English Class 10th Grade by Elizabeth Garcia

Dublin, Ireland

elizabeth622 — 2021-08-17 05:03:00 UTC

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.

Summary: A painter named Basil Hallward and his friend Lord Henry is in Basil’s living room contemplating a painting of a man of astonishing beauty, a model who the painter loves it and it embodies his conception of beauty.

This beautiful young man is Dorian Gray, one of the protagonists of the story. At a great party, Basil introduces Lord Henry and Dorian Gray, who have a conversation about the transience of beauty, which will never be eternal. This is how Dorian begins to feel envy of his own painting, who will never grow old, not like him. During a meal at Lord Henry’s house, Dorian begins to talk about his love, Sybil Vane, with whom he will end up getting engaged soon after. Sybil Vane calls him “The Charming Young Man” because she doesn’t even know his name, but she is very much in love.

"I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put on his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"

Luis Murillo

2021-08-17 16:56:18 UTC

Luis Murillo

Prisoner B-3087 is based on the true story of Yanek Gruener, a young Jewish boy who is 10 years old when the Nazis invade his home city of Kraków, Poland in September 1939. Yanek, his parents Oskar and Mina, and the rest of his family, who are all Jewish, are immediately subjected to restrictions on their freedoms. A Jewish ghetto is created, and Jewish people are not allowed to go to school or to own business. Soon, Nazis start to raid their homes and deport citizens to camps—where it is rumored that Jewish people are killed.
As the years go on, Yanek is transferred wherever work is needed: first, to the Wieliczka salt mine, and then to Trzebinia concentration camp. At each of these places, the work is grueling and death is commonplace—the Nazis treat the Jewish prisoners worse than animals. Yanek thinks about fighting back, but when one prisoner resists during roll call at Trzebinia, he is immediately shot—and seven other innocent prisoners, including a young boy, are hanged in front of the rest.
After a few months, Yanek is transferred to Auschwitz. There, despite Moshe’s warnings, he befriends a boy named Fred, who is also from Kraków. Arriving at Sachsenhausen, Yanek and the other prisoners are given a brief period of rest which allows them to regain a bit of strength. Yanek continues to wash at a pump every day, marveling that he once owned the luxury of a toothbrush.
At Dachau, the explosions come closer and closer to the camps, and in early spring, the prisoners wake to find that the Nazis have fled in the night. They are unsure what to do with themselves, how they might get back to their homes, or what they would even go back to. But then, in April 1945, American soldiers arrive to liberate them, and Yanek falls to his knees, sobbing in relief that he survived the war. A soldier approaches Yanek, asks him his name, and assures him that everything is going to be all right.

The liberated prisoners are taken away from Dachau and housed temporarily in Munich. Yanek is amazed when the American soldiers give him a bunk to himself, sheets, a pillow, a cup, a washcloth, and especially a toothbrush. That night at dinner, another survivor cries as they all sit down to eat their meal. Yanek thinks that even though they are relieved to be free, there is an immense amount of sadness in remembering those that they had lost. However, Yanek soon discovers that his cousin Youzek also survived. Youzek suggests that Yanek apply to a new program in America that’s helping Jewish orphans immigrate. After three years, Yanek’s papers finally come through. As Yanek boards the train that will take him to a ship bound for the U.S., he thinks about his family. He knows he will always remember them, but that starting over in America will allow him to live his life again.

Lanús, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

gabrielitoserv — 2021-08-17 17:01:47 UTC

Yo quería jugar, no sabia de que quería jugar, no sabia... No tenia idea. Yo empecé de defensor. Me gusto siempre y todavía me seduce jugar de libero, apenas me dejan tocar una pelota porque tienen miedo que mi corazón explote

Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos

2021-08-17 17:01:47 UTC

The tell tale heart by edgar alan poe (january 19 1809, october 7 1849)
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story.
summary:
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately, the narrator's actions result in hearing a thumping sound, which the narrator interprets as the dead man's beating heart.

