When one thinks of a “fairy tale” story they think of the themes and characterization of any common “fairy tale” such as; good vs. evil, hero/heroin vs. evil villain, good triumphs evil and love conquers all, these are some of the obvious themes of any ”fairy...
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Looking into the movie, I have found that it is a very parallel story line. The two main characters lead very similar lives just on the opposite sides of the road. Javert, seems to be the law and nothing more, and Valjean, may be just the lowly criminal, but if you take a closer look you can only...
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The Courage of Impressionism Literary impressionism is exemplified by the author Steven Crane through the novel, The Red Badge of Courage. In reference terms, impressionism means: "a literary style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory...
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Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is arguably one of the most haunting ghost stories of all time. Still to this day, it leaves critics debating and there is not a clear consensus about what is true. It appears that only James himself knows the answer. The writing techniques and ambiguity through...
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“Where the Red Fern Grows,” by Wilson Rawls, presents the theme that a person must learn to make sacrifices and accept suffering before he is truly mature. The main character of this story, Billy, is a young boy who lives in the Ozarks. Billy longs to own dogs, but not just any dogs. Billy wants...
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In "The Modest Proposal," Jonathon Swift, satirizes the incompetence of Ireland's politicians, the hypocrisy of the rich, the domination of the English, and the unpleasantneses in which he sees so many Irish people living. In fixing this problem in society, he proposes to sell Dublin's poor...
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Animal Farm: allegory of Stalinism Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable...
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Children, by their very nature, are friendlier and more loving than adults. Children also find it easier than adults to believe in the imagination and thereby build castles in the air. Thus, two lonely children in Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia build a bridge to Terabithia, which...
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Figural Narration A character's thoughts, emotions, and behavior are important factors in productively piecing a novel together. In effect, many authors are able to present a character's ideas and feelings successfully using different types of narrative voices. One technique in particular is...
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The Worst Hard Times Study Guide Chapters 3-5 I. PROMISE: The Great Plowup, 1901-1930 Chapter 3: Creating Dalhart 1. Vocabulary (choose 3 that you want to make sure you know): sharecropping (p. 52), optimism (p. 53), factory farms (p. 53), hooch (p. 54), landlord (56), cannon fodder (57) 2. Make a...
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Satan and Jesus in Paradise Lost The subject, the drama, and the importance of Paradise Lost is grand. The epic represents what can be accomplished with the English language as sounds and syntax are carefully crafted. But the work is not shallow, because Milton argues forcefully the wisdom and...
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Buck undergoes as he adapts to both the cold, harsh land and the hard work the humans force him to do. London portrays a pet's gradual evolution into a wild beast, ruled by nobody but himself. The amazing way in which Buck adapts and learns in his new environment is an important point to be...
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First of all, I liked the way that The Glass Menagerie was not specifically dated. What I mean by this, is even though the play was written in the forties, today we (people in general), can still relate to some of the issues in it. Like take for example the disability issue. Laura was so self...
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A multitude of definitions can be attached to the term "hero" as a definition. One of the definitions of this word is someone distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength. In the book The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, there are several characters who emulate the...
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?Turn of the Screw: Psychoanalytic Analysis Since first being published in 1898, Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw has been widely known and analyzed due to it’s ambiguous content. One way of interpreting the novel is reading it as a literal ghost story, but another more common reading is through...
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Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal By: Neil P. The narrator in this story is a very inhumane character. He is portrayed as a very snobbish man who cares more about himself and the sociopolitical aspect of his status. Also, one could argue that the whole context of the story must be taken into...
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Animal Farm: A Political Satire of A Totalitarian Society Ruled By Dictatorship George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability an allegory for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of...
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PLOT, SETTING, THEME, NARRATIVE POINT OF VIEW PLOT: Jess Aarons is an eleven year old boy living in the South. At Jess' school, the kids race everyday to see who can run the fastest. Jess wants to be the fastest runner in the 5th grade so his dad will be proud of him. When school starts, there is...
