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BOOK REVIEW: GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
Hi! I've recently written a book review, and grammar is not exactly my thing. If you could possibly highlight my errors and make suggestions it would mean the world to me! Thank you!
Here goes:
Northern California at the violent end of the 1960s. Evie, consumed in the rush of adolescence is lulled to The Girls. Particularly enchanted by an older girl, Suzanne, who feeds Evie's desperation to be loved, needed – wanted. But nothing gold can stay, and soon horrible violence unravels, changes Evie's world as she knows it.
Never has a book sent me into such a deep spiral of confusion. This book repulsed me, drove me away. Yet it pulled me further in, deeper into its twisted and cruel reality. Cline's writing is enthralling, and evoked emotions and reactions in me I didn't know I was capable of.
The Girls is memorable. I've never read a book that thrilled me, scared me in a way that I couldn't explain. Why should I relate to and understand Evie? A girl who chooses to join a violent and erratic cult out of pure and pathetic desperation?
The plot-line of this book drove me insane, the cult - The Girls, and their way of living. The vicious murders conducted with no hesitation. It put me off, hardcore.
Yet there was something else - something indescribable that attracted me to it, which kept me turning the pages. Cline's writing is so vivid, she weaves together words that flow with such ease. There's something about the truth, that's written in her words that draws us to it more. She confronts us. She shows us the world through lenses we are too afraid to look through. She connects to the part of us that is too afraid to feel this way, confronts our flaws, our insecurities. Reminds us of how mundane life is. How someone you idolised as a child, someone you thought was special – someone who once ignited a spark in you can cease to evoke that reaction after time unfolds; how they end up being as mundane and boring as everyone else, and just become nothing more than a passing face.
All in all, I've never been left in such conflict after reading a book. Though I despise it for it's haunting storyline, I have to say I enjoyed it for it's harsh reality, and how Cline crafted it to highlight issues within society and ourselves. It's definitely something to read if you're ready to commit to it in it's full twisted, exotic and enthralling glory.
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자기 소개
안녕하세요! 제 이름은 나탈리 입니다. 저는 반은 영국인이고 반은 대만인 입니다. 저는 지금 한국어를 공부해요! 만나서 반가워요!
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To Kill A Mockingbird Essay - Paragraph 1
Hi! I'm writing an essay for my English class, but wanted someone to help me peer-check it. This is only the first paragraph. Thanks a lot!
CLAIM: In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee demonstrates the destruction of innocence through racial injustice, in childhood as well as in good intentions.
In “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee demonstrates how innocence can be destroyed through racial injustice. In the story, Tom Robinson, an African-American man is accused of raping and abusing Mayella Ewell, whom the townsfolk call “white trash.” During Tom’s testimony we learn vital facts, such as his left arm is “useless” and is described as “rubber-like.”(p254) Additionally, the court finds out Tom was simply helping Ms Ewell, and denied payment, stating he “knowed she didn’t have no nickels to spare.” (p256) All these extracts are an indication towards the basis that Tom is an innocent man. However, his testimony proved to be in vain, as he was later imprisoned and shot whilst serving out his sentence. From his testimony, it’s easy to see how Tom is an innocent man. Harper Lee has constructed a man that is incapable of the crime both mentally and physically. However, a turning point in the case is when Tom is questioned about denying payment, as he replies that he “felt right sorry for her.” (p264) Which is met with a negative reaction. From this particular extract we can see an unspoken social hierarchy announce itself. Admitting to feeling sorry for somebody is equivalent to saying they are worse off, or less fortunate than yourself. Though the Ewell family is regarded as “white trash” and are located at a lower tier of the social hierarchy, they are still held in higher regard than African people, or “Negroes,” who hold the lowest social position possible. From this extract we can see how this society does not function on the basis that all people are innocent until proven guilty, but all African people are guilty until proven otherwise. Tom was sentenced to prison as he was the first man to truly challenge the court, and thus challenging this hierarchical society. The court, obviously afraid of a shift or a change in the hierarchical society in which they control, sentence him to prison, not based on whether if he is guilty or innocent, but because he is black and not white. From this we can see how Harper Lee demonstrates the destruction of Tom’s innocence and good intentions through racial injustice.
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我不喜欢学中文
我是混血人，从小到大和妈妈讲中文，也在学校学了好几年了。我很会说中文，但是，我写的中文不好，也不太会认得出来很多字。我学了那么久，我已经没有动机学中文了。我很讨厌我的中文课，也考试都考得不太及格。却我不太喜欢学中文，我是一定要学的。我不学的话，我的父母亲，老师们和台湾的家庭会很伤心。我已近学到这个程度，我不太想停止学习中文。所以我就想用这个网站帮助我爱上中文，也用来学日文和帮助别人学英文！
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