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Foreshadowing
<view this essay>.... what might happen latter in a story. An example of this is in the first paragraph, when the grandmother tells Bailey, her only son she lives with, to read a part of the news paper that say’s, “Here this fellow that calls himself the misfit is a loose from the federal pen” (pg. 354). Now, the first time a reader is reading this they night assume that the family will meet up with the Misfit. This is a writing technique that some writer’s use to give the reader small clues of who they might meet up with in the later part of there stories.
Another thing forshadowing can add to a story can clue the reader in on what will happen to the characters. A good example fro .....
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The Women Of A Passage To Indi
<view this essay>.... share many of the same attributes.
The most obvious similarities are those shared by Jhabvala’s character Olivia and Forster’s character Adela. Throughout the books, these two characters share many characteristics and experiences. The first experience they shared while in India is that both women are social with the native Indians. This was unacceptable to all Anglo-Indians. Olivia frequently visited the Nawab at his palace. She also entertained him and his companion, Harry at her home. For the majority of the book, Olivia’s husband, Douglas is unaware of how frequently she visited the Nawab. If Douglas had been fully aware of Olivia .....
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Comparison Of The Characters In "A Doll's House" And "The Stranger"
<view this essay>.... external behaviour and attitudes when around
others because they may not like their true selves and either want to change
themselves or just merely fit in with society and be liked by others. Another
mask that is often worn is the powerful and superior one and so to feel
superior when among others pushes them around and becomes a bully. This same
person could be gentle, nice and kind when around family but may feel the need
to appear superior around other people. This form of adjusting one's
personality or mask to suit a situation in life, is also common among characters
in novels, dramas, and other forms of literature. In certain characters it is
evi .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 7
<view this essay>.... whose nickname is Scout, is almost six years old
when the story begins. Her mother died when she was only two years old
and her father, Atticus Finch, is an older man in his fifties. Although
Scout is very young she is very intelligent and articulate who taught
herself to read at an early age. She is also somewhat of a tomboy and is
very temperamental. It was this type of personality that would often get
into fights with schoolmates.
Atticus Finch, is the single father of Scout and Jem. He becomes
the defense attorney for Tom Robinson the black man accused of raping
the white girl. Finch did not volunteer to defend Robinson, a highly
controver .....
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Blanche Ingram: Villain?
<view this essay>.... outstanding style of writing by the plot, the conflicts and the setting.
To begin with, the book or the story is about a fifteen year old man name David Leal that with his family had not other choice but to make a raft and search for freedom, David, Miguel (David's father) and Luis (helped making the raft) were the only ones supposed to get on the raft, but while aborting the raft 'El Toro' (Luis' friend) with the help of Luis got on the raft as well, he was rude, he never had a smile of approbation, David and his dad had to keep up with his bad jokes, and bombastic comments, he also made inveigh comments to the Leals. David and Miguel were disappointed becaus .....
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Count Of Monte Cristo
<view this essay>.... all built on one thing: greed. He had many other traits, such as jealousy, selfishness, and slyness, which were important in accomplishing his goals. Perhaps the most important was jealousy. Fernand had a jealous temperament. In Chapter Three, Fernand asked Mercedes to marry him with these words, "Listen Mercedes, it's almost Easter again-- a good time for a wedding. Give me an answer!" Fernand burned with rage when Mercedes answered his plea with, "I love you like a brother, but never ask anything more of me because my heart belongs to someone else." This someone else just happened to be Edmond Dantes, the new captain of the Pharoan. From that point on, Ferna .....
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Cathcher
<view this essay>.... portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout
the book. He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as
he was. "The reason Stradlater fixed himself up to look good was
because he was madly in love with himself." Holden had a
difficults with no being good. He was afraid of not having any special talents or
abilities and and did other thi8ngs to make himself look tough.
"Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk
as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." Holden tried all he
could to try to be cool he was faking it just to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life l to mak .....
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Flowers For Algernon
<view this essay>.... a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to be accepted by society, and be able to be seen as a "normal" person, at any length or means, was to show us, the society, how we treat mentally challenged people. He could possibly have seen a mentally challenged person being treated poorly, or perhaps was related to one and wanted to tell the society it was not right, but put it in a way by which it touched people in their own way, depending on how they interpret the story. In the story, there was a point where Charlie was at a party and they got him drunk, and made him dance with a girl. Charlie had never been with a girl before and didn’t know what to .....
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