Winner By D.H. Lawrence Before-reading strategies: This story is a required read based on the course that I am taking. I am familiar with the author as I have read two other pieces that he has published while I was in high school. He is considered a visionary thinker for his time, however criticized for his work while alive. The descriptive wording is challenging due to the era in which it was written. Much of the references in the story will be of the United Kingdom where the author resided. I
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I Spy The structure of the story is chronological time, no flashbacks and it is in medias res. The story don’t have an introduction and the action starts in the beginning of the story. This story takes place during World War. People have to make their own decisions about morality and right and wrong, and this absolutely terrifies them. This is shown in "I Spy" through the characters, imagery, and setting in the story. The main character in "I Spy" is Charlie Stowe, a twelve year old boy living
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reasons; they could be due to a loss of love or dullness in their marriage or to peruse personal happiness and or emotional fulfillment which expresses a person’s secret passionate desires in which the case can justify infidelity. Adultery is about a person that is acting out of discontentment with their failing marriage and is committed by people who lack the comfort of marital faithfulness and intimacy. Although cheating is wrong in most situations the story of Dmitry Gurov, in “The Lady with the
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In the book, Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, the points that rose was the dysfunction within the family, the imbroglios within the family and human compassion. The book's structure offered associations with the different characters and their own stories. The paramountcy of each character inside this story is displayed in light of their contributions to the aforementioned idiosyncrasies. To initiate, one of the significant points that arose in this story was the dysfunction within the family. The
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Mule killers The story is named Mule killers and is written by Lydia Peelle, it was first published in Epoch, 2004. The theme in the story is growing up, unrequited love, generation shift and consequences. All the themes are, more or less, related to the narrator’s father, whom is telling about his early adolescent life where he had to cope with gradually losing his grip on what he wants for himself and instead being forced by the narrator’s grandfather to take responsibility for his actions
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throughout the story. The use of these different themes enables the reader to become aware of what the author is trying to get across to he or she. The themes in “Interpreter of Maladies” include marriage/love, communication, and environment/nature. With each taking on a role of its own, the story becomes both compelling and informative. Marriage and love comes across as complicated in the story. A marriage is known to be the start of a beautiful partnership between two people who love each other
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succeed. The stories “Johnny Lingo’s Eight Cow Wife” and “My Last Duchess” both contain strong male characters whose personalities drive the storyline and affect the outcome of the story; however the two men cause very different outcomes because of their very different personalities. The authors of each story use character, symbolism, and theme to show how a man’s personality can affect everyone around him, no matter what the circumstance may be. One way that the authors of both stories show just
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1.) Analysis of all characters Belle: A bookish young woman who falls in love with the Beast and finds the kind-hearted human inside him. She is beautiful, deep, intelligent and loves to read. Belle at times can also be stubborn but she is not afraid to speak her mind. She usually wears a blue outfit along with a blue ribbon in her hair. She is"unaware" of her own beauty and made her "a little odd”. Beast: A cold-hearted prince transformed into a beast as punishment for his selfishness, but later
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Haunted by the decisions we make! How can the decisions we make affect us and those around us. The two stories I have chosen are “A Rock Trying to Be a Stone” by Sergio Troncoso and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. These two stories both have the main characters having to battle internal conflicts versus themselves. Some of the literary techniques used in these two stories are conflict, exposition, first-person point of view and resolution. Both of the main characters face conflicts
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essence was hidden too. What a mysterious concept about love...yet so beautiful. Zita is a short story about a girl who fell in love with her tutor. Let's just assume that this is Zita. Zita is a young girl, who's taught to act like a lady. A young lady that eventually fell in love with his teacher. In the earlier part of the story, the teacher was kind of "shocked" that the girl was named Zita, maybe because of the fact that she fell in love with another girl named Zita--- maybe the cause of his
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