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    Akeem Wynn September 23‚ 2010 English 1A In the novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the Breedlove family were the most frowned upon and talked about family due in part to Cholly‚ the patriarch’s‚ violence toward his family. He quarreled and physically fought his wife habitually‚ successfully burned down their house and even fathered a stillborn with his own daughter. Some characters in the novel say that Cholly is just a crazy old drunk who doesn’t care about anyone and‚ since he is the only one causing

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    Comparing and Contrasting the Novel “Atonement” to its Film In class‚ we have been reading the novel “Atonement”‚ by Ian McEwan. This novel was made into a film in 2007 and won many awards for its acting‚ music‚ and many other categories. In general‚ the film was extremely loyal to the plot and character development in the novel. The director made sure that many of the little details that were present in the novel were in the film. I think this is what made the film so notable; the filmmakers

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    book around Perth‚ Western Australia‚ around the time of the second end of the Second World War over a span of twenty years. From reading other Winton novels it’s easy to see that his part of the country has had a big impact on him and he has a strong affinity with his country and me being from the West makes it easy for me to relate to the novel. Winton uses words that only someone who has had the experience of growing up or living in country Western Australia would understand‚ for example he uses

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    Independent Novel Essay on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice "It is truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife." This quote out of the novel is the very first sentence and is also one of the themes of this novel. Though it may seem like a strange theme it was actually quite good‚ if not great. It gave the story funny moments‚ unsure twists‚ and a type of romantic adventure that almost every girl loves. The theme is simple

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    Preferences of words in the novel Silver Sister by Lillian Ng In Lillian Ng’s Silver Sister‚ the protagonist‚ Silver Sister‚ is an 80 years old Chinese woman who has experienced a great deal of occurrences in her life. She has lived in many places from her hometown in a village in China called Lung Sun‚ to Canton‚ Hong Kong‚ Singapore‚ and finally to Australia. She describes each place and compares it with Australia. The words being used in her comparison determines where she positions herself

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    “The four settings in the novel reflect the four stages in Jane’s life”. In light of this comment‚ discuss in the importance of settings in Jane Eyre Setting is an essential feature of Jane Eyre‚ and a key method in which Bronte constructs bildungsroman throughout the novel‚ showing Jane’s progression. The names alone of the four settings give us a significant insight and foreshadowing of what Jane’s future holds for her. For example Gateshead may suggest a barrier which she can’t go through or

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    During the course of the novel‚ the children experience many significant events and relationships. Examine the children’s growth through the course of the novel.   The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. Throughout the course of the novel‚ Lee allows the reader to watch the children grow and mature as a result the events and relationships that they experience. The characters that

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    The novel‚ ‘The Sky So Heavy’ by Claire Zorn surrounds the lives of four young teenagers who have to fend for themselves in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear warfare. Throughout this novel‚ it demonstrates in a clear and ongoing extent the various ways in which conflict is generated by power. This is evident especially since the number of resources‚ including food‚ are limited‚ which causes people to go to any means in order to feed their loved ones. Furthermore‚ the aspect of conflict

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    with eachother. Yet no other two novels has shown the opposite of that more emphatically than The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Goethe and Flaubert explores the notion that language is an imperfect communication medium and lacks the ability to help one fully express themselves whole heartedly and truthfully. The characters ideas and emotions are reflected in the authors writing style. Goethes novel is true to romanticism. In Sufferings

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    The epistolary novel is an old form of novel that uses letters written by and between characters to tell the plot. In We Need to Talk About Kevin there is only one writer‚ the mother Eva Khatchadourian‚ who is writing to her separated husband‚ Franklin. The advantages of the epistolary novel are that the reader is privy to the private thoughts and feelings of the character-writer; everything – the plot‚ the setting‚ other characters and any theme that the author intends – is depicted from their perspective

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