Taming Of The Shrew (play Revi
.... Kate.
This is a wonderful build up for a lesson on deception vs. honesty. Though two of the men in cooperation to win Bianca's love found and married beautiful, modest women, their relationships seem final and destined. Meanwhile, Petruchio takes Kate away and deals with his choice honestly, simultaneously flattering her, mentally aggravating her, and depriving her of food. Though this hell ensues for sometime, there is a day where Kate begins to lose her hatred and ill ways. Tough love, huh .....
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Taming Of The Shrew 2
.... very obvious. Shakespeare chose these elements for his play not solely because they were basic, he chose them because they grasped people’s lives in his day. While these subjects reached the heart, the thought of change was brought forth from these subjects. The change was not only in actions, but feelings as well. For example, Petruchio made it plain that he did not want to wed Katherine for his love of her, but instead he wanted to wed her for her money,
"Signoir Hortensio, twixt such .....
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Taming Of The Shrew 3
.... very obvious. Shakespeare chose these elements for his play not solely because they were basic, he chose them because they grasped people’s lives in his day. While these subjects reached the heart, the thought of change was brought forth from these subjects. The change was not only in actions, but feelings as well. For example, Petruchio made it plain that he did not want to wed Katherine for his love of her, but instead he wanted to wed her for her money,
"Signoir Hortensio, twixt such .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... racial term is not used to
degrade people of the African American race.
The most prevalent misuse of the word “nigger” is in the introductory part of the
novel. This racial slur is mostly abused by Huck’s father, Pap. Pap represents the
average misinformed “redneck.” In each appearance that Pap had in the book, he had
criticizing words for whatever was going on around him. For example, he was making
fun of the North because black people were allowed to have fr .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... a great writer, yet I believe that he is a great writer because he can incorporate his humor into a 13 year old boy’s way of life. Huck Finn as the hero of this book shows that Mark Twain knows what the reader has always wanted to be. Mark Twain stylizes the ultimate dream of just getting away from everything. To leave things behind in search of fun and adventure. I know sometimes I feel like I just want to run away, like how I am feeling right now with this paper. Huck is the kind of person .....
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The Analysis Of Light And Dark
.... fact, one branch of the elm has been “transmutated to bright gold.” The elm is particularly special at the end of the novel because it was left unharmed after the storm, the rest of the tree is “in perfect verdure,” a symbol of life not of death. The tree has come to symbolize nature and nature’s resurrection, and in a sense this resurrection of nature provides a strong image of hope. Masterpieces of American Literature suggests “As the house and its inhabitants have .....
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The Hobbit
.... into a
slimey little creature who only lives to possess the ring.
BARD: The archer who killed Smaug. He shot the dragon in the one
spot it had no protection. The towns people later considered him a
hero. What the people didn't know it was Bilbo who discovered the weak
spot in the dragon's iron scales.
BEORN: An enemy of orcs, he becomes friends with Bilbo and
Gandalf. He has th e ability to change forms from human to bear. It
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The Adventures Of Huckelberry
.... 2.Style
One of Mark Twainšs most effective uses of style in this novel is his first person point of view. In a first person point of view one of the characters tells the story, using first-person pronouns such as I and we. With this point of view the reader knows only what the narrator knows. The Adventurešs of Huckleberry Finn is told by the novelšs main character, Huck Finn. This point of view allows us to hear Huckšs distinct voice and dialect, further familiarizing the reader with Huckšs cultur .....
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The Barn Burning
.... that same quality which in later years would cause his descendants to over-run the engine before putting a motor car into motion (493).
The Snope family manages to survive and find work. However, the work offers little other than a chance for survival “I reckon I’ll have a word with the man that aims to begin tomorrow owning me body and soul for the next eight months” (495). Like nomads, they had to move constantly. Due to seasons and crop rotation, in order to secure work they ha .....
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The Cause And Effect In A Very
.... no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror." But what grabbed the hearts of the townspeople was how she recalled her terrible misfortune, "While still practically a child, she had sneaked out of her parent's house to go dancing and while she was coming back through the woods after having danced all night without permission, a fearful thunderclap rent the sky in tow and through the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that changed her into a spider." The spider woman than affected the townspeo .....
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The Chrysalids
.... community because she has a sixth toe. Yet David and Sophie meet again in the Fringes about ten years later. David is one of the few protectors of Sophie's secret of her deviation: "Will you keep a secret - an important secret - for her sake?" (p.12) Sophie reminds me of Aunt Harriet a lot with he ways they look at their problems. They both face their problems for what they are: "I was still staring at it when she flung her arms around my neck and kissed me, with more determination than judgement." (p. .....
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The Curse By Andre Dubus
.... hold a hand or press her brow, but he could not.”
A secondary character is Joyce. She is flat and static. She is flat because she is a minor character and lacks complexity. She is static because her character does not change during the course of the story.
Dubus uses two methods of indirect characterization in describing Joyce; he uses words and actions. An example of her words comes when she is trying to comfort Mitchell: “You’ll be a good witness.” An example of her ac .....
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The Glass Menagerie 2
.... will never be able to forget the sister he left behind.
Character Sketches:
Tom Wingfield-
The son of Amanda Wingfield. He is the sole economic supporter of the Wingfield family. Tom is a poet who is employed at a shoe factory and spends his nights drinking in order to escape.
Amanda Wingfield-
Mother of Tom and Laura. She is a middle-aged southern belle whose husband had abandoned her. She spends her time reminiscing about the past and nagging her children. She is completely .....
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The Glass Menagerie Theme
.... Laura will never be as popular as she was growing up at "Blue mountain" (1903). When Amanda had to face Laura's dropout from the business college, Amanda thinks "what is going to become of us" (1904). She is left with the feeling of "bewildered … by life" (1904). Laura try's to explain the reasons of her deception, but Amanda does not accept her reasons. Amanda instead of accepting what Laura said she instead attacks with full force the life of "dependency" (1906). Laura predicts the gloomy life o .....
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The Great Gatsby 9
.... been born rich and “his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents” (104). He wants to be rich or famous; he wants to be a somebody, and not the poor farm boy that he merle is. He feels that he can reinvent himself into the person he thought he should be. He renames himself Jay Gatsby and leaves home. He feels that if other people think that he is the person he wants to be, then he will really become that person. He lies about where he comes from to anyone that may ask. H .....
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