Looking for Alaska by John Green # Character Trait Context of Quote & Page Number Response to Text 1 Warm “In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, when the...
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A Novel Handbook Narrative Techniques In Northanger Abbey Critics have often dismissed Northanger Abbey is Austen’s “earliest and least perfect” (Dwyer,43);claiming that “it lacks the narrative sophistication of the later works”(Litz, 59). Briefly, and within the usual Gothic parody context of...
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« ROBINSON CRUSOE » Daniel Defoe Cours du 1er decembre 2010 P. 14: This book is perceived very differently across cultures and also across the different periods of time! Not the same in the 18th century than in the 21st. EPITOME/ARCH representative picture of western man. * Blueprint for...
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Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are Mark Twain's two most memorable characters. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn experience a life of adventure in and out of role-play, weaving through danger with a childish disregard for personal well being. Even though they are quite alike due to age and hometown, their...
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Alice Walker's The Color Purple From reading the extract from The Color Purple, the reader is shocked almost straight away from how the character/narrator (who in this case is the author Alice Walker) is treated and brought up by her father. The way in which the story is told is in the form of...
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“Home Floresiensis - The Hobbit” Homo floresiensis (“Man of Flores”) is the name for a possible new species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times (www. en. wikipedia. org). Anthropologists Peter Brown of University of New England...
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In the past the definition of the tragedy was restricted to be defined as depicting the downfall of a noble hero or heroine due to some combination of hubris, fate, and the will of the gods, however a modern tragedy is different, it changes the execution of a tragedy from hubris to his outside...
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My first reaction to this section is that the phrase “The Sound and the Fury” is in itself evocative, There is a sense of ‘static’ tension to the contrast between the words, and an attempt to distill or dilute the idea would be a taste of ‘madness’ or insanity. Further, the phrase is given more...
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Shannon Wester May 1, 2005 Mrs. Takehara To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mocking Bird In my diorama I depicted the scene of Jem walking Scout home from the Halloween pageant, in full ham-suit, when they are attacked in the woods by Bob Ewell. He first attacks Jem, and then Scout, until someone...
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Often, people and groups, in an attempt to create a better, more perfect, society, end up creating just the opposite. This opposite is termed a dystopian society and is the subject of George Orwell’s novel 1984. In this novel, Orwell uses literary devices such as metaphor, symbolism and diction to...
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The evidence of masculinity in scene three is shown through dialogue, stage direction and description of the surroundings. The introduction to the dramatic purpose of the poker party demonstrates Stanley's domination over his friends through the way in which he makes all the decisions about the...
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Q: Describe Antony and Cleopatra as a heroic act written in a post-heroic age. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare; embodying the basic notions of most of the Jacobean tragedies that occurred during the reign of King James the first of England. The story follows a...
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1 DECLARATION I, the undersigned, hereby declare that this is my own and personal work, except where the work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques. I have read and understood Tutorial Letter CMNALLE/301/2011 regarding technical and presentation...
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Symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel is about Guy Montag, a ‘fireman’ who produces fires instead of eliminating them in order to burn books (Watt 2). One night while he is walking home...
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The story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is filled with betrayal, lust, and abandonment. Every male in the story who has eyes lusts after La Esmeralda, and abandonment is a major theme. Jehan Frollo betrays his adopted brother, Quasimodo, when Quasimodo is being questioned in the court, he doesn't...
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Many people don’t realize that our actions can affect the people around us. Alaska acts as a whirlwind in Mile’s life. Changing who he is and dealing with that is the heart of the book. It’s not the controversial side-events of a teen’s life (smoking, drinking, cursing, having “sexual relations”)...
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?Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin Key facts: full title: Northanger Abbey author: Jane Austen type of work: Novel genre: 'bildungsroman'(novel of education or moral development); parody of Gothic novels language: English (British, late 1700s/early 1800s) time and place written: 1798–1799 in...
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Robinson Crusoe is a very religious albeit waivering man. He has a strong sense of faith and self but often rebukes or even ignores the notion of God all together. He thanks God for some things in life and boasts in himself about other things. In the beginning of his life his father offers him a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The main idea behind this story is just an average little schoolboy getting into loads of trouble all the time and learning things through experience. He's not the role model little boy at all, but he's certainly not the one everyone would pick on and such. Tom Sawyer...
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English 102 24 April 2007 Awakening of an Abused Woman “The Color Purple” is set in the rural south and told through a series of letters written by the protagonist, Celie, chronicling her journey from pain and humiliation to triumph and rebirth. Throughout most of her life she has been treated as...
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This summer I read the book, “The Hobbit”, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was a really interesting book with ups and downs just like any other. It was an adventure about a little hobbit named Bilbo who slowly discovers how brave and courageous he is. He is accompanied by 13 dwarves and occasionally a...
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The Metamorphosis of Gregor 1)Metamorphosis - a change in form, structure, or appearance. Change is a major theme throughout Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis. Not only is the theme puzzling, but also how Greg Samsa didn't give up on living because of his family or anything like that. It...
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THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner's background influenced him to write the unconventional novel The Sound and the Fury. One important influence on the story is that Faulkner grew up in the South. The Economist magazine states that the main source of his inspiration was the passionate history...
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Virginia Woolf is an outstanding and unique novelist who portrays the inner self of the human mind rather than the happenings in the external life. Woolf’s To the Lighthouse deals with the conflict between the feminine and masculine values which is universal in nature. The women in the fiction...
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Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol illustrates many themes of the victorian era. Poverty, charity and greed are major themes of this work. This essay highlights examples of these themes as portrayed by Dickens. Poverty was a striking characteristic of Victorian England, especially noticeable in...
