A Streetcar Named Desire Summary And Comprehension scene 4 1)Stella tries to explain to Blanche her relationship with Stanley at the beginning of scene 4 and mentions that she was ? sort of thrilled' by his violence. I think by this she means that she is quite taken in by Stanley's display of...
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“Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it “ (Faulkner 233). This is a phrase derived from the...
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Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, " If someone succeeded in proving to me that Christ was outside the truth, and if, indeed, the truth was outside Christ, then I would sooner remain with Christ than with the truth" (Frank 68). It was by no...
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic novel, taking the reader to a time where books and thinking are outlawed. In a time so dreadful where those who want to better themselves by thinking, and by reading are outlaws as well. Books and ideas are burned, books are burned physically, where...
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The Hunchback in the Park My life makes me want to run away. I’ve got no place to go. No family, no house, no anything. All wiped out by a fire in 2001. I did not get any money paid out by the insurance company because they said the fire was an “act of God” caused by a lightning strike, which my...
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The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green centers on a main character, Miles Halter, that goes through many learning experiences. For example, Miles goes through a huge adjustment period moving from Florida to Alabama for boarding school. Getting used to this new place was a huge mile stone in...
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Children are taught at the earliest levels to share and play nice with each other. They are taught that everyone should be treated with the same respect even though some people may look different from one another. It is important to instill this tolerance in children from the earliest age, because...
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How did Robinson Crusoe’s religion influence his life? Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719, and the book is based on a real story to describe one’s suffering on an isolated island and his bravery to conquer this kind of terrible situation. What I ’m going to focus on in my thesis is the...
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The Friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn| | The Friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Thesis: Through escapades, the South, characters, and two novels, Mark Twain Develops the famous friendship of Tom Sawyer and HuckleberryFinn. The Friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...
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Description The novel entitled, “The Count of Monte Cristo” was written in France by Alexandre Dumas. It was first published in 1844, while the most recent publication of the book was in 2003 by Penguin Classics. The translation was done by Robin Buss, and he as well provided the Introduction for...
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“A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from the mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man” (Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand...
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Dead by James Joyce can both be viewed as their authors’ views of sociology. The stories’ protagonists, Gregor and Gabriel, are both men of authority within their families, but experience events and circumstances that change their perspectives of the world...
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"The Sound and the Fury" Literary Criticism “Within this rigid world Caddy is at once the focus of order and the instrument of its destruction,” (Bloom 20). Candace Compson, “Caddy”, is the central character of the novel even though none of the narration is seen through her eyes. In each of the...
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Can art be permanent or express permanence? How do each character's creative power and artistic works address the fleeting and permanence? “Nothing stays, all changes, but not words, not paint” In her novel To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf examines the power of human creativity through the...
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4 Important Design Concepts If you pay attention to these four concepts as you put the visuals together, the end products will be effective. 1) Make it BIG! Naturally, you'd like everyone in the audience to be able to actually see the visual you plan to use. This is complicated by not always...
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The Desire to Justify Cruelty When do we overlook malicious behavior? Is our emotional appeal to like a person enough for us to look past deliberate cruelty? Bound up in the play A Streetcar Named Desire is the fundamental question of how the characters are dialectically cruel and the ways they...
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As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings Fulfilling a promise they had made to their mother, Addie, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman, in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, journey across the Mississippi countryside to bring her body to be buried in Jefferson...
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Crime and Punishment is considered by many to be the first of Fyodor Dostoevsky's great books. Crime and Punishment is a psychological account of a crime. The crime is double murder. A book about such a broad subject can be made powerful and appealing to our intellectual interests if there is...
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In the book Fahrenheit 451 the theme is a society/world that revolves around being basically brain washed or programmed because of the lack of people not thinking for themselves concerning the loss of knowledge, and imagination from books that don't exist to them. In such stories as the Kurt...
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According to Aristotle, for a writer to create an interesting character it must be morally complex, meaning it must consist of not only good or bad morals, but both. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame has a few examples of this trait in its main characters. Claude Frollo, the priest...
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Paez 1 Mia Paez English 9-2 H 31 March 2014 Looking For Alaska In the book Looking for Alaska written by John Green is a story about how main character Miles “Pudge” Halter moves from his hometown in Florida to go to a boarding school in Alabama called Culver Creek High School, there he meets his...
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The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend's family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book...
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„Robinson Crusoe” as bildungsroman Daniel Defoe’s life is full of gaps and mysteries, of contradictions and dramatic turns. As a journalist, he excelled in the writing of the political pamphlet, and his criticism of the system made him highly controversial, and even landed him in prison. In time...
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer Test realism, defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, is the representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form. In The Adventures of Tom...
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The Count of Monte Cristo is an interesting tale about a sailor named Dantes who changes his whole persona in order to get back at his enemies. Dantes becomes a number of different people in order to carry out his plans. The changes Dantes went through made his different stages as a sailor and...
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Narrative Essay. It was a fine spring morning according to Prince Reno of Lorien, who was to set off with his seven most trusted friends-the dwarf brothers Korin and Gorik, the three mighty elf leaders loki,Lorin and Algain and two of the finest Dalish Warriors Phalarix and Cagaris-on a quest...
