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August “Auggie” Pullman feels like an ordinary ten-year-old child, but his appearance is anything but. His parents think he’s extraordinary, and his older sister, Olivia, or “Via,” tries to protect him from judgmental people. Auggie has been homeschooled by his mother because of his twenty-seven surgeries.
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When Dad drops Auggie off for his fifth-grade graduation,...
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A summary of Part Six (Chapters 41–47) in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of 2001: A Space Odyssey and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Chapter 1. Arthur Dent is an anxious thirty-year-old man who lives in a small house in England. One morning, Arthur awakes and sees a bulldozer outside his home as the local council wishes to demolish Arthur’s house to build a bypass. Suddenly, Arthur finds himself lying down in the mud in front of the machine. Mr.
A summary of Part Three (Chapters 15–20) in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of 2001: A Space Odyssey and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Summary. Analysis. A mysterious man whom the narrator calls the “Pedestrian” walks through the English countryside in a rainstorm, hoping to find a place to stay. After finding that no rooms are open in Nadderby, he walks on to a town noted on his map as Sterk. The Pedestrian has the air of an academic man, and indeed is a philologist ...
Sapiens: Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis. Sapiens: Chapter 1. The Big Bang happened 14 billion years ago, creating everything. About 300,000 years later, matter began clumping together into atoms, molecules, and complex structures. Then, 70,000 years ago, humans began forming more complex structures: cultures.
Summary. Watchmen opens on October 12, 1985, in a dystopian New York City where Richard Nixon has claimed a fifth term as president of the United States and the fear of nuclear war with Russia looms large. Chapter 1 begins with an entry from the journal of Rorschach, a masked crime fighter. He is disillusioned with New York, where "the streets ...
