The short story “Mount Pleasant” by Mary-Louise Buxton is about a little girl, who tells about her family. They have just moved to an old big house, Mount Pleasant – her, her parents, her sister Lena and her brothers, big Alec and George William. The story shows how a child sees and experiences different situations, and how they separate good and bad. Childhood and parenting are clear themes in the text. In the essay there will be analyzes of the setting, the narration and point of view, the language
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1B The short story ”Sports Leader” by Jane Rogers is about a sixteen-year-old boy who cannot go to college to do his Sports Leadership, because he hasn’t passed his exams. Therefore, his foster mother, Eileen, finds him a job working for a window cleaner named Phil. Part of the boy’s job is to collect the money for the window cleaning by going from door to door. In one of the houses a boy from school, Martin, lives. When Martin finds out how much the boy collects by the end of the night, he decides
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The Fish – a short story by Seamus Galway The short story is narrated in such way that every time you read it new meanings and symbols appear. The fascinating writing style reveals symbols in even the smallest details of the story and has a big influenceon the overall impression. And the way the Christian symbol, the fish, is made the foundation of the story is very interesting and admirable and makes the reader focus and analyze on every single detail of the story to find out what is really happening
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Good stories should capture the reader's attention and have a purpose. ¨The Secret Integration¨ has some powerful messages, and the interesting and unique thing is that none of these powerful messages are ever plainly explained. It never says in the story ¨racism is bad¨ or anything like that, so it is up to the reader to interpret the message the author is writing about and it could possibly be interpreted in different ways. There are three themes in the story that make it meaningful and a good
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young age, to be reading this book isn’t good. The ages of the children in the book are almost close to the ages of the teens reading the book. The time period which the story is set in is different than the time period now, so we have a different view of the story than society 60 years ago. First, let’s talk about the language. “You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!” (Golding 163). This is an example of the profanity used in the story. Ralph yells that at Jack before they’re about
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with death in his eyes,” would be a good example of symbolism. Symbolism is the use of symbols, like the crow, to represent ideas, like death. Crows are seen as a sign of death to some. Symbolism is used in everyday life, from literature to even when we talk. The story “Once Upon a Time” written by Nadine gordimer had good use of symbolism. In the story, a wealthy family lived in a very poor and angered place. They were worried about the safety of their little boy so they decided to have a wall put
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want to focus on congruence in my essay. As a young boy you need a father figure. Boys need a father to learn how to be a man. They also need their love, attention and appreciation. Several do what they can to be seen and accepted by the man, they look up to the most. They want their father to be proud for them. But what happens, when your father isn't there for you? What if you don't know your father? This is the case in the short story "Compass And Torch", where the main character wants his
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Sweet ladies - Rachel Cusk, 2003 Sweet ladies is a British short story written by Rachel Cusk in 2003. The story is written in third person narrative and the main person is Sylvia Furnish. The short story takes place in the southern England in Doniford, which is an old and quiet village near the sea. Maybe Sylvia has lived in Doniford for most of her life, if not all of it. It is in this village Sylvia has changed from a young and happy mother, like the young girls she know despises to a bitter
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doing, would you do it as well, or would you be strong enough to go against the crowd? This timeless question is addressed in the short story, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. The author thinks that anyone would race to “jump off that bridge” if his or her community decided it was necessary. The "lottery" is an age-old tradition in the community presented in the story where the whole town must draw from a box and whoever gets the piece of paper with a mark on it gets stoned to death. The lottery is
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In Wonder, there is an adventure of a boy going to school for the first time. August is a boy who was homeschooled because his face is deformed. It is written by R.J. Palacio. When a part of a story is relatable, it’s there to ground you to the real world. It’s to help the book make sense. When it’s not relatable, that part is there to give you new perspectives. It makes the book more interesting. Wonder is a compelling book because it tells a story that is out of the ordinary, but has some relatable
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