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  • Col. Edmund Munro

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    Col. Edmund Munro is a colonel of the British army, commander of Fort William Henry. The father of Alice and Cora, and the head of a doomed attempt to resist the siege led by Moncalmus, commander of French troops during the French and Indian War. And since the Colonel did not allow the frontier guards…

  • Willie Eaton

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    Willie Eaton is the minor character in this book. He appears in the episode with dance, and he wasn’t and will not appear in the novel again. Truly saying his role in the book isn’t important at all. Who will be interested in such a small hero without big importance and role? Nevertheless, the author…

  • Frankenstein Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    CREATED by an eighteen-year-old girl during the freakishly cold, rainy summer of 1816 while on holiday in Switzerland with her married lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and two other writers, the poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein would become the foundational work for two important new genres of literature—horror and science fiction. Frankenstein…

  • Miss Emma Glenn

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    Miss Emma Glenn is Jefferson’s godmother and the one person who raised him up and took care of him. The plot does not give too much information about this woman, but it is known that she is poor. Miss Emma had been working as a housekeeper on the plantation all her life before she was…

  • The Bell Jar Essays

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    The Bell Jar The book, The Bell Jar, tries to show the readers the kind of society prevailing in the 1950s. Esther Greenwood, the main character of the story, conveys this to us as she narrates her experiences. A 19 year old student on a full time scholarship, Esther was torn between maintaining the image…

  • The Ambassadors Essays

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    The Ambassadors The Ambassadors was the first written (1900-1901), but second published (1903), of the three major works with which Henry James concluded his career as a novelist. Like The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, it treats Americans abroad in Europe, and like those novels it relies on careful… 901 words Hans…

  • Sebastian

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    A younger brother of Alonso, the King of Naples, Sebastian is a two-dimensioned villain number two in this story. He looks like a puppet of Antonio, who persuades him to kill his elder brother, following his own pattern used against Prospero. Sebastian probably views Antonio as his tutor in his ways of living: he has…

  • Are you proud of yourself tonight that To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? Quote Analysis Empathy and non-judgment are both strong characteristics for Atticus as a father. Scolding Scout in this quote, Atticus conveys that it’s wrong to judge people before you get to know them, you shouldn’t believe…

  • The Sound and the Fury Study Guide

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    The Sound and the Fury Study Guide Author: William Faulkner Original title: The Sound and the Fury Characters: Quentin Compson III, Jason Compson III, Dilsey Gibson, Jason Compson IV, Caroline Bascomb Compson, Candace “Caddy” Compson, Benjamin “Benjy” Compson, Miss Quentin Compson Published: October 1990 by Vintage (first published October 7th 1929) Setting: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi…

  • Julius Caesar Essays

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    Distinct Characterization in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar works convincingly for audiences today not only because of its truth historically, but because of its truth of character, historically. As with the rest of the English bard’s canon, it is the character driven aspect of the writing that continually reminds… 1 367…