Adyson Leonard
Mrs. Desens
American Literature 3rd Hour
8 March 2014
The Secret Circle Book 3 By: LJ Smith
Explain how Cassie- the protagonist- goes from being a meek mouse to becoming a strong and capable leader, despite her own self-doubt.
In the beginning of The Secret Circle series, Cassie is skittish about everything. Cassie hides in her shell constantly, which causes her to get herself into trouble. The first time Cassie and Adam see each other in New Salem they kiss each other. Because Adam is dating Diana, Cassie’s closest friend, Cassie feels the need to keep their kiss a secret and swears to Adam that she will never do anything to potentially hurt Diana again. Faye, the most devious witch, sees the kiss and blackmails Cassie. Cassie does not want to upset Diana so she continues to do what Faye wants her to, submerging her deeper and deeper into Faye’s plan. Eventually Cassie gets the nerve to tell the Circle that she kissed Adam and did horrible things for Faye to keep Diana from finding out about one kiss. The Circle immediately forgives Cassie; as does Diana.
In the second book, Cassie starts to understand witchcraft and her friends more. Cassie is faced with continuing murders throughout New Salem, the death of her grandmother, and her mother’s possible death. Cassie ultimately becomes strong willed because of these circumstances.
In the third book of The Secret Circle, Cassie is the most powerful witch. Cassie understands that she has unknown powers and tries to use them for good. She is now a leader figure in the Circle and has to seem as though she constantly is aware of what she is doing and knows what needs to happen. She recognizes Black John is her father, and tries to cope with that with the support of th...
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...hat was inevitable. There were a few plot twists which did make the ending interesting, like how Sean, a young and cowardly witch, was accidentally killing the innocent victims under Black John’s spell. Another interesting plot twist was when Faye completely turned to the dark side of magic, became the leader of the coven, and then left the Circle to connive with Black John.
I disagree with the critics when they said the book was heatless…it just needed so much more work. The rising action was way too slow and the falling action went way too fast. It was like Smith wrote a first draft when she was sleep deprived, had the editor check for grammar and punctuation errors, and had the book printed. It wasn’t the best work.
Overall, I wouldn’t go as far as saying that the book was horribly boring or bad, the book was not well written and there wasn’t a good storyline.
The ending of this book was a cliffhanger. In my opinion that is the worse kind of ending, but that’s how that writing persuades the reader to get the next book in the series. Without giving too much away about the end of the story, it was very unexpected. To be
The book opens with a squad of soldiers running a tactical control point just outside of a village called Yusufiyah. They are approached when a man Abu Muhammad had found his cousins family brutally murdered not too far off. Sgt. Tony Yribe and 3 others went to go investigate it. Although it was a terrible scene Sgt. Yribe had just assumed that it was like most other situations in Iraq in that the family was a victim of Iraqis attacking other Iraqis. The one thing that bothered him was that there was a shotgun shell and Iraqis do not normally use shotguns.
Readers found that parts of the novel were slow moving and dull. Some did not think that the villains were as evil as they should have been.
The parts that I found boring were when there was a lot of description going on from the author. I do realize that it is necessary to set up the scenes and locations so that us as readers can have a better understanding of what is happening in the book, however I felt like at times he went too far into detail and had me nearly sleeping at times, literally.
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."『Abraham lincoln』
I have a few dislikes about the book. My first dislike about the book is that it was full of vulgar language. I did not like the use of vulgar language in this book. I see no need in having it. Another dislike about the book is that it did not have any pictures. Pictures help people visualize what is happening in a story better.
Do we control the judgments and decisions that we make every day? In the book,
... the ending of the book seemed too abrupt to me, and could be improved by making that a little smoother. It seemed like he was rushing to finish the book toward the end of the book, and quickly wrapped up the story at the end, I think that could be improved, but still nicely written.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
Being such a narrative, when I was reading about the details of Kate’s attacks I was actually scared. It gave a sense of spookiness to the book that I hoped for. I remember visiting the city of Salem, and the same chills I had walking through the town was relived while reading the book. However one difference about this book compared to the historical teachings of Salem was that in Kate’s trail it was less of a he said she said event and more on the cold hard facts. In GodBeer testimony, he examines much of what Jonathan Selleck notes on how to determine a witch is guilty because he knew how serious of an offense it truly was. I sometimes found myself wondering if this was a fictional story because of how elaborate it was or however, when he used experts from documents such as the petition for Elizabeth Clawson. The last two chapters is much about the trial process than I expected, which helped me to understand this book as a narrative with much historical
Patti Calaboose-Benson's The Outside Circle is a graphic novel based on a story of a young aboriginal man, Pete, who was a member of a gang at the beginning and afterward became part of the warrior program, after being imprisoned for killing his mother's boyfriend. It is set in Alberta, Canada, and centers on the situation of indigenous people in Canada and healing program that is established for the incarcerated native young men.
I did not like the ending of the story. I found that the ending was very predictable and anticlimactic, especially when all the tension was being built up throughout the rest of the book. When I was nearing the end of the book I was already starting to envision the ending of the book and when I got to the end I was disappointed to see that I was correct. I would have preferred if the ending was more of a cliff-hanger and ended completely different than anyone would have expected.
As the film tells a lot about the feminine universe, the fact that they highlighted these three specific kisses between the main characters could be an attempt to show another way through which different feminine universes can interact, and they didn’t necessarily mean “sexual involvement”. The first kiss, for instance, between Laura and Kitty, could be easily taken as a statement that the former “was in love” with her female friend. That could really be the case, but the metaphorical nature of the movie can also provide us with other interpretations when we’re willing to dig deeper.
In this mysterious story “The Eleventh Hour” the story was about a fantastic party the animals go to but while they are playing someone and steals the grand feast. My initial pre-reading prediction for “the Eleventh Hour” was that there were lots of animals who went to a fancy dress party and a big mystery unfolds during the story. My pre- reading prediction was kind of right. When Horace turns 11he celebrates in a grand style by inviting his friends over for a spectacular party. As they were playing someone from the party secretly sneaks into the banquet hall and gobbles down all the food.
The story The Outsiders By S.E Hinton is said to be “timeless” because kids can relate to the characters and themes of the story. In my opinion the story The Outsiders is not timeless because kids these days can’t relate to the characters in the story The Outsiders. Kids today aren’t riding in rodeos, roll drunks, jump smaller kids, walk to a stranger's house, or get in a stranger’s car, also they get arrested at the age of 10. Saying the statement “The Outsiders is a “timeless” book “ is an invalid statement. So, Kids today often don’t relate to The Outsiders anymore in many ways.