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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The literary work that captured my interest was “The Welcome Place” by Alice Walker. This fictitious work captured my interest with the lyrical musical expression and tone in the beginning of the short story. This writing also has a symbolic meaning for the African American culture. It describes the fight for freedom and cultural equality. “The Welcome Place” is written about the slavery time period and how African Americans were treated. According to Clugston, 2010, “The point of view is called
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According to policy of IT College in the UAEU, I have to have my own laptop. Here, I am going to write some information about my first laptop. My laptop is from Dell. My laptop name is Dell XPS M 1210. I loved my laptop when I saw it. It is a very small and portable laptop. The monitor has 12.1 inches. The most important thing in any laptop is the memory; my laptop has a 70 GB of RAM. On other hand, my laptop has many other features that no other laptop has it, such as, large and moveable web camera
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novelist, short-story writer and a playwright. She is regarded to be one of the leading contemporary women writers in the Arab world. In fact, she follows Nawal Al Saadawi’s footsteps, especially in her explicit representations of women’s role in the traditional Arab Middle East world. Throughout her works, there is a glimpse of the patriarchal oppression she faces during her life. Not only by her father and brother, but also by the traditions enforced upon her by the neighborhood. The Story of Zahra
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member. Whole of our family was very sad and we mourned for days and months. Even today I miss my dog. It was always glad when I came from school. Me and my brother allowed the dog to lie in our beds and when we stood by the door we could see through the window in the door that our dog came running towards us in the entrance door always coming from me or my brothers room. One early evening in the twilight my father walks in the forest nearby with our dog. A little strange thing happened. Another stray
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summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf The short story, written by Susmita Bhattacharya , is about a young woman called Lata. She has been raised in India where she probably has lived all her life. She is in an arranged marriage with Anuj, who also has grown up in India. They live together in Wales, in a house in Cardiff. Anuj have lived there for six years, and he thought he was as British as the white people, but Lata has only lived there for 4 months. In the story Lata and Anuj decide to go to the cinema
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Hawthorne’s Life through Symbolism Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American writer who is very well known for his use of symbolism. In many of Hawthorne’s short stories, he uses symbolism to express the conflicts he faced within his life. Some of these short stories include “Young Goodman Brown,” “Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Within his work, Hawthorne tells great tales where each character faces a different issue in which they must make a decision such as one’s
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is based entirely on a real life story. Hazel is a fictional character and in many ways, completely different from Green’s friend who died of cancer in August 2010 when she was 16. Green’s friend, Esther, meaning “Star” in Persian, had the empathy of a counselor but the spunky teenage way that all young adults should have. Green took that and formed Hazel Grace Lancaster’s character, who was not a part of the book at the time of his friendship, because the story was extremely different prior to Esther
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the nineteenth century, a type of novel centered on wifely adultery flourished in Continental Europe”.1 Examples include Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter”, Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” and Gustav Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, but also short stories by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The topic of adultery could be explored in many different ways and where most writers focused on the social problems of infidelity, especially when committed by a woman, Chekhov presented the relationships between
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especially important to Othello as well as being the turning point in the play during Act III. The handkerchief is a symbol of love, of a person, of power, and of revenge. The handkerchief plays an important role in the lives of both Othello and Desdemona. The piece of silk was Othello’s first gift to Desdemona and she treasures it dearly because it’s a symbol of Othello’s love. She is truly upset when she finds out it has gone missing and will soon find out that this will lead to the tragic event of
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