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In the book, The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, a symbol in the book is the maze because it is mysterious and waiting to be discovered, and then suddenly Thomas wants to be a Runner because of he wanted answers. (Page 46)  The maze represents the mystery of the Glade which connects to the theme because the theme is to dare where no has gone before, in this case, a giant mysterious maze.

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Think about one of the books/series you have been reading recently. It may be one you are currently reading, or one you have recently finished. Then answer the following questions:

1. What are some of the important symbols that keep appearing in your book?

2. What do those symbols represent?

3. How does the author connect those symbols to the theme of the story? Explain the connection.

Make sure your response includes:

The title and author of the text

An answer to each question being asked

RAP

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In the book The Missing: Found by Margaret P. Haddix an important symbol is time traveling, this symbol represents confusion, because every time this comes up something that confuses the character happens. This symbol connects to the theme because a theme is to not trust strangers, and since Jonah, Chip, and Katherine trusted strangers they got into this time traveling stuff and they got very confused.

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In the Series of Harry Potter, by J.K Rowling, an important symbol that keeps coming up is Dumbledore.This symbol represents hope, and happiness. This connects with the theme, because when Harry first met  Dumbledore he gave harry hope, and even more, happiness. Harry is even referred as " Dumbledore's little pet" because of how good Dumbledore is to everyone, but mostly to Harry.

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5/8- Important themes: Among the betrayed 

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In the series: The shadow children by Margaret Peterson.

5/8- Important themes: Among the betrayed
In the series: The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson, we find many different symbols. First, Luke who is the main character, he represents hope as he is full of dreams. Mr. Talbot, Jen’s dad, he represents safety, protection and salvation for the some shadow children. The Hendricks School represents captivity, a prison for the shadow children. The Population Police represents fear, power and danger as they are in charge of killing the children and going by the law. The fake IDs represent freedom and a new start for those who get one. The darkness is always present in the story no matter where they go; it represents fear, a limit, the unknown and the curiosity of wanting to know what’s beyond the darkness. The author connects these symbols by showing the dreams and the fears of the characters who deserve to know that everything is not the way you expect to be and that everyone has a place in the world.

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In the book The Witches written by Roald Dahl, the castle where the witches live is where they hide from humans.  It symoolizes the heart of the grand high witch.  It connects to the theme of the story because the witches prepare their magic spells in the castle.  It is also where all of the witches are born.

Another important symbol is the wand of the grand high witch.  It symoolizes the old witches that have died.  It is given to a new witch every time an old witch dies.

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In the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by: J.K Rowling important symbols that keeps showing up in the series, is the Dementors, Dementors symbolize fear, itself, because whenever a Dementor sees you, it starts sucking all of the happiness away from you and it reminds you of your worst memory.

How these symbols connect to the theme is, since one of the most important themes is, that your loved ones will always remain in your heart, no matter what. The Dementors give the main character a reminder of when his parents die and so, the main character reminds himself that his parents will always be in his heart.

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In the Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan, some symbols that keep appearing are Kronos's sword, and the monsters. The sword represents all the power Kronos has. The monsters represent all the badness and darkness there is.
These two symbols both relate to the theme "Power in the wrong hands, can be deadly." For example, in the books, the monsters have power but monsters are bad, so they use that power badly and not for something good. An example for Kronos's sword is that Kronos is the most powerful titan lord there is. He has the power of time. He uses Luke's body to have a body of his own in the mean time. Because Luke is powerful and he has the Achilles curse, when Kronos goes into Luke's body, he becomes even more powerful. He uses all that power to kill demigods and Olympus.

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In the book, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan, some symbols that appear very often are monsters and gods. The gods represent good luck, and brightness. Monsters represent darkness, and evil.
These symbols connect to the theme of the story, "always be prepared" because monsters always attack most half-bloods and they don't know when are they attacking and most gods try to save them. (specially gods save their own children).

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5/8 Percy Jackson the lightning thief by

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In Percy Jackson the lightning thief By: Rick Riordan, some symbols that aper often are riptide the sword which means bravery because it is what he uses to defeat the monsters. The monsters represent danger because it is a danger to percy since he has a strong smell to gods. And the gods represent power, Hades  Represents Death because he is the god of the under world.  All these symbols add to the theme of the book (that i'm in process of reading.) The theme for me is to be brave and don't give up even if the world is against you.

