Shawshank Redemption And Film
.... refusal to allow any expression, very effectively. The only music that actually dominates a scene is where Andy lock himself in the wardens office and plays Italian opera over the tannoy system. The impact this has on the other prisoners, transfixing them, shows how Andy is different; not one of "them". How his hope is still alive and how what's "in here", cannot be taken from him.The scenes where the guards are present see them as the dominators of the scene, framed to appear larger than reality and st .....
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Shel Silverstein
.... Conch Train Robbery. His first play, The Lady and the Tiger, was produced at the Ensemble Studio Theater's annual festival of one act plays.
Silverstein never planned on writing and drawing for children. His friend, Tomi Ungerer, brought him to Ursula Nordstom's office where she convinced him to do children's books. One of his earliest and most successful books, The Giving Tree, was rejected by editor William Cole. Cole felt that the book fell between adults' and children's literature and would never s .....
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Sherlock Holmes
.... the police investigation. The public had lost some of its faith in the police force and was looking for a figure of hope and inspiration. The selection criteria were short: Someone who always got his man. The only one who fitted this description was Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was not only the world's greatest detective, but he also lived in London. He was someone close to home and a man well steeped in Victorian traditions.
Holmes was just like any other Englishman at the time. He read .....
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Sherlock Holmes And The Speckl
.... up a plan to catch the murderer! Holmes had found out that there was an air-vent that was inside the house betwenn the sisters room and the stepfathers. Holmes now was in the room that Helen was supose to be in and sudenly the light was light in the stepfathers room, and then Sherlock jumped and hit the bellrobe under the air-vent. Then there was a little whistle and then a scream and Holmes ran to the other room and there was the stepfather dead and with a speckled band on him. It was no band it was a .....
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Shirley Valentine
.... wall.
However, her weak self confidence is quickly strengthened when her friend leaves her on the first day of their vacation because of a Greek beau. Alone in a foreign country she notices that she needs not to be afraid of being alone because she is "an expert at it." And she also handles the other problems of every day life, like ordering a glass of Retsina or digesting a squid with comparative nonchalance. In an affectionate though little serious affair she finds new energy and in the picturesque Gr .....
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Shockwave Rider
.... deal with the planet earth in
the future, everything is known about everyone. there are
no secrets from the system. Brunner illustrates this as a
reality that is not necessarily very desirable. He plants
a character, Nickie Haflinger, onto the scene. As with
many books we can look at this character and see the
author within. Haflinger is a prodigy whose talents allow
him to switch identities with a simple phone call. By the
advanced technology and the ingenuity that is completely
Haflin .....
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Shooting An Elephant
.... feet deep. Needless to say I was not too sure about what I was doing, but I stepped up to the wall and closed my eyes and leaped out as far as I could. It was a great rush once you realize that you were going to live. However, climbing through the woods back to the top to get your clothes was another story.
That was just one of my crazy experiences with peer pressure. I realize that I could have come out of that event really hurt or possibly dead, but ever since that night I have felt as if I co .....
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Short Analysis Of Macbeth
.... ambition is extraordinary throughout the play in a way that Macbeth is very courageous throughout the battle that occurred. When Macbeth was given the title 'thane of cawdor' he felt that he had power over everything which made him more powerful, In act 1 scene 3 when Macbeth said to himself Glamis, and the 'thane of cawdor', the greatest is behind. He said this because he is now the king and by saying the greatest is behind, this meant something like he was going to rule the world.
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Short Happy Life Of Francis Ma
.... can not kill the lion without Wilson's help. This is when Mrs. Macomber begins to think of her husband as a coward. In an attempt to gain some of his wife's lost respect for him, Macomber decides that the next day they will hunt for buffalo. That night, Mrs. Macomber and Mr. Wilson sleep together. Unfortunately for Mrs. Macomber, her husband finds out. They go about the day as planned until they reach some buffalo. Again, Macomber's poor aim and judgment lead to trouble. One buffalo gets shot and .....
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Short Plot Summary Of Giver
.... escape. After a long journey, Jonas and Gabriel were successfully escaped from the country and they went to a village.
The story was told as a third person point of view. I enjoyed this story because it shows that how Jonas stands up against what he thought was wrong. The place was suppose to be a utopia turns out to be a dystopia to Jonas. It shows that how the people acts in the real life. How they act to be honest but they are actually lying. The government in the story is the biggest lie, they contr .....
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Short Story Analysis
.... stand for it. Later in the story he reveals this and says that all of them were responsible for the death of the Swede.
"The Blue Hotel" is written in third person. The writer is omniscient in that he knows all that the characters are thinking and he reveals the thoughts of the characters. For example, "The Swede made a movement then which announced that he thought he had encountered treachery from the only quarter where he had expected sympathy, if not help." Also, "Johnnie evidently felt tha .....
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Short Story Analysis Of Edgar
.... moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story's main character is Toby Dammit, who from infanthood, had been flogged left-hand .....
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Short Story Essay
.... first paragraph that Mercy, one of Mr Pitt-Rimmer's daughters "Tied her father's scarf in a mean granny knot." This symbolizes Mercy as being cruel and heartless despite her gentle and forgiving name. It also denotes that Mr Pitt-Rimmer is lonely and aware of the resentments that run through his family. A comparison can often be made between two short stories. For instance, 'The hole that Jack Dug' and 'A Glorious morning, Comrade'. The first seems to have no point to it, and the latter informs the re .....
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Short Story Essay -
.... first paragraph that Mercy, one of Mr Pitt-Rimmer's daughters "Tied her father's scarf in a mean granny knot." This symbolizes Mercy as being cruel and heartless despite her gentle and forgiving name. It also denotes that Mr Pitt-Rimmer is lonely and aware of the resentments that run through his family. A comparison can often be made between two short stories. For instance, 'The hole that Jack Dug' and 'A Glorious morning, Comrade'. The first seems to have no point to it, and the latter informs the re .....
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Short Story Summaries
.... his readers quite naturally just by telling them where things are, what they look like, how he feels and so on; a breath of fresh air that seems to be missing from many other pieces.
Anderson's detailed Hands seems very wordy. Although the reader easily feels that Anderson wants to over explian almost everything. Anderson does a great job with informative characterization throughout this piece. The 'interesting' aspect takes time to evolve. The reader wants to put the piece down several times to pu .....
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