Jerusalem, Israel

alessandraa154910 — 2021-08-17 17:03:00 UTC

Leigh Bardugo
She was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She is best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, which include the Six of Crows duology, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the King of Scars series. She also received acclaim for her paranormal fantasy adult debut, Ninth House.
Six of Crows
Ketterdam is a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge.

A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager.

A runaway with a privileged past.

A spy known as the Wraith.

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first.
Favorite Quotes

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near."

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”

Roberto Acosta-Río de janeiro

robertoa15309 — 2021-08-17 17:04:42 UTC

A story for adults that explores the intense relationship between body and soul. Like a fairy tale for adults, Once Minutos is a novel that explores the nature of sex and love, the intense and difficult relationship between body and soul, and how to achieve the perfect union between the two.
Once Minutos is a book by the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, published in 2003. The novel tells the life of Maria, a young woman from a remote village in Brazil. ... A story about the sublime, Eleven Minutes is a novel that explores the nature of sex and love.

-Hay un momento para dejarlo todo

Massachusetts, EE. UU.

alejandrom09819 — 2021-08-17 17:04:55 UTC

The story is told in first person, so we don’t explicitly learn the narrator’s name until near the end. Until then, we’ll call him “the narrator.” Here we go.

The narrator begins by telling us that Fortunato has hurt him. Even worse, Fortunato has insulted him. The narrator must get revenge. He meets Fortunato, who is all dressed up in jester clothes for a carnival celebration − and is already very drunk. The narrator mentions he’s found a barrel of a rare brandy called Amontillado. Fortunato expresses eager interest in verifying the wine’s authenticity.

So he and the narrator go to the underground graveyard, or “catacomb,” of the Montresor family. Apparently, that’s where the narrator keeps his wine. The narrator leads Fortunato deeper and deeper into the catacomb, getting him drunker and drunker along the way. Fortunato keeps coughing, and the narrator constantly suggests that Fortunato is too sick to be down among the damp crypts, and should go back. Fortunato just keeps talking about the Amontillado.

Eventually, Fortunato walks into a man-sized hole that’s part of the wall of a really nasty crypt. The narrator chains Fortunato to the wall, then begins to close Fortunato in the hole by filling in the opening with bricks. When he has one brick left, he psychologically tortures Fortunato until he begs for mercy – and we finally learn the narrator’s name: Fortunato calls him “Montresor.”

After Fortunato cries out Montresor’s name, he doesn’t have any more lines. But just before Montresor puts in the last brick, Fortunato jingles his bells. Then Montresor finishes the job and leaves him there to die. At the very end, Montresor tells us that the whole affair happened fifty years ago, and nobody has found out.

Eduardo Valdez

eduardov15299 — 2021-08-17 17:08:28 UTC

The story focuses on the heroic efforts of disabled farmer Nat Hocken to protect his family from the hordes of birds that relentlessly try to invade the family’s cottage. Nat does odd jobs around the neighborhood, and on his way home one evening in early December, he notices that there are more birds around than usual and that they have become strangely aggressive. When he arrives home, he hears on the radio that all over England something has happened to the birds. “The flocks of birds have caused dislocation in all areas,” says the broadcaster, and there is something sinister in the word “dislocation,” for it suggests that the order of nature has been broken and humanity has lost its dominion over the birds and beasts. When the government and the military admit that there is nothing they can do, Nat is forced to rely on himself to survive. It is survival of the fittest, and he knows who will win.

“how many millions of years were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.”

Hisarlık, Tire/Provincia de Esmirna, Turquía

carlosb09089 — 2021-08-17 17:08:30 UTC

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. The Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, along with the Odyssey, another epic poem attributed to Homer which tells of Odysseus's experiences after the events of the Iliad.

Quote: “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”

Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

2021-08-17 17:09:04 UTC

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins.

