Contemporary Novels notes
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This Contemporary Novels page gathers notes on works including The Complete Persepolis, Spies and Atonement. School students can practice following plots and planning essays, while teachers can use the notes for lessons. There are more than 10 user-made notes, mostly for school-level study. Choose a work and open a note to begin.
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The Complete Persepolis Essential Questions What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books What steps lead one to adulthood? What ought ethnic identity mean to us? What does it mean to be true to ourselves? What We Should Learn T...
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Cone gatherers summary notes Chapters 1-4 (Scotnotes) In these chapters we are introduced first of all to the brothers Neil and Calum, who are high in the trees gathering cones. So much of the wood is being used for war purposes that it wil...
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The Road by Cormac Mccarthy
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The Cone Gatherers - Essay Plans The Cone Gatherers: Essay Plans1) Choose a character from a novel who seems to you to be unfortunate in life, or for whom the ending is unhappy.Show how much of the character's misfortune you feel is caused by his, or...
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the cone gatherers summaries chapter onein the opening chapter we are introduced to Calum and Neil who are high up in the tress gathering cones. It is set during WWI and the forest is to be cut down for wood and needs to be replaces, this is the ...
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The Green Mile Film Arlen Bitterbuck Native American Discriminated Minority First to be executed We dont know much about him Close up sot ”We’re not gonna have some cherokee medicine man in here hoopi...
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Cone gatherers summary notes Chapters 1-4 (Scotnotes) In these chapters we are introduced first of all to the brothers Neil and Calum, who are high in the trees gathering cones. So much of the wood is being used for war purposes that it wil...
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Atonement - Synopsis Divided in 3 parts and an epilogueFirst part takes up half of bookPart 1Set on hottest day of 1935 on English country estate of Tallis familyTallis' mannered life depicted at length in slow-moving portrait of day13 ye...
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The Cone Gatherers: Themes - created from Mind Map Good vs Evil War: The Macrocosm Religion
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Atonement - Detailed summary - Part one Chapter 1 Briony Tallis written play she intends to perform with cousins for older brother Leon on his return home from their country estate Briony has passion for writing - considers herself to have talent and promis...
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Untitled he novel opens in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio. For the past eighteen years, Sethe, an ex-slave, and her daughter, Denver, have been living in a house that is haunted by the ghost of Sethe’s firstborn baby daughter. Until...
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Brighton Rock Plot Summary Brighton Rock by Graham Greene begins with the news reporter Charles Hale drinking alone in Brighton on a tourist-choked holiday weekend. At a bar, he runs into the curvy and flirtatious Ida Arnold. The two share a ca...
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Links and Connections Fish Lamb aka Samson is the central figure of Cloudstreet. His name bears two distinct references to the Christian bible: Fish is the symbol o the early Christian Church while Samson is the name of the biblical figure...
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Spies practice essay plan Our Memories and our experiences prevent us from seeing reality clearly- Stephen: Experience that Keith w...
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ATONEMENT AO5 CECILIA FINNEY ... they [Robbie and Cecilia] will always live... ROBBIE
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Spies Context REMEMBER Don't repeat yourself incessantly because it's BORING and it's not going to get you any marks Also - Uncle Peter - he's a broken man who has lost his mind (nearly) because of t...
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Untitled QUOTESPg 26 Narration of Lester and Oriel:‘Lester and Oriel Lamb are Godfearing people.’ ‘Let your light so shine.’ ‘Lester Lamb polices like her farms, always a little behind the moment. He’d quit the force if only h...
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Jess's paragraph on Museum Gardens 30/9/16 The Museum Gardens Within Kate Atkinson’s novel Behind the Scenes of the Museum the Museum Gardens is not a space that appears often in detail. We first hear of the space on page24 with a brief description fro...
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The Museum Gardens 30/9/16 The Museum Gardens Within Kate Atkinson’s novel Behind the Scenes of the Museum the Museum Gardens is not a space that appears often in detail. We first hear of the space on page24 with a brief description fro...
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Atonement Big Ideas Lying leads to lack of trust and failure of relationships Lying can become out of control Even small lies can greatly change somebody's life Moral and ethical consequences can shape our identity That all narratives ar...
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Persepolis War developments: - Child soldiers - Fighter pilots are revealed from prison to go fight; most do not come back. - Tehran + other big cities are bombed - Families are displayed - Iraq offers peace + Iran d...
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Tomorrow When The War Began English assessment task 4 - Class written essay on Tomorrow When The War ...
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PERSEPOLIS - created from Mind Map
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