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A N D R E A R I V E R A M 0 0 3 6 4 9 3 6

P R O F E S S O R : H E R N A N D E Z N O A E N G L I S H 2 3 0 2

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Quote

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Weshould all start to live before we get too old. Fear isstupid. So are regrets. Marilyn Monroe

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Author : Marilyn Monroe

The Purpose: to inform

Respond to reading: this is absolutely true because sometimes westopped to do, our true dream because we think that will be scared of what

the people said or think and that is a big error and sometimesthe regret is bigger.

Main Idea: do whatever make you happy.

This is non-fiction

Summary: do whatever you want to do and dont wait until you are old tomake the real thing that you want to do .

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Fable

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Once, as a lion lay sleeping in his den, a naughtylittle mouse ran up his tail, and onto his back andup his mane and danced and jumped on his

head ... ...so that the lion woke up

The lion grabbed the mouse and, holding him in his large claws, roared in anger.'How dare you wake me up! Don't you know that I am King of the Beasts? Anyonewho disturbs my rest deserves to die! I shall kill you and eat you!'

The terrified mouse, shaking and trembling, begged thelion to let him go. 'Please don't eat me Your Majesty! I didnot mean to wake you, it was a mistake. I was only playing.Please let me go - and I promise I will be your friendforever. Who knows but one day I could save your life?'

The lion looked at the tiny mouse and laughed. 'You save my life? What an absurdidea!' he said scornfully. 'But you have made me laugh, and put me into a good moodagain, so I shall let you go.' And the lion opened his claws and let the mouse go free.'Oh thank you, your majesty,' squeaked the mouse, and scurried away as fast as hecould

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A few days later the lion was caught in a hunter's snare.Struggle as he might, he couldn't break free andbecame even more entangled in the net of ropes. He letout a roar of anger that shook the forest. Every animalheard it, including the tiny mouse.

'My friend the lion is in trouble,' cried the mouse. He ran as fast as he could in thedirection of the lion's roar, and soon found the lion trapped in the hunter's snare. 'Holdstill, Your Majesty,' squeaked the mouse. 'I'll have you out of there in a jiffy!' And

without further delay, the mouse began nibbling through the ropes with his sharp littleteeth. Very soon the lion was free.

'I did not believe that you could be of use tome, little mouse, but today you saved my life,'said the lion humbly.

'It was my turn to help you, Sire,' answeredthe mouse.

Even the weak and small may be of help tothose much mightier than themselves.

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Author : Aesop is the supposed author.According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Aesop lived during the sixthcentury BC and was probably a slave on the island of Samos. It is said thatAesop was ugly and deformed and those who came to listen to his taleslaughed as much at him as at his stories. Though no historical informationon Aesop is available, he was probably a real person. In later times hisname becomes anonymous with 'fable' and many tales not composed byhim were nevertheless attributed to him.

Purpose: Persuade

How I respond to reading: For me, the fable was cute and show that nomatter how big or small you are you can always help a friend when he need the

most.

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Main Idea: to teach the public, that you can judge people for size, color orbreed. Because you will never know if they can be the person to save you're live.

This fable is fiction

Summary : This fable is about a little mouse who played with the lion's tail,while it slept. One day the lion gets up angry at the mouse because hewakes him up, and the lion wanted to eat him. The mouse veryscared begs him that does not eat him or hurt and promises that some dayhe will save his life. The lion laughs and lets go deluded. Sometimelater the mouse learn that someone grabbed his friend the lion to whom heowed his life. Some hunters who had caught him. The mouse ran to get as

soon as possible to help his friend, the lion. Once it gets there with hislittle mouse teeth breaks the rope and saves his friend. From that point onthe lion and the mouse become the best friends in the whole universe.

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Short Story

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The Giving Tree

Once, there was a tree And she loved a little boy.

And every day the boy would comeAnd he would gather her leaves

And make them into crowns and play king of the forest.

He would climb up her trunkAnd swing from her branches

And eat applesAnd they would play hide-and-go-seek.

And when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade. And the boy loved the tree very much

And the tree was happy.But time went by,

And the boy grew older.And the tree was often alone.

Then, one day, the boy came to the tree and the tree said:

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Come, Boy, come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and eatapples and play in my shade and be happy!

I am too big to climb and play said the boy. I want to buy thing and have fun. I

want some money.Can you give me some money?