The non-linear story, told by an anonymous narrator, begins with the morning of Santiago Nasar's death. The reader learns that Santiago lives with his mother, Placida Linero; the cook, Victoria Guzman; and the cook's daughter, Divina Flor.
Santiago took over the successful family ranch after the death of his father Ibrahim, who was of Arab origin. He returns home in the early morning hours from an all-night celebration of a wedding between a recent newcomer, Bayardo San Roman, and a long-term resident, Angela Vicario. Two hours after the wedding, Angela was dragged back to her mother's home by Bayardo because she was not a virgin. After a beating from her mother, Angela is forced to reveal the name of the man who has defiled her purity and honor. In a somewhat spurious manner, she reveals the man to be Santiago. Her two twin brothers, Pablo and Pedro Vicario, decide to kill Santiago in order to avenge the insult to their family honor with two knives previously used to slaughter pigs.

" -¡Santiago, hijo -le gritó- que te pasa!
Santiago Nasar la reconoció.
- Que me mataron, niña Wene- dijo."

East Grand Rapids, MI, USA

ianc08599 — 2021-08-17 17:10:43 UTC

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge

Joseph García

2021-08-17 17:11:48 UTC

Sherlock Holmes talks with Dr. Mortimer to assist in protecting the life of his best friend's nephew who is that very day returning to England from Canada. Mortimer's friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, recently died and, although the coroner ruled it to be a natural death, the Doctor knows he was being chased by a legendary dog, the Hound of the Baskervilles, that has plagued the Baskerville family for years. Sir Henry Baskerville is Sir Charles' heir and Mortimer is convinced that he will not last long living on the moors at Baskerville Hall. Already Sir Henry is facing odd happenings when a single boot is stolen at his hotel. Holmes dispatches his good friend Dr. Watson to accompany the young man to the family estate while he attends to other matters in London. Once there, Sir Henry meets the lovely Beryl Stapleton and her brother, John. The servants are acting strangely and, when Watson catches one of them signaling to someone on the moor, he thinks he knows who might be involved. Holmes, who has been masquerading as a tramp, has his own ideas, however, and the solution to the mystery lies in the Baskerville family history

United states

2021-08-17 17:12:04 UTC

152 North St, Boston, MA 02109, EE. UU.

katherinec09199 — 2021-08-17 17:12:21 UTC

“So I am mad, you say? You should have seen how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the boards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again, care fully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved.”

SUMMARY

The dramatic monologue begins with the unnamed (and highly unreliable) first-person narrator issuing a challenge of sorts: ‘‘True!—nervous, very, very dreadful nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’’ He declares at once that he suffers from a ‘‘disease,’’ but implies that because it has not dulled his senses, he cannot be called mad. The narrator points out that his mental disorder has actually caused his senses, especially his hearing, to become more acute. When he claims to have heard many things in heaven and hell, we realize, of course, that his super-human sensory experiences are delusions. But having posited (and immediately undercut) the first argument in his proof, the narrator turns to a second plank. The calm manner in which he will now tell us the whole story is in itself evidence of his sound mind.

The narrator says that he cannot recall when the idea of killing the old man ‘‘entered’’ his ‘‘brain.’’ He never discloses the exact nature of his relationship to the victim. The old man and his killer seem to live in the same house, and this would suggest a family bond of some kind, and, from here, a father-son relation with ample room for subconscious motives. But the narrator conspicuously omits direct confirmation that the old man is his father (or uncle, etc.), saying only that he loved his victim and that he did not covet the old man’s wealth. In mid-sentence, as if he just realized it (or made it up), the narrator declares that it was one of the old man’s eyes, a pale-blue, film-covered eye like that of a vulture, that he could not stand. As if jogging his own memory (or, again, making it up on the spot), the narrator further recollects that when this ‘‘evil eye’’ fell upon him, his blood ran cold.

