Felix_Bab

Dear Diary,   Today, I saw something I will never forget and that I will probably never understand. I will start by writing the facts, as my wife told me to begin with, then I will continue with what I saw with my own eyes. Screams coming from the river caught the attention of my wife. She ran towards it and saw Rufus drowning. She started screaming too, so I took my musket and ran towards the river. By the time I got there, a black woman appeared out of nowhere, dived in the river and brought Rufus  back to the shore. I think my wife didn’t saw everything or misunderstood, but she started attacking the woman. She pushed my wife away and began to reanimate my son, blowing air into his mouth and pumping his chest to make him breathe. Oddly, it worked.  Then I arrived. I didn’t quite understood what happened, I just saw a black woman over my son. It made me furious, and I pushed the woman off my son, and pointed my musket right in the middle of her forehead. Th...

Firstly , the story begins on Dana's birthday. She and her husband just moved from their apartment to go into their own house. While they are still unpacking, Dana starts to feel dizzy, then everything vanished around her and suddenly, she was outdoors. She was on the ground beside a river, with a child drowning in it. Dana jumps in to save him, and she ends up saving his life. Moments later, she is transported back to her living room. But in the prologue, the novel's first sentence to get our attention is Dana losing an arm.  Personally, I think getting the reader in action as soon as you can is a very good way of getting the reader's attention. Starting the book by describing everything is a very boring way of starting a novel, because authors often take pages and pages to describe every details of characters and places. I think the reader should imagine himself all these things, that's the magic of books. We all read the same stories, but they are so differently imag...

1. Gown: Robe : synonym of dress 2. Brackish (water): Saumâtre: an adjective to describe a lightly salty water 3. Eerily: Étrangement; Strangely 4. Raucous: Rauque: an unpleasant sound that is often loud. Often describe a voice. 5. Bigotry : Bigoterie : Prejudice against a race 6. Limbo : Limbes : Place where the souls of the dead go before going to hell 7. Overseer :  Chef d'équipe : Supervisor 8. Grudgingly : À contrecoeur : Not wanting to do something 9. Vindictive : Vindicatif : seeking revenge 10. Petulantly: d'un ton acerbe : With bad mood 11. Bewilderment : Confusion : Incomprehension 12. Rabies : Rage : Disease 13. Feeble : Faible : Weak 14. Homely : Simple : A lack of elegance 15. Braced : Renforcer : Support 16. Longings : Désir : Wanting something with desire

The Holocaust The Holocaust. Certainly one of the most horrible dozen years in the history of men. The Nazis' domination, Adolf Hitler and his horrible ideology. I can't believe what some poor people have been through. The mistreatment, the hunger, the persecution, their family getting torn apart… The constant fear. Nobody can even begin to imagine what these people have been through. The Ted Talk touched me deeply. This man, who went through hell and back, opening his heart to the world to say a peace message is a proof that there is still humanity left in the world. I think my personal reflection on the holocaust is pretty clear. If I had been a judge at the Nuremberg trial, I would have sentenced all the Nazi leaders to death, no less. They are guilty of the most horrible crime against humanity ever committed, and in my opinion, death is not severe enough to pay for their crimes. The lives of six million Jews, five hundred thousand Roma, two hundred and fifty thousand disab...

                                                           Octavia E. Butler Born in Pasadena, California on the 22nd of June 1947, Octavia Estelle Butler was a famous writer back in the late 70s and early 80s. She was the daughter of Laurice James Butler and Octavia Margaret Guy Butler. Unfortunately, her father died when she was seven years old, and she was raised by her mother and her grandmother. She discovered her passion for science fiction after watching one of David MacDonald’s movies, which was Devil Girl from Mars. Science fiction then became the inspiration of all of her novels. She became successful in 1979 after publishing her fourth book out of the fifteen she wrote, entitled Kindred. She went to John Muir High School then went to Pasadena City College, but she was only doing night classes, and she graduated with an associate...