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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
<view this essay>.... to use for this examination is the 1932 restored version of , directed by Rouben Mammoulian. I thought that Mammoulian’s attempt to depict the novel was excellent. When reading the book, I saw many of the faucets of the novel that I would have expected to come up in a motion picture.
The separation between good and evil was done brilliantly through Mammoulian’s use of lighting. The most evident example of this is through the eyes of Dr. Jekyll. When Jekyll is running through his daily routine, the sets are bright with adequate lighting. On the other hand, when Mr. Hyde comes into the picture the scenes drastically become dark and frightening .....
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Perfect Day For A Bananafish
<view this essay>.... the reader into the life of Seymour Glass at a time when he is struggling to find peace in his life after returning home from World War II, in the short story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." Seymour's struggle emanates from the psychological effects of the war, alienation from society, lack of compassion and understanding from his peers, and the lack of innocence he finds in the materialistic post-war society he returns home to.
Seymour Glass is a veteran of World War II, who is caught in a tangled emotional web. The horrors of the war have left him reeling from post traumatic stress disorder. Once a strong, spiritual man who thrived on innocence and tradi .....
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Looking For Alibrandi
<view this essay>.... her Grandmother, the young girl learns how hard life was for migrants in Australia.
Nonna Katia tells Josephine how hard it was for her being in the middle of an unknown country with nobody who spoke the same language as her. Furthermore she tells of her encounters with hardships such as snakes coming into the house! She says to Josephine on page 114, "You do not know how much I hated Australia for the first year. No friends. No people who spoke the same language as me.. they were not the good old days, Jozzie."
Through the discovery of her Grandmother's past Josephine also discovers how lucky she really is to live in the time she did. Although she has her ow .....
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Eveline
<view this essay>.... came from different Catholic schools. From 1895-1900, he attended St. Aloysius Academy for boys in Riverdale, New York, and from 1900-1902 he went to De La Salle Institute in New York. After the De La Salle Institute, he attended a preparatory school, Betts Academy in Stanford, Connecticut. From 1906-1907, he attended Princeton. After a year, he was kicked out for breaking a window in a stationmaster’s house. Throughout these years of education his home life, or life on the road, wasn’t very good. According to George H. Jensen in the Dictionary of Literary Biography , Eugene’s home life was crucial to the plays that he wrote. Filled with guilt, betrayal .....
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The House On Mango Street
<view this essay>.... in the vignettes "The First Job" and "A Rice
Sandwich" Esperanza is too shy to eat with her other co-workers and
peers, as shown in the following quotation from "The First Job": "When
lunch time came I was scared to eat alone in the company lunchroom".
Another dominant feature in Esperanza's personality is the trust she
has in others. This is one of Esperanza's weaknesses as an individual
because it allows her to be gullible and vulnerable. In 'Cathy Queen
of Cats' Esperanza's gullibility is obvious when Cathy tells Esperanza
that "...[her] father will have to fly to France one day and find
her...cousin...and inherit the family .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities
<view this essay>.... about their business while death carts roll-- as do heads-- through the streets of Paris. He does though, depict a ray of light amongst all this evil; the heroic Carton, who gave his life for his friend and a woman he knew he would never have.
The biggest contrast of all, is in the person of Misuser Darnay, the gentle English family man, who is also related to the evil Marquis Evremonde. I
personally like stories that use historical events as backdrops because it brings these seemingly distant events closer to us. This book definitely offers insight into life in the two cities at the time of the French Revolution. I think it does an excellent job of depict .....
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Dr No
<view this essay>.... Are Forever, Moonraker, and Thunderball. Eventually Hollywood caught on and James Bond hit the big screen with Dr. No. Based on the book starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andrews. The film Dr. No was more action packed than the book by Ian Fleming because of action scenes, plot, and settings.
In the 90's and perhaps for many years past the new millenium action is a four-letter word, Bond. James Bond symbolizes everything a modern man wants to be, handsome, with action in is life, and always getting the girl. It is the action scenes, which make Bond enjoyed by all. The action scenes are the major reason why the movie is more action packed then the book. F .....
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The Masque Of Red Death
<view this essay>.... unusual magnificence." Abstract art filled the room with beauty. The masque was held in a suite with 7 rooms. The rooms were most curios with turns at every corner and gothic windows. The colors of each room varied. The 7th chamber was all black. The only thing different about this room was that the windows did not match with every thing else. The pains where blood red, there was no light of any kind. In there stood giant ebony clock “whose pendulum swung with a dull heavy activities clang." All activities ceased with the sound of each hour. Everything stooped as if dead. “ But when the echoes had full ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the .....
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