?The Maze Runner Character Changes Summary: “When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse...
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I read “The Secret Life of Bees” and the main character is Lily Owens. Lily Owens is a 14 year old girl who runs away from her abusive father because he treats her very badly, and because he lies to her about her past. Lily’s mother died when she was just 3 years old, and Lily hardly remembers...
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KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The novel is set during the late 1800s/early 1900s in a small village called Umuofia situated in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The time period is important, as it was a period in colonial history when the British were expanding their influence in Africa...
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A Separate Peace: Three Symbols The three dichotomous symbols in A Separate Peace by John Knowles reinforce the innocence and evil of the main characters, Finny and Gene. Beside the Devon School flow two rivers on opposite sides of the school, the Naguamsett and the Devon. The Devon provides...
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One of the most devastating problems for the Classical Greeks was the women's issue. Women in Classical Greece were not citizens, held no property, and indeed were not even allowed out of the house except under guard. Their status differed from that of the slaves of Greece only in name. This alone...
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The Hypocrisy of Distortion in Catch-22 Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 is represented through “a long series of similar ironies” (wikipedia. org). The utilization of distortion is seen in numerous instances to get his views across. But what is distortion? Distortion is “a statement that twists...
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The tragic novel turned movie, Ethan Frome, has two main female roles: Zeena and Mattie. These two women have very diverse personalities. Zeena can be best described a controlling, over-bearing, self absorbed person who thrives for attention. On the opposite, Mattie can be looked at as lively and...
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Hedda Gabler In the beginning when the reader meets Hedda Gabler, one can see how she is quite a high maintenance character by how she complains that the maid has” opened the door. I’m drowning in all this sunlight. " (Ibsen 1469). Exerting her power over her husband, George Tesman, she demands...
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Carleigh Craparo 12. 3. 12 English Lolita can be described as a controversial book that can draw the readers in and cause them to feel sympathetic towards a man who is a murderer, pedophile, predator, and an egomaniac. The author, Vladimir Nabokov, seduced the readers’ minds’ with numerous...
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Hell. The four lettered word that trembles in the throats of men and children alike; The images of suffering, flame pits and blood, the smell of burning flesh, the shrieking of those who have fallen from grace. For centuries man has sought out ways to cleanse his soul, to repent for his sins and...
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The play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw has many different characters that bring much to the play due to their backgrounds, feelings, and intentions. One of these remarkable and famous characters is Eliza Doolittle. How Eliza comes across, how she is treated by others, and how she changes are what make...
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The novel of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a young boy, Huck, coming of age. It is a story of Huck's struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim, a runway slave. The many adventures that Huck goes on become a learning process to maturity by learning to be self-sufficient...
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Margaret Atwood's, The Handmaid's Tale, constructs a near-future dystopia where human values do not progress and evolve, but instead become completely diminished and dominated under the Republic of Gilead. This powerful and secure new government gains complete political control and begins to abuse...
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? Fabian Foerst January 10, 2014 6 set Three by Three THE MAZE RUNNER I read the maze runner by James Dashner for my second quarter independent reading book. This is the first of four books and each book has the same main character. I really enjoyed reading the book and I would give it a rating of...
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SECRET LIFE OF BEES – REVISION NOTES Central Characters Lily Melissa Owens Lily is a fourteen-year-old girl whose mother died when she was four years old, an accident that Lily feels she was responsible for. She dresses in clothes she made in home economics. She is not a popular person in school...
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Things Fall Apart p. 52 "For three years Ikemefuna lived in Okonkwo's household and the elders of Umuofia seemed to have forgotten about him. He grew rapidly like a yam tendril in the rainy season, and was full of the sap of life. He had become wholly absorbed into his new family. He was like an...
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A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power Julie Gibson John Knowles' A Separate Peace depicts many examples of how power is used. In A Separate Peace, two opposing characters struggle for their own separate might. Gene Forrester, the reserved narrator, is weakened...
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The play entitled Antigone was written by a man named Sophocles, a scholarly author of philosophy and logic. The play Antigone is probably one of the most prominent interpretations of a tragic drama. The two main characters of the play are Antigone and Creon. There is much conflict between...
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Catch-22 is a novel that tells many stories, but the crux of the novel concerns Joseph Yossarian, a bombardier stationed at the United States Army Air Force base on the fictional Mediterranean island of Pianosa. A war rages between the Allies and the Nazis, but there is another, more important war...
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Ethan Frome and The Awakening Edna Pontellier, from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and Ethan Frome, from Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, both wished to elevate from the societies they lived in and hated. They each come from separate backgrounds that are immensely different. Edna is from the high class...
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From its opening lines, Shakespeare's Henry V makes it clear that the play which is about to ensue is not realistic. As a matter of fact, the emergence of a Chorus onto the stage which proclaims a lament for the lack of realism which besets the play-write and his players, is the first action...
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For many directors, a Long Day's Journey Into Night remains a cross collateral character study. That is to say, since the play is punctuated with a number of dysfunctional characters the emphasis on the drama of the play should be on the performance of the characters. If the actors are not...
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No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre Analyze the play’s title. Be sure to consider the original French: Huis Clos. Since its first publication in 1944 in French, the play Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre has been translated into numerous languages around the world. The English translations have seen many...
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OVERALL ANALYSES CHARACTER ANALYSIS Shaw has often been criticized for his inability to create well- developed round characters. His characters are usually seen as mere puppets propelled by the crisis of the plot or as mouthpieces for his socialist viewpoint. However in Pygmalion,, Shaw vindicates...
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I. AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to most as Mark Twain, has been hailed by many as the father of American Literature. His two most famous works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (1884), are considered two of the greatest novels of all...
