Miles "Pudge" Halter The protagonist of the novel. Fond of learning famous last words, socially awkward, 16, tall and lanky. He becomes best friends with Chip Martin ("The Colonel") and falls deeply in love with the mysterious and spontaneous Alaska Young. Chip "The Colonel" Martin Miles'...
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Number the Stars Book Critique Vandana Number the Stars is a very touching, interesting, and realistic book. In other words, I liked it very, very, very much. It taught me a lot about the German occupation during World War II, especially in Denmark. I had learned before in school about how the...
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Writing Assignment #1 From many people’s perspectives, Robinson Crusoe’s intention of going on a boat and observe the whole world is probably just a desire of youth and ebullience. He rejected his Father’s suggestion of a “middle-stage” life fulfilled with happiness that the higher and the lower...
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Kenneth Tobisch Mrs. Jobin American Literature Honors 5 January 2012 Character Analysis of Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Tom Sawyer is a complex character that represents the journey from childhood to adulthood that we all have experienced. The character development that Tom goes...
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The Count of Monte Cristo By: Alexandre Dumas Type of Literary Work: Historical Novel This book is an example of a historical Novel. It is historically accurate, and consists of characters that could have existed in the nineteenth century. Theme:Judgment Day comes to us all inevitably. We all pay...
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3. JOSEPH CAMPBELL’S THEORY: THE MONOmyth Joseph Campbell was born in New York 26thof March 1904 and died in Honolulu 30th of October 1987. When he was a student in the University of Columbia, he read some of the legends of King Arthur and found similar kinds of themes and motifs that occurred as...
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Since the Greek philosophers people have debated endlessly the extent to which the mind in? uences one? s personal reality, or even reality in general. In the Metamorphosis, the link between Gregor? s mental and physical reality are in some way linked, and as Gregor? s ability to function within...
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner has been hailed by numerous critics and readers alike as "a deliberately conceived and superlatively executed work (Millgate). " Not only was it an outstanding example of the "stream of consciousness" method of narration, it was in keeping with the...
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To the Lighthouse Summary: Part 1: The Window The novel starts in the Ramsays' summer home. Mr Ramsay tells to the family that will take them to the Lighthouse on the next day but it wasn’t possible due to bad weather. This makes a certain tension between James the son of the family and his father...
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A Christmas Carol? Theme Expressed Through Symbolism "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business. " A Christmas Carol...
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Critique of the movie ? A Streetcar Named Desire' A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) was a play by Tennessee Williams who also wrote the play The Glass Menagerie. It was a film of anger, loneliness, and shame. Every actor in the film made his or her own brilliant performance. The director was Elia...
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In his book, As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner pioneers new and interesting literary forms. His most obvious deviation from traditional novel writing was the new style of narration in which he used all the main characters as the narrator at one point or another. This allowed the reader to gain...
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Dreams of Good and Evil Dreams are windows into peoples sub conscience and their true emotions and gives important clues to emotional disturbances. Sigmund Freud, the first person to systematically study dreams, said that desires are revealed in the form of dreams. Freud said that dreams gratify...
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Fahrenheit 451 The novel Fahrenheit 451 was wrote by Ray Bradbury. The setting takes place in future times. The main character (protagonist) in Fahrenheit 451 is, ? Guy Montag'. Guy Montag has been a fireman for ten years and he doesn't realize that he is not joyful towards his life. He never...
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Introduction In her anthology Written by Herself, Jill Ker Conway discuses a central theme in black women's autobiography that is fully shown in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) by Maya Angelou: “Because, from girlhood, these women faced the dual injustices of racial hostility and male...
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rag tag sloppy; disorganized; not professional to festoon sth. to decorate sth. to persever to continue doing something to ace sth. to complete something well cavalry Die Kavallerie, troops trained to fight on horseback small talk light informal conversation for social occasions to pity sb...
