In the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams portrayed Blanche to be an extremely complex character. She was depicted as a delicate‚ pure woman‚ and eventually a lonely alcoholic! She was neither completely good nor bad‚ because she was so torn by conflicting and contradictory desires and needs. It is evident that the tragedies that occurred in her life contribute to the complexity of her character. In the very first scene of the play Blanche appeared wearing a white suit. As Williams
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Triple Entry Journal for “Points of Difficulty” The Triple Entry Journal allows you to engage with difficult parts of a text in a meaningful way. Rather than avoid the difficulty by skimming over it‚ use this chart to confront the difficulty. Read a passage carefully and determine exactly what is confusing or ambiguous to you. Identifying the difficulty is the first step in resolving it. Since the difficult parts of a passage are often the most significant‚ understanding them leads to a deeper comprehension
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Journal Entry #3 – A Clockwork Orange Burgess’ novel‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ carries many themes prevalent to the time-period of the novel’s release. In a futuristic city governed by a repressive totalitarian super-state‚ humans have become machines or lower animals. The main protagonist of the story‚ Alex‚ asserts his free will by deciding to live a life of debauchery and violence before being robbed of his free-will by the government. When A Clockwork Orange was written the war against Communism
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Journal Entry #1‚ “Soldier’s Home”‚ By Ernest Hemingway‚ p. 187‚ word count SUMMARY The short story “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway talk about Krebs’s internal conflict. He is a soldier from Oklahoma who experienced the monstrosities of The Great War. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not come back home until the summer of 1919. When he came back‚ though‚ he was not himself anymore. He does not want to talk to anyone after telling lies to the people and his friends about what happened
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Ender’s Game Journal Entries Chapter 1: Question 2 Ender is a third‚ a third child‚ he is monitored by the government and can think like a adult‚ for example he could predict what would happen if he didn’t beat up Stilson and ran away. He is harassed daily both physically and mentally because he was a third‚ no one will be able to understand the humiliation Ender faces unless you to are a third.‚ so when it came down to the fight with Stilson‚ he just wanted it to stop‚ even though it means
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Journal Entry #1 Most of my high school experience has not been pleasant. I have struggled with depression and anxiety‚ as well as physical health problems since the end of sixth grade. My attitude and attendance in school have been inconsistent up until the end of last year; my second junior year. Up until that moment‚ I thought that school was a complete waste of time‚ and that the only thing our education system was meant to do was condition people to give up their individualism and turn them
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Entry #1 Page Range: 1 to 22 Entry: At the beginning of the book Greg told about his life being friends with Rowley. When they were younger‚ they were friends. But a few years went by and they grew apart. When they stopped being friends‚ Rowley found this company called cool Brian. It’s a company where college students hang out with kids who don’t have much friends. Almost everyday Rowley would call cool Brian and they would send a guy to play with him. Greg didn’t like that idea‚ so he just looked
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Ponyboy’s Journal Entry Me and Johnny have been hiding from the police for a couple of days now. I’m sure Darry‚ Soda‚ and the rest of the gang are worried sick about us. I haven’t gotten much sleep since we went into hiding‚ I am betting Johnny hasn’t either because it is hard to get good sleep while your laying on the cold floor of an abandoned church and when you are thinking about everything that went on with our lives the past couple days. Earlier today Johnny went to the store to get some
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Journal Entries 1.)A noble "Moor"‚ in the service of the Venetian State‚ Othello is introduced to us in the very first scene by the term "Moor"‚ when Iago complains that Othello has made Cassio his lieutenant and not him. We also learn from Iago that Othello has a relationship with the fair Desdemona. Respected by the Duke of Venice‚ who is the first to address him by name (Othello in Act I‚ Scene III) and who sends for him when Cypress is threatened by Turkish forces‚ Othello is continuously
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“In du Maurier’s novels the men are often bullies & cheats‚ the women fools for love.” Compare and contrast a Streetcar named Desire and Rebecca in the light of this quotation. Men and women are perceived in different ways throughout ‘Rebecca’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Arguably some of the male characters particularly Stanley Kowalski and Maxim de Winter can be identified as bullies and cheats‚ however in the two texts‚ these traits can also be associated with Rebecca and Blanche‚ respectively
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