Im sorry, said the tree,but I have no money. I have only leaves and apples.Take my apples, Boy, and sell them in city. Then you will have money and youll be

happy.

And so the boy climbed up the tree and gathered her apples and carried themaway.

And the tree was happy But the boy stayed away for a long time and the tree was sad.

And then one day the boy came back, and the tree shook with joy, and she said:

Come, Boy come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and eatapples and play in my shade and be happy.

I am too busy to climb trees, said the boy. I want a house to keep me warm, hesaid. I and want a wife and I want children, and so I need a house. Can you give

me a house?

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I have no house, said the tree. The forest is my house, said the tree. But youmay cut off my branches and build a house. Then you will be happy.

And so the boy cut off her branches and carried them away to build his house. Andthe tree was happy.

But the boy stayed away for a long time And when he came back, the tree was so happy she could hardly speak.

Come, Boy she whispered, Come and play.

I am too old and sad to play, said the boy. I want a boat that will take me awayfrom here. Can you give me a boat?

Cut down my trunk and make a boat, said the tree. Then you can sail awayand be happy.

And so the boy cut down her trunk

And made a boat and sailed away. And the tree was happy But not really.

And after a long time the boy came back again.

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I am sorry, Boy, said the tree, but I have nothing left to give you My applesare gone.

My teeth are too weak for apples, said the boy.

My branches are gone, said the tree. You cannot swing on them.

I am too old to swing on branches, said the boy. My trunk is gone, said the tree. You cannot climb.

I am too tired to climb, said the boy.

I am sorry sighed the tree. I wish that I could give you something but I havenothing left. I am just an old stump. I am sorry

I dont need very much now, said the boy. Just a quiet place to sit and rest. I amvery tired.

Well, said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, well, an oldstump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down sit down and rest.

And the boy did. And the tree was happy

The end.

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Author: Sheldon Allan Silverstein

The purpose:Entertain

Respond to Reading: Its a very touching short story that the tree giveeverything to the kid she loved.

Main Idea: the tree love the boy and the boy loved the treeFiction

Summary: the tree remembers that the kid play with her and she try to pleasehim in everything to mantain him close to her.

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Childrens Literature

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There were once a man and a woman who had long, in vain, wished for a child. Atlength it appeared that God was about to grant their desire.

These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendidgarden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was,

however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because itbelonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.

One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into thegarden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion, andit looked so fresh and green that she longed for it. She quite pined away, and began

to look pale and miserable.Her husband was alarmed, and asked: 'What ails you, dear wife?'

'Ah,' she replied, 'if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behindour house, I shall die .

Rapunzel

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The man, who loved her, thought: 'Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some ofthe rampion yourself, let it cost what it will.

At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress,hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once madeherself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her - so very good, thatthe next day she longed for it three times as much as before.

If he was to have any rest, her husband knew he must once more descend into

the garden. Therefore, in the gloom of evening, he let himself down again; but whenhe had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantressstanding before him.

'How can you dare,' said she with angry look, 'descend into my garden and stealmy rampion like a thief? You shall suffer for it!

'Ah,' answered he, 'let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind todo it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such alonging for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat.'

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The enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: 'If the case beas you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only Imake one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into theworld; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.

The man in his terror consented to everything.When the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave

the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.

Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelveyears old, the enchantress shut her into a tower in the middle of a forest. The towerhad neither stairs nor door, but near the top was a little window. When theenchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,Let down your hair to me.'

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard thevoice of the enchantress, she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round oneof the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and theenchantress climbed up by it.

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After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest andpassed by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stoodstill and listened. It was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting hersweet voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for thedoor of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had sodeeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened toit.

Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress camethere, and he heard how she cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,Let down your hair to me.'

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed upto her.

'If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,' said he, andthe next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,Let down your hair to me .

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Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up.

At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes hadnever yet beheld, came to her; but the king's son began to talk to her quite like a

friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest,and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when heasked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was youngand handsome, she thought: 'He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does';and she said yes, and laid her hand in his.

She said: 'I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down.Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladderwith it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse .

They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the oldwoman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once

Rapunzel said to her: 'Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so muchheavier for me to draw up than the young king's son - he is with me in a moment .

'Ah! you wicked child,' cried the enchantress. 'What do I hear you say! I thought Ihad separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me!'

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In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice roundher left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cutoff, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she tookpoor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.

