it good literature. Some may analyze the plot, setting, narrative structure, character, mood, or theme. Others may choose to analyze or focus on literary techniques such as imagery, hyperbole, personification, or irony. Though we may choose to focus on any of these facets, as well as many more, the one condition that we all seem to be looking for in literature is connection. We want to be able to relate to the characters in the works we read. We want to read stories that we can comprehend and identify
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The Edge…There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are ones who have gone over.” - Hunter S. Thompson. Explore the presentation of the troubled mind in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and the poetry of John Keats, with illuminating reference to Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. “The Edge” described by Hunter S. Thompson is, he says, unexplainable. What seems clear is that ‘the Edge’ is at the limit of the human mind. It can’t be explained
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gamers, making it useful rather than an impediment to learning. But as they say, too much positive is also bad, the use of these languages became frequent and uncontrollable and it came to the point that these languages are used in the classroom, which alarmed the teachers to these impending tribulations to language learning. Thus the researcher wants to examine whether this devised languages are an enrichment of the vocabulary or a distortion of it. The researcher included in this paper a brief
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(the first person point of view), but it can also be written about things that happen to others (third person point of view). A narrative typically involves characters, a setting, specific and vivid details, and a series of events that can include current incidents, flashbacks, or dialogue. Cause and Effect A cause and effect essay explores why events, actions, or conditions occur (cause) and examines the results of those events, actions, or conditions (effect). For example, a cause could be purchasing
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aspires to escape the life of abuse and filth she experiences living in the tenements with her family. The short novel addresses themes that are know as morally incorrect such as violence, greed, and prostitution. Maggie: A Girl of The Streets explores human hardship and emotional trauma caused by abuse and negligence. Maggie: A Girl on The Streets chronicles the life of a girl named Maggie and the events of her life growing up in the slums of the industrializing United States. The novel begins
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Explore the ways in which Barker’s use of language, form and structure have affected your response to the presentation of the horrors of war. In the novel ‘Regeneration’, Pat Barker uses language, form and structure to present the horrors of war using the characters in the novel; who represent the soldiers in the front line, during World War One. The novel is two hundred and fifty pages, distributed between twenty three chapters and split into four parts which could be used to show four months
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themes in “The Star.” The narrative is the interior monologue of the central character, a Jesuit astrophysicist. He is aboard a star ship on a mission to investigate the causes of a supernova in a distant galaxy. He and the rest of the crew discover the artefacts of a highly developed civilization, carefully preserved on the only planet that remains in orbit around the supernova — the explosion of a star, during which it burns with an intensity and a luminosity that may be a billion times that
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Magical realism is a serious fiction that conveys the different realities of a person or community in a way that the magical and the ordinary are seamlessly blended in one. There are many elements an author utilizes to create this type of fiction. Magical realist authors aim to write the ordinary as miraculous and uncover a reality of people or communities that are outside of the objective norm. Although magical realism is very similar to other genres of fiction, it has individual characteristics
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Lewis. These novels have many differences in style, era, character attributes, etc. However one common theme that all of these novels share is that each has a separate society from the real world that is portrayed in the novel itself. My thesis is that authors sometimes use the setting as a character itself to magnify the attributes of other characters. In the novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone this separate society is Hogwarts in which the students attend school; it is a world completely separate
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Assessment – Of Mice and Men Heroes and Villains: Explore the ways Sympathy and/or Dislike of a character is created in Of Mice and Men. Even before plunging into profound depths of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, it is unequivocal that the novel is a microcosm of American life in the 1930s. As a result of the Great Depression, the setting is abundant with hardships which immensely mould the reader’s ambivalent feelings towards the most dominant female character in this book: Curley’s Wife. Steinbeck’s depiction
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