The motive established, the narrator proceeds to recount the cunning deliberation, the caution, that he used in preparing to take the old man’s life, submitting it as evidence of his rationality. To allay any suspicions that his intended victim might have, the narrator greeted the old man each morning during the week before the crime with encouraging words, asking him about how he had slept the night before. But each midnight as the old man slept, the narrator carefully lifted the latch on his bedroom door, moved his head inside the room itself, and opened a lantern’s shutter so slightly that only a narrow beam of light pinpointed the ‘‘vulture’’ eye. For seven nights in a row, the deed could not be committed because the ‘‘accursed’’ eye was closed.

On the eighth night, however, an opportunity (to hear the killer tell it) arose. Moving as slowly as the hands of a clock, he opened the bedroom door and felt a sense of exhilaration at the thought that the old man did not even dream that a foul deed was afoot. Unable to suppress his glee, the narrator chuckled aloud, causing the old man to shift suddenly in his sleep, as if he were startled. But the narrator says that he was not concerned since the room was pitch black, its shutters closed tight against thieves. This time, he slipped his head in as usual, but when his thumb slipped on the lantern shutter, the sound caused the old man to spring up in his bed and to cry out ‘‘Who’s there.’’ The narrator does not take this to be a blunder on his part. Instead, he describes his delight in being able to read the old man’s mind. Laying back down, the old man groaned, and the narrator somehow knew that this was not an expression of pain or grief, but one of mortal terror, terror of the kind that he himself had experienced. The narrator reports following the old man’s mind as he tried to reason away the sound as merely a gust of wind or a mouse moving across the floor. But the old man could not comfort himself, the narrator knows, for he could feel the presence of Death (with a capital ‘‘D’’) hovering near him.

On this night, the narrator recounts, the ‘‘evil eye’’ is wide open, and when the lantern’s rays illuminate it, the mere sight of cloudy orb infuriates him. Through his superhuman hearing, the narrator says that he is able to detect the old man’s heart beat growing faster and louder, so loud, in fact, that the narrator feared a neighbor would be awakened. Yet after resolving that the ‘‘old man’s hour has come,’’ the narrator himself yells out before leaping fully into the room and causing his victim to shriek. The cunning narrator killed the old man by dragging him to the floor and pulling the bed over his victim. Whether the old man was crushed or smothered, the narrator was certain that he was dead, but that his heart continued to beat. Again, the killer is not concerned: the sound was not loud enough to be heard by neighbors. Indeed, the narrator recalls, it stopped altogether and when he placed his hand upon the old man’s chest, he concluded that his victim was ‘‘stoned dead.’’

The narrator then details the perfection of his plan. He disposed of the corpse by dismembering the body, cutting off the old man’s head, legs and arms. He took some planks up from the bedroom floor, dumped all of the remains below in the space below, and then replaced the boards so that no human eye could ever detect that they had been disturbed. The narrator anticipates the listener’s objections that some blood must have been shed in the process, but he gleefully reports, ‘‘I had been too wary for that. A tub had caught all—ha, ha!’’

At four in the morning, three policemen came to the house. A neighbor had heard a shriek in the night, the police explained, and they wanted to search the premises. The narrator says that this did not worry him. He told the officers that the shriek was his outburst from a bad dream. The narrator led the investigating party into the old man’s bedchamber, provided chairs for them to sit, and placed his own chair directly atop the boards concealing his victim’s remains. Although he was convinced by their light conversation that the police were satisfied by his account, when they did not leave, the narrator developed a headache, and then felt a ringing in his ears. He became even more anxious when the noise grew and was convinced that it came from outside of himself. According to the narrator, his actions began to betray him: he began to pace the floor, to race, and even to foam at the mouth. He became convinced that the police could hear the sound of the old man’s heart but said nothing, thereby making ‘‘a mockery of my horror.’’ Unable to stand the agony of being ridiculed, the narrator called the detectives ‘‘villains,’’ admitted to his crime, and directed them to the source of the sound. When they picked up the planks, so the narrator tells us, they found the old man’s ‘‘hideous heart’’ still beating away.