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Number the Stars Lois Lowry is the author of Number the stars. She published her book in 1989 by Random House in New York. Her books have a variety of styles and content, but they all have the same general theme, such as, number the stars is set in a different culture and era but all her books...
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Anna Katherine Kerlin English 254, Section 008 Mrs. Patty Ireland January 30, 2013 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe: A Spiritual Biography In the seventeenth century, a form of writing emerged as the idea of religion began to change. Many writers used “spiritual autobiographies” when writing...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Report Murder, superstition, religion, manipulation, racism: themes that hardly seem appropriate to find in a children’s book. Yet, these themes are all found in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876 by Mark Twain. The novel relates the story of Tom Sawyer...
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King of Victory Alexander Dumas, was born and raised in France when he wrote the book The Count of Monte Cristo. He compares and contrast, the events in his story using chess pieces. For example, a pony resembles a knight, a whistle is similar to a bishop, a count is turik, and a king has all the...
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The Hobbit Question 1 In every fantasy novel, there is always a protagonist and an antagonist with other characters that are either good or bad. The Hobbit by J. R. R Tolkien is a novel about a rich, small and timid hobbit, called Bilbo Baggins, who was chosen by a wizard, Gandalf to join thirteen...
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Brendan Michalicek Mrs. Burns Honors English / Pre IB 19 September 2010 If Gregor never died. If Gregor had never died, the end of the story “” would be a little different. The story might go something like this. “ My family is breaking apart. My mother loves me but can’t stand me. My sister has...
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Literary Criticism John T. Matthews The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury John T. Matthews writes about the discovery of loss in The Sound and The Fury. He makes the relation of loss by the fact that the characters are in grief due to their loss throughout the novel. John T. Matthews...
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THE WAR IN TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Geovana Chiari UFSCar – Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos Abstract This article is an attempt to elucidate the references to war in To the lighthouse, in a historical perspective by trying to convey how the novel miniaturizes a historical moment for Europe. Yet in a...
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Harry and Rose from Oliver Twist and Alice and Ebeneezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol are in similar situations because both of the couples are in love yet wealth has come between both of the couples. Alice and Ebeneezer Scrooge were engaged and in love. Ebeneezer’s love for Alice was soon not...
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‘A Streetcar named Desire,’ is an interesting play, by Tennessee Williams. The character 'Blanche DuBois' is created to evoke sympathy, as the story follows her tragic deterioration in the months she lived with her sister Stella, and brother-in-law Stanley. After reading the...
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As I Lay Dying In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying it shows Darl's change from sanity to insanity as the novel unfolds. No one knows of this change until it is to late for them or Darl to do anything. Darl finds that his hold on reality starts to loosen as he figures out to himself that his...
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There are many links between Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and A Doll's House, by Henrik Isben. Each character goes through many ironic situations. Throughout both of the works all three types of irony are used. In this essay irony is going to be used to link the two works together...
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Ray Bradbury's science fiction masterpiece Fahrenheit 451 is a classic tale about a man named Guy Montag and his inner stuggles. When the story begins, Guy is happily married and works for the government as a firefighter: a firefighter whose job is to burn down the homes of people who own books...
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings chronicles the early years of the author's life - up to age seventeen. In the book, Angelou poetically describes the phenomenon that is growing up black, in the south, in the time before and during World War II. I believe that you are expected to...
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Counterinsurgency Page 31 Definition: Military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries Part of Speech: Noun Incorrigible Page 43 Definition: (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed Part of Speech: adjective ...
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exposition: 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen were normal girls living in Copenhagen, Denmark. When walking home from school one day with Kirsti, Annemarie’s sister, they ran into German soldiers... literally! The soldiers questioned the girls about what they were doing...
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Mildred D. Taylor is the author of the book “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” and she tells us about an African American family and how about racism in the 1930‘s. In this book, we learn about racism in the deep South. Cassie Logan is 9 years old and she grows up in a good family and she never...