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Q. Discuss the Contribution made by ONE major characters in a novel you have studied The main contribution made by the major character in the novel ? The Handmaid's Tale is by the narrator- Offred. We suspect from various hints and clues that suggests that she is June. However, we are unable to...
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? Fabian Foerst January 10, 2014 6 set Three by Three THE MAZE RUNNER I read the maze runner by James Dashner for my second quarter independent reading book. This is the first of four books and each book has the same main character. I really enjoyed reading the book and I would give it a rating of...
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Some girls grow up without a mother, but they don’t know how lucky they are that they don’t have to live with the feeling of guilt and remorse that Lilly Owens has to live with everyday. Everyday, since the age of four, Lilly has to deal with the regret of killing her own mother, Deborah. On...
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American writer Nelle Haper Lee, famous for her race relations novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Lee was 34 when the work was published and it has remained her only novel. The book eventually became an international bestseller. Lee, commonly known to family and friends as Nelle, was...
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In the book “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” written by George Orwell, readers are introduced to a dystopia, where the Party controls everything that people can do, such as thoughts, language, behavior and media. In the grim world of “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the government even wants to control the thoughts...
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Peace only comes at the price of great struggle and sacrifice for most people. In essence, it only comes when you have defeated the enemy, or the enemy has defeated you. John Knowles was able to capture the subtle goal and essence of his novel by titling it A Separate Peace. A Separate Peace is a...
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Sophocles' Antigone, in its later phases is no longer about the conflict of law; It is about stubbornness and self will, about the sin of refusing to listen; about a man who has never been told. ;br; ;br;Conflict of law, presents the initial disturbance within Thebes. Creon, King of Thebes...
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This book is like many others before it as it is a forerunner of events and times that had yet to happen at the time of its publication. In that respect, it can be classified with Jules Verne’s’ novels but while the Nautilus, the nuclear submarine of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, was...
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Ethan Frome "Character" Ethan Frome is the protagonist of the novel. A "ruin of a man," according to The Narrator . He appears to be tall, " He has "strong shoulders" , blue eyes and brown hair . He has a "powerful look," that is "bleak". Ethan is a poor man who is simple, straightforward, and...
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O. Henry wrote his own magazine entitled, "The Rolling Stone". The magazine did poorly and Henry stooped to stealing from bank accounts to which he became arrested. Henry's writing came to a halt due to jail time and he eventually died nine years after being set free. The time period in which O...
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;center;;b;The Fog of Substance Abuse;/b;;/center; ;br; ;br;As the fog descends around the Tyrone's summer home, another fog falls on the family within. This fog is that of substance abuse, in which each of the four main characters of Eugene O'Neill's play, Long Day's Journey into Night face by...
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Jean-Paul Sartre portrays existentialism in his play, No Exit, through his three main characters: Inez, who was put in Hell for causing pain to the people who loved her, and is punished by loving someone who refuses to love her back, this in turn causes her pain; Garcin ,who was put in Hell...
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As proven in Pygmalion, the novel by George Bernard Shaw and "Pygmalion", the Greek myth, neither a creator, nor or anyone, should control the fate of another, be it a creation or simply another human.. It is neither moral, nor possible to control another's fate, and arguable that one cannot even...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn touches upon controversial racial issues that many people believe are not appropriate for young children. Understanding the novel’s satirical aspects requires a certain amount of intellectual maturity. Students below this level of aptitude may misconstrue the...
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*Dr. Peth*ybridge English Literature Matthew Lowell With extreme circumstances, extreme measures need to take place. The psychological and societal changes that occurred while the civilization of Gilead was reconstructed had no excuse because terror does not advance society it degenerates it...
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October 11, 2013 Period 1 Maze Runner Book Report Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very...
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English 9- CPA 9/13/10 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd “In a matter of seconds I knew exactly what I had to do-leave. I had to get away from T. Ray, who was probably on his way back this minute to do Lord-knows-what to me. ” (p. 41). When people come of age, they follow through with their...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice The theme of prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird is much more than just a case of black and white. The entire novel is about prejudice in it's many forms, the most prominent case of prejudice is the racism and hate between the blacks and whites. The...
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Thesis Statement After going through both the pieces of literature, it transpires that both differences and similarities exist between Brave New World and 1984. They are both prophetic novels, they were both written in turbulent times, both suffering changes that could lapse the future of the world...
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A Separate Peace is a remarkable story about the relationship between two young students, Gene and Phineas. Their friendship develops through the formation of secret societies and late night card games. A tragic event, at first glance an accident, changes their lives forever. As the story unfolds...
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Antigone It takes a lot of courage to stand up and defend an action or idea that is forbidden by society. This is what Antigone does in Sophocles' story Antigone. She clearly disobeys King Creon's order that no person should bury Antigone's brother, Polynices, which is punishable by penalty of...
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“Science is the only religion of mankind.” — — “No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the...
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Ethan Frome Essay In many books, a hero has a major flaw, which contributes to his downfall in the story. In the book Ethan Frome, the main character, Ethan, encounters a tragedy and is brought to ruin and suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of tragic flaw. Tragic flaw is a flaw in...
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The qualities I believe a leader should possess are the ability to keep control but be firm and forceful against the people causing trouble for them and their country. Good manners are also important as with anyone, regardless of whether a leader or not. They should also believe in equality and be...
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Symbolism in Long Days Journey Into Night In Eugene O'Neil's Long Days Journey Into Night symbolism is used on many occasions. The three prominent symbols, the fog, the foghorn, and Mary's glasses, represent the characters isolation from reality. The symbols in Long Days Journey Into Night are...
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