Danlí, El Paraíso, Honduras, Danlí

damsalejandro7 — 2021-08-17 17:15:06 UTC

Summary:In this love story, Blanca Olmedo, a young woman from a good family, has lost all her properties thanks to the bad actions of a corrupt lawyer (Elodio Verdolaga).

This circumstance forces her to work as a governess in the Moreno family home, which is where she meets the love of her life, Gustavo Moreno.It was a very pure love, a true love, a love that did not hurt, however many people were in charge of truncating all the dreams of those two young people, who came to death in order to be together this was cause of Verdolaga and Sandino that they filled Micaela's head with lies and thus managed to separate Blanca and Gustavo until they both died.

“...¡Querer que yo no la vea!¡Querer que no me le acerque, es pedir al pájaro que no cante, al sol que no alumbre, a la mariposa que no busque la luz, a los ojos que no vean, al corazón que no ame, al alma que no sienta, a mí, que no sea humano!” -Gustavo Moreno

Cesia Maradiaga

Florida, Missouri, USA

2021-08-17 17:15:39 UTC

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885..

The book is known for "changing the course of children's literature" in America for the "deeply felt portrayal of childhood." He is also known for his colorful depiction of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a prewar Southern society that had ceased to exist more than 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

summary:The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri on the shore of the Mississippi River "forty to fifty years ago" (the novel having been published in 1884). Huckleberry "Huck" Finn and his friend, Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures . Huck explains how he is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to "sivilize" him and teach him religion. Huck finds civilized life confining. His spirits are raised when Tom Sawyer helps him to slip past Miss Watson's slave, Jim, so he can meet up with Tom's gang of self-proclaimed "robbers". Just as the gang's activities begin to bore Huck, his shiftless father, "Pap", an abusive alcoholic, suddenly reappears. Huck, who knows his father will spend the money on alcohol, is successful keeping his fortune out of his father's hands. Pap, however, kidnaps Huck and takes him out of town.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Heizel Rivera

2021-08-17 17:15:47 UTC

The Book Thief is the story of a pretty girl named Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the small town of Molching in 1939, shortly before World War II, and how sad it gets after the World War II began.

“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”
-Death
The book thief

Torquay, Reino Unido

2021-08-17 17:16:28 UTC

Abouth the author:

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, ( 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Summary:

During a boat trip that Poirot is also on board for, Linnet ends up dead and Simon is shot, sparking an investigation in true Christie form. During the course of the story, two other characters are also killed, making it a triple murder investigation for the famous Belgian detective.

“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”

― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

Made by: Nasry Tarrius

Boston, MA, USA

ianc08599 — 2021-08-17 17:17:21 UTC

"Zathura a space adventure"

Barcelona, España

carlosb09089 — 2021-08-17 17:18:13 UTC

In The City of Beasts, Alexander and his grandmother Kate go on an expedition in the Amazon jungle in search of a strange gigantic beast. Together with his travel companion, Nadia Santos, and a centennial indigenous shaman, Alex will discover an amazing world and together they will live a great adventure.

