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    Character Analysis Essay One of the main characters is Katniss Everdeen. She is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem‚ the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms‚ each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called‚ "The Hunger Games." The terrain‚ rules‚ and level of audience participation may

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    likes to put very complicated and complex characters into his stories. In The fall of house of Usher Poe introduce us to Roderick Usher‚ one the main characters in the story. Roderick along with his twin sister Madeline are the last standing descendants of the Ushers. The family was prestigious and rather a wealthy one‚ but some of its members suffered from some kind of mental diseases. Also Madeline suffered from an unexplainable illness. Roderick is totally isolated from the world. He does

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    The narrator is a very altruistic character in “The Fall of the House of Usher”. He sincerely cares about Rodrick‚ even though his friend is slightly mentally insane‚ which creates a very complex relationship between the souls. Although the narrator initially intends to save Roderick from his own demise‚ he was forced to reject Rodrick as Mr. Usher was the source of his own torment. The narrator originally earnestly desires to go to Rodrick’s house. In the text‚ the narrator talks of Rodrick as

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    Assignment Number: #1 Point Value: 25 point Character Analysis Odysseus- Role: He is the protagonist of The Odyssey and now he struggles to return home. Outcome: Odysseus returns home and lives happily ever after with Penelope and Telemachus until he is killed by Telegonus‚ his son by Circe‚ and taken to be buried at Circe’s home. Personalities: Odysseus is confident‚ has great integrity and had powerful strength and courage in himself. Changes throughout the epic: Odysseus changes throughout

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    Mason  1 Aliisa  Mason Professor  Lewis ENG102-­AI 23  February  2014 Ma  Joad  Character  Analysis The  Grapes  of  Wrath  is  a  story  about  family  and  hardships  during  the  time  of  the  Great Depression.  The  story  follows  the  Joad  family  as  they  search  for  jobs  out  west  after  being  forced  out  of their  home  in  Oklahoma.  The  Joad’s  are  challenged.  They  have  hardly  any  money  and  jobs  are  very scarce.  Throughout  the  novel  the  family  struggles

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    Fabian Ramos Mrs. West English 10 3-17-11 Character Analysis The city of Chicago was one of the worst places to be at during the 1960’s. No one had good paying jobs. The town alone was run down on the Southside. Walter Lee Younger has many personalities that have to do with him being stubborn‚ easily tempered‚ and rude. Walter lee younger is stubborn because he likes to get what he wants when it came to the money he kept asking about it. “Well‚ what was you doing all that yelling

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    House of Usher”‚ “House Taken Over” and many psychologists provide much insight as to why and when imagination overcomes reason. It seems that the point where logic and reason are gone‚ is due to the unknown being in question. First of all is the short story‚ “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe (1839). The reader is brought into the story not knowing anything. All the reader knows is what the narrator of the story knows. The reader knows that he was an old friend of Usher

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    The Fall of the House of Usher Psychological Criticism Psychological criticism is the school of literary criticism that focuses on the psychological issues affecting the characters behavior. Throughout this piece Poe uses setting‚ mood‚ characterization‚ conflict‚ and symbols in order to portray the underlying meaning; Physical disintegration of the House of Usher which parallels the condition of its inhabitants. Poe uses setting and mood in order to foreshadow the ultimate disintegration of

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    Foreshadowing in “The Fall of the House of Usher” In “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ Edgar Allen Poe uses foreshadowing to entice the readers and to hint at future events that may occur later on in the story. An example in the story in which Poe uses the setting‚ particularly the “melancholy House of Usher”‚ to foreshadow the story’s outcome can be found in the final paragraph on page 63. In this paragraph‚ the narrator expresses his anxiety as he approaches the eerie‚ crumbling‚ and unsettling

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    CHARACTER ANALYSIS – To Kill a Mockingbird Character | Characteristics/Qualities | Important Quotes | Additional Information | ATTICUS | Atticus has integrity and believes that abiding the law (courthouse and humanity) is necessary.He demonstrates the qualities: * Humbleness/ modesty: he does not want attention for his good deeds. * Integrity * Loyalty: to his family and courthouse. * No prejudice: with regards to the coloured people. * Honesty: he was prepared to turn in Jem as a murderer

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