Close Reading Freewrite: Do you remember? “The Gold Key” is a poem written by Anne Sexton. It has some influence of the Bluebeard fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers. The poem has several characters that seem to have read fairy tales in their childhood. There are four girls: Alice‚ Eleanor‚ Jane and Maryel; and there are three boys: Samuel‚ Kurt and Brian. The narrator asks the characters if they remember their childhood. It tries to give the message that even when we grow up‚ our childhood we should
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“The life of a medieval peasant was just hardship and misery” Does the evidence show this is true? Is a Medieval Peasants life really all bad‚ or were there good times to? Their skeletons show that they did back breaking work‚ because their bones and joints were worn or deformed. The skeletons had arrested growth‚ because of famine or crop failure so they went hungry and only half of the babies born would live to see their 18th birthday! This means they had unsafe births‚ a bad thing for both
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temperamental‚ they are often misunderstood. Teenagers go through a series of changes and emotional states. More often than not‚ parents do not realize the repercussions their actions could have on their child. In the story‚ “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler‚ Donny is lackadaisical in his school work which is deleterious to his overall grade. Daisy‚ his mother‚ tries to salvage his grade by taking extreme measures. She goes from one bad idea to another in hopes of changing his faineant behavior.
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A. Mary Anne Warren in the chapter “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion and Postscript on Infanticide” discusses her views on pro-abortion. Warren explains how a fetus has not reached enough development to be considered a person. In order for a being to be considered a person they must have a list of five traits. The first is “consciousness”‚ specifically the facility to feel emotions externally and internally‚ such as pain. The second is “reasoning”‚ the capability to finding solutions to
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Author is to Mother as Book is to Child In the poem‚ “ The Author to Her Book‚” Anne Bradstreet refers to her book like it is her child. Just like a mother critiques her child as she walks out the door‚ Bradstreet critiques her book before the second edition is published. The poem is her outlet for her emotions regarding the exposure of the first edition‚ which was published without her knowledge. Bradstreet uses a conceit supported by metaphors throughout the poem‚ to express maternal feelings
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A Hardship Movement That You Learned From One of the biggest hardships I have faced in my existence so far has been watching over my siblings. I was at my sister’s soccer game at night which was somewhere in the heart of Landcaster when out of nowhere I see this older man with a thick mustache and heavy baggy clothing creeping around in the corner of my eye. This guy was 6 feet tall and I’m not sure if it was just me but something about this guy just screamed danger so I kept a close eye . After
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Hunter June 4‚ 2007 LA- Book Report The Diary of Anne Frank 1. The Diary of Anne Frank is about a young Jewish girl who lived during Hitler’s time in power. I chose to read about Anne Frank because I wanted to know how the Jewish people were treated in the time of Hitler. I also have had many friends who have read this book‚ and said that it is very good. By reading this biography‚ I learned that it was very hard for Jewish people like Anne to survive back then‚ and that the Germans were very
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New World. Anne Bradstreet’s voice gives us a glimpse into the very personal range of emotions she felt for her family and life. Mary Rowlandson gives us more Biblical reference and Divine providence. Anne Bradstreet surprised me because her poetry is not dominated with Bible verses‚ instead she articulates her thought and feelings. Bradstreet’s collections of her spoken word were meant to be private‚ as she did not pursue publication of her poetry. (Bradstreet 207) Most of Anne Bradstreet’s
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Many times‚ it is not clear whether the consequence is a probable one or certain. In Anne Dillard’s Seeing‚ she states “I see only tatters of clearness through a pervading obscurity.” (3). In this sense‚ pervade means to be spread through and perceived in every part while obscurity means the state of being unknown. Sometimes we can pervade
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In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” she expresses her attitude of being embarrassed because sees so many flaws and mistakes in her writing‚ as a parent may see in their child but loving and apologetic because it is her own and she can’t make it better. Bradstreet’s use of the extended metaphor of the book being her offspring expresses her attitudes of embarrassment and love. The first metaphor is of her book to a child‚ this is the controlling metaphor. The first line: “Thou ill-formed
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