The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls is an aspiring journalist who is ashamed of her past. She grew up with three siblings who were going through the same difficulties as she was, and two parents whose idea of life was different from society. Growing up practically homeless her...
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The Lady with the Dog and Relationships In The Lady with the Dog, readers are introduced to Anna and Gurov; a relationship that is a cross of fate and bad timing. A jaded misconception of true love’s fate is where a young couple meets, marries, and lives happily ever after. The Lady with the Dog...
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"Poe's Life Reflected in The Raven" Edgar Allen Poe is a well known writer and poet. He wrotemany tales of mystery and macabre. I once read his book, 'The Masqueof the Red Death'. The story was so heavy and dark that I felt scaredwhile reading the book. When I was about to read his poem 'TheRaven'...
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of those few works that still have its readers talking about its meaning till this day. Did James do this on purpose or was there something more within the context that no reader has yet to pin point the true meaning of the work? The ambiguity of both...
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Student Name Not Applicable Teachers Name Not Applicable Honors English 10 Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Watership Down-College Level Reading Material? Why does the book Watership Down by Richard Adams, appear on a college level reading list? The book has expansive imagery and thorough details...
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A Modest Proposal is a satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, written in 1729. It is aimed at the rich landowners of Ireland who are keeping the poor of Ireland in poverty and virtual starvation. The narrator is Swift, who seems to be making a strong case for cannibalism as a method for solving the...
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1. When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.?. . ...
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The Loss of Individuality The peak of a writer's career should exhibit their most profound works of literature. In the case of Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is by far his most renowned novel. Aldous Huxley is a European-born writer who, in the midst of his career, moved to the United States and...
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Throughout history many major events have occurred, some have been named atrocities others have been named victories. Whether or not the original intentions of these actions were for the good of mankind, we can not say, for there are many influences in deciding what is truly good or bad. There are...
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The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens offers a glimpse into the life and times during the industrial revolution in England during the nineteenth century. Dickens offers a wide range of characters from the upper class factory owner to the lowest class factory workers. He creates characters in...
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The novel Les Miserables was written in 1862 by Victor Hugo. Behind the plot of Les Miserables lie inklings about the meaning of life and about human nature. Components of Romanticism and realism are used by Hugo in order to successfully project his feelings about the plight of mankind. Various...
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AThe Ideal of Social Grace The characters’ dense, colorful manner of speaking represents the ideal that Renaissance courtiers strove for in their social interactions. The play’s language is heavily laden with metaphor and ornamented by rhetoric. Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro all produce the...
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Quentin walks over to his bedroom window. Margo is standing there dressed in black and wearing black face paint. She tells Quentin that she needs to borrow his car, which is actually his mother’s minivan. When Quentin says no and reminds her that she has her own car, Margo tells him that her...
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Research Paper on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” by Stephanie Gill Outline I. Introduction and Name a) “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade (1969)” b) Most famous work about the bombing of Dresden c) “Vonnegut’s telegraphic, schizophrenic” style II. Background a) Vonnegut joined...
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One of the universal themes of the novel, The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is that of moral responsibility. As Father Zosima’s brother, Markel, passionately exclaims, “…each of us is guilty in everything before everyone, and I most of all”(Dostoevsky289). Simply stated, humanity is...
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IJ. Calub Possessing the Power to Prosper from Poverty The power of a penny’s worth is much more than what people presume it to be valued at. Jeannette Walls, author of – The Glass Castle – narrates a story of her life experiences in which she shares most of those moments with her family...
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When approaching the two stories of The Lady with the Pet Dog by Joyce Carol Oates and Anton Chekhov we learn of a much more comprehensive and interesting approach of how the two different writers have treated the issue of illicit affair between two married people than when each story is treated...
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Annabel Lee And The Raven Comparison Sorrow for the Lost Annabel Lee With insistent meter and captivating rhyme schemes, Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" are both very similar. However, in their views of love, namely the loss and mourning of beautiful women, they differ greatly...
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The ghost story is a long standing tradition in many cultures dating back thousands of years. Still to this day, people gather around camp fires or in dark rooms with flash lights and try to tell the scariest and creepiest ghost stories just for the thrill of the fright. However, sometimes we may...
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Hazel and El-ahrairah Watership Down is an epic novel filled with adventure. Though the main characters are rabbits, the author depicts them in a very individual way that highlights their personalities while still keeping the novel believable. Two rabbits that have and especially big impact on the...
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Not So Modest Proposal In 1729, with “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift raised the argument that, “For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” (44), we should rid...
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Angela’s Ashes 9-4-12 5 hour 1. “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace” (208). This quote was chosen because it had the most significance to the memoir out of all. The quote means even though you are poor and that you don’t have all the nicest things in life, you...
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Hypnotism is not widely promoted in our society as formal education; yet, it lingers on the horizon. In Huxley's Brave New World, hypnopaedia is used to promote economic stability and control emotions of the inhabitants living in England. The economy-oriented society relies on hypnopaedia to...
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In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most blatant and powerful symbol is blood. He takes the blood that means so much to the believers of this legend and has it represent more than even they could imagine. Blood is the main object associated with vampires and vampirism. From a mythical standpoint, it is...
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The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a fictitious glimpse into the lives of various classes of English people that live in a town named Coketown during the Industrial Revolution. The general culture of Coketown is one of utilitarianism. The school there is run by a man ready to weigh and...
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Written by Victor Hugo after the French Revolution, Les Miserables is a story that examines the many levels of social injustice in nineteenth-century France. Its protagonist, Jean Valjean, is central to the understanding of this injustice. Sentenced to 19 years in prison for committing a petty...
