Plymouth Fury

Christine is another fractured “Cinderella” story, Carrie for boys. Arnie Cunningham, a nearsighted, acne-scarred loser, falls “in love with” a car, a passionate (red and white) Plymouth Fury, “one of the long ones with the big fins,” that he names Christine. An automotive godmother, she brings Arnie, in fairy-tale succession, freedom, success, power, and love: a home away from overprotective parents, a cure for acne, hit-andrun revenge

Imagine falling in love with a 1958 Plymouth Fury. This is the life of Arnie and his car Christine. Arnie a loser in every sense of the word, great with cars, and is made fun of by even the most unpopular of kids. Christine Arnie's` first love, murderous, possessive, possessed, and Arnie`s first car. The puritans would absolutely loathe the book Christine due to it's use of supernatural forces, the sinful lives of the characters, and the work of fiction all together. The puritans would abhor the

relationship between Father and the Fury. Boyne briefly explores this relationship during a literary flashback. The dialogue where Father states how he has "no choice" demonstrates to the reader how, like Bruno, Father was afraid of the repercussions which would occur by going against the 'rules' set in place by the Fury. This is the basis of the tactic used by hijackers asking for ransom money, they instil fear in their victims to ensure that they will obey as Father obeys the Fury by moving to Out-With. Consequently

In the novel,'Boy In the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne the author discusses detail and relevant text about characters feelings, expressions, and thoughts towards certain situations. He tends the readers to understand what the characters face throughout the novel by expressing their emotions and actions. There are many events when John Boyne has shown this type of purpose, in his novel. For instance, he mentioned several times at the start of the book how much hatred did Bruno have for Out-With.

John Boyne has created a sophisticated and meaningful novel in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas through his thematic analysis of power which explores society’s perception of authority; his symbolic representation of the fence which starkly exposes Bruno’s ignorance of cultural divisions; and finally, his characterisation of Mother revealing the fraught atmosphere during the Holocaust. The theme of power is explored in this novel through authoritative figures and their presentation in society.The

nimals, I think it's kind of gross, but I don’t have the commitment to say I'm a vegetarian. Anyway, I don't enjoy eating animals that much, it's just not for me but that's a personal problem.  But that's the main focus of Thanksgiving! People just call is Turkey Day, sometimes! So, there's one holiday food, OUT! Next in line, we have stuffing. Mmm don’t you just love good old fashioned wet bread to fill your genetically modified turkey's carcass? Ew! What? Why is that a thing? I don't need to argue

Contributions Approach Example 1 During science class while studying elements a teacher introduces Marie Curie and her contributions to the science community by sharing articles and book excerpts about what she accomplished in her lifetime. Students will learn she was a chemist and physicist and that she discovered polonium and radium. They also will learn of her contributions to the installation of X-ray machines and the purposes they served in World War I. This is important because in our society

In the third chapter of Lies My Teacher Told Me, the author, James W. Loewen continues the topic of history teachers and textbooks not providing its students correct information, or leaving out details that are important to the specific topic of discussion The first specific topic Loewen discusses is the first settlers of what we now know as the United States. He describes that his students mostly said the first settlers were white men in the 1620s. Loewen then informs the reader that the first settlers

have been born around 1540. During this time it was not uncommon for parents to send their children away to get an education from a wealthy relative. Drake lived in the household of William Hawkins, a wealthy politician who represented the town of Plymouth in parliament and whose father was a “merchant and raised his son to be skilled in trading and seafaring”(Kelsey 9). Drake lived amongst his

Sir Francis Drake war hero, privateer or pirate? To answer this question we first must learn the definition of piracy, then we need to find out who and what constituted a pirates, we look at the difference between a pirate, buccaneer, corsairs and a privateer, then we need to look into event that would make Drake a war hero and the event that labeled him a coward. Piracy is defined by dictionary.com as the practice of a pirate: robbery or illegal violence at sea. (Dictionary.com 2014). In Piracy: