THE BOARDING HOUSE The Boarding House is included in Dubliners‚ a collection of fifteen short stories by the Irish poet and novelist James Joyce‚ which was first published in 1914. This story of a boarding house‚ like the other stories in Dubliners‚ describes the lives of ordinary citizens of Dublin and illustrates their various qualities. There are three main characters - Mrs. Mooney‚ her daughter Polly and Mr. Doran. At the very beginning the author describes Mrs. Mooney‚ who relinquished
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women of Spain and Norway were suppressed at the time the two plays A Doll’s House and The House of Bernarda Alba were written. Although this issue has improved in most countries‚ it still is occurring in some countries. This issue was portrayed in the themes of these two plays. Both A Doll’s House and The House of Bernarda Alba portray the suppression of women and their lack of freedom in different ways. In a Doll’s House‚ Nora has always appeared to be obedient to her father and her husband. However
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Of The Nation’ And ‘The Man Of The House’ Frank O ‘ Connors treatment of characters varies in both ‘The Man Of The House’ and in ‘Guests Of The Nation’. We can see how O’Connor treats different characters differently and we can see how through the use of imagery and language O’Connor’s Characters are treated very differently in both short stories. Sullivan the little boy of the house develops into the man of the house in Frank O’Connor’s ‘The Man Of The House’. In the opening lines of the story
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Character Analysis of The little boy from "The Man of the House" by Frank O ’Connor The story opens with the boy‚ whom to this point had ignored his mothers coughs‚ drops everything to rush to her aid as she "collapsed into a little wicker armchair‚ holding her side". (O ’Connor 206) As he watched his mother struggle trying to light the fire he told her‚ "Go back to bed and Ill light the fire". (206) Now to this point‚ as the reader‚ I am unsure of the age of the boy‚ but I get the impression
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Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House tells the story of Dr. Montague‚ a professor studying the supernatural. After inviting Eleanor‚ Theodora‚ and Luke to stay at Hill House and participate in his study‚ weird occurrences begin to happen. Loud noises are heard at night‚ sections of the house are deathly cold‚ and strange writing is found on one of the walls. The house appears to come alive‚ slowly devouring those that inhabit it until it eventually claims one of their lives in a climatic ending
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The stormy night The gray clouds had been threatening to rain all day‚ but it was only as she left work that it started to rain. The past few days had been horrible. She didn’t get a promotion at work and the only things she did gain were more hours and late nights. When she left the office‚ it was pouring like it never had before. She got into the car and left‚ the thought of kicking off her shoes and watching TV more inviting than ever. As she drove‚ the sight of a huge car behind her caught
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moonlit night. Nowadays‚houses and buildings in a city or town are mostly lit by electricity public roads are well lit at night. Therefore‚town people do not seem to notice the moon shinning in the night sky.There is no electricity in villages and resultm country folk have to do things by the light of the moon. They usually get a chance to admire the beauty of the moonlit nights. I still remember a beautiful moonlit night night that
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To Feed the Night Greediness is unfortunately a very common behaviour. Humans have got used to being spoiled – too spoiled. Too many doesn’t have a realistic idea of how the world goes around. They want‚ and they want even more. “His wife earned eleven thousand pounds a year. He earned thirteen thousand pounds a year.” A sentence which is repeated four times in the short story “To Feed the Night” (2000) written by Philip Henser. This tells us‚ that their income is very important for our comprehension
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Introduction Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s comic masterpieces. Three couples are paired together by the end of the play‚ and the siblings reunited. This story evokes much more sympathy and empathy in the way characters are shown than other earlier comedy such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In Twelfth Night‚ we are still invited to laugh with the characters rather than laughing at them. It contains a harmonic balance between comic and tragic elements. William Shakespeare employs comic
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NIGHTMARE COME TRUE In Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ the day before Elie and his family and friends were to be deported‚ they were taken to the local synagogue. Elie described the place of worship as a huge station luggage and tears. (Wiesel 19) The Nazis had destroyed much of what had been inside. The bimah (altar) was broken‚ all of the wall hangings had been ripped from their places‚ leaving the walls empty. When Moishe the Beadle comes back into the ghetto in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ several
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