...The Man Who Loved Flowers Characterization of the main character The main character in Stephen King’s The Man Who Loved Flowers is a young man with black hair and light blue eyes. The man is described as being nicely dressed, wearing a grey suit with the tie pulled down a little and the top collar button undone. We assume that he is from New York City as that is where we find him during the story, although it isn’t stated directly. As we follow this young guy through the streets of New York City, he is described through the thoughts of an old lady and a flower vendor which he passes on his way. They assuming that he is in love, seeing the bounce in his steps and the half-smile on his lips. The young man seems like a very friendly and polite person, this is mainly based on his conversation with the flower vendor, an example on this is to find on page 178 lines 11-12 “I’m gonna tell you what I think. Hey! Advice is still free, isn’t it?” The young man smiled and said. ”I guess it’s the only thing left that is.” The way people smile and recognize themselves in him, when he passes them, also indicates that his appearance is friendly as well. It seems as if he has a lot on his mind as he doesn’t notice any of the ongoing events he finds himself in the middle of. An example on this is to find in page 179 lines 16-18 He was unaware of the two teen-aged girls who passed him going the other way and then clutched themselves and giggled. Right up until the end of the story...
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...The Man Who Loved Flowers Characterization of the main character The main character in Stephen King’s The Man Who Loved Flowers is a young man with black hair and light blue eyes. The man is described as being nicely dressed, wearing a grey suit with the tie pulled down a little and the top collar button undone. We assume that he is from New York City as that is where we find him during the story, although it isn’t stated directly. As we follow this young guy through the streets of New York City, he is described through the thoughts of an old lady and a flower vendor which he passes on his way. They assuming that he is in love, seeing the bounce in his steps and the half-smile on his lips. The young man seems like a very friendly and polite person, this is mainly based on his conversation with the flower vendor, an example on this is to find on page 178 lines 11-12 “I’m gonna tell you what I think. Hey! Advice is still free, isn’t it?” The young man smiled and said. ”I guess it’s the only thing left that is.” The way people smile and recognize themselves in him, when he passes them, also indicates that his appearance is friendly as well. It seems as if he has a lot on his mind as he doesn’t notice any of the ongoing events he finds himself in the middle of. An example on this is to find in page 179 lines 16-18 He was unaware of the two teen-aged girls who passed him going the other way and then clutched themselves and giggled. Right up until the end of the story...
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...1963. We follow a young man who looks like he is in love; he is walking through 3rd Avenue. The people around him seem to respond to his outbound feelings. The young man is buying flowers for a girl named Norma, who he is going over to meet. A radio in the background is broadcasting bad news but no one seems to really care. He continues on up the street and meets a couple more people who also respond to his love stuck look. He walks down through an alley and sees a woman but this isn’t Norma, so he murders her like he has done five times already. Norma has been dead for ten years. He says that his name is love and that he walked the dark streets because Norma was waiting for him. Characterization of the young man: The young man is dressed in a light grey suit with a narrow tie and a top collar where the button is undone, he is far from rich and his appearance is described as having dark, short cut hair, light blue eyes and a fair complexion and on this soft spring evening, he was beautiful. He is described very positively through most of the story. He is happy and in love, the feelings radiate out of him and emit an aura of happiness which is perceived by the bystanders on the street. When he hears the news on the radio we start to notice a change when he reaches into his pocket, he seems puzzled, lonely and haunted. He is never truly aware of the life around him; he is focused on something else. His true identity is the hammer murderer. The young man doesn’t have a name, even...
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...THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS. This is the title of an essay that takes place in New York one evening in May 1963. It is a third person narrator in the essay that leads readers through what is happening this evening in and around the young man who is "The Man Who Loved Flowers". Summary: This is a wonderful and beautiful spring evening and it is on the brink of summer. It is in the twilight time and the sky is beautiful violet. People are out on the street in the good weather, and they are all happy. The young man is walking down the street and an old lady who pushes two bags in an old pram, yells at him. "Hey beautiful”. The young man welcomes back, and she thinks that he is in love. She gets happy and nostalgic, while she thinks that all can be beautiful such a spring evening, when they are on their way to the only one. The young man goes over the Sixty-third Street and passes a handcart filled with many fragrant flowers. It is an old man who is selling flowers, and right now he eats a pretzel. He has a radio, where news can be heard, but nobody listens to it. The news is that a hammer killer is on the loose and that an unidentified woman has been fished up from the East River. Otherwise, it is about Vietnam, a jury error in relation to a heroin boss and a Russian nuclear test. The young man hesitates, as he marks with his hand in his jacket pocket. Here he looks surprised, lonely and devastated, but quickly turns back to smile. He returns to the flower wagon, to buy flowers that...
