The Hero’s Journey is followed throughout Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel” with the three elements of the threshold guardian, the trials and enemies, and the ordeal. To begin, the story starts out with Jerry finding and going to the wild bay. Then he meets some local boys who dive into the water and swim through a underwater cave. He tries to follow, “Down he went, until he touched the wall of the rock again. But the salt was so painful in his eyes that he could not see.” (p.3, lines 14-15).
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Associates, LLC, and is the last book in the "Personal Demons" Series. It is a fiction book that includes some of the main characters from "Original Sin": Luc, Frannie, and Gabe. Also this book report will probably be only five paragraphs as I'm trying to remember everything that happened, because the book was due back to the library. This book begins with all of the main characters in a car, on their way to an unidentified place. But before I continue, I should tell want happened at the end of the
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by all the characters displayed a dramatic and suspenseful theme. In this play, a shop assistant, Seymour, discovers a plant that feeds off human blood and flesh. Throughout the play, three of the main characters, Audrey, Seymour, and Orin create the theme of a comedy horror through their acting and appearance. In this play, Audrey’s character is portrayed as a blonde, damsel in distress, while her boyfriend, Orin, is conveyed as a demon dentist. On the other hand, Seymour’s character is portrayed
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In each of these scenes, a new character enters or exits the stage. The units classified each scene with a different mood and purpose. In the scenes with Steph and Greg, there is anger and tension towards each other, until the end of the play when they realize they have to go their separate
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The Treatment by Suzanne Young is a dystopian futuristic fiction book, it is the second book in the series. This book is about a girl, Sloane, and her boyfriend, James, who have escaped and are hiding from this hospital called The Program which treats people who are suffering from depression. This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith is a realistic fiction book about this girl, Ellie, who falls in love with this famous actor after he emails her accidently. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny
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to be because I didn’t have a mother. Always. That’s the ultimate kind of broken” (Rowell___). This quote conveys that her mother was a major part of her life and has affected who she is as a person. Wren, Cath’s sister, proves she’s the dynamic character in Fangirl by changing throughout the story. At the beginning of the book Wren wants to break free from Cath and be an independent person. As the plot progresses she begins to let go of the idea that she can’t be close with Cath and have a social
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In pages 30-40 in Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff LaVaughn teaches Jeremy how to help around the house by teaching him to “go potty,” how to clean, and how to make his bed. LaVaughn teaching Jeremy all of these things almost helps support the family. With her teaching Jeremy how to go potty. It helps with not needing to by as much diapers which could help save money for Jolly. LaVaughn says “‘Jeremy, this is a potty. That’s your thing. You’re gonna stand right here at the potty- right HERE-
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Danticat proposes the idea of new generations being the chance for change and hope. She illustrates this in the chapter ‘Night Women’, the mother works as a prostitute at night to provide food and shelter for her son. The mother wants to keep his child hopeful of a better future by telling him stories about hope but warning him of the dangers. She explains, “I whisper my mountain stories in his ear, stories of the ghost women and the stars in their hair. I tell him of the deadly snakes lying at one
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“Quiet” by Mary Black is a piece of spoken word poetry that touches on the subjects of racism and abuse against Indigenous people in Canada. Throughout this poem Black touches on many points focusing on the disadvantages Indigenous people having been living with, but the first place that she touches on a subject that relates to my thesis is the title, “Quiet”. This is due to the fact that that despite the number of missing and murdered indigenous women being estimated at roughly 4,000 between 1980
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According to author and entrepreneur Jim Rohn, “Character isn’t something you were born with, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowery’s The Giver, acquires the feelings and memories that his society has willingly forgotten. As Jonas changes and learns of true feelings, colors and the pain that his community doesn’t want to endure, he realizes that without the pain of the memories, the people of his
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