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Based on the novel, Jim Burden’s observation of Antonia and even the way he looks at her and interacts with her, it seems clear that he loved Antonia. He did not pursue her, however. Jim spent his childhood in his grandfather’s house in the prairie and spent a lot of time with Antonia. Eventually...
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Margo gives Quentin a list of items to buy in Publix and one of the hundred-dollar bills. The list is random, and includes three catfish, a dozen tulips, a can of blue spray paint, and hair-removal cream. What really catches Quentin’s eye, however, is Margo’s random capitalization. Margo tells him...
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In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, the story of Billy Pilgrim is used to explore various themes about life and war. Vonnegut’s tragic war experiences in Dresden led him to write on the horrors and tragedies of war. Vonnegut’s connection with Billy and the...
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Buck is the canvas upon which London delineates the ruthless and predatory world characteristic of both civilization and wilderness. For London’s work offers no apology for Nature and her violent ways. Nor does it uphold civilization as a redeeming and cleansing mechanism from which emerges a...
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The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is a remarkable true story of a family and the problems they face because of poverty. This two hundred and eighty eight page book is a truly inspiring and astonishing memoir. This book was published in 2005 and has spent more than three years on the New...
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Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov is a late-nineteenth century Russian womanizer in Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog. Unhappily married, Gurov has long been unfaithful to his wife. He views women as “the lower race”, therefore easily dispersing of his mistresses. He soon meets Anna Sergeyevna, or The...
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The Raven Edgar Allans Poe's, The Raven, made a significant impact, not only in American literature, but the world as well. With Poe's influence, short fictions were more accepted in literary circles. Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to American literature have become increasingly more prominent as...
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A value common in many gothic texts is that of the role of women, who are generally demonstrated as weak and incapable, especially in difficult and unfamiliar circumstances. In “The Turn of the Screw,” for example, the governess and even Mrs Grose are determined to protect and mother the children...
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Not Your Typical Superhero Story Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cat Woman; when you hear the word hero or heroine that is who you think of. The most famous heroes of all time, as well as the not so famous heroes such as Hazel, fit the archetype of a hero; they are all courageous...
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Have You Eaten Yet? : Swift's Final Solution As a lately favored eighteenth century essay, Jonathan Swift's "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly, Swift's essay is often seen as an allegory for England's oppression of Ireland. Swift...
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Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Limitations Imposed by Class Because of social snobbery, Frank is unfairly denied many opportunities. Although he is an intelligent, quick-witted, and eager student, he is prevented from becoming an altar boy and...
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Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are two books, both of which are supposed to be set in the future, which have numerous theme similarities throughout them. Of all their common factors, the ones that stand out most would have to be first, the outlawed reading of books; second, the superficial...
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The vampire has been a mysterious and enticing figure since its entrance into popular culture, usually regarded as the tale Dracula written in 1897 by Bram Stoker. Stoker, and later Anne Rice, as well as many other writers and directors have capitalized on the fascination the public has with these...
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Hard Times Symbolism, Imagery & allegory Sometimes, there’s more to Lit than meets the eye. Fairy Palaces and Elephants (a. k. a. Factories and the Machinery inside them) This one is from the narrator and runs throughout the novel: the idea that the ugly, square, fact-based, oppressive mills...
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Reaction Paper – Les Miserables Les Miserables translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims) (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. It follows the...
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My Antonia by Willa Cather Author: Willa Sibert Cather, Nebraska's most noted author was born in Virginia. At the age of ten she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska. Many of Cather's acquaintances and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather wrote poetry, short...
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The prologue and the first few chapters introduce the relationship between two teenagers, Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen. They both witnessed a traumatic event when they were nine-years-old, and though their friendship has cooled over the years, the memory of that day still seems to be...
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ENG 255L-114 29 April 2011 Slaughterhouse Five Final Reflection Since reading Slaughterhouse Five, the reoccurring theme has been the idea of war. I believe that this theme has lead to show us how critical and really how destructive war can be. Although in some aspects Billy Pilgrim is able to...
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In 1903, Jack London wrote his best selling novel, concerning the life of a sled dog that travels throughout Alaska, the Yukon, and the Klondike. Throughout this book Jack London uses personification to illustrate the dog's viewpoint. London describes what adventures the dog encounters after being...
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To: Ms. Rodriguez From: Charissa Roemmich Date: October 15, 2012 Re: Glass Castle Incident Report Fire Incident of Jeannette Walls Summary On May 17th, 1963, Jeannette Walls’ dress catches fire in her trailer kitchen while cooking hot dogs. Mrs. Walls puts the fire out with an army surplus blanket...
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True Love Blossoms Out of Infidelity Infidelity. Love. Innocence. These are all the things encountered in the story “The Lady with the Dog,” by Anton Chekhov. The story is about two married people; Dimitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna; who have an affair and fall in love. The distorted ethical code...
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Raven vs. Lenore when the writer talks about Lenore he makes her seem like a god like person. She is like untouchable almost. The writer seems to have had a bond with Lenore, almost as if she was his wife. Lenore in the poem is portrayed as a person who couldn’t do any wrong and was perfect. The...
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Over the years, Henry James' short story, "The Turn of the Screw," has provokes great discussion and debate, as it concerns the ongoing question of the existence of the supernatural. "The Turn of the Screw" relays the story of a young governess, sent to the secluded, mysterious estate of Bly to...
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Parallelism in Watership Down In works of literature, authors incorporate parallels to portray corresponding events. The novel Watership Down, by Richard Adams, has numerous examples of parallelism. The actions of the Watership down rabbits correspond with the actions of a rabbit folk-hero named...
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