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Hickory Dickory Dock is a book written by Agatha Christie. Book’s protagonist is Mr Hercule Poirot who is the most famous Belgian detective. He is a little roundish man who has huge and sharp moustaches. In the beginning he is investigating ‘harmless’ thefts but then happens three murder. In the end he has a strong suspicion. And murderer’s confession letter is the last nail in his coffin.
There are a few main antagonists.

Mrs Hubbard is Miss Lemon’s sister and she looks after a student hostel. Inspector Sharpe is big and comfortable-looking man. And he is in charge of murder investigations.

This story happens in middle of London in 26 Hickory Road. The setting becomes very clearly because there is for example Inspector Sharpe who works in London police force. Agatha uses a third person omniscient narrator almost all the time. It’s easy to find because narrator tells something in past time. The book is very easy to read because you don’t need to know anything what have happened in previous books.

The Full stop is a short story written by Alecia McKenzie. It’s a story about a young women Carmen who have been abandoned by mothers that migrated to England. The story is composed as a set of letters passed between the grandmother, Grand Ma Scottie and her granddaughter Carmen who is a medical doctor in New York City. They keep writing about grandma’s healthy, how’s days past, Carmen’s mother and her brother Richie. By and by the woman starts to think about her biological mother more and more and starts to wonder why her mother abandoned her as a baby.

The protagonist in this book is a woman named Carmen. She has a husband or boyfriend by her side called Normy. She is very loving and caring, and keeps helping her grandma giving her some money enclosed every once in a while for granny’s needs.

Carmen’s grandma is very religious and lives by her own in an old house.  She’s very proud that she got to raise her daughter’s children when her daughter gave them up for grandma to take care off.

However, from time to time grandmother seems a bit hypocritical. Grandmother was the one in a first place who urged Carmen to talk with her mother. When Carmen tells that she heard her mother’s side of the story about how Carmen was taken to live with her grandma, grandmother loses her temper. Carmen is now very uncertain, which one of the stories holds the truth. Also the story behind why Richard refuses to talk with grandma is unknown which makes the story even more suspicious.

The fault in our stars written by John Green tells the story of a sixteen year-old-girl named Hazel who has a terminal cancer. She sees her life as a pointless waste of time until she meets a boy named Augustus who changes her life perspective completely.
Hazel is the first person narrator and the protagonist in the book. As a person Hazel is rather difficult because she is very sarcastic and she wants to believe that she knows everything and has seen it all in life. Those character features can also be seen as flaws or a coping mechanism, but that is exactly what makes her character so real and relatable. Cancer on the other hand can be seen as the antagonist of the story because that is the one thing that makes a negative impact to Hazel´s life throughout the book.
The biggest conflict to Hazel in the book is clearly Hazel herself because she doesn´t let herself be happy or enjoy the things that life throw her way. The conflict is resolved after many obstacles and denials when Hazel finally realizes that she is as worthy and justified for her happiness as anybody else.
The maincharacter asks herself many important and life-changing questions about life and death throughout the book. Reader finds himself wondering the same questions along the way with the character which makes the book even more of a emotional journey than it already is. The themes of the book circle around these questions, and one of the major things that the writer wants to say through the book is that our lives are limited and we should make the most with the time we have.

The book Strangers on a train is written by Patricia Highsmith and the book’s release year is 1950. It is a scary, distress and very anxious book because it is a psychological thriller and it tells about two strange men to each others who meet on a train and start doing weird and also scary things. Book’s leading character is Guy Haines and the other leading character is Charles Anthony Bruno. Bruno pulls Guy into a world of madness, death and lies with himself.

At first the leading character Guy Haines is very sweet and peaceful man but when he and Bruno start to hang out together Guys personality changes. He becomes stressful and paranoid and Bruno manipulates him all the time. Guy used to be independent but Bruno made it disappear. First Guy also hate Bruno because he kill Guys ex-wife. Bruno killed Guys ex-wife because he wants that the Guy would kill his father. As we can see Bruno is a very mentally ill.

In the book are many themes like death and payback. And of course there are negative themes in the book because it is a psychological thriller. But I think the main theme is that the people can chance. The end of a book was very melancholic. Guy did something terrible and he understood something by himself.

Narrator is a third person omniscient. That has made the book easy to read because narrator tells so well all the things. Narrator is empathising in the story and it’s not chancing in the book. The book language is also easy and words are basic glossary that anyone should know.

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The last spin is a short story by Evan Hunter.It is a story of two young guys ,who play a russian roulette in a small basement room. They are members of the gang. They have to solve a gang fight to playing the russian roulette. Boys  spin a cylinder alternately and wait nervously, which kill your self first. Along a game they speak a lot of deep thinks.Example : fututre plans , girl friend and moms. Finally they plan the sunday boat trip together.

Protagonitsts of story are Tigo and Danny who are young  guys and new persons in gangs . When story start Danny thinks that Tigo is enemy,but later both know that death come today and both become more frendly each other.

Story narrator is omniscient for she know ,what boys thinking. The story make a headway fine and logigally. Story have dialogue when boys  are speaking each other and narrator speaking.

The short story is really compelling and intresting to read. But sometimes i feel ,that story proceed too slow. Story have littlebit too much replay , example: words :”The cylinder whirled” ,replay too many times.

Rhyme is really sad,but every good stories stop sadly.

An analysis of ”Medal of Honor”
”Medal of Honor” (Chris Ryan) is a book, that’s for certain, but it’s hard to define if it’s a novel or just a short story, it’s something much more, it’s a story, a story of life and death.

