sub-style is emotive prose. The biggest part of the text is the finest example of oratorical style. The extract is taken from the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The author of the novel is Harper Lee. She is an American writer. She was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is her first novel. It received almost unanimous critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize. In this book the author paints a true and lively picture
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of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boomer generation. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the smooth appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magical realism. His fiction also explores the pitiless and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unintentionally takes on the environment. T.C. Boyle is a writer of American Literature. He writes fiction in the form of short stories and novels. According
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of Manor Farm. Gradually the animals are moving toward the idea of revolution against their dictator. Lois Lowry once said, “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. Is a life without colour, pain or past.” This quote can be interpreted as a life without problems, surprises or consequences, is a life with no originality or vitality. George Orwell uses a large variety of literary elements such as, symbols, dramatic irony and conflict
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Strong female role models help shape better people. Juniors relationship with female characters helps him find his identity. Grandma Spirit gives Junior good advice throughout the first part of the novel. Mary Spirit teaches Junior he can be successful if he tries. Finally, Penelope has an impact on making Juniors life better. Juniors perspective changes after these role models give him advice. Grandma Spirit is Juniors source of advice and support. Grandma Spirit is wise and has gone through
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optimistic protagonist takes to reunite himself with his love in the novel Candide. This sanguine character, Candide, witnesses and endures many highly exaggerated events related to philosophy, war, religion and love, created by the author to satirize blind optimism and illustrate to the reader how it blurs people’s perceptions of life, producing adverse effects. Voltaire heavily derides adhering to and holding sacred philosophies without thinking about what they truly mean. Pangloss, the professor in
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attraction of the narrative, examine the ways in which the writers explore the theme of violence. Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys uses violence in several scenes throughout the novel. The violence in the novel is not fatal to everyone, it is just used to catch the reader’s eye, it creates suspense and strong curiosity. This novel consists of many emotional aspects. In both ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ a number of characters undergo various acts of violence. This violence is presented in a number
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each of her characters names. Although not all of them have an appeal when the name was said, when ‘Dashwood’ was said, it left a calm feeling, while ‘Lucy Steele’ was a harsh name just as she was pretty harsh herself. By looking just at the names of her characters, readers would know a little about each one. Characterization was used to enhance the characters, and allowed the reader to connect them to themselves. No matter what piece of work it was, conflicts exist; without conflicts the story would
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This is a novel surrounded with great sorrow, rejection, destiny, age, and curse that is caused by love and beauty. The authors made use of Angelica’s eyes to signify her different attributes, her life to mirror the life of an ordinary being which is not perfect at all, and her pregnancy to symbolize the attempt of the Filipino people in attaining freedom. (Brainard, Cuizon, Evangelista, Montes, and Sarreal, 2010). Angelica’s Daughters is a dugtungan novel – a genre of Tagalog novel popular in
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CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION LITERATURES IN ENGLISH SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT CANDIDATE’S NAME: NIKKIESHA MOHANSINGH CANDIDATE’S NO: SUBJECT: LITERATURES IN ENGLISH FORM: LOWER SIX YEAR: 2013 NAME OF TEACHER: MRS. A. SERJARD – LYONS SCORE: BIOGRAPHY David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence; born on the Haggs Farm in the small mining town of
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Connecting My Life To Fiction: Personal Response The novel Zebra Crossing by Meg Vandermerwe is about the suffering of people who are different. Chipo is a character that is both innocent and vulnerable, and who helps her brother and friends without even a simple thank you. Her appearance and background make her a character i can relate to easily because her issues are one i know from my own experience. Her decisions and ambitions maker her a character that i can not relate to because her choices
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