” Caroline calls from the upper branches. “Truth” is a resigned response‚ a yielding to Caroline’s abusive‚ nut and throwing version of the game. “Dare” is marginally defiant. “Bailey’s dare is to break into the Night Circus.” Summary: Bailey has wanted to go to the Night Circus since he was 6‚ but his parents wouldn’t let him‚ so when his sister dared him to break in during the day he thought it didn’t matter what time of day as long as his get to go. While he’s there a girl shows up and
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The Firkus Circus By one of the Firkus Circus members: Sierra Firkus Hi! If you keep reading you will learn why my dad calls us the Firkus Circus! We are always active‚ adventurous‚ or sometimes just plain old bored! Even though we might be busy we always make time to spend with each other. Let me tell you the story of the Firkus and Stanich Circus! So‚ if I didn’t have my older half sister it would be the Firkus Circus‚ only saying that it’s the Firkus and Stanich Circus because of my
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The Night Circus displays textual features that reinforce realities socially constructed hierarchy in regards to the masculine and feminine. The male/female binaries and societal denotations for the terms ‘male‚’ ‘female’ and terms particular to the magical world such as ‘magician‚’ strengthen the authoritative and dominant position of men. Within the first pages of the novel the reader is immediately made aware of the severe power imbalance between the male and female gender‚ evident through the
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an Asian Elephant‚ was part of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus shows. His trainers abused him and his friends in order to make them perform tricks. Fortunately‚ Prince is no longer a circus animal and now lives happily‚ but‚ unfortunately‚ over 30 of his friends are no longer in the show business because they died due to the brutal circus conditions. Circuses should not have animals in their shows. Circus animals are abused and beaten. Trainers use bullhooks‚ electric prods‚ ropes
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and wife recalling a circus they went to when to when they were young. They started to recall these times when the wife asked if there to boys could go to the circus. It goes back and forth between the past and how they travled there. As they recall this it brings up stuff that they did when the were young. It brings the wife to relize how they have grown apart. The story starts off by the wife saying‚ “William‚ I don’t think it would hurt you to let the boys go to the circus in town tomorrow.” The
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English analysis – Circus cat‚ Alley cat The short story “Circus cat‚ alley cat” is written by Anita Desai and is on three pages. The short story is about Anna‚ a circus performer who becomes a nanny for an English family. Anna is performing with tigers and lions in an exciting show. The narrator is a child and has a wild imagination. When Anna is babysitting the children‚ the narrator often imagines that Anna cracks her whip‚ and controls the cats. One day Anna’s baby is taken away from her‚ and
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Circus performers are people of great courage. They have to make a living out of entertaining people that pay good money to watch them and want to get their money’s worth. They have a lot of pressure from that‚ as well as peer pressure from their fellow performers. Not only do they have pressure from that‚ they have to worry about the very acts being preformed from playing with swords and fire to hanging from a wire hundreds of feet in the air. If their not focused on what they are doing‚ they can
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from within the passage. We see William and his wife reconnect‚ which is very significant since their relationship has been very rocky since the boys were born. In the passage‚ we see the main two characters talking about their own experiences at the circus. They start to reminisce on what happened back then and because of this we see some foreshadowing. Their own experiences lead us to believe that they will allow their children to go due to the enjoyment it brought them. This happens by the two adults
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Circus trainers are abusing elephants! Have you ever thought‚ ‘there is no way a circus elephant can do all of those tricks without being abused’? These rangelers abuse not just elephants but other circus elephants‚ like tigers‚ and monkeys‚ and etc. There are so many ways that elephants are being abused. One way elephants are being abused is by using bullhooks and ropes. The circus trainers are using ropes to choke and burn the elephants. The elephants are being abused by bullhooks too. The elephant
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Throughout reading the novel The Night Circus‚ I noticed the similarities between this world of fiction and the world I currently reside in. This encouraged me to think about the type of person Erin Morgenstern must have been‚ and the place she must have been in while creating this novel. The references to older works of literature and cleaver use of word play implies that she is the type of person who has spent her while life reading; Someone who has a love for the craft that is writing‚ over all
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