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- 12881: The Albanian Virgin
- ... The point of the matter is that although the reader can distinguish some similarities in the stories, they are for the most part fictitious with an add of some realism to them. REFERENCES Blodgett, E.D. "Alice Munro." The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus. 1995. Bloom, Amy. "From Strength to Strength." The Boston Book Review. January/February 1995, Electric Newstand. MacKendrick, Louis, K. Alice Munros Narrative Acts. Downsview, ECW Press, 1983. Munro ...
- 12882: The Accidental Tourist
- ... guides for life', telling the reader how to live with minimum discomfort, without opening up and hiding within your own cocoon oblivious to the rest of the world. This is exactly how Macon lives every day of his life, and not just those when he is travelling. He lives his entire life trying to package himself so that nothing will change him, nothing will upset him and nothing can harm him ...
- 12883: Hucks Relationship With Pap (h
- ... as he does, creating a common ground. When Pap takes Huck away to the cabin, Huck doesn t mind it at first. He says, It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. (32) He likes being kidnapped because he doesn t have to deal with studying or books, he enjoys the freedom he has. Although a threat, Huck enjoys ...
- 12884: Tennessee Williams - Outcasts In His Plays
- ... runs, four of his plays were revived successfully there: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974), Summer and Smoke (September, 1975), Sweet Bird of Youth (October, 1975), and The Glass Menagerie (December, 1975). On the day of Williams's death, the New York evening papers issued an impressive list of famous actors who have performed in his plays; these include Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Maureen Stapleton, Eli ...
- 12885: Hypocrites In Huckleberry Finn
- ... man is good yet they are ready to kill each other. In going to church the Granger fords and Sheperdsons have a false sense that they are good and God loving, when at any other day they would sin and kill each other, they also have false notions of being educated and upperclass. Through these feuding families Twain is able to show the hypocrisy of Southern society. After his encounter with ...
- 12886: King Lear 2
- ... word "legitimate" sarcastically when saying, "well, my legitimate," since he does not mean it in a positive way. Again he mentions legitimate negatively saying that he, the base, shall top the legitimate meaning that one day he will exceed his brother. This sarcasm shows the bitterness with which Edmund views all legitimate children. Another way of showing bitterness, which has almost the same effect as sarcasm, is ridiculing. Edmund feels that ...
- 12887: Sweetness And Power
- ... with a single substance called sucrose, a kind of sugar extracted primarily from the sugar can, and with what became of it. The story can be summed up in a few sentences. In 1000 A.D., few Europeans knew of the existence of sucrose, or can sugar. But soon afterward they learned about it; by 1650, in England the nobility and the wealthy had become inveterate sugar eaters, and sugar figured ...
- 12888: Lord Of The Flies 2
- ... fire sparks the gathered wood into a blaze. One of the boys is reported missing but none of the boys will admit to the likelihood of an accident. Everyone is hard at work the next day, either building huts or hunting. Soon the younger boys loose interest and go off to play. A meeting is called and the boys come up with some new ideas and talk about problems. Meanwhile jack ...
- 12889: Sweet Diamond Dust
- ... Mr. Durham. This shows the difference between the two ways of thinking. The Americans are concerned with the business aspects and money. On the other hand, Don Julio is worried about his family business. The day of the inauguration was a big spectacle with a zeppelin, donning the colors of the American flag on its tail on a banner stating "April 15, 1918- Follow Our Example," flying in the direction of ...
- 12890: Surfacing - A Reason To Kill
- ... places she did not want to be. On page 58, she says that Anna could be her at sixteen, "sulking on the dock, resentful at being away from the city and the boy friend I'd proved my normality by obtaining ... " She has never felt normal. She even has a career that she did not intend to have and this makes her uncomfortable : " ... it feels strapped to me, like an aqualung ...
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