On the same day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastenedthe braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when theking's son came and cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,Let down your hair to me.'

She let the hair down. The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearestRapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomouslooks.

'Aha!' she cried mockingly, 'you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sitsno longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well.Rapunzel is lost to you; you will never see her again .

The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt downfrom the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his

eyes.

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He wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries,and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife. Thus heroamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert whereRapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived inwretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he wenttowards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck andwept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could seewith them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, andthey lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

-Anonymous

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Author: Anonymous (source unknown)

The Purpose: To Entertain

Respond to reading: is a classic children short story, very lovely andvery different but always with a happy ending .

Main Idea: It was a girl with long hair that was closed in a tower.

Its Fiction

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Summary: This short story is about a couple who wanted to have a child. Oneday the wife looks out the window that herneighbor had planted witch rampion more beautiful than she had seenand told her husband that if she ate them would die. The husband for hiswife was please and theft. with the passing of the days I hope thewitch and said he was a crook. He explained that his wife was sick and If they did not eat was going to die. The witch said thatas only He could take was the if, when their son was born thehusband gave it to the witch. The husband in despair accept. Time passedand the girl was born and the witch is the took her and put the nameof Rapunzel. Twelve years after the witch locked Rapunzel in a tower. Afterthe time he grew his hair Rapunzel way too long. As an adult and someonehears your prince rescues her from the tower and live happily ever after.

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Poems

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Twenty Poems of LoveI can write the saddest lines tonight.

Write for example: The night is fractured and they shiver, blue, those stars, in the distance

The night wind turns in the sky and sings.I can write the saddest lines tonight.

I loved her, sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like these I held her in my arms.I kissed her greatly under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.How could I not have loved her huge, still eyes.

I can write the saddest lines tonight.To think I dont have her, to feel I have lost her.

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Hear the vast night, vaster without her.Lines fall on the soul like dew on the grass.

What does it matter that I couldnt keep her. The night is fractured and she is not with me.

That is all. Someone sings far off. Far off,my soul is not content to have lost her.

As though to reach her, my sight looks for her.My heart looks for her: she is not with me

The same night whitens, in the same branches.We, from that time, we are not the same.

I dont love her, thats certain, but how I loved her. My voice tried to find the breeze to reach her.

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Anothers kisses on her, like my kisses.

Her voice, her bright body, infinite eyes.

I dont love her, thats certain, but perhaps I love her. Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

Since, on these nights, I held her in my arms,

my soul is not content to have lost her.

Though this is the last pain she will make me suffer,and these are the last lines I will write for her.

By:Pablo Neruda

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Author: Pablo Neruda

The Purpose: Entretain

Respond to reading: its a very sweet and sentimental poem.

Main Idea: that he loved her but she is not with him.

Non Fiction

Summary: This Poem its about the love he had for her but they are nottogether any more. And he steel miss her.

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Biography

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Marilyn Monroe

After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a careeras a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film appearanceswere minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) drew attention to her by now her hair was dyed blonde. By1953, Monroe had progressed to a leading role in Niagara (1953), amelodramatic film noir that dwelled on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde"persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio tobroaden her range.

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson but baptized and raisedas Norma Jeane Baker; June 1, 1926 August 5,1962) was an American actress, singer, model andshowgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in anumber of commercially successful motion pictures duringthe 1950s.

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Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics, and shereceived a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe

Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which shereceived a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. Shereceived a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959).Monroe's final completed film was The Misfits , co-starring Clark Gable withthe screenplay written by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.

The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems, anda reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances ofher death, from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject ofconjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibility ofan accidental overdose, as well as the possibility of homicide, have not beenruled out. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of alltime by the American Film Institute. In the years and decades following herdeath, Monroe has often been cited as both a POP and a cultural icon as well asthe quintessential American female sex symbol.

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Author: Anonymous

The Purpose : To Inform

Respond to reading: Its very fascinating to know the live of someone sofamous like Marilyn Monroe and learn all she did for the industry of theater.

Main Idea: Her Life, specially her Carrier

Non Fiction

Summary: Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on the June 1,1926 she isknown for been the first public female as a sex symbol and a actress, singer andmodel. She was married 3 times but she always have a affair with one of theKennedy's. And She died in August 5,1962 (36 years) of a possible overdose butuntil today nobody knows if it was a murder.