child population is content or happy with their current life status. In the books we have read in class‚ each author attempts to search for sympathy in the reader to make the novel they’ve written something readers appreciate. Sara Nović‚ author of Girl at War‚ creates more of a sympathy-searching plot than Hannah Tinti‚ author of The Good Thief‚ by using characterization and emphasis on tragedy. At age 9 or 10 it’s pretty tough to be unhappy with the endless
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Anne Bishop bases her story‚ “Match Girl‚ off of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Match Girl”‚ but she adds a disturbing twist. Bishop uses so much torture and violence that as a reader you want no more. “Little Match Girl” was a story based on an innocent little girl having to face the cold heart of society. On the other hand‚ “Match Girl” was a story based on a young girl that has to face a disgusting and cruel world. The misery and cruelty that Bishop adds to her story is too much for this
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Boys and Girls Throughout the story “Boys and Girls”‚ gender is a popular issue that came up. During the time period‚ women were considered to be second class. The narrator of the story‚ whose name you do not find out‚ struggles with the social norm. She does not enjoy the “dirty” chores she is entitled to do such as kitchen work with her mother. The narrator although older than her younger brother‚ is still considered to be below him. Laird which is a synonym for “Lord” is an obvious
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When I met Brooke I was a sophomore in high school. I was with my friend‚ Jon‚ at his girlfriend’s house when I tall skinny girl walked in the living room. She immediately caught my eye. She was a friend of Devon‚ Jon’s girlfriend. Brooke told me a few years after we met that Darian‚ Devon’s sister‚ and her did her make up just to catch my attention. Darian and her came in the room and started to talk with Jon and I. She introduced herself and told me a little bit about her like how old she was
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one of the most mysterious animals of the world. In an excerpt from Mary Oliver’s essay "Owls‚" she discusses her fear as well as her utmost admiration of this most frightening of creatures. Mary Oliver’s use of threatening imagery conveys her deep fear of the power of this frightful creature. By using phrases referring to "it’s razor-tipped toes" and discussing the "heavy‚ crisp‚ breathy snapping of it’s hooked beak‚" Mary Oliver wants the reader to understand just how dangerous and scary these
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LOLOB’S GIRL By: Joan Aiken (1) Some people choose their dogs‚ and some dogs choose their people. The Pengelly family had no say in the choosing of Lob; he came to them in the second way‚ and very decisively. (2) It began on the beach‚ the summer when Sandy was five‚ Don‚ her older brother‚ twelve‚ and the twins were three. Sandy was really Alexandra‚ because her grandmother had a beautiful picture of a queen in a diamond tiara and high collar of pearls. It hung by Granny Pearce’s kitchen
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series‚ created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage‚ originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19‚ 2007 to December 17‚ 2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger "Gossip Girl‚" voiced by Kristen Bell‚ the series revolves around the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City. The series begins with the return of
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EH 200 11/19/2012 Naturalism in “Maggie: A girl of the street” Naturalism is evident not only in the content of Stephen Crane’s “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets‚” but this naturalistic idea is also expressly stated by the author. Crane’s purpose in writing Maggie is “…to show that environment is a tremendous thing in this world‚ and often shapes lives regardless” (Westbrook 587). Maggie lives with a poor and abusing family and a hopeless future with only the small possibility of change. The environment
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One of the book’s major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre‚ Clover points out that in most horror films‚ especially the slasher film‚ the audience‚ male and female‚ is structurally ’forced’ to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway). So while
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The Faith of Mary Rowlandson In her writing titled “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”‚ Mary lies out for the reader her experience of being held in captivity by Indians during the King Philip’s War. Perhaps one of the most significant aspects of this writing is the glimpse that the reader gets into Rowlandson’s faith and religion. Faith was a major aspect of life in the Colonial Period. It was of widespread belief that God was to be feared‚ and that he was
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