point in life everyone‚ as depressing as it may seem‚ seems to question their existence and why they are even living. It’s a common thing to wonder about. Through the use of form‚ point of views‚ tone‚ figures of speech‚ and images‚ Walt Whitman in “O Me! O Life” depicts how the purpose of life‚ is to live it; no matter how bad the world around us seems to be. Walt Whitman’s poem is a reflection of himself and the world he lives in. Whitman is confused on the purpose of the struggles in his life. He
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The short story “The Last Leaf” portraits two young women named Sue and Johnsy living together in New York. Pneumonia has hit the area they are living in and Johnsy‚ not being used to the climate - as she is from California‚ is suffering from the disease. Sue takes on the role as the caretaker of Johnsy. Because Johnsy is terminally ill‚ she is therefore in need of medical help. The unnamed doctor‚ who is called in to Johnsys aid‚ is portrayed as a presumptuous and nonchalant man. He seems presumptuous
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The Snipper “All give some‚ but some give all.” This is saying that the men and women fighting for their country give up something whether it be an arm or Four years‚ but some give all like their life. This quote represents the short story The Snipper by Liam O’Flaherty for the truth behind it. The author shows inter conflict and mood shift to establish that humanity is lost in war. The author uses internal conflicts to recognize the difficulty to differentiate between right and wrong. It is shown
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“Directly across the table‚ the ugly girl’s eyes were fixed on Mrs. Turpin as if she had some very special reason for disliking her” (O’Connor 455). Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation” presents a self-absorbed woman’s view of the world around her with her own strategies of determining social categories with the aid of a grand deception. Mrs. Turpin and her husband‚ Claud visit the waiting room of a doctor’s office in hopes of treating Claud’s leg‚ in which this is the majority of the setting
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Metafiction is a literary device that makes a reader question what is reality and what is fiction. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction‚ in his chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”‚ to tell the reader how one can pick out a true war story as he is telling a war story. He uses this technique to emphasize how real the stories were to keep himself sane and get his bottled-up emotions off his chest. In the chapter “Notes”‚ O’Brien tells the reader a story about a man named Norman Bowker. Bowker committed
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In 1965‚ "Revelation" is as short story by Flannery O’Connor. The story is narrated in third person. Flannery O’Connor convey racism‚ judgment‚ religion‚ and symbolic (theme) in the writing of this short story. Mrs. Turpin (main protagonist) who is a 47-year-old big size woman that weigh one hundred and eighty‚ own a yellow farm house‚ land‚ have hogs and consider herself to be a respectable‚ hard-working church-going Christian. Mrs. Turpin and husband Claud arrives at the doctor’s office. The waiting
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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was roughly 30 seconds long and took place on October 26th 1881 in Tombstone‚ Arizona Territory. Although only three men were killed during the gunfight‚ it is regarded to be one of the most famous gunfights in the Old West. The Gunfight was quite unknown to the public until 1931 when author Stuart Lake published a biography (Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall) two years after Wyatt’s death. Lake retold his story in 1946 in a book
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Tim O’brien’s the Things They Carried is a collection of fictional war stories based on his own time in vietnam. Each stories features a role in a continuous narrative‚ fractured pieces of one squads experiences in vietnam. O’Brien throughout the novel continuously shits narration‚ from person to person giving the reader insights into each soldier’s perspective. One of the most powerful perspectives came from a character named Tim O’Brien. Throughout the novel his perspective is consistently boyish
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When one begins to read the story‚ it does not seem that the narrator and protagonist is Tim O’Brien. This is due to the fact that the entire story is written in first person except for the first chapter. This can be misleading to the reader about who the story is truly about. It is also confusing because the beginning of the book gives the impression that the narrator’s job was to merely tell stories of different soldiers. Only when one reads further into the book does Tim’s integral role become
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Thinking of People Liam O’Flaherty ends the story‚ “The Sniper”‚ with “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (par. 27). This morphs the story into something so much more than a tale about a war. Some people get so caught up in the negativity of life and their world; then‚ they become so hostile and do not realize the pain they inflict on others‚ until it is too late. Even if someone forgives another person‚ they still hold onto the memory. In the case of this
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