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...eller andet, så vil der stå en kommentar efter. ) Grå er uklart, uelegant, eller tæt-på-uforståeligt sprog. Her skal du i en parentes ved siden af, skrive en rettet version som tydeligt kommunikerer din tanke. Det med fed blå skrift er ting jeg har rettet – en foræring betyder, at du har lavet noget, der er SUPER godt! Florianne by David Woodrell (Essay) The loss of someone, especially one’s own flesh and blood like a daughter, is a hard thing to deal with. In the story the narrator experiences a lack of closure, after the disappearance of his daughter. When we focus on a loss and the lack of closure, the ability to deal with it becomes weaker. Woodrell exemplifies this with utter realism. This essay will be focusing of characterization of the narrator, analysis of the setting etc. , is even harder, to deal with pain you are going through (noget galt her.. kommateringen forstyrrer også..). It is as if you are in your own inner circle WHILE everyone else is outside having no idea, what you are going through and you have that constant desperate feeling, that you want the person you have lost to come back to you(slettes) (du sætter ALT for mange kommaer, og de virker forstyrrende. Skriv kortere, tydeligere sætninger – men kig på kommareglerne s. 94-97). Although, we all know, it...
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... His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society REGION: I (Ilocus) SETTING: In a Province, In Rosales, Pangasinan PLOT: Exposition There was a boy who fell in love w/ the girl named Teresita. Complication Boy is asked by his father when he want to leave the province. And his father have decided that his son will leave tomorrow. Climax A night before he left, he went to Teresita house to say goodbye and asked her if they can write w/ each other but then Teresita refuses. Denouement He left his hometown and Teresita and her family move to another place due to their land was sold. Conclusion They did not end up with each other. THEME: Love doesn’t always end w/ happy endings. CONFLICT: Man VS. Man POINT OF VIEW: First Person CHARACTERIZATION: The narrator – a rich boy that left the province to study in the city and the one who truly loved Teresita. Teresita – a poor girl, daughter of the tenant, the narrator loves her so much. Ms. Santillan – their teacher during their high school years. Father of the narrator – the one who send his son in the city to study. VOCABULARY: Paunch - a large or protruding abdomen or stomach. Loafer - a person who idles time away. Portentously - being a grave or serious matter Reluctantly - feeling or showing aversion, hesitation, or unwillingness Peculiar - different from the usual or normal Disheveled - marked by disorder or disarray ...
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...Zora Neale Hurston wrote her stories about human experiences. In her stories people experience love, hate, forgiveness and betrayal. Her stories also tell of people’s relationships and feelings. Also, she provides her readers on discrimination and racial inequality which were popular at her time. She wrote about these issues from her own experience and her own feelings. “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves” (Hurston 762). Besides, some of her stories had happy ending where characters achieved their entire goals and found their way to joy. However, death sometimes takes place in her stories. It is bringing some changes into the characters’ lives. “The Gilded Six-Bits,” “Sweat” and “Magnolia Flower” explores relationships between men and women through racial inequality in Hurston’s time. In “The Gilded Six- Bits”, the author looks at Joe and Missie May’s relationships through race. At that time black people were discriminated against by white people. Majority of the black people were unequal in society. In some parts of the country they didn’t have the right to vote. Langston Hughes says “ In Mississippi the state spends nine times as much for the education of each white child as it does to educate a Negro child, yet the Negro population equals the white, and the wealth of the state is based on the labor of Negroes in the sun of the cotton fields” (Hughes 768). From the beginning of the story, Zora Neale Hurston writes about...
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...The novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, based on a true story from the early 1950s, tells the tale of Santiago, a young man falsely accused of taking the virginity of Angela, a woman who was to be wed to another, and the events that unfolded leading up to his gruesome murder. Though no one believed Santiago actually seduced Angela, it was to greater misbelief that no one did anything to prevent his wrongful death at the hands of the Vicario twins. The story focused on how the townspeople's cultural beliefs had led to their inaction in preventing his untimely death. Cultural values play a considerable role in this novella; it is the primary factor to why the crime took place. In the novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Marquez’s use of...
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...virtuous. I agree because those who go through struggles usually learn from it and their wisdom expands. This is an accurate assessment and is evident in the novel “Hamlet” by Shakespeare. For the purpose, of revenge we see Hamlet the protagonist who takes advantage of his insanity, to get revenge on his father’s murderer. With this intention, Hamlet encounters many obstacles throughout the play. On the other hand, Ophelia is a victim that has been used by her father for reputation. Until, Laertes appear we are able to discover Ophelia’s true wisdom after all of her sufferings and experiences. This is also evident in the novel “The Little Prince” by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. Due to, The Little Prince insecurity of narrow mindedness. Given that, he is unable to detect his own narrow mindedness, about what it means to be human. .Couple with, The Little Prince’s journey is The Pilot, who finds a purpose in companionship to refrain loneliness and sorrow. Through the use of characterization and conflict, both works of literature demonstrate growth from failure. In both, The Little Prince and Hamlet, readers learn that characters are virtuous because they’ve had to work through difficulties, they learned about themselves and also about what it means to be human. Hamlet has become virtuous through his bad decisions because he gains experience and learns from it. While Hamlet was walking to meet with Queen Gertrude, he runs into Claudius, the man who stole his father’s crown...
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...bog56269.app.qxd 7/23/03 1:01 PM Page A-1 APPENDIX Writing a Film Analysis Films are made to be seen and heard, to appeal to our visual and aural senses. Like any art form, however, films are also meant to be felt and understood, to appeal to our emotions and minds. One of the best ways to determine whether a film has succeeded in any or all of these goals is to analyze the elements that make up the whole work. To write an analysis of a film, you must study the film carefully. Your critical analysis should be derived from your personal encounter with the film, not from published criticism. Access to a videocassette recorder or DVD player is essential if you are going to perform a critical analysis of any depth. It is not enough to like or dislike the movie; you must determine why it succeeds or fails in reaching out and encompassing the viewer. The first step is to view the film in its entirety. From this viewing you can get an initial reaction to the many parts of the film that you will have to explore in more depth. When you first view the film, it is best not to try to take notes or separate the parts of the film; you should be familiar with the textbook in order to know what to look for. After you have formulated a thesis and have begun the process of supporting that thesis, you should view the film at least once more in its entirety and two or three times in segments in order to review scenes of major importance. The thesis statement is the element around which to...
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...born on 15 May 1930, near Kisumu, central Nyanza Region in Kenya. In achievement, she became the first African woman writer in English who published fiction by the East African Publishing House. Her stories such as Land Without Thunder (1968), The Other Woman (1976), and The Island of Tears (1980) provides the traditional Luo life. Most of her fiction stories are according with the customs, history and traditions of the Luo tribe in Kenya, which has the second largest ethnic group. The Luo tribe lived for most part near Lake Victoria. Her formal writing reflects the addition of her formal learning with the traditions in her life. All her collections of writings reflect her personal love towards the stories of her culture. Grace Ogot passed away in April 2010. 1. Character and characterizations The main character or the primary character is Oganda which means “beans” due to her very fair skin. She is the chief’s only daughter around at the tender age to married and also the protagonist in this story. She is a very traditional and great woman where she willing to sacrificed herself so that the Luo will have rain. She also loves to imagine her future where she imagined which man should be the best man to married. Oganda is very disappointed on her people which they willing to give her up to sacrifice. Lastly, she also a person who easily to give up where she never fight for her life to run away or hide herself but choose to accept the fact that she is the chosen one...
