Imagine you are sitting at home. You just finished the fantastic, award winning novel, Looking For Alaska, and are dying to read another story written by John Green. You gaze upon Paper Towns, you read it, and feel like you just finished Looking a For Alaska again. Have you ever wanted to choose a book written by your favorite author, but find out it is the same plot and idea as a book you have already read! This is a problem that many readers find with authors. He isn't the only one, but he is very popular currently. This paper is not specifying that John Green is a bad author, but that two of his books are very similar. The book Paper Towns is a copy of the book Looking For Alaska.
Green shows that he uses Looking For Alaska to lead in Paper Towns. "Everyone gets a miracle, my miracle was living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman" (PT) This sentence from Paper Towns has the same meaning as the sentenced used in Looking for Alaska. According to page 175 in Looking for Alaska, the
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“Margo and I dragged the car down the road a couple blocks because we knew the lights would draw attention to us.” In Looking for Alaska Miles says Alaska, “Do not turn your lights on, the dorm monitors will see you leaving.” These both show that Green was making a point. He was showing that his characters will go to a dangerous level to do what they have to do for themselves. There is another example of this occurring. "Margo and I dragged the car down the road a couple blocks because we knew the lights would draw attention to us.” In Paper Towns, she explains in Q’s car how she does a lot of things wrong and how she just wants to live her life well. They are both similar because they both explain how they mess up and how they understand they do. Obviously they understand what happens to them when they make mistakes, but they still manage to do so, which leads them towards a dangerous
Task/Activity: Instead of taking a spelling test, students in both classes jumped right into PARCC preparation. Students received a packet containing a reading selection from the novel A Woman Who Went to Alaska and multiple choice questions that was included on the 2015 PARCC and released to the public. Students read the packet and answered the questions independently before the class reconvened, discussing the reading and its questions as a group. Following this activity, students worked together in pairs to write down the challenges they faced while completing the packet and identify the skills they still need in order to succeed on the PARCC exam. After this, the class received a packet titled “Ruby Bridges: Girl of Courage,” and were instructed to complete the first task, which including reading and annotating as well as completing four questions about the passage. The rest of the packet would be completed in stages during the following week.
In “Eight Reasons Plagiarism Sucks,” Jack Shafer explains why plagiarism hurts the reader just as much as the act hurts the original author. Shafer argues “Plagiarism misleads the audience” by deceiving the audience into thinking the piece they read was of original work. Not only is the information unoriginal, states Shafer, plagiarized work can misinterpret what the original artist was trying to explain. In addition, Shafer points out, the audience did not comb through articles and books just to hear the same story; the audience came to gain fresh insight on a specific topic. Lastly, Shafer reveals, “There are no real punishments for plagiarism” therefore allowing the act of plagiarism to haunt journalism for the rest of eternity. Readers
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
...s to encroach on the basic right of individuality. Individuality allows for the progression of one’s own idea to become original work. Steinbeck uses Burns’ best piece of literature and infringes on its right to exist. Although Of Mice and Men is famed for its groundbreaking use of euthanasia, the idea itself was taken directly from Burns’ poem. The credit that Steinbeck procures for his novel detaches from the acknowledgment that Burns should receive. Such pilfering of an idea taints the concept of originality and is a gross violation of Burns’ work. Originality is thought to be a keystone of good writing, and yet Steinbeck was able to create a masterpiece by mimicking the ideas of another author. His success is testament to the concept that originality is an unachievable feat, merely causing artists to pursue phantoms in their quest to conceive the inconceivable.
To the average reader, “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck may initially look very similar, but after carefully critiquing and comparing their abundance of differences, their opinion will change. Steinbeck found his inspiration for writing the novel after reading that poem. His novel is set in Salinas, CA during the 1900s and is about migrant farm wrokers while the poem is about the guilt felt by one man after he inadvertently ruins the “home” of a field mouse with his plow. Even though they are two different genres of literature, they share a similar intent. The poem is written in first person, while the novel is written in third person omniscient. The vocabulary used to provide imagery is also another subtle different. Being two different genres of literature, they are destined to have both differences and similarities, but the amount of differences outweighs the aspects that are the same.