2021-08-17 17:19:00 UTC

Daniela Ruiz

Summary: On the third of December in a quiet, seaside town, the season shifts abruptly from autumn to winter. Nat Hocken, a disabled veteran who works part-time on a farm, observes that there seem to be more birds than usual clamoring restlessly over the sea. He muses that they must receive a message each autumn that winter is coming, and he compares their behavior to human beings driven to “work or folly” in the face of death. At home in his cottage that night, Nat wakes up to the east wind whipping outside. Hearing a rapping on his windowpane, he opens the window and something sharp grazes his knuckle, drawing blood. He watches a bird flutter back outside and, thinking the wind must have disoriented it, Nat closes the window and returns to bed. The rapping sound returns and when Nat opens the window to investigate, a half dozen birds fly at his face. He drives them out and then hears a cry from his children’s room. Their window is wide open and their bedroom is filled with birds, which are fluttering around and then diving to attack the children. Beating back the birds with a blanket, Nat kills many of them until the dawn breaks and the birds fly away. Back at the cottage, a radio broadcast relays that an enormous flock of birds has brought London to a halt. The announcer urges families to remain indoors and suggests that weather and hunger are to blame for the birds’ behavior. Nat is ecstatic to have his observations validated, and he begins boarding up the cottage. As he does so, he remembers boarding up his mother’s house during the war. He reflects that the Triggs will likely refuse to take the same precautions. Later, following another radio broadcast about the attacks, Nat resents the announcer’s lighthearted tone and predicts that many others will refuse to take the birds seriously. Nat muses about organizing the new supplies and subsequent steps he will take to fortify the cottage, even as hawks begin to hammer at the cottage door. The door begins to splinter and tear. Nat tells his wife he will smoke his final cigarette. He tosses the empty packet onto the fire.

It's always the same ... they always let us down. Muddle, muddle, from the start.

-Nat Hocken

Brooklyn, New York

carlao15249 — 2021-08-17 17:25:21 UTC

A fast-paced teen series where one girl learns that in a world of intrigue, betrayal, and deeply buried secrets, it's vital to trust your instincts.

It all starts with a text: Please, Wylie, I need your help. Wylie hasn’t heard from Cassie in over a week, not since their last fight. But that doesn’t matter. Cassie’s in trouble, so Wylie decides to do what she has done so many times before: save her best friend from herself.

Author:
Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Alex awards and has been acquired in 17 countries. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

Quote:
“Why are the bad things always so much easier to believe? It shouldn't be that way but it is every single time, you're too sensitive, and too worried they say, you care too much about all the wrong things. One little whisper in your ear and the words tumble through your head like you're the one who thought them first. Hear them enough and pretty soon they're etched on the surface of your heart.”

Plainville, Massachusetts, EE. UU.

2021-08-17 17:25:27 UTC

Greg is presented in the graphic novel as a typical middle school kid from a typical family, which seems to be squarely middle class. Greg is a self-labeled wimp, because he shuns sports and physical exercise in favor of video games. He has an older brother, Rodrick, and a younger brother, Manny (a toddler). His best friend is Rowley Jefferson, a sweet boy whose naïveté consistently embarrasses Greg. On the first day of middle school, for instance, Rowley asks Greg if he wants to "play" after school—despite Greg's repeated reminders to use the phrase "hang out" instead of "play" now that they are in middle school.

At the end of the story, though, Greg stands up for Rowley after older students bully Rowley into eating a piece of moldy cheese that has been on the playground all year. This incident illustrates the inner growth that Greg, along with his friends, has achieved. As he and Rowley make plans for summer, it is apparent that Greg is more comfortable with middle school now and more comfortable with his own identity.

Quote: “It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.”

Bryan Arita

Reino Unido

carlao15239 — 2021-08-17 17:30:07 UTC

Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York
About the author, she principally wrote fantasy and speculative novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. Jones' work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three Moving Castle novels, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Summary: 18-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the eldest of three will never be successful. As the eldest, Sophie is resigned to a dull future running the family hat shop. Unbeknownst to her, she is able to talk life into objects. When the powerful Witch of the Waste considers her a threat and turns her into an old crone, Sophie leaves the shop and finds work as a cleaning lady for the notorious Wizard Howl. She strikes a bargain with Howl's fire demon, Calcifer: if she can break the contract between Howl and Calcifer, then Calcifer will return her to her original youthful form. Part of the contract, however, stipulates that neither Howl nor Calcifer can disclose the main clause, leaving Sophie to figure it out on her own.

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”

Washington D. C., Distrito de Columbia, EE. UU.

