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    difficult time with it. That is until he meets Dante for the first time at the swimming pool. Ari went from this lonely, sad, depressed, and misunderstood teenager earlier in the book, to this open, creative, and lively character once he meets Dante. "One summer night, I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke up. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same,"Saènz(1). This

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    The road, in both human and in physical geography, is important because it shapes the boy's views on good and evil. The world around the boy is not one of vibrancy and extremes; it is a world of gray. The mundane characteristics influence the boy's views because it causes him to look at situations and people in shades of gray instead of extremes. The

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Book Review John Boyne’s book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is told through the eyes of a nine year old boy named Bruno, however, it is not directed towards this age group. This book is more directed towards late middle school students and up due to the events that take place throughout the book as they can be quite emotionally distressing. The backbone of this book is about two little boy’s that form a special friendship through a barbed wire fence. As I was reading

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    through the violence in the world. None of the characters have names, They go by the man, the boy, and the bad. It is a father and son traveling alone to the coast. They do not know where they are going but are hopeful to reach a warm climate as the earth slowly gets colder and colder. They have to fight to stay alive as bad from the bad, who try to steal their things and kill them. The man fights to stay alive for the boy, the love for the boy keeps the man alive. The boy fights to keep the love

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    written by Nicola Yoon. The story is about a teenage girl that is allergic to everything. She soon meets a boy next door and they fall in love. There are many main topics in this novel such as sickness, love, and isolation. Madeline’s sickness is a big part of her life. Madeline has not been out of the house in seventeen years due to her sickness. For example. “Basically, I’m allergic to the world. Anything can trigger a bout of sickness” (pg.3)” Madeline could not go outside or she would die. Her

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    shoulders, and timid 14-year-old boy who lacks social skills. This is a story about a geeky kid who finds his way through the places and people he encounters. Although the film “The Way Way Back” contains stereotypes of a “boy meets girl” plot, it captures a teenage boy trying to find friendship and a place where he belongs. Each character’s performance plays an altering role in Duncan’s life along with the significance of the places where he reconnects to the world and himself. 14-year-old Duncan

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    author's take on a destroyed world where there are no true rules or laws anymore. There has been some kind of disaster, the nature of which is not clear throughout the book, and now a man and his boy are trying to survive in what is left. In this book the idea of justice is heavily considered. It can be seen through several scenes in the book, such as when they encounter a man in the forest, when they discover the people in the basement, when they find the bunker, when they meet Ely, when they reach the

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         Brave New World opens in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Center, where the Director of the Hatchery and Henry Foster are giving a tour to a group of boys. The boys learn about the Bokanovsky Process, which allows the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. During the gestation period the embryos travel in bottles along a conveyor belt through a large factory building, and are conditioned to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta

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    and David Levithan. The book is about two boys that are both named Will Grayson, who are living completely different lives. Later, their lives intertwine and suddenly they aren’t so different anymore. Through the book, they endure many hardships and discover things about themselves and the world that they didn’t know before, as the chapters alternate between their points of views. When the book begins, we learn about the first Will Grayson; a teenage boy with a best friend named Tiny Cooper, who

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    My main focus of this story is the boy, whose name is Santiago. Santiago is the main character of the book, The Alchemist. He is the protagonist of this story and faces many challenges. This child was born in a small town in Andalusia, who attended the seminary, but now he travels around the world. Before he traveled around the world, he asked his father’s permission to become a Shepherd. His father agreed with him and gave him money. One night in an abandoned church, he dreamed of a child telling

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