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    Creating fictional characters Producing a character sketch‚ which is an outline of your protagonist‚ will help when you write a novel or fictional story because you will have a clear idea of what your protagonist looks like and his or her personality. Essentially‚ a character sketch is a visual picture. In order for your readers to visualise your character‚ you need to create one. By providing them with a character sketch‚ your readers will feel as if they are looking at them in an actual picture

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    CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Saturday Night Fever Troll Scuffle His name was Barry Smells Plenty for obvious reason‚ and he decided not to kill me at least not yet. He’d rather waddle around kicking me in the chin dressed in . . . wow. Can you say time warp? Barry wore a cheesy white bellbottomed suit that was identical to the one John Travolta wore in the movie Saturday Night Fever. He stamped out a kick-ball-chain next to my bed waking me up with another glossy leather loafer to the chin. “Let’s go‚

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    August Boatwright Caring - “Displaying kindness and concern for others” (Google). In the novel The Secret Life of Bees this is the perfect adjective to describe August Boatwright. This is shown by how she interacts with the bees‚ how she is comforting and patient towards May‚ and most of all‚ how she helps Lilly. August is kind and carrying to the bees. She never uses the smoke unless it is completely necessary and she does not get angry when they sting her because she understands why they

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    Year Of Impossible Goodbyes Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year Of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations: Grandfather’s death‚ the Russians invading‚ and escaping without Mother. Grandfather died and took all of his wisdom and learnings with him. He also never expressed his appreciation towards his grandchildren until he knew he was dying. He left his whole family in a mangled mess. "I felt so many conflicting emotions struggling within me. The world seemed

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    years to build trust but seconds to break it. Trust is the main aspect of any relationship. If a relationship lacks trust and a person finds out that his or her friend cheated or lied‚ it just changes everything in one’s life. The short story “Roman Fever” written by Edith Wharton revolves around the lives of two friends‚ Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley‚ who knew each other for too long to call themselves each other’s best friend. They had same events occurring in their lives in the same period of time that

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    Snowball‚ the characters from animal farm. Napoleon is a fictional character and the main character in George Orwell Animal Farm. At first He was a common pig‚ he then gets rid of Snowball‚ another pig who shares power with him. He then takes advantage of the animal’s uprising against the humans and eventually becomes the President of Animal Farm‚ which he turns into a dictatorship. Napoleon is based on Joseph Stalin‚ who ruled the Soviet Union for 30 years. His name comes from the French general

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    and some are "brilliant." In Edith Wharton’s short story‚ "Roman Fever‚" the females begin as two different stereotypes and end as something unexpected. Even the title‚ "Roman Fever" has an unforeseen meaning‚ proving that things are not always what they seem. Even the most sheepish woman can be a Lioness‚ and the most confident woman can be completely insecure. The story is set entirely on a patio in Rome. The main characters are described as‚ "…two American ladies of ripe but well-cared-for

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    For this week’s discussion post I chose to read Edith Wharton’s "Roman Fever”. The story takes place in Rome‚ specifically at a restaurant overlooking the Palatine (one of the seven hills on which the oldest part of Rome was built) where two middle aged American women Mrs. Ansley (a well-cared for and still stunningly attractive woman)‚ and Mrs. Slade (a high colored fairly attractive woman) overhear two younger women on the street below carrying on about how they were going out to have fun with

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    Delaney Renker 24 October 2013 ENG 210 Close Reading (short story) Short Story - Close Reading I am working with Edith Wharton’s short story‚ “Roman Fever.” Immediately‚ we sense the tension between Grace Ansley and Alida Slade. The climax has just occurred as Mrs. Slade confesses that she is the one who wrote Mrs. Ansley the love letter that‚ unknown to Mrs. Slade‚ catalyzed her relationship and therefore her child with Mrs. Slade’s husband. In the provided passage‚ Mrs. Ansley falls silent

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    Character of Mr. Watts Tom Christian Watts‚ known locally as Pop Eye‚ is an elderly white man living in the village with his black wife‚ Grace. Grace is from the village and now suffers from an undisclosed mental illness. He and his wife are local eccentrics‚ providing the children with entertainment on occasions when Pop Eye‚ wearing a clown’s red nose‚ pulls his wife along the village in a trolley. In turn‚ she stands regally looking at no-one. Matilda is keen to understand what this behaviour

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