prison guard. And the most horrible part of this tragedy was that the guard tortured and forced them to witness each other’s torture and yet the guard tortured them as they like. In this poem the poet used imagery to enable the reader understood the agony the Chilean woman‚ her husband and their child faced. The arrest‚ the torture by the prison guards the way they wanted to torture and yet they were forced to see each other’s torture. There is nothing more painful than watching your five years old
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as a pivotal moment in Civil Rights. Racial tension and the fight over segregation caused a deep divide in the country. What surprised me was the hostile and negative reactions Jane Elliot received. Even though the mutual sentiments of humiliation‚ agony and demoralizing feelings were present among the children during the experiment‚
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In the first poem the main character dreams about the day he dies so he can be from this figurative hell that he works in. “And he opened the coffins & set them all free.” (line 14) Blake emphasizes the agony that the boy goes through working as a chimney sweep. The boy has so much agony that he actually looks forward to the day he dies instead of living his life. The Boy’s job is symbolic of hell because he works where the smoke from fire escapes. Fire is a representative of hell and this
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find out the real side of their town. In this book the characters Scout‚ Atticus‚ and Aunt Alexandre showed empathy. Aunt Alexandre‚ aunt of Scout and Jem‚ shows empathy in this book. For instance she had empathy for Jem. She showed empathy for Jem when he broke his arm from falling and she cared for him and saw how and why he got hurt. Also she showed empathy for Atticus. When Atticus lost the Tom Robinson case Aunt Alexandre felt bad for him and understood how he tried very hard to try winning the
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one of these ways is the disrespect she receives from others as a result of her social class. One of these characters is Scout’s Aunt Alexandra. At many points throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Aunt Alexandra treats Calpurnia with condescension. This is evident in one of Aunt Alexandra’s orders to Calpurnia‚ “Put my bag in the front bedroom‚ Calpurnia‚” (Lee 169). Aunt Alexandra is constantly promoting
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husband‚ disguised as Old Roger Chillingworth. Hawthorne also developed a successful way to portray sensory details throughout the excerpt to predict‚ or foreshadow‚ the coming horror of Dimmesdale’s confession. “…for my own heavy sin and miserable agony-I withheld myself from doing so seven years ago…” helps the reader to connect the dots‚ they are able to tell what comes next. Dimmesdale is finally coming clean about the sin he committed‚ created‚ seven years ago and agrees that he deserves the correct
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experience various situations. Canfield’s short story “Sex Education” depicts Aunt Minnie‚ a woman who faced a traumatic sexual experience as a teenager‚ telling her story to an audience of younger generations at three different stages of her life; each account is told in a different manner as she experiences various situations that involve sexuality‚ namely experiences with her son Jake. Through the plot’s development of Aunt Minnie differently telling a terrifying experience thrice as time passes‚
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Finch home. Aunt Alexandra role in this novel is to provide a background for Jem and Scout. Aunt Alexandra believes that because the Finch family has land and comes from a line of landowners that have been around for generation that they deserve respect and are on the higher end of the social circle of Maycomb. Aunt Alexandra refuses to be associated with black and the poor. She treats Calpurnia as the help instead of a member of the family like the rest of the household does. Aunt Alexandra tries
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the story is back in the late 1800’s. Chapter 1 At the very beginning of the book‚ Aunt Polly (Tom Sawyer’s aunt)‚ is searching for him high and low. I think this is a great way to start off the book because it already shows Tom’s "criminal" personality and you can already get the feel of how Tom is. Polly ends up finding Tom eating jam out of the closet which he wasn’t supposed to be eating. Before Aunt Polly could mutilate Tom‚ he was able to divert her attention away from him for just a
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She spent the whole first part of the writing talking about how she really wants her aunt to be in a nursing home. And then towards the end‚ she shows hatred for the nursing-home and thinks about getting an investment to have her aunt stay with her. She gave us such good facts about the benefits of staying in a nursing home. She had me lured into thinking about my own future for a nursing home. Then she flipped
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