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Daniel finds out that the girl in the picture is Penelope, Carax's girlfriend, who comes from a higher class family, after visiting Carax's childhood home, Daniel takes with him a letter that was sent to Carax from Penelope. As he reads the letter he realizes that her family does not like her relationship with him, and that Carax left Barcelona chasing his dreams of becoming a writter. Daniel visits the Adaya residence (where Penelope once lived) and realizes that the house has been abandoned. He interogates a gardener and George, Penelope's brother is now in Paris, and that many of the people in the neighborhood were unaware of Penelope's existence. A few days later, Daniel decides to pay Nuria a visit, although they talk only about Carax, Daniel gets a strage feeling of attration towards Nuria, and nearly kisses her, but she stopped him. He leves her home with a new information about Carax and heads to the University where Bea, Toma's (Daniel's best friend) sister, awaits him for a date.

What do you think Daniel felt towards Nuria? Why?

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A few days later, Daniel introduces Fermin to his father and they offer him a job at the book shop. Fermin and Mr. Sempere hit it off right aways and become great friends. Fermin proves to be great help at the book shop and Daniel and his father become very fond of him. Some time later, Bernarda comes by the shop to say hello to Daniel and fermin "falls in love" they begin to go out and on their fisrt outing daniel is left at the book shop by himself, while he is in the back room someone comes by and leaves a picture on the counter. As Daniel rushes back to the front of the store he realizes that the person is gone, as he takes the picture he realizes that there is a young couple embracing in the picture, the young man is Carax. He investigates and finds out the exact adress of the place where the picture was taken. He goes to the that location in search of Carax's father, but unfortunately he is only met with the news that Carax's father is dead. During this visit, however, Daniel learns a lot about the childhood of Carax.


Who do you think the girl in the picture is? Could she help Daniel figure out teh mystery of Carax?

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After being beat by Neri, Daniel runs out the house,book in hand, and walks throught th pouring rain, a bum on the street, Fermin Romero de Torres, he claims to be a detective and helps to keep Daniel away from the rain. When the rain stops Daniel leaves, headed towards The cementary of forgotten books there, he meets up with Isaac the man in charge and Isaac takes him in. He tells Isaac what is happening and Isaac decides to talk to Daniel about Julian Carax, Daniel doesn't find out much more about what he already knows, however he does find out of someone that might be able to tell him more, Nuria, Isaac's daughter. Daniel then hides the book in the cementary and goes home. When he gets home he notices the gift his father had bought him was still sitting on the table nicely wrapped. He walks to it, opens it and realizes that it is the pen that he had begged his father for when he was younger. He smiles and goes off to bed.
How would you feel if you were Daniel, to open up the present and discover that it was the pen you had begged for before? Would you feel guilty for walking out on him in the first place?

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The story just keeps getting better and better, for the readers at least, because Daniel seems to be suffering now more than ever. On his sixteen birthday, a day to celebrate and be happy with those whom you love, Daniel's life goes completely wrong! He throws a small party in which he only invites four people, his father, Mr. Barcelo, Bernarda and Clara. He was very exited, however that excitement went quickly away after he found out that Clara and Mr. Barcelo would not make it. He left the house filled with anger and completely forgot about his father and the present that his father had bought for him. It was raining outside but Daniel didn't care. He just walked and walked when suddenly he noticed that someone was following him. The man following him offers him a thousand euros for the book but Daniel refuses his offer so the man threatens Daniel. Since the book now belonged to Clara, Daniel runs to her house to try and save Clara from that man, but unexpectedlycatches Clara and her music teacher commiting adultary. Neri, the music teacher, beats Daniel and forbids him from ever coming near Clara again.

Why do you think the man is so interested in the book? Who do you think he is? What do you think he will do to Daniel if he doesn't give him the book?

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The relationship between Daniel and Clara keeps growing, it seems as if the only thing keeping thyem apart is the age difference. They go out alomost every day and according to Daniel, they talk about everything. One of the topics that he mentions that caught my attention was that of a stranger that has approached Clara on various occasions. He seems to know a lot about most of the people that are close to Clara and Daniel. Could this be Clara's dad? or even Carax in search of his novels? Is this the same guy that was spotted outside of Daniel's window?