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...(Chapter 1) One evening, Janie Crawford comes back from Eatonville, Florida. As she walks through the town, her old neighbors were sitting on their porches talking about how she had left town in nice clothing with a younger man and came back muddy and in overalls. When she walks by the neighbors, she doesn’t stop to chat with them which only causes them to talk about her more. The chapter then tells the Janie was in love with a man named Tea Cake which the women tell that she was way too old for him. Even though the ladies were jealous of Janie being with a younger man, they tried to label her as whorish, in which Janie’s best friend defended her saying she’s never done anything to her anyone and then later took her to dinner. As Janie and her friend talk, we find out that they have been friends for a long while and they trust each other. Pheoby was afraid that Tea Cake has taken all of Janie’s money and ran off with a younger woman but Janie makes it clear that he was very good to her and tell Pheoby that he was ‘gone’ but we aren’t sure exactly what that means. Characterization- Protagonist: Janie Mae Crawford- An attractive, independent, middle-aged black woman who is curious and has lots of confidence. Direct: “Youse just as crazy as you ever was (5).” -This sentence tells that Janie is still the same person she was before she left which is a good thing. Imagery- “But nobody moved,...
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...Themes of loss and reconciliation, hope and failure, friendship and familial conflict, added with mystic oriental flavor and healing power, have made Tan’s writing emblematic and well-received. Following the publication of The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), Amy Tan’s third novel The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) again enjoys a high popularity and evokes strong responses from both readers and critics. Despite the fact that The Hundred Secret Senses still exhibits Tan’s trademarks of “a strong sense of place, a many-layered narrative, family secrets, generational conflict, Chinese lore and history”, unlike the previous two that are generally praised, this novel gets mixed opinions. Most reviewers receive the characterization of Kwan as “the most original and best one” among Tan’s works (Huntley 113). Some other critics, Michiko Katukani et al, criticize Kwan’s over-imaginary, sensational and superstitious beliefs in ghosts, reincarnation and fantasies (qtd. in Chen 120). Frank Chin asserts that Tan has made both Kwan and Changmian appear inferior for the purpose of "perpetuating and...
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...determining factor of what makes a strong character. Through the research and analysis of the pieces, the essay resolves that Collins actually by-passes gender roles, focusing more on a character's ability to adapt to both gender stereotypes in order to have a well rounded understanding of society. Genders are not the determining factor of a strong character, because gender roles do not matter in the long run of being a human being in general. Word Count: 212 On September 14, 2008, Suzanne Collins published her novel, The Hunger Games. The twisted story line of a barbaric showdown was an instant hit. Katniss Everdeen, the main protagonist of the series, became an idol— girls thought she was a new symbol of independence, and guys loved the lack of romance and emphasis on gore. The novel centers around Katniss in the futuristic society of Panem, which is dictated by the Capitol. After a rebellion arose against the Capitol, the Hunger Games was formed as a reminder to the people of Panem of the rule the Capitol has over their lives. One boy and one girl from each...
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...SECOND DRAFT Contents Preamble Chapter 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Background Rationale Aims Interface with the Junior Secondary Curriculum Principles of Curriculum Design Chapter 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 1 Introduction Literature in English Curriculum Framework Strands and Learning Targets Learning Objectives Generic Skills Values and Attitudes Broad Learning Outcomes Chapter 3 5 7 9 10 11 11 13 Curriculum Planning 3.1 Planning a Balanced and Flexible Curriculum 3.2 Central Curriculum and School-based Curriculum Development 3.2.1 Integrating Classroom Learning and Independent Learning 3.2.2 Maximizing Learning Opportunities 3.2.3 Cross-curricular Planning 3.2.4 Building a Learning Community through Flexible Class Organization 3.3 Collaboration within the English Language Education KLA and Cross KLA Links 3.4 Time Allocation 3.5 Progression of Studies 3.6 Managing the Curriculum – Role of Curriculum Leaders Chapter 4 1 2 2 3 3 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 21 Learning and Teaching 4.1 Approaches to Learning and Teaching 4.1.1 Introductory Comments 4.1.2 Prose Fiction 4.1.3 Poetry i 21 21 23 32 SECOND DRAFT 4.1.4 Drama 4.1.5 Films 4.1.6 Literary Appreciation 4.1.7 Schools of Literary Criticism 4.2 Catering for Learner Diversity 4.3 Meaningful Homework 4.4 Role of Learners Chapter 5 41 45 52 69 71 72 73 74 Assessment 5.1 Guiding Principles 5.2 Internal Assessment 5.2.1 Formative Assessment 5.2.2 Summative Assessment 5.3 Public Assessment 5.3.1 Standards-referenced...
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