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In The BFG by Roald Dahl one symbol that has appeared is food, it represents prize or punishment. The BFG was awesome and saved people so he ended up eating good food from the queen. This was a prize The bad giants were evil and bratty so they eat disgusting snozzcumbers.

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In the series The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix, the symbols that most appear are the population police as a symbol of repression and unfairness and Luke's house/farm as a symbol of captivity and a prison for him. Also Luke's fake I.D symbolizes hope, freedom and a fresh start.

The author connects this symbols to the theme of the book which is the importance of freedom. This is because all this symbols have something to link with freedom or the lack of freedom. The symbol that represents freedom is Luke's Fake I.D while the police and home represent lack of freedom/repression.

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5/8 Important Themes: The Magician's Nephew

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In the book The Magician's Nephew by C.S Lewis, some of the important symbols that keep appearing are the apple which represents youth. The apple connects to the theme of the book of not being selfish because Digory doesn't want to eat the apple to have more youth, he wants to keep it so his mother can get better.
Another symbol that keeps appearing in the book is the queen/witch which represents evil, this connects to the them of ordinary people can be capable of grate courage because Digory is an ordinary person that has to confront the queen/witch, which takes alot of courage.

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In the book The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson a symbol that occur the most is, the population police, that symbol represents sadness and unfairness. Another symbol that appears is, Luke's I.D it represents freedom and to have another opportunity to make another start.

The author connects the themes to the story because, the theme is Never give up always try until you achieve your goals, they connect because the population police is saying Luke or any shadow children shouldn't exist. The I.D connects because Luke is trying to achieve to be free by never giving up.

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One important symbol in the book Among the Impostors by Margaret Petersen Haddix are the children and I think they are symbols of confusion, because Luke knows nothing about them they also are acting extremely strange and Luke does not know why.

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In the book The Missing: Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix a symbol is JB (stands for Janitor Boy). He is a symbol of danger because he keeps on tackling people trying to kidnap Jonah & Chip. This symbol connects to theme don't trust strangers because it's kind of an alert for Jonah & Chip to know that anyone can come close to them and snatch them at any second, minute, hour, a day you know what I mean. Who knows maybe even the symbol himself could kidnap them! But you know that's just a theory.

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In the book Percy Jackson by Rick Roidan the symbol is Percy. This symbol (Percy) represents courage because Percy is not scare of fighting the monsters. Also he always save his friends. Thats why he represents courage.

Another symbol is Grover. This symbol represents friendship because Grover always is next to Percy not matter what. And he also helps Anabeth.

The author connects this symbols connect to the Theme because both symbols represent the theme never give up. I know this because if you are brave you can reach your goals. And friendship is that you are not giving up and you are helping others

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In the serie of Harry Potter by J.K Rowling, a symbol is Harry, because he is a symbol of power and strength.

Power:
I know this because all the wizards and witches in the Harry Potter series, know who is he and his story when he was a child. Also Harry has power because lots of people envy him as lots of people are happy to meet him, like Voldemort envy him, also Draco Malfoy, etc.; Ron was happy to meet him, Hermione was happy to meet Harry and etc.

Strength:
Harry was very happy to go to a zoo, he met a snake and talk with it in Paseltongue, he help it to escape too, the Dursleys were so nervous and the Dursleys also envy Harry, so they took lots of things like Harry's magical instruments, like his wand, books, Nimbus 2000, etc. Also Harry is very positive which gives him strength to fight against the dark side.

Another symbol is Dumbledore because he has power and strength.

Power:
He is the headmaster of all Hogwarts school that is the best magician school. He decides what to do and people trust him. He contains the Elder wand, the best ever made wand.

Strength:
Dumbledore is the worst and strongest enemy of Voldemort, Voldemort on the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry said to Tom Riddle who is Voldemort, that Voldemort was afraid of Dumbledore because he talked bad about Dumbledore, then Voldemort was surprised and scared after Harry said that.

This connects to the themes:
"Never give up"
"Treat other the way you want to be treated"
"Friendship can past through anything"
"Follow directions or you might get on trouble".
"Trust no one"
"Be sure what are you doing"

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5/8 Important Themes Percy Jackson and The Titans Curse by Rick Riordan 

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A important symbol in Percy Jackson are his dreams because they tell him about what is happening so that he gets an update on what is going on especially when his friends are in danger, and they need his help. Like when he dreamed of Grover in the Cyclops Cave, where the cyclops thought Grover was a girl and he wanted to marry him. I think the author connected this to the book so that it makes the book more interesting by making you wonder what is going to happen later on, so that you read more. This is connected to the theme because a theme in the book is be brave, and even though Percy knows what will happen, he still goes there and confronts whatever is awaiting.

