Analyze how supposedly insignificant events or details revealed one or more significant themes. In Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief”, Zusak uses supposedly insignificant events to reveal one or more significant themes, an example of events are when Lisel steals her first book, Max paints over Mein Kampf or when Rudy jumps into a winter stream […]

The Plot: Joe the main character’s profession is to kill people sent from the future that has been sent to his time by the mafia of the future and with every kill he gets paid in silver. This is known as closing the loop. In Rian Johnson “Looper” Rian uses time travel to demonstrate the […]

Characters: Henry Hassel: Mad scientist; Inventer of Time travelGreta Hassel: Cheating Wife; Red Head Plot:Henry finds his wife cheating on him with another man, so he decides to build a time machine to go to the past to kill not his wife’s past self but her grandparents.He does this because he believes significantly changing the […]

Timeline:Dan gets time belt from Jim(uncle) 20th centuryDan goes on many adventures with Daun (Knows his future)Dan removes himself completely from the time line and is left alone (looses sight of his future)Dan finds Dauna shit happens (doesn’t think of the future stays in the now as best he can)Dauna becomes pregnant and then Dan […]

It is the season of clear skies and blinding light. It is early afternoon there stands a single lonely traffic cone shaped peak of emissive silver and gunmetal grey schist, amongst the white, cotton swab sea of clouds. Silence. No gentle rustle of radiant trees, no piercing “hum” of doped insects tumbling through the sky, […]

It is winter, early morning in the little township, chilled and blackfrosted, the plants and bushes stiffly frozen, the football field icy, the trees carrying crystals of sharp ice up to the wet sodden air-hugging mist. Listen.  It is morning quietly roving the main road, the moist melodic streaming mist rising over the garage and […]

The story of ‘Back to the future’ is about a young Marty McFly being forced to travel back in time to escape some terrorist who had killed Doc and were trying to kill Marty. Marty gets himself trapped in the past and has to get the Doc of that time to help him return back […]

Theme: Perspective of wolf in the 3 little pigs, Moral: Consider others perspectives on situations It has been to long since I last had anything to eat. The last meal I had was a couple a sheep from that flock that a loud mouth kid was watching, which I don’t know why but when the […]

Theme: loyalty Characters: Plot: main character has a companion, a major event happens to the main character and they look for support, the companion doesn’t support main character but in small steps (not standing up for them, putting them down – words and stuff – finally joining the people who are neglecting the main character.), […]

Throughout Markus Zusak’s book ‘The Book Thief’ the readers preconceptions of what they believe is true are always challenged. A books genre that revolves around magical realism requires of the writer successfully convincing the reader that an aspect of the story is real when really it is a lie. The writer does this by wrapping […]