1. The stories; “The Skating Party”, “A Secret Lost in the Water”, and “To Everything There is a Season all share the same type of conflict. All the stories have person vs self conflicts. In “The Skating Party” Uncle Nathan was struggling with still loving Delia when he was with Eunice. Then in “A Secret Lost in the Water”, the narrator realized to late that he/she had forgotten what his/her father had previously taught him/her and strayed from his/her father’s teachings while growing up. Lastly
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People know Romeo and Juliet as a love story, but they also know that it is tragic. Love between a partner isn’t the only type of love in this story. There is love between close friends, family and also there is love given but not received. “Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is where Juliet lives, and every cat, dog and people, every unworthy thing. Live here in heaven and they may look on her, but Romeo will not” Before Juliet, Romeo had fallen in love with the one he was supposed to marry
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entertain or to tell a very important story. Often there is a hidden depth or theme to the story that is overlooked by the reader. The story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry is about value and sacrifice. The author uses point-of-view and situational irony to support and bring meaning to the various themes. Theme The theme of a story tells you what the story is about (Clugston, 2014, section 6.1). It is essential for the reader to establish the theme of the story so that he/she is aware of what the
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In the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien there is a lot of guilt and blame among the characters. The guilt leads to the characters to find someone to lay the blame on. The protagonist First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is one of the main ones to have guilty feelings. The situation in the story that causes the guilt is when Ted Lavender is shot in the head. I am going to tell you who some of the troop members lay the blame on. The first person with the most guilt to lay blame is First
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addressing the different love affairs happening between the various men and women such as Darcy falling in love with Elizabeth. He does not want to love her, though, and that relates to the lines “I’ve got a problem and I don’t know what to do” and “I think I really like her, I hope she really likes me too.” Because Darcey did not want to fall for Elizabeth even though he was, and Elizabeth was not also falling in love with him, Darcey had a problem. Even though he did not want to love Elizabeth, he still
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think about love. Whether it is a person or an object that we adore, we all have different ideas of what love is, but love varies in different relationships. The short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, written by Raymond Carver, entails two couples talking about love and we discover what love is from the main characters, Mel and Terri. This couple has had quite a few road bumps in their past relationships. Mel’s perspective on love is that abusive love is not real love; I agree with
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Little Women Little Women was written in 1868-1869, the setting is New England in the 19th Century during and after the Civil War. The story begins at Christmas time. The girl’s father is away in the war. It is Christmas and there are memories of better times. But this Christmas their father is in the war and they have no means of support and very little money. There will be no presents and the beautiful breakfast they had put together is given away to a family who has no food. It is not
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A consideration of the growth of the female of Hong Ying’s “daughter of the river” Name: Guokun He Student No: 5904913 Paper: Chin 343 Lecturer: Dr Haixin Jiang Brief outline: This essay takes <Daughter of the river> for an example to analyze the growth of the female in the early 1960s. <Daughter of the river> is written by Hong Ying and published in 1997. With raw intensity and fearless honesty, Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life,
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In the literal work “The escape” written by W.S.Maugham, irony plays the inevitable part in making the success of the story. The narrator recites how his friend, Roger Charing, tries to get rid of a woman, Ruth Barlow, through the process in which he escape from the little lady, the author expresses his severe irony towards Ruth Balow and her scheming deeds. First of all, irony refers to the incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. Right from the beginning, Maugham has
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In life, you find that people have good intentions and mean well, however, there are those who may only pretend to do so. The story, “Waiting for Love” by Cheryl Albury, portrays two individuals that seem to want to spend the rest of their lives together. Phyllis, the main character, is introduced to Stafford as she runs an errand that is related to her job as a training seamstress. Stafford McPhee, a charming policeman, won the heart of Phyllis. Phyllis and Stafford organized a wedding and a vacation
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