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In The Witches by Roald Dahl an important symbol that keeps coming up in the book is the mouse-maker (a magic potion) this symbol represents how all the children in England would become mice  after

ingesting the magic potion. When a character eats/drinks the potion they become mice at the time the alarm clock (one of the ingredients the potion has) was set. This represents evil power. Another symbol that appears in the story is the grandma, she is always positive, even is the hardest, and complicated moments. She also brings sadness to the story, like when she was almost going to die, or when she lost her son in a car accident, even though she didn't was the one who died. This represents hope, and sadness. I think the author connects this symbol (the grandma) to the theme of the story " Never give up, even in the hardest times" this connects to the story because the grandma never gives up and uses that horrors to cheer her up, as new chances, to try harder, and come up with new better ideas, even though a lot of horrible things had happen to her before. In the other symbol (the magic potion)
the author connects to the theme " Not everything is what it looks like" because the witches where thinking of injecting the magic potion into candy so all the children would eat it. Everyone though it was not poisonous, delicious candy but in reality it wasn't.

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In the book The Magician's Nephew by C.S Lewis some symbols that appear very often are the silver apple, and the lion Aslan. In the book, the silver apple represents youth, if you take a bite out of it you will live forever. Also, I believe that the lion Aslan symbolizes opportunity, hope, and that you can make things possible if you try your best.

The silver apple represents youth and beauty, the evil witch wants to be young forever and she wants to live eternally. This keeps on appearing a lot in the book, in order to do so she has to eat the special apple, so she steals it. Digory also steals one but just to give it to his sick mother to save her from dying. The witch wants to trick Digory into eating the apple himself and not give it to his dying mother so he and the queen could be king and queen of the world of Narnia. Digory declines the offer of the evil witch.

The lion Aslan is very important in this story, he is the one that creates the world of Narnia, in which anything is possible, there are talking animals, and mystical creatures living within it. He gives opportunity to Polly and Digory to save Digory's dying mother. He gives hope to Digory and he is a really important character in the story. Aslan is the person everyone in Narnia goes to when they have a problem or they need to ask something because he is very helpful and wise.

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In the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, some important symbols are the camp Half-Blood, that represents all of the campers that are half-blood/demigods. Another symbol that keeps on appearing is Percy's bravery and that represents how he fought the minotaur and how he is going through his situation because Percy is going through a lot right now like losing his mom and whether she is actually dead, he is also wondering and wanting to find out who is his dad. It connects to " be brave no matter what." or "be positive whatever happens." For example, Percy might think it's really safe in that camp but later on, he will realize why it's important to stay in the camp and why it's not really safe in there.

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In the book The Missing: Found by Margret Peterson Haddix, a symbol in the book is Mr. Hodge, I think that he represents evil. That connects to the theme because a theme in the story is that never give up when fighting for evil and that those connect because Chip, Katherine, and Jonah were fighting Mr. Hodge and he was evil.

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5/8 Important Themes Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by, J.K Rowling an important symbol is Harry. It represents power. Harry has power because he is a very good wizard and because everyone knows him and almost everyone likes him.

Another symbol is Malfoy. He represents a little bit of danger because he is in Slytherin and they say the wizards and witches in Slytherin turn up being bad people (Voldemort was in Slytherin). Malfoy and his dad where also in a place where it isn't very nice (where probably bad wizards and witches are).

They connect to the theme be the very best of you because Harry always tries to do the best he can so thats why the majority of people like him and the theme ignore people you shouldn't be with because if Harry would have decided to be friends with Malfoy, may be Harry wouldn't be as nice and good as he is.

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In the book The NetherGrim a Symbolysm that keeps appearing is the NetherGrim. I think the NetherGrim means Power becuase it mentioned that the NetherGrim had a lot of power and a lot of people owed him money. They said it was feared and scared. The author connects that to the story because The NetherGrim has to be Destoryed

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In the book The Witches written by Roald Dahl, the castle where the witches live is where they hide from humans, the theme that this symbol gives is to always believe in yourself.  It symbolizes the heart of the grand high witch.  It connects to the theme of the story because the witches prepare their magic spells in the castle.  It is also where all of the witches are born.  Another important symbol is the wand of the grand high witch.  It symbolizes the old witches that have died.  It is given to a new witch every time an old witch dies. That power comes from the thoughts and heart.

