The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base 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 Eleventh Hour” the story was set in Horace’s majestic mansion. The pictures in the book show Horace …show more content…
The main problem in the story is when Horace and his friends go out to play games before the feast someone stealthily sneaked into the banquet hall and stole all the food! When it was time for the feast all the animals rushed up the stairs in a hurry to find empty bowels and plates of food scattered everywhere. All the animals denied of such a thing. Then everybody started accusing each other of stealing all the food. In particular, the swan accused the rhino and the pig for stealing the food because of their size. I really enjoyed reading “the Eleventh Hour” because I loved to find all the clues and to try and crack the codes to work out the mystery. From my perspective I would give The Eleventh Hour” a rating of 10/10. The strengths in the book was all the detailed pictures in the book. They made me visualise and have a clear picture in my head about what is going on. When I first read the book I didn’t realise there were clues hidden in the detailed pictures. Some twist and turns in the book was when everybody denied of stealing Horace’s delicious looking meal. The illustrations in the book were extremely detailed in every picture of the book. Looking at the illustrations helps me to imagine how Graeme Base writes his stories and how intriguing they …show more content…
The Eleventh Hour is a baffling story of wonder and the Inside story has all the answers to were the clues were in the illustrations. Most clues were hidden extremely carefully and some were hard to find. When the feast vanishes in the story Graeme Base encouraged us to look carefully around the banquet hall to find clues. At the end of the book there is a special code which will give you more clues to find out who stole the food. After the code the answer was revealed. It was Kilroy the mouse who stole the feast. He had help: one hundred of his furry relatives hid themselves in Horace’s house and at eleven minutes to eleven they rushed into the banquet hall with Kilroy and gobbled up all the food. This book was an interesting and mysterious book and I encourage you to read “The Eleventh
When I first saw this title, I thought that it was simply just about a person who had experienced a very eventful hour. Although this title is very simple, it does not predict what is going to happen or have any clues or a double meaning, which I think is really cool. After reading this short story, it is exactly what I thought it was. It was a lady, Mrs. Louise Mallard, who had the most eventful hour of any one's life. From the beginning, Mrs. Mallard is sitting in her living room when her sister, Josephine comes in and tells her the horrible news of her husband's death. An important detail is that Mrs. Mallard has a heart disease so Josephine, her sister, has to be very careful telling her the news. Josephine learned of Mr. Mallard’s death
Night by Elie Wiesel is a horrific story based on the true events of his torturous Holocaust experiences from 1944 to 1945. He suffered greatly. This book is full of tragic and painstaking memories. Even though Wiesel describes his adversity, his brave actions still show through and that is what makes this story monumental.
Why do we need to grow up? Why does it affect our future? Most people start to mature when they are 19 or 20 years old. However, two different gangs in a book called, The Outsiders wrote by S.E. Hinton, called the Greasers and the Socials (Socs) struggle to mature. Both gangs have been rivals because of their class levels. One being, the Socs, a high-class group of teenagers and young adults and the other, Greasers, being a low-class group of hoods. The Socs were always looking for a fight and they would normally jump on the Greasers. One time a riot caused the death of Bob Sheldon, which changed the lives of three main characters. This change allowed Randy Adderson, Ponyboy Curtis, and Johnny Cade to realize there is more in the future for
In the book The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley, the book is a twist to what readers would expect. In the story, a girl name Alette is chosen for a certain mission and she goes in not knowing what to expect. Alette goes on these journey and face with challenges that she must overcome, but it is more about the destination then than the journey itself. One of the important theme throughout the book is transformation.
The main character in The Eighth Day is Jax. Jax is a rascal at times and is a kid orphaned nearby birth. Jax was a kid that didn’t really listen to most rules he heard, except for ones that are vital to his survival. Jax would always say, “I can fix this” and he always pulled through just about anything. One example in the story that shows Jax doesn’t listen is when he gives away his location leading up to his first kidnapping. Also, Jax was one of the fist people of his kind to swear his life guarding a Kin, which never happened in his history.
Compared with the first book I read for the first nine weeks, I would say this book is 110 times better. (The book that I read the first nine weeks was called Abraham Lincoln as I knew him.) This book, Elizabeth and Essex, had everything that a book worm could ask for.
Twelfth Night was written in 1601 by William Shakespeare. Another meaning to Twelfth Night was the coming of Wise Men. This also called “Epiphany”. Epiphany means sudden stroke of insight, a sudden understanding of the “reality of things.” A seeing beyond appearances. Often consider moments of Epiphany to be crucial events in our intellectual, spiritual lives. At Epiphany of Christ, first who saw the powers that child stood for. For centuries Twelfth Night had been celebrated with plays; one of the most theatrical nights of the year. Audience would become involved in action, plays would spill over into streets, halls of houses where performance taking place.
Logan, Jenkins. “Twelfth Night: The Limits of Festivity.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 22.2 (1982): 223-38. Print.
No one can be trusted. In Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the ambivalent nature of the novella causes suspicion of the sanity of his narrator, the Governess. The characters of the Governess, the children, and the apparitions, as villains and victims, cannot be told apart. Henry James impeccably makes use of ambiguity to create mystery and suspense through the dubiety roles of his main characters and the liability of the narrator.
To be inconsistent with traditional communities beliefs it is hard for many to accomplish. Nevertheless, writer Kate Chopin fights that conflict to deliver the readers a few of the greatest thought vexing literature that a human can get their hands on. Applying to her improvement reflections of narrative stories, such as plot control, irony, and character development, Kate is capable to take the reader towards a world of feelings that humanity would despise. Chopin shows her unbelievable literary ability in “The Story of an Hour” by joining character development and plot, with her use of thought-provoking vocabulary and narrative irony.
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
Think of a North America without electricity, no running water, no government, almost no buildings left intact, and ravaged by a Chinese manufactured plague, even though it’s hard to imagine that's what happened in Jeff Hirsch’s The Eleventh Plague. In Jeff Hirsch’s Eleventh Plague a family made up of the Dad, Mom, Grandfather, and son are trying to survive in a North America ravaged by a Chinese Plague , But then the mom and grandpa die and dad and Stephen are left on their own, but when the dad gets injured running away from some slavers, A Town named Settlers Landing that seems too good to be true takes them in. Then Stephen befriends a girl named Jenny, and when they play a prank that sends Jenny, and when they play a prank that sends the town into chaos. A war is started and it is up to them to help stop it. I thought that The Eleventh Plague was a believable piece of Speculative Fiction because of Hirsch's use of elements of Conflict, Theme, and Red Herrings.
In the story, the reader is first introduced to the Red Death. It is a plague that has filled the lands and causes havoc on those it infects. To escape this, Prince Prospero has hosted a masquerade for his the nobles in an attempt to avoid this disease. The night goes on in the multitude of colored rooms, but by midnight a figure appears that resembles the
Told by a charming priest and kindly man, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a beast fable in Chaucer’s genius framed narrative, The Canterbury Tales. Written in the late 14th century, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a fable about an all too egotistic rooster named Chanticleer who dreams of his impending doom which takes the form of a beast. Deeply troubled, he seeks the consolation of other wise barn animals and his favorite wife, Pertelote. Being a beast fable, the Nun’s Priest mocks the Court World by lowering nobles to the level of animals to be mocked. As this fable displays that animals act like humans is to also imply that humans, namely people of the court, act like animals.
Logan, Thad Jenkins. "Twelfth Night: The Limits of Festivity." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Spring 1982: 223-238. Print.