Now with over 15 million copies in print translated into forty languages, “To Kill a Mockingbird” is highly regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. It stands strong beside bestsellers such as “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” and “Huckleberry Finn.” But what, one may ask, are the similarities between these chartbusters?
People throughout the world consider America the supreme country in terms of freedom. As a result of this assumption, many countries attempt to model their culture after the United States. The idea of imitating a successful organization or product exists in literature as well. Many authors write pieces of literature that modify other works they have previously read. Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach, a contemporary novel, shares numerous characteristics with Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written in the 1960's. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, McCorkle's novel documents the life of a young girl in a small southern town. The two narrators, Kate Burns and Scout Finch, endure difficult encounters. A study of these main characters reveals the parallels and differences of the two novels. Jill McCorkle duplicates character similarities and rape from Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird to show the reader how young girls think and develop.
Plagiarism goes on in all aspects of our society. It does not discriminate. Plagiarism is an issue in our schools, on our college campuses, and in our media. It weaves its thread through our entire culture. The news media and book publishers are all too aware of the nasty concept of plagiarism. Just recently the author J. K. Rowlings of the popular Harry Potter series came under heavy fire. She was accused of stealing another female author’s ideas. It seems in the early 80’s this author published books about the character Larry Potter. Her character names were the same as those in the J. K. Rowling’s series. The differences between the characters in the two series were what the characters actually were. Nimbus is a name used in both series. Nimbus in the Harry Potter series is a broom, however in the other author’s series Nimbus was an actual being.
In both books they share some traits, even though they may not look anything alike they are. both of these novels are dystopian novels and many characters share similarity’s.
Written two centuries separated, "Youthful Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Where Are You Going; Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates are two apparently distinctive stories. Nonetheless, if took a gander at nearly, a few components could be entwined. Every story has a comparative perspective, yet the story is told from two alternate points of view. A few topics are one of a kind to the stories, however profound inside similitudes could be found. The creators close their stories in two separate ways, however the endings are to some degree the same. These two stories hold components that are clearly differentiating, yet similar in the meantime.
Fiction often imitates life, as well as life imitates fiction, as we will see in the following comparison between a newspaper article in the Philadelphia Inquire in 1987 and a short story written by William Faulkner in 1930. Although there are some differences such as the time, place and circumstance, the two studies are chillingly similar.
...eaders because the stories are woven in a related fashion. They both take place in similar worlds with comparable conflicts. The governments of both are more concerned with keeping their way of life than they are with individual people. Both stories center on a teenage girl who has become targeted by the government because she has upset the norm in some way and has in turn become part of a rebellion. Both of the girls view themselves as being less important than the ones they hold dear. Both book series have different groups in society that are meant to keep the people separate and focused on certain tasks. The two series contain many differences, but when they are stripped to their barest parts, it is evident that they are both meant to serve as tales that will encourage the readers to fight for what is right, no matter how strong the force that they stand against.
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John Green continued my love for his unique story telling with this new novel, has expanded my thoughts, and has helped me realize that my actions will come back to haunt me and might even hurt those I love. Paper Towns has taught me many lessons about life, love, and enjoying others while their still around and not to take any moment for granted. The characters were well developed. The plot was interesting, new, and gave a fresh new outlook to many things. Overall it was an expertly put together novel; a novel that I could read again and again. Like I said before, I fell in love with this book, the mysterious Margo, The quiet and shy Quentin, the outrageous Ben and Radar, and the words that brought them all to life.
Starting from the plot, there has been a distinct element in the author’s writing that the plots have seemed to be similar to each other. There have been some adventures in the whole book and the plot of most of them shows resemblance with each other. Considering The Red-Headed League and the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, the way the culprit tries to make the whole ...