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Genvieve Francis Doctor Orser English 3331 Tom Sawyer is a Hero. Tom Sawyer, to many, seemed like a regular mischievous boy who lived for making his dear old Aunt Polly’s life miserable. However, if we examine the story closely, we see that Tom was not your regular boy-next-door kind of child...
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The Count of Monte Cristo put forth several world views, spanning from prejudice, to the role wealth can play in social classes. The Count of Monte Cristo, started out as a sailor who lacked the money that his best friends family had. The count had something his friend didn't though and that made...
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In J. R. R Tolkien’s award-winning 1937 novel The Hobbit, it is extremely evident that there are a multitude of elements that support the conventions of the fantasy genre. Most recurring themes, events and characters support the fantasy genre. There is a continuous quest all throughout the novel...
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1. Groups of three identified in the book: The number three plays a considerable role in the story. The story is divided into three parts. There are three doors to Gregor’s room. His family consists of three people. Three servants appear in the course of the story. Three lodgers have three beards...
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The traditional South, it was something that Faulkner could not help but to put into his crazy and chaotic book. In The Sound and The Fury, William Faulkner involves the decline of the South through some tragic and humorous characters and events. From the chaos of Benjy’s mind to the...
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To The Lighthouse Assignment Texts often explore the ways characters are in conflict with themselves, others or society. Discuss this idea with close reference to Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Texts often explore different forms of conflict - within a character or between characters, between a...
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English Coursework - A Christmas Carol Question: How does the personality of Ebenezer Scrooge develop during the novel “A Christmas Carol”? In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality changes of Ebenezer Scrooge in the novel, “A Christmas Carol”; who was once a miserly, lonely...
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An analysis of some of the many symbols found in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, with the help of psychoanalytical theory. Williams' expert use of these symbols helped him to convey the meaning of many characteristics of the protagonists in the play. Was Tennessee Williams a...
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In the novel, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, two characters ,Darl and Jewel Bundren, each cope with their mother’s death and deal with their isolation from their family by expressing their feelings in deeply emotional behavior. Darl, the second eldest sibling out of five, questions his...
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In his book Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky explores the paths of two men, Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov. These two men encompass many similar problems and obstacles throughout their lives. Both commit murders and are faced with the long and mentally excruciating journey of seeking redemption...
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The Supremacy of Perseverance Perseverance pushes people towards what they believe in, a person's perseverance is determined upon their beliefs. A person with strong beliefs will succeed greater to someone who does not. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag perseveres against...
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A Lifetime of Influence Marguerite Johnson had a harsh childhood growing up in the South during the days of cotton picking and slavery. All of the adversity she encountered when she was young inspired her to write the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In it, she depicts what life was like...
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Alliteration Buzz blows blue bubbles The repetition of beginning consonant sounds through a sequence of words Stanza Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you A paragraph in a poem or song Simile The horse is like a wild flower A comparison of two things using "like" or "as" ...
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EssayAnna Wall 2/6/13 block 3 *To introduce what I am writing about I will start off by saying I have chosen some interesting facts to compare between the books number the stars and the movie miracle at midnight. They are both about Jews trying to get away from the Nazis. I will compare the Star...
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Mildred Taylor's "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry": Hardships of The Logan Family In Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry the Logans family is faced with many different hardships, some more serious than other . The main character Cassie lives with her Mom, Dad, Grandmother and three brothers...
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Chapter 1 Summary: The novel opens with Aunt Polly searching for Tom Sawyer, the young protagonist of the novel who, along with his younger brother Sidney, was sent to live in St. Petersburg, Missouri, after his mother's death. After hearing no answer to her calls, Polly finds Tom eating out of...
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Part One (Theme and Setting Questions) 1. Considering the following statement, "Revenge makes the avenger feel much better', find examples in the novel that prove or disprove the statement. The novel proves that this statement is true because when Dantes found out the truth, he wanted nothing more...
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