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Compare the characters of Slackbridge and Blackpool in this chapter. How do they symbolise both the values that Dickens admires and the attributes he dislikes? In this chapter Slackbridge is presented as a loud, hot tempered and shallow man, whereas Blackpool is presented as an honest, calm and...
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“We sat looking off across the country, watching the sun go down. The curly grass about us was on fire now. The bark of the oaks turned red as copper. There was a shimmer of gold on the brown river. Out in the stream the sandbars glittered like glass, and the light trembled in the willow thickets...
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The book called Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison, deals with many real life issues, most of which are illustrated by the relationships between different family members. One archetypal relationship that Morrison includes in her book is the father:son relationship. Although it is obvious that...
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Call of the wild Jack London was born in California, USA in 1876 and died in 1916 at the age of 40. He came to be one of the most successful authors at his time after releasing two great novels - Call of the wild and White Fang. The book I chose to do a book review on is London's breakthrough and...
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In high school, Jim was basically your all around nice guy. He was friendly to everyone, and an example of this is that he called Laura "Blue Roses". He was being friendly when he nicknamed her that, but otherwise they didn't really talk to each other. That was basically under the only...
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Naturalism in the Red Badge of Courage Naturalism is the belief that nature and fate is a far larger force than man. Another words, no one can control their fate because there are far larger forces than man. There were many examples of naturalism in R B O C. One example was on page 796 in chapter...
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Claire Bush Captain Smith ELA III Period 5 4/11/14 Where the Red Fern Grows: Perseverance Perseverance…steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc. , especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. Starting from the very beginning of this book we see the...
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A modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift In his essay Swift talks what living conditions were like in 18th century in Ireland and how woman were always seen in walking down the street with four, five or six children tagging along beside her. Instead of working women had to take care of all the children...
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Introduction: Bridge to Terabithia is a story of fifth grader Jesse Aarons. He becomes friend with his new neighbor Leslie Burke . Leslie is a smart, talented, outgoing tomboy. Jesse is an artistic boy who, in the beginning of the novel, is fearful, angry, and depressed. Through the friendship...
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Eveline 1. CHARACTERS Eveline is the central character in the story, who is a nineteen year-old girl planning to escape her mixed up life by leaving Dublin with her fiance to go to Buenos Aires. In the story, her father plays an abusive and cruel man who threatens to beat her and takes all of her...
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Ritsie Armington Mrs. Thompson AP English Lit 11/6/12 In the novel, “Hard Times,” Charles Dickens uses Mr. Gradgrind, Louisa Gradgrind and Sissy Jupe to express his view on Utilitarianism. Utilitarians believe “our moral faculty, according to all those of its interpreters who are entitled to the...
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For my AP World History Movie Review, I chose to watch Les Miserables; a movie based on the inspirational novel by Victor Hugo. I selected this movie because i had a summer assignment on it for ADV English and also because i thought it would be a good idea to watch the movie before reading the...
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The Nebraska Landscape Humankind’s relationship to its environment is one of the strongest bonds people can make. In Willa Cather’s My Antonia, this relationship is shown through many of the characters want to return to their hometown of Black Hawk, Nebraska. What they find they miss is a lost...
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Milton was looked on by many feminists, "of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women,"(comma before quotation mark)[1] as rather chauvinistic in the way he portrayed Eve. In, (delete,) Paradise Lost, there are many examples of Eve being slighted (comma and substitute well with while)...
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Toni Morrison's award-winning novel Song of Solomon is full of very interesting, deep symbolism. Macon Dead III, nicknamed "Milkman," is a very symbolic character throughout the novel. His character is not only symbolic, for so is his name. Also, Milkman's paternal aunt, Pilate, has an extremely...
