Faith Janicki Writ 102 16 February 2015 The Fall of the House of Bradbury Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains‚” includes many different literary elements to depict August fifth of 2026 and quite literally gives life to a home that continues to care for a family that no longer lives there. Putting to use some of the same strategies directors of horror movies use today‚ Bradbury creates a haunting cautionary tale about the power of technology. Bradbury makes very strategic use of a nursery
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“Finding One’s Self in Times of Trouble”: An explication of the Helena Maria Viramontes’ novel Under the Feet of Jesus. Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus portrays the maturing of Estrella‚ a young Latina that seems to awaken in many different aspects of her life. The author’s use of Estrella give the book its strength and potency. Estrella is an affectionate character‚ which is at the center of all the important issues. She is used a symbol to represent the small amount of strength
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Good morning fifth year students. I am here today‚ as I have been asked to speak to you about the poetry of Eavan Boland. Eavan Boland is one of Irelands most distinguished and highly regarded poets. Born in Dublin‚ in 1944‚ she spent several years of her childhood in England where her father was a diplomat She later returned to Dublin where she attended Trinity College and began to write poetry and published her first book of poetry ‘New Territory’ at the age of twenty two. Her life changed however
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Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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Prose appreciation The East‚ an excerpt from the short story “Youth” written by Joseph Conrad is a descriptive paragraph about a young mans first impression of the east. The tone of the excerpt is admiring because the writer uses words such as “impalpable” and “enslaving” suggesting that the young deckhand was overwhelmed by the magnificent sight of the east. The aim in descriptive paragraphs is to build descriptive detail. The writer mostly uses long sentences which are suitable for a descriptive
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“The Garden Party” “The Doll’s House” “Bliss” “Miss Brill” Katherine Mansfield‚ born in the country of New Zealand was said to be ‘the best short story writer of her time’.(1) The types of short stories that Katherine Mansfield wrote were mostly a ‘slice of life’‚ where she used real life experiences to express her themes and ideas. If you were to read one of her stories once through‚ in a way that you would read a whole book‚ you would surely miss
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A Bit of Singing and Dancing by Susan Hill is the short story of Esme Fanshaw‚ who following a lifetime of caring after her bedridden tyrannical mother‚ is finally set free. Although forced by her mother to live modestly‚ Esme inherits 6‚000 pounds from her late‚ stingy mother. With so much cash in hand‚ she has great plans for her immediate and far future‚ among which travelling and moving to London: “She felt flushed and a little drunk then‚ she felt that all things were possible‚ the future was
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August 2026 Activities Activity One: First Reading Read the story Can you make any links to the poem we have already studied? What are some differences? Complete a VENN diagram using TWO pages of your book: Close read the short story together Activity Two: Preliminary Activities 1. Re-tell the story in your own words (don’t look at the story)- what words or phrases can you remember? 2. Read the story again. 3. Summarise the short story in exactly 19 words. 4
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Lawrence’s three earliest short stories‚ written in 1907‚ showed him as a potentially successful short story writer. "Amusing" (radically rewritten later as "The White Stocking") is an "incident" story where the whole narration leads to and concentrates around the incident of a woman drawing out‚ to her embarrassment‚ a white stocking instead of a pocket handkerchief at a ball. "Legend"‚ later revised and re-titled "A Fragment of Stained Glass"‚ is what may be called a fable‚ for in it Lawrence
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“Edward‚ Edward” (anonymous poem) and “Girl” (Jamaica Kincaid) What do you find disturbing in these texts and why? We expect mothers to be the most wonderful persons just because we portray them to be that way. However‚ in the poem “Edward‚ Edward”‚ by an anonymous write‚ and the short story “Girl”‚ by Jamaica Kincaid‚ both portray mothers in a different sunlight which I found disturbing. The mothers were both portrayed as horrid individuals. In the poem “Edward‚ Edward”‚ the mother was
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