Literary Analysis of Two Texts Renita Redding Instructor: Irene Robles-Huerta ENG 125 March 21‚ 2015 The short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been”‚ by Joyce Oates‚ (1966)‚ and the poem‚ “What it’s Like to Be a Black Girl”‚ by Patricia Smith‚ (1991)‚ are both about the coming of age of young girls and the conflicts that they encounter. The two pieces explore issues that most young girls have with their bodies and others during their puberty years. The literary elements that will be
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The Significance beyond the Mark In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” he focuses on two main characters‚ Georgiana‚ a beautiful woman with a “crimson… mark… on her left cheek [in the shape of a] human hand” (Hawthorne 6)‚ and Georgiana’s husband‚ Aylmer‚ which is very obsessed with Georgiana’s birthmark. Hawthorne focuses on these two characters due to the great significance they both have with the mark on Georgiana’s face. In the novel‚ Aylmer wants to remove Georgiana’s birthmark because he
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Iago’s Character I agree with the statement as his intention are sinister and pure evil. Iago reason with the audience saying he only doing this because Othello slept with his wife even though it is not confirmed‚ ‘I know not if’t be true’. This shows that he have little faith in his wife or using this as an excuse to hate Othello. He uses Desdemona kindness and innocent to create a trap for the other characters to fall into. Iago is using his jealousy and anger as an excuse to lash out evil. He
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“It is a very great pleasure and honour to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford‚ the celebrated hunter‚ into my home.” These are the first words spoken to Rainsford by General Zaroff upon his arrival on Ship-trap Island. Formally greeting Rainsford gives Zaroff an appearance of a proper gentleman; well-educated and well-mannered. But by his dark eyes‚ military moustache‚ and strong face you can also tell that he is obviously a strong leader and military general. Behind his high cheek bones‚ white hair and
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ESSAY My favorite character from the book called Hunger Games is Cinna because he is one of the good characters in this book. He was killed by the capital by giving hope to poor people‚ and encouraging them to fight back the government. In the book of Hunger Games Cinna is a designer and stylist that was assigned for districted 12. Even though Cinna was one of the rich people he knew that President Snow was a dictator and he became good friends with Katniss and her friends. In the second book of
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historical views of gender in major empires. Despite the stigmas against them‚ eunuchs were made to fit by the very people who thought they were wrong. In the book Maurice by E. M. Forster‚ there happens a scene where a couple men bully a flamboyant character named Risely for his mannerism and they hurt him by calling him a eunuch. This is quickly followed by the line of someone coming to his rescue‚ saying‚ "You could call your cousin a shit if you liked‚ but not a eunuch." It is peculiar that the term
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Introduction The graphic novel Persepolis is a two-part series by author Marjane Satrapi that consists of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. The graphic novels carry the reader through Satrapi’s life as a child in Iran‚ her migration to Austria to get away from the war and its effects‚ and back to the war-torn country of Iran when Satrapi has matured into a lady. The novels aim to highlight the author’s experiences she faces both in her childhood and her
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Ophelia: Better Off in a Nunnery Hana Travers-Smith Various characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet exhibit aspects of an “outsider”. The obvious choices being Claudius and Hamlet. Claudius appears to be freed from moral restrictions‚ while Hamlet represents the stereotypical isolated intellectual. However‚ both of them pale in comparison to the true outsider in the play: Ophelia. Both Claudius and Hamlet are too respected and entangled in the lives of others to be considered the ultimate estranged
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The most important character in the Hogfather that would change the story moving on would be Susan because she has already played an important part in the original story of the Hogfather. Susan was who that started and ended the story because of her personality and actions she takes in the book. Susan also was important because she connected all the characters together in the book‚ forming all sub plots into one main plot. In the beginning‚ Susan tells Death that she wants to do everything the
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In Marie de France’s Lanval‚ the main character is a man named Lanval who seems to be an all around honorable man. The story starts out with Lanval being part of King Arthur’s following. He is a prince from a far away kingdom‚ and so he is ostracized. Because of this‚ he tries his hardest to make friends with the knights- he is valiant‚ brave‚ generous‚ and everything a knight should be‚ but it is for this reason that they begin to dislike him (pg 1408‚ line 19). When Arthur “forgets” to give Lanval
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