As I read the first page of Salamanca‚ I thought it was really a boring story but as I continued reading it‚ it becomes more interesting‚ I thought it wouldn’t be that interesting at all. The first chapter was all about how Gaudencio and Jacinta came to know each other. It started when Gaudencio decided to return to Jacinta Cordova‚ his wife of eleven days‚ which he abandoned in the pouring rain one early morning. The night when Gaudencio decided to return to Jacinta‚ he told his friend the story
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"The Escape" 1. In the cold dark night in the middle of know where it bagan to rain a tremendous amout. The trees 2.began 3.to sway back and forth. The storm became so strong it blew power lines down. While the heavy 4.rain continued‚ thunder and lighning had came about also. 5.The rain started to get heavier. It began to come down like buckets of water. While the jail cells 6.started to fill up‚ the locks on the jail cells came unlocked. The inmates all escaped‚ then acting on leaving 7.had
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Susan Hill weaves an awareness of the supernatural throughout the story through the plot‚ the structure‚ the use of language and imagery. The Woman in Black is a ghost story and therefore the idea of the supernatural is intrinsic to the whole work.1 The whole point of a ghost story is to frighten‚ thrill and entertain. Before the reader starts the story‚ he or she has to put aside any disbelief he or she may have in the supernatural in order to enjoy the experience.2 The classic ghost
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process. Macbeth has only took an inch into his new “sea of blood” and is still partially on the correct path if he will make the right decisions afterwards. Macbeth shows his compassion still‚ “I am settled and bend up / Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. / Away and mack the time with farest show; / False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (1.7.92-95). Macbeth realizes that he has done a bad deed‚ because Macbeth is a great friend of Duncan’s‚ a family member of Duncan’s‚ and one
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and that it possesses all the features of a classic gothic novel. These features are prominent at the beginning with the description of the countryside of Transylvania and of the ruined Dracula Castle: The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops‚ with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are
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frank 2000 Many works of literature not readily identified with the mystery or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. In these works‚ the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Choose a novel or play in which one or more of the characters confront a mystery. Then write an essay in which you identify the mystery and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole
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Seamus Heaney – ‘At a Potato Digging’ • Context • • The poem deals with two different potato harvests. One is the harvest from the present day that goes successfully and which delivers a rich crop. The second potato harvest looks back to the famine of 1845 when the crop failed and many people starved. Whilst the famine is no longer a threat‚ its ongoing fear remains and this can be seen in the use of religious language throughout the poem. For example‚ the bowed heads of the potato pickers suggest
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all those who were born before God‚ but that followed all the good habits of humans . They are devoid of physical torment but are psychologically tormented for not having known the true God. The beginning of true Hell‚ characterized by the most terrible physical pain‚ starts at this point . To determine the punishment of the damned Dante draws on medieval legal tradition and the practice of the law of his time. The criterion of punishment is called ‘’contrappasso’’ . By contrappasso (but Dante
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This was the case until a certain picture caught his eye‚ and he could not help but ask who the handsome young boy in the painting was. At first‚ the maids refused to tell Jasper‚ but eventually‚ after being sworn to secrecy‚ Jasper was told that the portrait was of William Dumont‚ Lord Dumont’s
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The author Ray Bradbury‚ wrote the dystopian short story “All Summer in a Day” and he includes many themes throughout the story. The one that stands out the most is don’t let jealousy take control of your actions. In the story Margot‚ the main character‚ has classmates who act on her out of jealousy and hatred. The author points out many times how the children act out of jealousy and hatred. In the end‚ the children realize what they did after their jealousy and hatred melts away. The theme don’t
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