In the apple orchard of a small town, there lived a squirrel named Lefty. Lefty was known throughout the squirrel community as a tremendous athlete. As a young squirrel, he performed acrobatic feats that amazed his peers. He would scramble across the thinnest branches and leap across the widest divides. There was no tree he couldn't climb, and no rooftop he couldn't scale.
But Lefty was boastful, and some of the older squirrels considered him foolish. There was his obsession with apples, for instance. While the other squirrels contented themselves by eating the pink blossoms of the apple trees, Lefty thought he could do better. Apples afforded a bigger meal, and so it was apples that Lefty wanted. As soon as the apples ripened from green to red, Lefty would dance across the branches and pounce on them. Inevitably, the apples would fall to the ground.
"What a waste!" the other squirrels would exclaim, watching Lefty trying to haul the apples back to his home. "Those apples are too heavy!"
Sure enough, they were right. Despite his athletic ability, Lefty never could lift an apple. But this didn't stop him from trying. "You'll see," he told his squirrel friends. "While you waste your time on little flowers, I'll be feasting on apples!"
Again and again, he would dance across the branches and pounce on the apples. And again and again, the apples would be abandoned on the ground, where they would rot.
Lefty kept this up until late autumn, when the weather changed and the leaves fell. Soon enough, the apple trees were bare. Whereas the other squirrels had satisfied their bellies with apple blossoms, Lefty's belly was empty.
"Won't you share some of your food with me?" Lefty asked his squirrel friends. But they turned a cold shoulder to Lefty. They had warned him not to spend his time chasing apples. Now, perhaps, he would learn his lesson.

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explanation:

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to become confederate citizens. nrg myjr i64gq3y45h5t5

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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