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Just when I think the book can't get any better it does! As the story goes on the relationship between Clara and Daniel seems to be getting better and better, on the other hand there is not much talk about the relationship of Daniel and his father. A lot of new facts are learned about Julian Carax and now I'm almost as intrigued as Daniel to find out more about him. Every character seems to be searching for the truth behind Carax, yet everyone seems to have a different version of the story. It's funny because the story seems very confusing yet i understand it perfectly.
Daniel arrives at home one day and decides to sit in front of a chair as he daydreams about spending the following day with Clara, suddenly he spots a man outside watching him. The scene reminded Daniel of one of the scenes from Carax's book but he puts the incident aside because of his excitement for spending time with Clara the next day.
Who is the man outside the window? Do you think he will play a role in the story later on? or was he just in Daniel's imagination?

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As the story goes on Daniel continues his search of the author's life. He meets Clara a beautiful elder women and although she is blind he decided to try and impress her by dressing up in his best clothes. As he continues his quest of both the author and of Clara he becomes a burden on his father and their relationship changes drastically. Daniel also reminisces over his career goal as a child, of becoming a novelist due to his lefestyle. He continuaously mentions writting with a pen as to assure that he is certain and that he knows exacly what he wants in life. He tries to convince his father to remarry but his chooses not to so their relationship suffers even more. Why do you think Daniel wants his father to remarry? Why doesnt his father want to?

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The story has been very interesting so far, a young boy wakes up crying one morning due to the fear of not remembering his mother's face, his father then takes him to the cementary of forgotten books there is thousand of books and Daniel has the opportunity to chose one that he would like for himself. He looks for about half an hour and then decides on a book that seems isolated in one corner, "The Shadow of the Wind." He begins to read that afternoon and he can't seem to put the book down. He reads all night, the next day he asked his father if he knew anything about the book and the author and his father said he didn't but he knew someone who might. He went and met up with the guy his father had talked to him about and after examing the book the man tries to buy it from him but Daniel refuses. They agree to meet the next day so that Daniel can get more information about the book, but the man states that he MUST bring the book along, do you think that the man is trying to trick Daniel so that he can take the book? If so, what is so important about the book?

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel written as a series of letters by the main character, Charlie. He seems to be a very strange boy in the beginning, however as the novel continues Charlie begins to find himself and through his letters we the readers arew able to figure out his true identity as well. The most important theme in the novel is "Holding Secrets" because in the end we are able to find out the secret that was haunting Charlie, what really explains his actions throughout the novel. Charlie's secret also forces him into conformity, he doesn't want "his friends" to know that he is hiding something that makes him "different" from them so he conforms to them and imitates their actions even though it leads him into doing things he normally wouldn't do.

♥♥Have you ever been so ashamed of a secret that you change your whole identity just so that people don't find out???

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Night is a novel written by Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor who is reminiscing about his expiriences in the concentration camps. It touches various themes including, quest for freedom, ambition, and the power of the human spirit. Elie, the narrator is very ambitious and never lets himself down, he sees the people suffering and even dying all around him and he manages to stay positive. He believes that one day it will all be gone. He is right, the day that the US troops take over the concentration camps and let them free, is the happiest day of his life. He is finally able to search for his family, and although some are gone, he is happy to see his sisters, who were lucky enough to survive the expirience.

Why do people have such bad hearts that they decide to kill a whole race just because??
Do you think something similar to this can happen again??

*THe uNiTeD STaTeS oF euRoPe*

In "The United States of Europe," T.R. Reid, an American with a first hand expirience of the European views of Americans, informs his fellow American citizens that a new superpower is emerging and the United State's image is fallig apart in the eyes of many other nations. Throughtout the first chapter Reid emphasizes on the views of Europeans towards our culture, they truly believe that we, as Americans, are inferior to them, they often enlarge our bad habits and minimize our good habits making us seem like "the bad guys." According to them we think about nothing else, but, eating, alcohol, war, and Jerry Springer, and yes, they do acknowledge our good habits, but sadly those are free refills on cofee, newstands at every corner, the opportunity to choose between paper or plastic bags, being able to go to the bank witout leaving your car (drive-through), H.S. graduations and reunions, 24 hour stores, and big refrigerators. These are the only things they like about Americans! In their eyes those are our only good habits!

*Tone* vexed (some-what irritated, puzzled)

*Language* Concrete

*Rhetorical Strategies*
Anecdote* The story of the Lardburger's
Anaphora* "make fun of american"

Question*
Will Americans change their ways in order to please or "look good" to the rest of the world?