The book takes the reader into a SAS soldier Jock’s head. He is the protagonist of the book and also plays the part of the narrator, which in this case is a first person narrator. Jock is tough but can keep his head calm, the perfect traits of a special force soldier. Jock learns a lot about his squadmates during the story and they become good friends. The antogonist of the book is not just Jock’s enemy but also the enemy of the UK and the USA. His name is Al-Zaranj. He is a terrorist leader of the Al Qaeda in Afganistan.

The reader is brought into 21st-century Afganistan and its harsh and unforgiving nature where everything varies from one extreme to another. Afganistan plays a very important role in the book. The characters of the book have come to Afganistan to fight against terrorism and to revenge the WTC attacks. This is the conflict that the whole book is based on. The soldiers end their quest by destroying an enemy base in the mountains near a small village called Pajay. Al-Zaranj is also eliminated in this succesful operation.

The first thing the reader notices from the book is that its theme is obviously warfare. But when examining more closely the reader begins to see other things in the storyline. It is about learning to trust the right people and the ability to forget other’s mistakes and even forgive them.

The book uses a lot of technical terms along with some similes for example: ”-like a Christmas tree.” The technical terms make the book seem more convincing.

The Notebook is a 1996 romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks and it is based on a true story. The novel tells a story of Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, the couple who has been together fifty years, in spite of all the setbacks. The last setback is Allies Alzheimer’s: now she can’t even remember who she is. Even if doctors keep telling Noah that Allies memories are not coming back, he’s not losing hope. He keeps reading the story of their life to Allie over and over again and sometimes, despite the Alzheimer’s, Allie remembers, but only for a moment.

The novel contains two stories: the main story, which is telling about present day and the storie that Noah reads to Allie. The perspective from which the storie is told changes depending on which of the story is told. The main story is told by first person and the narrator of this story is Noah. The storie that Noah reads for Allie, on the other hand, is told by third person omniscient.

Theme of the novel is simple: love conquers all. It may sound a bit cliché, but no matter how many setbacks Allie and Noah faced, their love brought them back together. Even when Allie doesn’t remember Noah, he loves her. After all, the most important thing the novel taught us is that true love never dies.

The novel Galaxy in flames written by Ben Counter is the third book of a series called Horus Heresy. The heresy consists of about 25 books each varying in length, the author also varies. Galaxy in flames was published in 2006 by Black Library which is a part of Games Workshop, inventors of the Warhammer 40 000 universe.

Early in the 31st millennium, the main ”scene” of  Galaxy in flames is set around Isstvan system in space where the legions about to betray the emperor of mankind are assembling and preparing to get rid of their loyalist marines, who are sent to the surface of Isstvan III to purge the rebelling world of heretics. One marine, Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor’s Children finds out about the plans to exterminate the planet with a conveniently named exterminatus bombardment, which involves virus bombing, burning of the atmosphere and blowing up everything that is left to stand and proceeds to enter the planet to warn his brothers, and Garviel Loken, the main figure so far whose tale doesn’t end too well, sadly enough.  A lot of other things happen before the loyalists get sent down to Isstvan III and while they are there. The storytelling jumps from the planet back into the fleet in orbit and what is happening there.

The story advances quite slowly in each book, mainly because the books are rather short and at least in the first three books there have been three or four different story lines each being connected in some way. The depiction of the environment, characters and everything included in the story worthy of an image is great, you can very easily get a picture of what’s happening and how it might look like. The theme of this book has clearly been betrayal, there’s no way around it. Brothers turned against each other and the Warmaster, tainted by Chaos, begins his march against the Imperium of Mankind, and even more, his creator, the allegedly god-emperor of mankind.

A certain feel of sadness landed on me once I finished reading the last chapter, the deaths of my favorite characters wasn’t a pleasant experience but yet I have the urge to pick up the fourth book and continue reading. I found that once you read the two first books you can get attached to some of the characters in which case Galaxy in flames is bound to bring up some emotions, it was a joy to read. Even though it’s a science-fantasy series, the language is not that difficult to understand if your vocabulary is refined enough. Unless you’re a die-hard fan of WH40k or science-fiction in general, I wouldn’t really touch these books. It’s not a simple universe to sink in.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of Shattered Rock Star is an autobiography, written by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins. The book is about Nikki’s restless life and it was released six years ago. Nikki is a bassist of the rock band Mötley Crüe.

While reading this autobiography, there was one thing I kept wondering. Could this really have happened, could this really be based on true story? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. The book was convincing and it didn’t embellish the events. It’s been written like a diary and it’s based on year 1987 in Nikki’s life. When the story is told from the drug user’s point of view, it sure is a raw story.

The book is oppressive. Everything that Nikki does, he does, because he needs heroine. That’s the only thing he’s interested in. Friends, music and sex doesn’t bring any joy in his life anymore. It’s hard to imagine, how he has felt at the time. The theme of this book is definitely decline in the famous man’s life. Nice thing in this book, is that there are comments from Nikki himself and from his close friends. They are telling their opinion about Nikki’s tough junkie lifestyle back then.

The vocabulary in this book is unilateral. The author used again and again the same words, when he narrated the story. For example, words ”hustler” and ”hanky-panky”.

The story of The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of Shattered Rock Star is quite easy to understand and in some level you can identify with it. It is an integranted entity. You don’t have to be a Mötley Crüe -fan to like this book. You just need to be curious and attracted to different kind of true stories. This book will astonish you.