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- 311: How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula.
- ... do not in any way make it so that they seem strange in front of public. The good thing about using the diary to write is that it can be used interchangeably with periodicals and letters being written or read by a person. In the same way as in a diary, extensive descriptions and large emotional feelings can be expressed and felt by the reader. Also, during the usage of letters, two people conversing will and can be written out in dialog form; because of this, the two people, while talking, will not have to switch tenses after a couple of sentences. When the newspaper form ...
- 312: Benedict Arnold
- ... Major John André, who was part of the British Army. (Macks 118) He was Benedict Arnold’s connection with the British. The scandalous scheme was quickly detected. The American’s found a map and many letters in his boot. The letters that were found implicated Benedict. Arnold’s scheme to surrender West Point was fully uncovered. Before General Washington could arrest, then later capture and kill Arnold for being a traitor, he escaped from the American ...
- 313: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- ... Frankenstein Brief Synopsis: The book opens with a scene of a ship in the Arctic Ocean. The ship is stuck in the ice and unable to move. Robert Walton, the ship's captain, is writing letters to his sister back home. The letters tell of his explorations and the events that occur on the ship. Walton's crew pulls abord a lifeless body and revive the man back to life. This man is Victor Frankenstein. Walton and Frankenstein ...
- 314: Benedict Arnold
- ... of the British Army. (Macks 119) He was Benedict Arnold’s connection with the British. (BA’s Leg) The scandalous scheme was quickly detected. (BA’s Leg) The American’s found a map and many letters in his boot. (Macks 119 and BA’s Leg) The letters that were found, implicated Benedict. (BA’s Leg) Arnold’s scheme to surrender West Point was fully uncovered. (Macks 119) Before General Washington could arrest, then later capture and kill Arnold for being a traitor ...
- 315: Ben Franklin
- ... Oxford (1762) (#5). He created a pleasant family-style life at his Craven Street boarding house in London, and began a long friendship and scientific-humorous correspondence with his landlady's daughter, Mary Stevenson. Their letters reveal his gifts for lively friendship, for brilliant letter writing, and for humane understanding. At home from 1762 to 1764, Franklin traveled throughout the colonies, reorganizing the American postal system (#2). The crisis caused by ... Oxford (1762) (#5). He created a pleasant family-style life at his Craven Street boarding house in London, and began a long friendship and scientific-humorous correspondence with his landlady's daughter, Mary Stevenson. Their letters reveal his gifts for lively friendship, for brilliant letter writing, and for humane understanding. At home from 1762 to 1764, Franklin traveled throughout the colonies, reorganizing the American postal system (#2). The crisis caused by ...
- 316: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
- ... did. Duddy did not receive the same kind of love from his father or uncle as Lennie did. When Duddy comes back from work at, he asks, "Why [Max] didn't answer any of [his] letters?" He replies he wasn't "one for letters." "But Duddy remembered that when Lennie had worked as a camp counsellor one summer his father had written every week. He had driven out to visit him twice."(pp. 104 & 105) Duddy did not have ...
- 317: Walt Whitman
- ... at Fredericksburg, his perceptions changed. After what Whitman saw during the Civil War, his poetry became preoccupied with the soul, death, and immortality. He turned 45, shortly after the war. On his birthday, he wrote letters to soldiers he helped during the war. (Kaplan, Justin- page 323). He received many thank you letters from the soldiers and their families because of the great things he did for them. Whitman was devastated by the death of President Abraham Lincoln and his reflections and tribute to the "great leader" were ...
- 318: Paper Motif On Invisible Man
- Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man depicts a realistic society where white people act as if black people are less than human. Ellison uses papers and letters to show the narrator’s poor position in this society. Many papers seem to show good fortune for the narrator, but only provide false dreams. The narrator’s prize of a brief case containing his ... Ellison shows this subconscious knowledge through the narrator’s dream of receiving a letter of deep and truthful meaning: “And I did and in it I found an engraved document containing a short message in letters of gold…” “To Whom It May Concern,” I intoned. “Keep This Nigger-Boy Running” (33). Even though it is just a dream, the white people actually do want to keep the narrator and his race ...
- 319: Summary of Rosen's "My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale"
- ... was all they had to call home. This being an extremely drastic change from the not-so-short of luxury they were accustomed to. The only communication the Rosen women had with the men was letters. And even this wasn't promising. Lela, Sara's older sister, was the writer of the family. She wrote letters everyday, and come to find out, only a handful of them were received. At this time, they got only one letter from their father and the boys. Writing seemed to be the only thing that ...
- 320: Vietnam War - Vietnam Soldiers - "They Carried Ghosts"
- ... grew or forced them to become distant. The soldier did not want to worry his parents at home and knew that they would not understand what he was going through. In the Documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, directed by Bill Couturie, showed these relationships change. One soldier writes to his mother and tells her that for a second, he felt as if he was on vacation because it was ... keep yourself sane and not make them worry too much about you. All of the men were scared, yet did not know how to show it. They could not show it to their families in letters because that could do nothing but make your mother worry that you were not going to make it. "We all scared, one can see this emotion in each individual, some hide it with their mouth ...
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