2021-08-17 17:35:58 UTC

Harry potter

30 de june 1997
After murdering Harry's parents, James and Lily Potter, evil Lord Voldemort puts a killing curse on Harry, then just a baby. The curse inexplicably reverses, defeating Voldemort and searing a lightning-bolt scar in the middle of the infant's forehead. Harry is then left at the doorstep of his boring but brutish aunt and uncle, the Dursleys.
For 10 years, Harry lives in the cupboard under the stairs and is subjected to cruel mistreatment by Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and their son Dudley. On his 11th birthday, Harry receives a letter inviting him to study magic at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry discovers that not only is he a wizard, but he is a famous one. He meets two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and makes his first enemy, Draco Malfoy. At Hogwarts the three friends are all placed into the Gryffindor house. Harry has a knack for the school sport, Quidditch, and is recruited onto the Gryffindor team as its star Seeker.
Perusing the restricted section in the library, Harry discovers that the Sorcerer's Stone produces the Elixir of Life, which gives its drinker the gift of immortality. After realizing that Voldemort might be after the stone, Albus Dumbledore had it moved it to Hogwarts for safekeeping.
Harry finds out that when she died, Lily Potter transferred to her son an ancient magical protection from Voldemort's lethal spells. This protection is what allowed Harry as an infant to survive Voldemort's attack. It also helps Harry keep Voldemort from possessing the Stone, which Dumbledore agrees to destroy.

Río de Janeiro, Estado de Río de Janeiro, Brasil

damsalejandro7 — 2021-08-17 17:54:47 UTC

Summary: When a person really wants something, the entire Universe conspires so that he can realize his dream. It is enough to learn to listen to the dictates of the heart and to decipher the language that is beyond words. The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd who travels from his homeland to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure hidden in the pyramids. Nobody knows what the treasure contains, or if Santiago will be able to overcome the obstacles on the way. But what begins as a journey in search of riches turns into an inner treasure discovery.

-Cuando quieres una cosa, todo el Universo conspira para ayudarte a conseguirla.
-Es justamente la posibilidad de realizar un sueño lo que hace que la vida sea interesante.
-Las personas aprenden muy pronto su razón de vivir. Quizá también sea por eso que desisten tan pronto. Pero así es el mundo.

Cesia Maradiaga

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

2021-08-17 18:27:35 UTC

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the story of Bruno, a young german boy growing up during Wolrd Ward II. As a nine-year-old, Bruno lived in his own world of imagination. He enjoyed reading adventure stories and going on expeditions to explore the lesser-known corners of his family's massive house in Berlin.

Tegucigalpa

2021-08-17 20:45:05 UTC

hola

Alemania

2021-08-17 20:46:00 UTC

Herman Hesse

Portland, Oregón, EE. UU.

danielr14199 — 2021-08-18 02:31:43 UTC

It's nearing the end of the school year. High school senior Carrie White is a social outcast, largely due to being unwise to the ways of the world based on her upbringing. Her mother, Margaret White, is a religious fanatic, her extreme views primarily targeted against sex, which she believes is a sin. She even believes natural associated processes such as menstruation are a sin, about which she has refused to mention to Carrie. Mrs. White's beliefs were taken to that extreme largely because of her own failed marriage and her husband Ralph long ago having run off with another woman. The only adult authority figure who tries to help Carrie with her life is her phys ed teacher, Miss Collins, who is nonetheless warned not to get too close to go against how Mrs. White chooses to raise Carrie, Mrs. White whose beliefs are well known in the community. An impromptu event that happens among Carrie's phys ed classmates against her leads to her classmates being punished. One of those students, self absorbed Chris Hargensen, vows revenge against Carrie for that punishment, the method of the revenge associated to the phys ed class incident. Another student however, the popular Sue Snell, begins to feel sorry for Carrie. In wanting to help her get out of her shell, Sue asks her boyfriend, the equally popular Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the senior prom instead of her. This move does not sit well with Mrs. White, who in her extreme view believes Carrie will fall prey to sin. All these competing issues lead to Carrie deciding on an impulse to use a newfound skill to free herself from the figurative chains that have long been placed around her, with tragic consequences.