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Imagery Of The Supernatural In

... unusual and almost supernatural about the structure. As the narrator approaches the home of his long-time friend, Roderick Usher, he refers to the house as the "meloncholy House of Usher" (George & Barbara Perkins, 1511). Upon looking at the building, he even describes the feeling he has as "a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" (Perkins, 1511). Charles Feidelson, Jr. and Paul Brodtkorb, Jr. approach this sense rationally when they write of the narrator incorporating various senses; one being a sixth sense of vague and inde ...

Number of words: 685 | Number of pages: 3

Brave New World And The Giver: Similar Yet Different

... specific caste system, but the members of their community do not have control of their own future; that is left to the elders. Lastly are Jonas and John. They are basically the main characters and both endure severe inner troubles, but are they similar enough to make the novels similar? In Brave New World, there is definitely a caste system of community members. Each level of society keeps to themselves. They work and live according to how they were conditioned. They do not have a certain ordinance on manners or behavior; they are promiscuo ...

Number of words: 846 | Number of pages: 4

The Pearl

... that dealers are so obsessed with Kino's pearl, they send a group of trackers after them. The trackers trap them partway up a rock face and one of the men shoots Kinos son, mortally wounding him. Kino and his wife return to their home on the beach and Kino throws back into the sea from where it came. Kino, the protagonist, is a strong willed, if stubborn, man. He refuses to sell the underhanded pearl dealers his valuble pearl although he desperately needs the money. He does this because he feels very strongly that what the men are doing ...

Number of words: 322 | Number of pages: 2

Aunt Rosanas Rocker-hispanic-a

... with the society. In those cases, the roles are usually permanent because of their character or personalities and how they were raised. The ways that some people were raised and their environment are the direct cause to why they may be the way they are. “Aunt Rosana’s Rocker” by Nicholasa Mohr presents a story where it discusses the lives of a married couple and how they are struggling with issues that involve not only the marriage, but themselves. In a way, it does not directly talk about the different roles ...

Number of words: 1775 | Number of pages: 7

King Lear

... hell in order to expiate his sin. As the play opens one can almost immediately see that Lear begins to make mistakes that will eventually result in his downfall. The very first words that he speaks in the play are :- "...Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom, and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths while we Unburdened crawl to death..." (Act I, Sc i, Ln 38-41) This gives the reader the first indication of Lear's intent to abdicate hi ...

Number of words: 1998 | Number of pages: 8

Magic

... me to the point where I wish I had been endowed with those powers. If I had to choose a favorite; I would have to go with the two poems I obtained from the Concordance to Shakespeare and the Granger’s Index to Poetry. It all started when we received our word list. I looked for a word that I interested me, and that I thought would be easy to find information on. I guess, for the most part I was right. All the references available in our school library were pretty easy to find; such as the Roget’s Thesaurus, the Unabridged Dictio ...

Number of words: 1734 | Number of pages: 7

Into The Forest

... this is when they find that they only have four matches left in the box. They searched frantically to find more, they found some but it taught them a lesson about surviving on what they have and not to take things for granted. Nell is character that is writing the logs in the novel. As she does this we, the audience, find that she appears to be a deep thinker and more academic than Eva who is more practical. This can be seen throughout the novel as Eva always makes sure the fire is stoked and does gardening. This also changes towards the end o ...

Number of words: 523 | Number of pages: 2

The Lost World 2

... on his first adventure he was badly injured and thought dead. He said "but it turned out I was only slightly dead. The surgeons have done wonders, as they will be the first to tell you. So now I am back in my next iteration, you might say" (3). Suffering deadly injuries from the trip Malcolm was crippled. This made it hard for him to keep up with the fast pace search party. In addition, while in contact with a T-Rex Malcolm again receives a serious injury. While trying to escape, "Malcolm hits his head and falls to the floor seeing sta ...

Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3

Beach Burial

... – the ghostly pencil Wavers and fades, the purple drips, The breath of the wet season has washed their inscriptions As blue as drowned men’s lips, Dead seamen, gone in search of the same landfall,Whether as enemies they fought, Or fought with us, or neither; the sand joins them together,Enlisted on the other front. El Alamein. Although not blatantly obvious at first, Kenneth Slessor’s emotive and poignant poem Beach burial is a poem concerned with raising the awareness of national identity. Now I found this hard to believe at fir ...

Number of words: 1297 | Number of pages: 5

How To Kill People

... When he does try to save him, it is too late. For many years Kumalo had been peacefully living with his wife and not really giving Absolom a second thought. He wondered why Absolom had not returned letters in quite awhile, but never was really concerned about it. The only reason he journeyed to Johannesburg was because he received a letter saying that Gertrude was sick. Once Kumalo finds his son and realizes that trouble he is in, he does try to help. But it is too late to save Absolom, whose bad lifestyle is established and taken effect on hi ...

Number of words: 1172 | Number of pages: 5

Culture Clash

... own language and culture. My family was losing its Vietnamese roots. Hong’s family strictly conversed in Cantonese daily, while my family mainly spoke in English and southern Vietnamese. Going to the Hong’s home at first made me feel Alienated. I would see Hong’s entire family speak in their own Language, and occasionally speak some English to me. Simple words or sentences such as, hi, hello, how are you, and good-bye were used. It was interesting to see my friend switch sides of language as soon as he stepped home. His family seemed t ...

Number of words: 982 | Number of pages: 4

The Importance Of Friar Lawren

... in time. This is due to Friar Lawrence not planning how he was going to fake Juliet's death. Due to his dauntless attempts to keep the two lovers together, he still failed. This was shown in Act 4 Scene 1 " I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate execution As that is desperate which we would prevent". One of his faults in the plan is shown in Act 5 Scene 3 when Friar John does not know the importance of the letter and does not give it to Romeo. "I could not send it. Nor get a messenger to bring thee, so fearful were they of inf ...

Number of words: 741 | Number of pages: 3

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