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Narnia

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy discovers a wardrobe that leads to a magical world called Narnia, where animals can talk and all are ruled over by the wise and benevolent lion Aslan. The others don't believe her at first, but soon all of them go through the wardrobe and discover all is not well in Narnia. The land is being kept in a perpetual winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis, who turns anyone who doesn't obey her into stone. The children join Aslan and the animals loyal to him in an attempt to vanquish Jadis.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennets 5 daughters; the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbourhood of the rich gentleman Mr Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing (and richer) but proud Mr Darcy. Love is soon in the air for one of the Bennet sisters, while another may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Bennet sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness, including class, gossip and scandal.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days was published in 1873, and is one of Jules Verne's most celebrated novels. The story follows two travelers that grow to a trio and then a foursome as they fight their way through countless obstacles to reach home in time. This lesson will focus on the characters and plot summary of Around the World in Eighty Days.

Characters

Phileas Fogg is a ruthless perfectionist who cares more about the bet than the exotic places he sees on his travels. He will do anything, even lie and cheat, to get what he wants.

Jean Passepartout is Fogg's French butler. He is an honest, charming man who truly cares about Fogg, but he keeps ending up in situations that delay their travel.

Detective Fix works for Scotland Yard, and is on the trail of a bank robber. In his own way, Fix is as ruthless as Fogg.

Aouda is an Indian Princess. She is trapped by her situation in India, and jumps at the chance to accompany Fogg and Passepartout when they save her from an early death.

I am Malala by Christina Lamb/Malala Yousafzai

The Power of Education

This theme is the central focus of all of Malala's activism. Growing up in and around a school, Malala learned quickly the power that education has to shape a child's life, determine their future prospects, and give them the courage to speak up for what they believe in. It was because of her education that Malala was empowered to stand strong against the Taliban occupation of her home, and she has used her fame to try to give as many other children as possible the opportunity to go to school.

"They can only shoot a body,they can not shoot my dreams." Malala

Genre: Biography, popular NonFiction book.

Country: Pakistan

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

“The Window” opens just before the start of World War I. Mr. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay bring their eight children to their summer home in the Hebrides (a group of islands west of Scotland). Across the bay from their house stands a large lighthouse. Six-year-old James Ramsay wants desperately to go to the lighthouse, and Mrs. Ramsay tells him that they will go the next day if the weather permits. James reacts gleefully, but Mr. Ramsay tells him coldly that the weather looks to be foul. James resents his father and believes that he enjoys being cruel to James and his siblings.

Literary movement: Modernism

Genre: Novel
Country: England

Rose in Bloom by Louissa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.

Louissa May Alcott was a feminist, she published more than 30 books.

Setting United States, That is written in 3rd. person.

Antagonist:

Maybe teh antagonist was Charles Campbell because of his behavior another antagonist could be charlie´s mother.

Protagonist: Rose Campbell

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerarld

That book is located in the prosperous long Island from 1922, the Great Gatsby offers a critical social history of Ameica from the 1920s in his narrative.

Romantic and drama book, a novel.

The protagonist is Jay Gatsby, and the antagonist is Tom Buchanan.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Inferno by Dan Brown

Is a book written as a thiller, adventure and mystery. it has a external conflict. the hero is Robert langdon. The point of view is a master piece. The letarary movement is post modernism.

In the novel Inferno by Dan Brown, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is recruited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help locate a deadly pathogen. The virus is believed to have been created by Bertrand Zobrist, a Transhumanist who thought that the world was in danger of collapse because of overpopulation. Zobrist had led Elizabeth Sinskey, director of the WHO, to believe he had created a plague to cull the population. Sinskey hoped to find and contain the contagion before it had tragic effects.

Sinskey’s plan for Langdon to help locate the pathogen was quickly derailed when he was detained by the provost, a man who had provided a sanctuary in which Zobrist could work. The provost and his people wiped Langdon’s memory. They told him that he had retrograde amnesia caused by a gunshot wound to his scalp, and they provided an altered form of reality in which they convinced Langdon that the people sent by Sinskey to find him were trying to kill him.