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    Leiter Mrs. Kurtz English II 13 September 2014 Compare and Contrast Essay In the stories‚ “The Lie‚” by Kurt Vonnegut and “Barn Burning‚” by William Faulkner‚ the main characters mature from childhood into adulthood. This maturity either develops from support of one’s family and upbringing or it grows internally from one’s conscience. We see from both stories that the main characters use this maturity to courageously speak up. In the story‚ “The Lie‚” Eli matures into adulthood. Due to his

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    The lottery is a short story that cruelly documents the annual sacrifice of an unlucky townsperson. The majory of the story is the process of selecting the townsperson being sacrificed. This process is called the lottery. Jackson uses an abundant amount of symbols throught her story which perfectly convey the inhuman tradition that is the lottery. The two main symbols Jackson uses are the townspeople’s names‚ and the objects used to conduct the lottery. The names assigned to the townspeople play

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    Compare and Contrast essay The short stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "A Rose for Emily" use a moral to show particular ideals or values through their characters choices and actions of one another. The reader is faced with a life lesson after reading "Young Goodman Brown:" you cannot judge other people. A similar moral is presented in "A Rose for Emily." The use of morals combined with elements of Romantic era writing show the stories of to be descendants both of fables and of Romance literature

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    Kelly Means English 1113-350 11/8/09 Compare and Contrast To compare and contrast essays can be a difficult thing to do. One might tend to look for similarities in essays and choose that way. You might focus on essays that are just blatantly obvious in their differences. But that would be too easy. However if one might choose essays that are different and then search to find out how they are the same may prove more entertaining. I chose “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” and “Just Walk on By

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    in the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. In this story‚ an illustration draws out the brutal and villinious stoning of an unlucky woman. At first glance‚ I believe this strongly clashes with our contemporary values. A much deeper evaluation of the portrayal of swinging mindsets and how humans have the capacity to coincide with a mob mentality. As civilized and noble human beings‚ it’s important to dissect and criticize the traditional values in the society described in the story "The

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    Fitzgerald’s Short Stories Love‚ money‚ greed and mistakes: All hit throughout the tournament we play called life. Theme and Characterization are fairly similar in Joyce’s short story‚ “Araby”‚ and Fitzgerald’s short story‚ “Winter Dreams”‚ while point of view and setting differ throughout these short stories. I will be using two articles to support my compare and contrast essay proving Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” the better short story of the two. Both of these short stories are based on a

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    Jeleigha Ritter Compare-Contrast Essay Although both Spunk and Joe compete for Lena’s affection‚ Lena admires Spunk due to his physical appearance‚ wealth‚ and reputation among the townsmen. Though these men clearly have different backgrounds‚ they both have one thing in common‚ which is their affection for Lena. Both men share a love for Lena that makes them do crazy things. Spunk shares a love so strong with Lena that he is bold enough to walk around town with her while having the knowledge that

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    Through the book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier‚ the narrator explain the story through the book. Between Rebecca and the narrator they were different. The compare and contrast of the two Mrs. de winter were not similar. These two character are were way opposite without the story. The two Mrs. De Winter were different. One was evil‚ careless‚ and mysteries. And the second Mrs. De Winter was happy and want to make her husband happy. These character Rebecca De Winter was careless and‚ she only love

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    basically the story. If the stepsisters got what they wanted‚ then they would not have gotten what they deserved and that was the whole lesson of the story. Another example is that in the end‚ Cinderella does get to marry the prince and she gets what she deserves for how the stepsisters and stepmother treated her. The Disney version also kept this the same because it is the happy ending that everybody is expecting and is‚ once again‚ the basic story line. They can change the details of the story compared

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    Short Story Analysis: ‘Cat in the Rain’ Summary It is about an American couple that spends their holidays in an Italian hotel. It is a rainy day and the American woman sees a cat in the rain‚ which she wants to protect from the raindrops. When she goes out of the hotel‚ which is kept by an old Italian who really seems to do everything to please that woman‚ and wants to get the cat‚ it is gone. After returning to the hotel room‚ she starts a conversation with her husband George‚ who is reading

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