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Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Hi everyone, I hope you enjoy reading my blog abou Fable.
Overview
 1. What is a fable?
2. Example of the fable
3. History of the story
4. Main characters of the story
5. Moral of the story
What is a fable?
The fable is a novel was written by the American writer William Faulkner in 1954 and published by Random House
Example of the fable
The famous fable was written by Aesop
Ø   The hare and the tortoise
Ø  The Cat and the Rooster
Ø  The Frog and the Ox
History of the story
Ø  Firstly written by Aesop in 1997
Ø  Aimed to develop children’s thinking
Ø  Rewritten by different writers
Main Characters
Ø  The Hare
Ø  The Tortoise
The hare and tortoise decided to make a race. In the first race, the tortoise won because the hare slept when she thought that the tortoise cannot win. In the second race, the hare learnt from previous experience and was very aware so she won at this time. In the third race, the tortoise used his wisdom and asked the hare to change the race route where they had to pass through a river which the hare could not pass it so the tortoise won. In the final race, they decided to help each other to pass through the river so they reached the final point together at the same time.
 morel of the story
1.    It is good to be slow and steady, but it is better to be fast and reliable.
2. It is good to be individually brilliant, but it is better to work in a team

Fatma  Abribsh 

Monday, 30 May 2011

Thriller

Hello every body ,I would like to write to all student about ( Thriller ) kind of book

 
Thriller is a book or film which is designed to keep the reader or viewer on edge with suspenseful and sensational action, it normally about an complex crime 
    The True-Crime Thriller
It is a type of  the thriller story .
a real life can be stranger than fiction, and true-crime thrillers prove this.
In this presentation I would like to talk about one of the famous the true-crime thriller.
It is In Cold Blood.

In Cold Blood
It is a 1966 book written by American author called Truman Capote.
The crime happened in 1959 and since that time Capote start write and collect information about this crime , it take about 6 years to finish it of.
It recorded as a film in 1967, directed and produced by Richard Brooks.

The author

Name: Truman Capote
Birth Date: September 30, 1924
Death Date: August 25, 1984
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

What is the story about
It about detailing the brutal  of the true crime , it explores the lives of the victims and the effect of the crime on the community where they lived, and how the complex psychological problem can create a brutal murder

The story characters
The main characters:
The victims : Herbert Clutter(a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas,)and his family (wife and two daughters).
The killer Richard Hickock and Perry Smit.

  Overview of plot

Herbert Clutter is a wealthy wheat farmer, he and his wife and their two young children were found death in their home. They had been killed by shotgun blasts at close range after being bound and gagged .
The strange thing is nothing had been stolen from the house and the telephone lines had been cut.

What happened in the end  
 
At the end the criminals were found, tried, and convicted.

Kind regards
 
Ibrahim Ateeg