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    Picture of Death In the poem "This Is a Photograph of Me"‚ Margaret Atwood attempts to depict the parallels between a picture slowly developing and the narrators realization of her death. This poem is divided into two parts with the second half separated by brackets. The elements of the picture begin to emerge reflecting the narrator ’s awareness of her death. In the first stanza it is as if the speaker is trying to remember fuzzy memories of her past and maybe as far back as her youth. This half

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    Jeffrey Chen Mrs. Mekhala MYP Year 5 Language Arts April 3‚ 2013 Poem Analysis on “Spelling” Margaret Atwood’s Spelling is a sophisticated and emotional poem. Like much of Atwood’s poetry‚ it has one central objective deeply rooted in her feminist beliefs. She aims firstly at the women in history by expressing the horrors of the low social status of women and how they were tortured in war; then she explains that education is what gives women the power to stand up for themselves and fight for freedom

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    “Alias Grace” By Margret Atwood In the novel‚ “Alias Grace” by Margret Atwood‚ based off on and Irish born servant named by grace marks‚ killed her employer Kinnear and his mistress Nancy in which later the reader tends to find various key events inevitably surprising throughout the novel. It discuses how Atwood foreshadows certain events by dropping clues throughout the entire novel such as the three crows grace and her mom spotted before boarding the ship across the Atlantic‚ as

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    Metafiction and Happy Endings (Margaret Atwood) METAFICTION A. Definition: The narrator of a metafictional work will call attention to the writing process itself.   The reader is never to forget that what she is reading is constructed--not natural‚ not " real."  She is never to get "lost" in the story. B. Possible Contents: intruding to comment on writing   involving his or herself with fictional characters   directly addressing the reader   openly questioning how narrative assumptions

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    Land of the Entitled‚ Home of the Desecrated In Margaret Atwood’s “Backdrop Addresses Cowboy” the title indicates that the speaker is the backdrop‚ or scenery‚ addressing a self-absorbed and naive cowboy. The cowboy represents the imperialistic nature of Americans‚ and the scope extends past the days of cowboys‚ settlers‚ and Native Americans‚ and can even be applied to our nation’s present state. Margaret Atwood is Canadian‚ and expresses her anti-American sentiments through her poem‚

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    Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” is remarkable in just how many Post-Modern devices are found in only four lines of poetry. Altogether‚ Atwood’s poem instantly seizes a reader’s attention with its economy of words‚ and peculiar structure. Noticeably‚ the two simplistic looking verses‚ zero punctuation‚ lack of capital letters‚ and bracketed title invite closer inspection. The unusual length‚ and form are true to Post-Modernism’s desire to bring awareness to the prose. In that regard‚ Atwood calculatedly

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    story‚ “Happy Endings‚” by Margaret Atwood contains both journalistic and literary elements. While sections of this short story may appear within a newspaper article had these events occurred‚ multiple elements in this piece would not be included. Atwood contribute a pleasant mixture of these elements to construct a successful work. Margaret Atwood displays the feelings and reasoning behind the actions of the characters‚ making this a literary piece. In “Happy Endings‚” Atwood contributes a few expected

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    In Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake‚ Atwood argues that genetic modifications are harmful to society instead of being helpful. Atwood shows this by describing all of the disasters that have taken place because of the genetically modified children. In the novel‚ genetic modifications start in animals‚ and then slowly progress to humans. When the modifications were taking place in animals there were a lot of people that knew about it‚ but once it switched over to the human population the people

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    In the second stanza‚ the reader expects the empowerment to continue‚ but is taken aback by the harsh truths that ensue. From empowerment to angry‚ the tone change is apparent in the second stanza. Atwood states that at the same “moment” of delight mentioned before‚ “is the same moment the trees unloose their soft arms around you.” This can be interpreted in many ways‚ because trees support people in multiple means: wood provides houses and fire and lots of types of trees provide food. The imagery

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    awareness and discussion about a particular subject‚ usually (but not limited to) a political issue. Many children’s novels are used to teach younglings about equality or societal norms and manners. Margaret Atwood is an author that is no amateur to stimulating awareness about her concerns. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian and speculative fiction novel Oryx and Crake‚ several instances can be intertwined

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