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Metamorphosis 2
Number of words: 567 - Number of pages: 3.... to change because once Gregor died, the narrator was unable to reveal his thoughts and feelings. Thus, the narrator becomes total omniscient. The narrator is now able to reveal the thoughts of the entire Samsa family. For example, after the death of Gregor, the narrator reveals to the reader that the Samsa parents are looking forward to the day when they can find a husband for their daughter. This is something that could not have been revealed by the previous limited omniscient narrator.
The style of narration that was chosen by Franz Kafka creates an atmosphere where the reader feels .....
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Haroun And The Sea Of Stories
Number of words: 1084 - Number of pages: 4.... of fishes with mouths all over their bodies. It has the wonderful city of Gup (where it is always light) and the terrible land of Chup (where it is always dark). And, perhaps most important, it has P2C2E. Processes Too Complicated To Explain.
Salman Rushdie was awarded a Writer's Guild award for .
Haroun as a children's book a review by Jon Shemitz
Heard Instinct's page on their adaptation of Haroun for puppet shows they do
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The Heart Of The Savage In The
Number of words: 578 - Number of pages: 3.... the same eloquent tongue that Prospero speaks with. His lines are long and his words are filled with imagery: "wucked dew", "unwholesome fen", "raven's feather".Caliban doesn't in the play ever seem to be at a loss for words when describing his situation. Later in Act 1 Scene 2 Caliban describes how he once the island was his. Caliban acts like a tour guide for the reader describing the water, berries, toads, and beetles of the island. In this passage through language Caliban is able to once again recreate the past when he was not a slave. Caliban despite his position as a slave to Prospero .....
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Out Of This Furnace
Number of words: 1356 - Number of pages: 5.... Josef's empire" (Bell, p.3). Kracha's desire to leave his plight behind in his native country and restart his life in America is the reason that also drove the Chinese to the United States, earlier the Irish and later the Mexicans (Discussion, 10/11/99). All of these immigrants have had to take some time to assimilate and to be accepted by the "Americans" ethnically, socially, and politically. Kracha is the first of his immediate family to come to the United States. Despite his dreams to leave poverty behind, Kracha, foolishly spends his money on alcohol, landing in New York without m .....
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Our Town Mrs. Webb Is Mrs. Gib
Number of words: 364 - Number of pages: 2.... the same serves as an example of how the woman in Grover’s Corners act. In fact, Wilder’s use of these two women enforces the small town mentality, in which everyone should live by a set standard.
These two women are pieces of the puzzle that is Grover’s Corners. They represent the “norm” who is just another person who has lost his or her individuality. The two women are not meant to remain in the mind of the reader because of their performance. Oddly enough, their “claim to fame” comes because of their lack of individuality. Therefore their sole .....
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A Friendly Enemy
Number of words: 513 - Number of pages: 2.... a swift predator that attacks unnoticed, but to Medea death is a trophy. For Medea death has a value of importance. A friendship has been established. Death is Medea’s friend. She uses it as a weapon to get what she views as justice. "Then if you have a dog eyed enemy and needed absolute vengeance . . . Unchild him, ha? And then unlife him"(23). Medea believed with great depth to get vengeance upon Jason. She wanted to go through with her vengeance and hurt Jason as Jason hurt her. Jason left Medea for another woman thus leaving her miserable and craving for revenge. Thu .....
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Granny Weatherall Vs. Miss Emi
Number of words: 441 - Number of pages: 2.... fights it with many excuses and anger. Even as she dies at the end, Granny is still fighting the fact that she is dying and never actually accepts her death. Miss Emily denies that her father died, and then refuses Homer Baron’s rejection by killing him and keeping his body. Emily then withers away in her denial, waiting for her death.
Each woman is alone for a long period in her life. Granny Weatherall is left to raise her family and her ranch with no help. She is made stronger by all of her solitary hard work. Miss Emily’s father dies and she is left in the old house with only .....
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Beowulf And Gilgamesh Comparis
Number of words: 699 - Number of pages: 3.... his reign. The author used words such as 'demanding' and 'pushing' to bring on a negative, basically condescending tone. Although Gilgamesh portrayed strength in a powerful way, Beowulf used it in the literal sense of the word. Beowulf is a very strong and noble character. He is a member of the Geat tribe and is described by the poet as "greater and stronger than anyone anywhere in the world". A Danish soldier, a character in the story, has "never seen…Out of all the men on earth, one greater than has come with you". Beowulf's appearance--his size, his armor-obviously commands immed .....
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Maturation Of Scout
Number of words: 1141 - Number of pages: 5.... of the summer with Miss Maudie. They sat in the front porch, watched the sunset, talked, took care of Miss Maudie's garden. That's when Scout became very close to Miss Maudie. Basically, Scout admired Miss Maudie. She was her hero.
Calpurnia is a very important character in the novel. Scout has known her her whole life and has basically lived with her, but they weren't that close. Scout never liked Calpurnia very much, mostly because she always complained about her behavior. "She was always ordering her out of the kitchen, asking her why she couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he .....
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Never Lose Hope
Number of words: 1147 - Number of pages: 5.... he was young and his father gave him up. Blake’s unhappiness resembles being mortal in a sense that his unhappiness is like being dead. Blake has two meanings when he says, “So your chimney’s I sweep, and in soot I sleep”, (ln 4). This line denotes that he is an adult now with the responsibility of being a chimney sweeper. Blake is really saying that his childhood was terrible like the work of a chimney sweeper.
Now Blake introduces a new character into the poem, which is Tom Dacre (ln 5). In the second stanza, Blake is stating the mortality, or unhappiness of Tom. The author’s t .....
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