejuvenated individuals have died. Nostalgia - Kindle edition by Vassanji, M.G. Their thoughts, loves, dreams, hopes, fears, and plans all disappear forever. The elephant in the room, which Vassanji never truly addresses, is that this "immortality" is not truly immortality at all while their bodies live on, the lives of citizens are completely erased. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Jackie phamotse bare book![]() ![]() The ministers and ambassadors, or ‘blessers’ - as they are more commonly referred to - hunt mostly on Instagram, and they then ask ‘influencers’ or ‘pimps’ to invite the men and women they would like to meet. ![]() It’s an exclusive club, you can only get in by invitation. This group of people spend a lot of money on entertainment, they have houses in Durban, Cape Town, and Bryanston (which she knows of). The community is comprised of ambassadors, ministers, businessmen and women, and celebrities. Mack further asked her about the infamous ‘Hockey Club’ and what it is exactly versus what people think it is.Īccording to Jackie, the “Hockey Club” is a community of affluent people who come together for entertainment purposes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Extent 242 pages Isbn 9780393339727 Media category unmediated Media MARC source rdamedia Media type code ![]() Whistling Vivaldi : how stereotypes affect us and what we can doīibliography note Includes bibliographical references and index Carrier category volume Carrier category codeĬarrier MARC source rdacarrier Content category text Content type codeĬontent type MARC source rdacontent Contents Introduction - A surprising connection between identity and performance - Can stereotypes impair performance in more than one group, and in the strongest among them? - Contingencies of threat: in the lives of Anatole Broyard and Amin Maalouf, and in our own lives - Stereotype threat in everyone's life - The efforting life - The racing mind or, the mind on stereotype threat - It's the cues that determine the strength of identity threat - Reducing identity threat in college - The distance between us: what causes it and how to bridge it Dimensions 22 cm. ![]() Label Whistling Vivaldi : how stereotypes affect us and what we can do, Claude M. ![]() |
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