Books

Riki Tiki Tavi Riki Tiki Tavi’s story is very exciting and adventurous. Riki Tiki is a young but very brave mongoose and is an assassin that kills snakes. He is also known as Riki Tiki the valiant the brave. According to Darzee. The Title of the story and movie is Riki-tiki-tavi and is by Rudyard Kipling. In class we compared the differences and similarities of the movie and story. There are many similarities and small differences in the story and the movie. The director sure did a good job…

Seeing Colors In A New Way The book, The Book Thief is arguably one of the most popular and beloved books of it’s time, and for good reason. It is the story of a young girl in Munich, Germany, who is taken from her parents and sent into the foster system. Yet, she finds love along with many more emotions among her new foster parents and friends. There are many aspects to this story which the author, Zusak, incorporated in order to connect with a broader audience. However, he also had individual…

accept the reality that the remainder of his stay will be days filled with paranoia and fear. This is exactly the fear the Hubermanns experienced whilst hiding Max Vandenburg, a Jew, from the Nazis. Following the story of Max and Liesel Merminger, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak tells the tale of their struggle surviving Nazi Germany together. Along the way, the relationship between Max and Liesel grew immensely, and ultimately helped them survive the war. In order to explore this topic, the…

Many myths and stories contain similarities in plot, content, and outcome. In the “Great Flood” myth and The Book of Eli their story displayed prior, during and after their heroes’ journey relate and are reflections of the ancient and modern day cultures that created them. God saw the “wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Speiser). In the “Great Flood” myth God is regretful for creating man and has decided…

world. In christianity people believe in a single god the creator of all and his son that descended from heaven jesus christ. They also have the bible which is God’s words and how the world was “created”. Amelia Lanyer does an argument on the first book of the bible “Genesis” which talks about the creation of the first human beings Adam and Eve. She argues that Eve isn 't the only one to blame ( or to take the full blame) for their actions of eating the forbidden fruit. Now to my understanding…

In the book Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi, it talks about Juliette trying to get her life back on track after waking up in the middle of nowhere. Warner had been testing Juliette so that he could understand his mother’s sickness. In this journal I will be talking about the 3 important objects in the story. The first person that Juliette sees when she wakes up is this diffident man asking her how she’s feeling and if she’s okay. Not till later did she find out that mans name was Warner and he…

In Markus Zusak's’ “The Book Thief”, he makes Death the narrator. Yes, death takes your loved ones away from you, but Death is not all bad, he has compassion too. “The Book Thief” takes place in Nazi, Germany, while a young girls brother dies, and her parents go missing, and is forced to live in a foster home. Death displays his compassion by showing how attentive he is to Liesel, how his job impacts him, and his obsession with colors. Death assembled Liesel’s fearless encounters, to share with…

As I read the book of Romans strange things started happening to me. The day before class I set out to look for the new Iphone. On my trip out I came across a girl that I’ve never met before and she had a special message for my husband she told me to tell him “ They don’t blame him for Baileys death and they want him to come around and want to meet his family and his kids.” This girl happened to be the younger sister of one of his best friends Bailey…. Before Devin turned 21 he and Bailey were…

Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are both novels that feature children’s struggles to understand the prejudiced beliefs within the towns in which they live. The Book Thief focuses on Liesel’s love of literature that helps her cope with childhood fear while living in Germany during a period of extreme anti-Semitism. To Kill A Mockingbird emphasizes Jem and Scout’s struggles to recognize racism while living in Alabama during the 1930s. Liesel, Jem, and Scout are…

In The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew book of Genesis, floods occur that completely destroy the physical world and all of mankind, except for a select few people who are considered righteous people from their creator’s perspective. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the god Ea instructs a character whose name is Utnapishtim to build a large boat. According to the tablet, Ea tells Utnapishtim to make all living things go up into the boat. The only people on the boat are Utnapishtim, his family, and a…