ANALYZING NOVELS & SHORT STORy Good feedback is kind, thorough and timely. It’s professional and focused. It leaves the writer feeling challenged to do better but great about their strengths. Even if that just means the location they chose was cool. Give your feedback relative to the skill set of the writer. Never lie or obfuscate. Just serve it up gently. An upset writer isn’t going to hear your points anyway. But an encouraged one will. Trust me on this. — Julie Gray PRINTER FRIENDLY PAGE
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somewhere between 400 to 750 female soldiers in the Civil War. “The fact that women were willing to risk injury, illness, maiming and even death to escape the kind of lives that were available to them at the time, tells you something about just how limited their choices were,” said Elizabeth Leonard of Colby College, an american historian specialized in studying american women and the Civil War era (Schulte). Women fighting in the Civil War was baffling to those living during the time period, however
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Baseball, War, and Romance Both written by Ernest Hemingway, “The Three Day Blow” and “A Way You’ll Never Be” are short stories that focus on the life of Nick Adams. The two short stories center on important events that take place in Nick Adams’s life as a young man. Hemingway uses these events to show how Nick Adams’s past experiences affect him in the present. Based around baseball, war, and romance, these stories are significant by explaining how past experiences can have a lasting impact on
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War of 1812 A war that defined North America The war of 1812, a war between the United States and Great Britain allies(United Kingdom and The Canadas ), lasted for two and a half years(1812-1815). It was a story similar to rags to riches, how the developing young nation United states had proved that its not an underdog any more opposing the then super power Great Britain, the greatest naval power of the world. It was a story that tells us
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English 112 14 February 20, 2014 The Things That Few Have Carried When people think of war, they think of very few things. They think of the things that is only seen on T.V. and movies. The small percentage of people who join the military can tell you about the military lifestyle, but the even smaller number of veterans who have actually been to combat can tell you that war is not what Hollywood makes it. In war, the average psyche of a human changes. There is no longer a “me” or “I” anymore, there
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge takes place in the United States Civil War era. The short story is divided into three parts. Part one introduces Peyton Farquhar, the main character. Peyton is standing on a bridge surrounded the Northern Army and is about to be hung. Part two explains why Peyton Farquhar is being hanged. He was tricked by a Northern Solider in disguise as a Confederate Soldier explaining how the war was going. The Northern Solider told Farquhar about the repairing of the Owl Creek
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by a boat during the Vietnam War. Her mother has a pain which make her suffer a lot. She says “My mother suffered from nightmares all about the boat.” She scare and fear about lives of the boat. She doesn’t have any ways or idea about how to flee from the pain. In Birds of Paradise Lost, written by Andrew Lam, he shows how Vietnamese immigrants escape from their pain though humor, denial, and suicide both during and after the war. Lam uses the humor to show readers how the immigrants escape from their
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shot at another human being, he was at war with himself. Everything he knew as a young man was scrambled in with the chaos of Vietnam. With every death, the weight increased. “The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.” **Introduces to the unimaginable world of war. He describes dozens of objects that
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it causes a more dramatic affect to give the audience that type of feeling. Costumes are used as a tool to tell part of the story of what is going on in the movie. For instance if a man were wearing dirty garments and was full of filth obviously in a film he could be construed as being “low class”. The same goes for makeup and hair styling no matter how subtle they may be. The costumes tell about the era and the social class of the individuals in the movie. The film is shot to depict the time
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to symbolize how the war effected him and the soldiers he fought along side of. In chapter four, On the Rainy River, Tim O'Brien tells us how he runs to a little place outside of Canada and meets an old man who discreetly helps O'Brien make his decision to or not to dodge the draft. This story symbolizes that he is being forced to fight a war he does not believe in. O'Brien says "I was drafted to fight a war I hated," (O'Brien, 39). He tells us that he doesn't believe in the war but yet, he was
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