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I use processes that are most common among my peers to select my books. I usually have one of my parental units, usually my mom, to go out and look for books. This is the way it happens because up until now I had no mode of transportation. I have faith in my mother to make a good choice; she usually does, for she knows most of my likes and most of my dislikes. This is how it's been for a long time, but at least she can pick some pretty interesting books. Three unfamiliar words/unfamiliar usages · Alighieri - meaning hell or some hellish place · Ironmongery - heavily tooled, worked, and strangely shaped iron The seller of the lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm in a green town in Illinois, in late October. The lightning rod salesman calls to the boys and asks if their folks are home, they say no. He asks if they have any money, the boys shook their heads. He then asks them their names. William Halloway and Jim Nightshade the boys reply. The boys begin to tell their story on how they were born only minutes apart around Halloween. The lightning rod sal
· Are you able to tell who is the narrator? · Are you personally involved with their problems? Will thinks of his father. Also all the things that boys like him and Jim would do to contact each other and to have fun. Will is waiting to receive some signal from Jim meaning the carnival, Miss Foley, Mr. Cooger, and or the evil nephew. Will is getting worried, no signal came: he wondered what Jim was thinking about. The mirror maze, what had he seen and what did he plan? Will stirred restlessly. Will thought he had heard something at 10:35 PM. He saw Jim climbing down his drainpipe. Will hurried down after him, Will caught up to him at Miss Foley's house. Will's dad was puzzled and questioned Will about three AM and wondering why the train had come at that time. They both thought it was a special hour. Women never wake then but men in middle age know that time well. Charles is yelling at Will. Regardless, Will should have never been out. Charles questions why things are the way they are trying to understand everything about men and women correlating to three AM. They believe the creatures at the carnival live off the souls of others, a live and raving soul, and one that can sleep at night. The souls that are eager and young, they feed off their soul fires and eternal damnation. Jim questions is the carnival death, Mr. Halloway said, "No, it only uses it." They turn people younger and cut them off from there former lives, because no one listens to them, and the carnival gives you what you want, a change of life and scenery, for one thing, guilt. They carnival gets at people using greed and the lust for things. They start to work on a plan, and then someone opens the library door. Halfway to home Jim caught up to Will and said no one was home. Then a piece of paper came blowing towards them. They let it go fluttering in the wind, but it came back to them. The paper read, "COMING OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH!!"..."COOGER AND DARK'S CARNIVAL!!" Which was tomorrow. The boys read all the names of all the acts, the made-up names of the carnies, and freaks. Then the wind whipped the paper from their hands. They don't believe the paper. They hear a strange music, smell cotton candy, and licorice, but carnivals don't start at night, only at sunrise. The boys get home and say good night.
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Charles Halloway, Miss Foley, Miss Foley's, Foley Crosetti, Rome Florence, Personal Responses, Boy Scout, Jim Robert, Dark Charles, Halloway Dark, will's dad, miss foley, rod salesman, charles halloway, miss foley's, mirror maze, lightening rod, lightning rod salesman, lightning rod, miss foley's house, head home, foley's house, lightening rod salesman, beautiful woman world, white moth wings,
Approximate Word count = 8093
Approximate Pages = 32 (250 words per page double spaced)
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