Lakunle Lakunle is the schoolteacher of the village. He deeply admires Western culture and seeks to emulate‚ often to comically inadequate effect. He is portrayed by Soyinka as clumsy in both actions and words‚ throwing together phrases from the Bible and other Western works in hope of sounding intelligent. He is "in love" with Sidi‚ but has not married her because she demands that he pay the traditional bride price‚ something he refuses to do. Initially we chalk up this refusal to his Western
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Carlos Juan Finlay was born in current day Camagüey‚ Cuba to Edward Finlay and Eliza de Barrés on December 3‚ 1833.6 His father was a physician who had specialized in ophthalmology and fought along with Simon Bolivar. Although Finlay’s father was from Scotland and his mother was from France‚ they tried to embrace the Cuban culture and changed their names two years after arriving to Cuba. When he was 13 years old‚ Finlay was sent to France in order to start the first stage of formal education. He
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Character Sketch of Katniss Everdeen Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist and narrator of the novel The Hunger Games by Suzane Collins. All the events that happen in the novel have an influence on her. Katniss is 16 years old with straight long black hair usually worn in a braid. She has gray eyes‚ and olive skin. These traits are common in the Seam in the lower class miners of District 12. To begin with‚ when she’s in the woods‚ she wears everyday clothes and always carries a bow and arrows to
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Pip‚ was the best name that Philip Pirrip could pronounce as a child. Growing up‚ Pip didn’t have a mother or a father to look after him‚ they died when he was younger‚ and this caused his older sister Mrs.Joe to have to look after him. Throughout the story‚ Pip has a large number of women who influence him in many different ways. First there is his sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ then Biddy‚ Mrs.Havisham‚ and Estella. They all changed his life in different ways‚ yet they all contribute to how Pip is as a person
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The story written by Mister Pip is a fascinating account and an important literary discovery on a remote island. It should be treated as a perfect model of writing. The prose of Jones is interesting as he does not use purple language. He prefers to use crisp‚ precise language that naturally makes his story a coherent and cohesive one. The main character Maltida‚ the narrator offers her unique story to add to the beauty of the novel. Her voice is unique and consistent in this regard. The theme of
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close reference to a novel you have studied. In the novel Mister Pip‚ the characters are stripped of all luxuries‚ which expose their innermost beliefs and their conflicting personality‚ causing disruption between the different characters. This essay will examine intense personal relationships between Matilda‚ Dolores and Mr Watts that lie at the heart of this novel and will argue that the relationships lying at the heart of Mister Pip are both intense and intricately wound into the story with a purpose
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Excellence by Design at ASB – Update #1 What? For the past 18 months‚ ASB has been engaged in a deep‚ reflective process of student learning and the organizational aspects that support learning as part of the self-study process for the Middle States Association (MSA) accreditation. Why Accreditation? Recognition by post-secondary institutions‚ differentiator for our school and to provides a framework for the process of reflection and improvement. Why Excellence by Design? The Purpose
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In this literary study‚ the theme of identity will be examined in a character analysis of Pip in "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. In the novel‚ Pip is a young man who is the narrator and the main character used to define identity. Pip is a confused character constantly seeking his own identity‚ but he can never seem to understand who he is or where he is going in life. At times‚ Pip is uncertain of neither his own identity nor what he wants out of life. The different stages of childhood‚
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longer or more explicit than Pip. So‚ I called myself Pip‚ and came to be called Pip.”(Dickens‚1). 2.Pip reveals most of his family members‚who he lives with‚ and his orphancy.Pip’s mother and father are dead‚and he lives with his sister and her husband who’s profession is a blacksmith. 3.Pip tries to visualize his parents using the engraving on their headstones which I find awfully sad‚his description of them were “The shape
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