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Call of the Wild, by Jack London, begins in 1897, at the start of the Klondike gold rush. The discovery of gold in the Klondike region motivated thousands of men to head for the far north, all of them in need of dogs to pull sleds across the frigid arctic trails. Buck is an incredibly large dog...
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James Fenimore Cooper lived in a time of Indians, prejudice, and the Great Frontier. Many people of his time did not understand the ways of the Indians and frontier life, so they created a taboo and stereotypical view that Indians were brutal, lesser people and that the frontier life was for...
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Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Genre: Historical Fiction Author and Background: Stephen Crane was born on November 1st, 1871. He wrote several books such as Maggie and Georges Mother, but The Red Badge of Courage was by far his best work and biggest seller. In 1900 he became...
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Men and women are different species which are created for various reasons. For many years, the society had already created norms that are applied to realize the duties and responsibilities of each gender. For many years, men and women are bind to the norms of the society due to the various types...
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A Modest Proposal Reading Response Jonathon Swift wrote A Modest Proposal in 1729 describing the very real poverty plaguing the Irish people. He lays out their misfortunes clearly and rationally, and argues, by hard-edged economic reasoning as well as from a self-righteous moral stance, for a way...
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Comparison of 1984 and Animal Farm In George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, reality is defined by what the leaders tell the commoners it is, and the idea of individuality and free thought are abolished in order to preserve that reality. 1984 demonstrated the concept of a perceived reality versus a...
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Bridge to Terabithia Story Questions Name: ____________________ Bridge to Terabithia: Chapter 1 - Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr. Complete each question in complete sentences. Review 1. What was Jesse's goal for the summer...
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882 – 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He was the eldest son of ten surviving children of Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane Murray. He received a strict Catholic education, attending several Jesuit schools in Dublin before studying philosophy and languages at the...
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Survival as the main theme The theme of survival for literary pieces has been very popular ever since Charles Darwin noted that “survival” is the central idea that promoted evolution. In any literary piece that promotes the theme of survival, a certain story structure is used. It...
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The Growth of My Antonia Nebraska, the Cornhusker state, the state that most people tend to forget, yet ironically is also the setting for one of the most unforgettable love novels in America. Willa Cather writes My Antonia, setting it in the image of her hometown. In it, she formulates her...
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Milkman experiences many changes in behavior throughout the novel Song of Solomon. Until his early thirties most would consider him self centered, or even self-loathing. Until his maturity he is spoiled by his mother Ruth and sisters Lena and Corinthian because he is a male. He is considered...
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Each year the United States government documents drug related deaths in our country, breaking the deaths down into categories of cause. These categories include tobacco, alcohol, prescription medications, illegal drug, and of course marijuana related deaths. Every year the number of deaths coming...
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Professor Lawrence English 99-21150 November 24 2012 Fictional Analysis In “Bridge To Terabithia,” written by Katherine Paterson, great friendships blossom from impertinent first impressions. Great friendship such as Leslie’s brings new experiences. Great friendships may come from unpromising...
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The title of this book had a very big connection with the story because the main character, Brian, would not be able to survive without the hatchet. Hatchet was his life, everything he had done came from the hatchet. The story first took place at the airport in Hampton, New York, then it was in...
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Having just experienced the sinking of his family's ship, and being put onto a life boat with only a hyena, Pi felt completely lost and alone. When he sees Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger from his family's zoo, it is a familiar face to him. His initial reaction is to save the life of his familiar...
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PARADISE LOST OR AGONY FOUND? John Milton, a very highly acclaimed poet of the Renaissance Period, is most noted for his works which carried emphasis on the Bible. The most heralded of these works, "Paradise Lost", revisits the very first story of the Bible. Milton attempts to justify his religion...
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The Call of the Natural World Mangled throats, empty eye sockets, gushing blood - Jack London's gritty, gruesome story of survival transports the reader to the uncharted Klondike of 1897. The Call of the Wild is an adventure tale of a dog named Buck who was kidnapped from his pampered life in...
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