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In the book The Witches written by Roald Dahl, the castle where the witches live is where they hide from humans, the theme that this symbol gives is to always believe in yourself.  It symbolizes the heart of the grand high witch.  It connects to the theme of the story because the witches prepare their magic spells in the castle.  It is also where all of the witches are born.  Another important symbol is the wand of the grand high witch.  It symbolizes the old witches that have died.  It is given to a new witch every time an old witch dies. That power comes from the thoughts and heart.

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In the book The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix, one symbol was the potato chips because the said that potato chips were illegal so that shows that they are in the future and thats why  you can't have more that 2 kids because the world is to over populated

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In the book The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix, one symbol was the potato chips because the said that potato chips were illegal so that shows that they are in the future and thats why  you can't have more that 2 kids because the world is to over populated

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In the book The Shadow Children Among The Barons by Margret Peterson a symbol that mostly came up was Smit's who's  Luke's fake brother now that he is publicly Lee Grant a rich dead kid. Smit's is a symbol that represents danger and assistance. The author connects the symbol and the theme because you have to face danger and help those who can't.

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In my book the Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson the symbols that kept appearing are the population police, and the fake I.D.

They both relate to the theme Never give up with challenges.

The first one symbolizes the challenges,  in the kids case they had to hide every day and couldn’t have a normal life.

The second one symbolizes the freedom because they could live a normal life with a fake I.D.

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5/8 Important symbols: Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets

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In the book "Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets" by J.K Rowling, one of the important symbols is Harry, Harry is an important symbol because he is and powerful wizard. Harry represents hope for Hogwarts and hope to defeat Lord Voldemort.

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In the serie of Harry Potter by J.K Rowling, a symbol is Harry, because he is a symbol of power and strength.

Power:
I know this because all the wizards and witches in the Harry Potter series, know who is he and his story when he was a child. Also Harry has power because lots of people envy him as lots of people are happy to meet him, like Voldemort envy him, also Draco Malfoy, etc.; Ron was happy to meet him, Hermione was happy to meet Harry and etc.

Strength:
Harry was very happy to go to a zoo, he met a snake and talk with it in Paseltongue, he help it to escape too, the Dursleys were so nervous and the Dursleys also envy Harry, so they took lots of things like Harry's magical instruments, like his wand, books, Nimbus 2000, etc. Also Harry is very positive which gives him strength to fight against the dark side.

Another symbol is Dumbledore because he has power and strength.

Power:
He is the headmaster of all Hogwarts school that is the best magician school. He decides what to do and people trust him. He contains the Elder wand, the best ever made wand.

Strength:
Dumbledore is the worst and strongest enemy of Voldemort, Voldemort on the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry said to Tom Riddle who is Voldemort, that Voldemort was afraid of Dumbledore because he talked bad about Dumbledore, then Voldemort was surprised and scared after Harry said that.

This connects to the themes:
"Never give up"
"Treat other the way you want to be treated"
"Friendship can past through anything"
"Follow directions or you might get on trouble".
"Trust no one"
"Be sure what are you doing"

Never give up because Harry worked really hard in the nights in secret with a flashlight. For Dumbledore too because he always kept on working hard and he never got retired of working in Hogwarts. Treat others the way you want to be treated because Harry always treated his friends good, teachers, and headmasters. Dumbledore too because he was the headmaster of all the school so he always treated everyone good. Friendship can past through anything because Harry always joined Ron and Hermione to solve mysteries around Hogwarts and other places. On friendship can past through anything, Dumbledore doesn't have. Follow directions or might get on trouble only applies to Harry. This is because Harry sometimes did things that were illegal, but that were to save Hogwarts from getting cancelled, because he did not want to live with the Dursleys because they are muggles. Trust no one because Harry read the Diary from Tom Riddle who it said a 100% lie. Also Dumbledore because Tom Riddle said that it was Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets, but Dumbledore new that Tom was lying to him. Be sure what are you doing because Harry talked with the diary from Tom Riddle, who is Voldemort and Tom Riddle new that it was him. Also to Dumbledore because he needs to keep everyone save, in peace, and with friendship.