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Blanche Dubious, appropriately dressed in white, is first introduced as a symbol of innocence and chastity. Aristocratic, refined, and sensitive, this delicate beauty has a moth-like appearance. She has come to New Orleans to seek refuge at the home of her sister Stella and her coarse Polish...
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Fatal Flaws In order for a character to be relatable, he or she must first be flawed. As humans, we are unnable to relate to perfect beings, as we ourselves are not perfect, we are flawed. In Antony and Celopatra, Antony's fragility is exploited as his Achrilles heel, Cleopatra, is dangeled...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Chronicle of a Death Foretold (original Spanish title: Cronica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two...
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By: Brian Ramapo In the futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451, the author, Ray Bradbury, expresses several problems that influence the story. Many of these problems have to do with the behavior of the people in the twenty- fourth century society. One major problem is that firemen have been given the job...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame By: Joe Dick During the 1482 Festival of Fools in Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, is elected the Pope of Fools for being the ugliest person in Paris. He is hoisted on a throne and paraded around Paris by the jeering mob. Pierre Gringoire, a struggling...
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The book, “Looking For Alaska” by John Green is about a boy named Miles "Pudge" Halter. Before everything happens, he is leaves his home, in Florida to go to Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. When he is at the school, he meets a boy named Chip "The Colonel" Martin, who is his roommate at...
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?Northanger Abbey essay 1. How far does Northanger Abbey fulfil and/or challenge some of the conventions of the gothic? Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, is regarded by many as a light-hearted parody of the gothic genre. The term 'gothic' is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary...
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Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is in its entirety an odd novel; in fact it can be seen to go against the form of a novel as journal entries are interspersed with the descriptive narrative. However throughout the reading of the novel I was never comfortable, and to some extent was nervy and edge...
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Top Ten Quotes 1. "Spare the rod and spile the child, as the good book says. I'm a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He's full of the old scratch, but laws-a-me! He's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him somehow. Every time I let him off my...
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Purple America America was in its prime in the 1920’s. A time of many drastic changes, 1920’s Americans enjoyed a booming economy, a prosperous and wealthy upper-class society, and general international and national peace. For African Americans; however, the 1920’s meant facing economic struggle...
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‘The Hobbit’ is a beautiful story written by J. R. R Tolkien, and is full of happy, emotional quotes and lovely characters. Tolkien gives detailed descriptions of his characters using humour and often captures his young readers’ attention with short poems. For example, he begins his story with the...
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Franz Kafka is considered by many to be one of the most prominent and influential writers of the twentieth century (Votteler 204). Many of his works, mostly short stories, met with critical acclaim only after his death in 1924. His stories usually present ? a grotesque vision of the world in which...
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Faulkner uses an array of style techniques in his novels. The most apparent styles he uses in The Sound and the Fury are: the uses of language, narration, and the unique design of the novel. "Faulkner's style is a significant factor that is masterfully controlled"(Hoffman 142). Faulkner's style is...
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To the Lighthouse, published in 1927 is one of Virginia Woolf’s most successful novels written in a stream of consciousness style. The novel is divided into three parts, which revolve around the members of the Ramsey family and their guests during visits to their summer vacationing residence...
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A Summary of A Christmas Carol Matt Toback 1). This story takes place in London, England. The time is winter and it starts the day before Christmas, also known as Christmas Eve. The settings of the book include Scrooge's Counting House, Scrooge's Home, Bob Cratchit's home, assorted places...
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A Streetcar Named Desire Summary Essay Reality vs. Illusion In Tennessee William's masterful play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the reader meets a middle ? aged woman by the name of Blanche DuBois. Blanche lives in her own faerie tale world, one of a young, beautiful debutante, surrounded by admirers...
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What is it that makes Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ such a timeless classic that transcends time? It is the ideas and themes that are shown throughout the play and the techniques, such as hyperbolic language, used to present those. Love and duty are juxtaposed in the play and this shows the...
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Animals: Humor, Symbolism, and other Literary Devices in Chronicle of a Death Foretold In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, utilizes the motif of animals as symbols: pigs for ironic humor, rabbits as foreshadowing, and many other animals to aid in description...
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Ray Bradbury’s satire, Fahrenheit 451, is a novel full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hound’s actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag’s world continues on without thought...
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JMJ Ma. Raisa Dy Pandan 11E English Character Sketch 11/16/11 The Hunchback of Notre Dame None in Paris could have looked more gruesome, more frightening, than the hunchbacked-bell ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo. None in Paris could have been more misunderstood as well. Perpetually...
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Miles Halter was going to attend a boarding school in Alabama, leaving his family and Florida behind. His mother forced him into throwing a going-away party, believing that Miles just hides that he was popular in school. He wasn’t, however, and no one attended the party, except for two people who...
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” — Chapter 1, page 29 — “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” — — “It is only a novel... or, in...
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When one thinks of the character Robinson Crusoe, stunning images of a deserted island, a free, self-sufficient man, and a shipwreck come to mind. However, to understand who Robinson Crusoe is as a character, one must first understand the society that he was raised in and how that contributes to...
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Tom Sawyer Essay Tom Sawyer Essay In many books the characters, throughout the book change attitudes and personalities. In the book Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, there are many dynamic characters. Two of these characters are Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Tom and Huck are the main...
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Haley Sullivan Think of the person who means most to you in life. Now imagine what life would be like if you never saw or heard from them again. This is what happens to Celie, the main character in the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker and the movie The Color purple directed by Steven...
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