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In “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka, Gregor’s life is entirely controlled by his family and work. He never takes the time to fulfill his personal happiness. His main priority is to memorize train schedules and make sure he arrives on time to work. From his bedroom window, he watches the outside...
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The Sound and the Fury: A Tale of Two Families The Sound and the Fury, one of William Faulkner’s most celebrated novels, is the story of the Compson family and its inevitable and somewhat tragic downfall. The Compsons, a family which once thrived in distinction and promoted traditional Southern...
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In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the immense complexities that define one’s identity and self worth are presented. In world of rigid social structure, the conventional expectations of society construe and distort independent identity. Mr. Ramsey, Mrs. Ramsey, and Lily Briscoe each experience...
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Based on an adaptation by Charles Jones and from a novel by Charles Dickens, the Midland Community Theatre truly captured Christmas. The play was directed by Timothy Jebsen. It is a classic Charles Dickens Christmas tale of one man learning the true meaning of Christmas. Ebeneezer Scrooge (Michael...
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A Streetcar Named Desire It is a rare occasion in the world of cinema that an author plays a part in his story's translation to film. One of the few given this opportunity was Tennessee Williams. In Elia Kazan's 1951 "big screen" adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams penned not only the...
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner Deborah Whelan -Darl's Section (p. 128) Most authors have certain styles that result in bringing across certain ideas. In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner uses a subtle and discreet narrative manner to bring forth important pieces of information that...
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In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov concocts a theory: All men are divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’. The extraordinary man should have the right to eliminate a few people in order to make his idea known to all humanity; however, the ordinary man has no right to transgress the law...
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"Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs, nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames? never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he...
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Maisam Marzyie In the U. S. about 2% of all babies are born with physical disabilities. Physical disabilities are not only a very important talk in the population of babies; they are also very important topics in literature. Two of the most well known pieces of literature that are about physical...
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[trx_quote title="John Green, Looking For Alaska Quotes" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"]“What is an "instant" death anyway— How long is an instant— Is it one second— Ten— The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and...
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Close reading and response to literature Number The Stars -Lois Lowry 1. What are the major themes of this book ? Difficulty of growing up The author Lois Lowry uses the context of World War II as a way of making the difficulties stand out more clearly. The novel focuses on Annemarie Johansen's...
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Language of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Dafoe’s popular novel, originally titled The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque...
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Character Development in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom is introduced as a rebellious and self-centered boy who uses his intelligence to manipulate people for his own gain. Throughout the course of the story Tom learns important lessons that lead him to appreciate...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Theme: The Count of Monte Cristo is a very powerful book. So powerful in fact, that was controversial when it was first released. The Catholic church in France condemned it because of its powerful message it presented the reader. This theme was one of revenge and vengeance...
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Throughout the course of a novel a theme of growth and maturation within characters can often be seen. J. R. R. Tolkien uses the theme of maturation within his novel, The Hobbit. This theme is the key point to the development of the character, Bilbo Baggins. In The Hobbit, Tolkien uses Bilbo to...
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* The Metamorphosis * Author: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) * Major Characters * Gregor Samsa – The main character in the story. He wakes up to find himself turned into a a large bug/roach. He is a travelling salesman and hates his job. However, he must work to support his family. He wishes to send his...
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Ben BoydEnglish 11H In his novel, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner employs a unique structural assembly to relay a compelling and complex plot to his readers. Faulkner often uses incoherent and irrational phrases to bring the reader into the minds of the characters. With a believable plot...
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Formulation of an Artist As one of the earliest and most influential feminist writers of the last century, Virginia Woolf has offered her readers many different topics of interest such as discrimination, social exclusion and roles of gender in a Enlgish society. Woolf was born on the 25th of...
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A Christmas Carol Essay Many times in life, we do not realize the importance of something until it is gone and is too late to reclaim. However, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, we are told the story of a man who, although undeserving, is offered an opportunity to redeem himself, to receive...
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Discuss the various ways the confidant or confidante functions in one of the following works. In the play, A Streetcar named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts a conflict through his main character, Blanche Dubois. Blanche has a problem in believing that she is in a fantasy world. In this play one...
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<center><b>"Through the use of many characters monologues the narrative point of view presents an objective view of what really happened. "</b></center> <br> <br>This statement is not adequate in connection with William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying. Though...
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Sonya, throughout the story had a great affect on Raskolnikov’s changes. In the novel, Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoevsky, this can be seen from all the things Sonya had done for Raskolnikov and what affect the cold person turned loving. Sonya is the daughter of Rodia’s friend...
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Fahrenheit 451 In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag meets a girl, Clarisse McClellan, who will tell him something that will change his life forever. Guy is a fireman, who ignites fires instead of putting them out. He burns house where books have been found...
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“Love in The Hunchback of Notre Dame” In the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame the author, Victor Hugo, used love as a central theme for his book. He showed that love can manifest itself in three main ways depending upon the person. Esmeralda was in a mode of self- destruction because...
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