July 23‚ 2013 Fiction Essay The short story "Eveline”‚ by James Joyce‚ illustrates the behavior of some grown children in a typical lower middle-class household. The behavior I refer to is loyalty‚ honor‚ and duty to one’s family. Throughout the story “Eveline” is conditioned by her parents to put family first. How many people today live by this code? Some readers of Joyce’s story would find the main character weak because she is reluctant to leave the things familiar to her. Leaving a
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both Plotnik and Morell were writing to informing the reader of elephant behavioural traits‚ Morell wrote to inform general readers of the intelligence and compassion of elephants. This was proven in her writing‚ ““They learned to do this faster than the chimpanzees‚” says Plotnik‚” in the article Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk‚ the purpose of which was to inform readers of elephant intelligence. This showed the reader that elephants are clearly intelligent because they learned faster than what
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Joyce’s ’Eveline’ is a story about a young woman who was unhappy with her life so decides to run off with a man whom she fell in love with. The plot of the story is a quest-like search for the love she doesn’t feel with her father. The writer spreads this throughout the story‚ showing the depth of Eveline’s character and her problems that come mainly from her father and all that arise from their relationship. The best moment in ’Eveline’ only comes after the long flashbacks into Eveline’s life end
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Response #2 “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Eveline” by James Joyce were the pieces that appealed to me the most. This could be because they were the first two stories that I read and by the time I got to the poems my attention span was dwindling away or because both stories have similar writing approaches. I can’t figure that out. I found “The Lottery” to be very eerie and disturbing. After I read it‚ I pictured M. Night Shyamalan making a creepy‚ dramatic film based on it. I think it’d
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protective‚ supporting figures for the duration of the writer’s life. Some similarities can be seen between James Joyce and his short story Eveline; some events that occurred were obvious influences in its creation‚ however‚ in Eveline’s reaction and decisions made as a result of these actions were different entirely. This was mainly due to the fact that Eveline was influenced by many different aspects of her life such as her
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Laura Corchete Mrs. Cooke ENC1102 18 September 2013 Eveline’s Bitter-Sweet Escape In the story “Eveline”‚ the protagonist is to run away with her love to Buenos Aires. At first‚ she feels she must live a new life away from home. She understands that by moving away‚ she will truly find freedom. Although she lives a comfortable life in her current home‚ she realizes that living with her father is not healthy. It makes her remember many of the struggles her mother went through with him. Eveline’s
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2013 Qeustion: In the story titled Elephant‚ how does Raymond Carver focus on the elephant literally and figuratively? “The writing style of Raymond Carver’s short story entitled “Elephant” represent a simplistic‚ yet strong style of writing that is reminiscent of the great work of Earnest Hemmingway. There are several ways in which the writing style within Elephant harkens back to the stylistics of Hemmingway. Carver always goes straight to the point; like Hemmingway he focuses on describing
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the rest of her day at home with her 3-year-old son. She is happily married to her husband of 8 years. Reason for Seeking Care/Chief Complaint: “I am having white‚ cottage cheese-like discharge and it hurts to pee” History of Present Illness: Patient presents to the clinic with complaints of having a constant white‚ cottage cheese-like vaginal discharge. She states she has associated symptoms such has vaginal itching and dysuria. Patient admits she gets bacterial and yeast infections easily
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Elephant by Dolly Clark -An analysis and interpretation The main character of the short story‚ “Elephant” by Dolly Clark‚ is called William. William is an author just like his namesake William Shakespeare. But only the name and their profession bind these two persons together. Because although William is an author he is not quite as magnificent an author as the famous Shakespeare was it. In fact he is just a biographer who is “writing £1.99 stories for the record shops”. William does not seem
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Elephants Attention Getter: What’s big‚ grey and stands in the rain but doesn’t get wet? Elephants!! Background info: It is estimated that there were once more than 350 species of elephants in the world. Today we only have two of them left (well tree) the Asian‚ the Africa and the mix of them. Both of them are at risk of extinction. Between illegal hunting of them for ivory as well as the destruction of their natural habitat things are simply closing in on them at an alarming rate. Specific Purpose
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