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Youth And Poetry
Number of words: 741 | Number of pages: 3.... Because of the new revolution of poetry, the types written these days are of destruction, hate, ugliness, and depression. These cliches of modern poetry repel youths from poetry because they do not want to be constantly reminded of the negative aspects of life. Poetry is fortunately taught in English classes throughout the educational system. Unfortunately, youths do not perceive the importance of poetry because to us, it is a mandatory chore. They are presented in an unappealing way that makes young people almost dislike poetry. English teachers analyze and study every single line in a poem, making students bored in the proce .....
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Beloved 2
Number of words: 1664 | Number of pages: 7.... 251). In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature of her actions. Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"(Mor .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country
Number of words: 1355 | Number of pages: 5.... to have to give up there need for superiority. Many times in the novel Paton showed there was a problem without even saying it. One of the major examples of that would be when he gave the scene of people asking "Have you a room to let?" and the response would always be "no I have no room to let"(85). Paton dosent outright say that its horrible that there is not even enough housing for the natives and they have to cram together in shared houses with no privicy at all. He just tells us the story and the reader recognize that there is a problem. Paton offten leves it up to the reader to figure out the social in .....
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The Upstairs Room
Number of words: 612 | Number of pages: 3.... legs were getting crooked and couldn’t walk that much so she had to exercise. She really hated to do that. After a year and a half they haven’t even seen how the house looked. And Sini really wanted a tan. So Johan let them go out. He was going to pick them up around dinner. But then Dientje’s sister came and they couldn’t get in. Annie got real sick that day. A nice doctor came and helped them. The Germans came to inspect their house but Johan made a hiding place in the closet. The Germans caught one of their friends. They knew who had told the Germans so they told Johan to kill him and he did. He we .....
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A Moveable Feast
Number of words: 638 | Number of pages: 3.... always a good friend and he was always doing things for people". He also said that Ezra was a kinder and more Christian person with people than Ernest was. He was very impressed by how Ezra could write so perfectly and hit things just right. He was very meticulous about his errors. But, he said that sometimes he could be rather irascible. He also described him as the most generous writer he had ever known. He would help poets, painters, sculptors, writers, and anyone else the he believed in or was in trouble. Ezra was probably his favorite person out of the many writers he met. He probably liked him so much because .....
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The Point Of Point Of View In Capote's "My Side Of The Matter" And Cheever's "Five-Forty-Eight"
Number of words: 1718 | Number of pages: 7.... or theirs, that's your own business. It's my word against
Eunice's and Olivia-Ann's, and it should be plain enough to
anyone with two good eye which one of us has their wits
about them. I just want the citizens of the USA to know
the facts that's all (p.189).
Already the reader is aware that this is a one sided story and that the
narrator has certain biases' towards certain characters. Which keeps the
reader interested, wanting to read more to find out what happened, and to
see if there is a justification for this narrator's accusations.
The next thing .....
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Vision Out Of The Corner Of One Eye: Literary Analysis
Number of words: 263 | Number of pages: 1.... but rather than call attention to him
she would rather save face for him. She hates the situation but she wants to
believe he's a good person so she begins to make excuses for him: "maybe he
didn't do it on purpose" or "maybe his right hand didn't know what his left hand
was up to". All the while trusting , and having her trust broken.
The second phase the main character went through was the attempt to flee.
When she finally tried wiggling out of his reach it just gives him a better
angle to touch her. As she moved away, he was right there. She was like a fox
hunted by wild dogs. No matter where she went, she was trappe .....
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Story Of An Hour 2
Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4.... death plagued Kate Chopin throughout her whole life. At the tender age of five, her father, Thomas O'Flaherty died in a rail accident2. Seven years later, her great grandmother, Victoire Verdon Charleville dies, who she had been living with for six years. The same year, Kate's half-brother, George O'Flaherty, dies of typhoid fever3. During the next seven years, she graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart and visited New Orleans, which she loves. She marries, Oscar Chopin, they have six children, but in 1882, Oscar dies of malaria4. One year later, Kate's mother dies. After, moving back to her native St. Louis she bein .....
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Religion In A Farewell To Arms
Number of words: 2026 | Number of pages: 8.... relationship with Henry and that which he has with the other soldiers. Hemingway repeatedly emphasizes this in all sections of the book, even after Henry is injured, when he is completely isolated from the other soldiers. The first instance the reader sees of this is only six pages into the novel. Hemingway writes, "That night in the mess after the spaghetti course . . . the captain commenced picking on the priest" (6-7). Hemingway's diction is suggestive: "commenced" signifies not only that the soldiers began to pick on the priest, but that ridiculing the priest was their main activity prior to dinner as well as after. Alm .....
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The Outsiders By SE Hinton
Number of words: 2382 | Number of pages: 9.... I hope you would enjoy and learn something about the book from reading this analysis. Plot Development The plot development in the book, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, was easy to follow. In this part of the book analysis I will give some more details about the plot development. There were no hooks or hurdles in the beginning of the book, the first sentence starts right away with the plot—without any forewords. This is the beginning of the first sentence: “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house...” (page 9). As you can see, it goes straight to the point without any prolo .....
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