Ben Braden Mr. Tatge Advanced Composition (1) 24 April 2013 Critical Analysis The Other Side of Love “For those I love I will sacrifice” is a quote by - ("Cite it somewhere"). Many people in life come upon the problem of thinking they found love‚ but actually lose another love in the process. Willa Cather employs this situation as she uses the character Aunt Georgiana to illustrate how Georgiana must do this while pursuing the love of a man in her famous short story “A Wagner Matinée.” On
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"The Jaguar" is about a trip that Hughes made to the zoo. In the poem‚ he describes the animals in a zoo and their behaviour. It compares the apes‚ parrots‚ tiger‚ lion and a boa constrictor to the jaguar‚ which is an animal that lives differently to the others in the way that it views its life. The poem begins by describing the apes ’yawning’ and ’adoring their fleas’‚ and the fact that they are in the sun adds to the sleepy air. I think this line was deliberately chosen to convey the monotonous
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The narrator is describing what happened in his house. From this we discuss the characterization of this short story. I will be discussing the narrator’s friendship with his wife and the blind man. The narrator is someone who is not friendly. Even his wife confirms it by telling him; “you do not have friends. Period.” I will then discuss how the narrator changes in his relationship status as the story end. There was dissatisfaction of friendship at the beginning of the short story. The narrator
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Frankenstein Appearance and Acceptance: Close Reading Assignment Mary Shelley‚ in Frankenstein uses appearance to depict Victor Frankenstein as the embodiment of “good” and his creation as its counterpart “evil”; through the use of imagery‚ allusions to the Bible‚ and pathos‚ Shelley embellishes the issue of acceptance in modern society. From the very beginning‚ Frankenstein relates that his creature was horrid in form. As the creature discovers Victor’s journal‚ he reads into his creator’s true
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Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand‚ Half sunk‚ a shatter’d visage lies‚ whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive‚ stamp’d on these lifeless things‚ The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias‚ king of kings: Look on my works‚ ye Mighty
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Pocho is a novel written by Jose Antonio Villarreal‚ a Mexican author. The story focuses on the development of an American-Mexican child and the imposition of a specific culture and religion upon him. The main character of this novel is Richard Rubio who was the son of Mexican parents. His parents migrated to America from Mexico during the depression-era. The Author described the experiences of a child who called himself a “Pocho”‚ a term Pocho used to describe children who were born during the
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Caught in a Wake of Illusions To remain‚ or not to remain: that is the question. In The Awakening‚ a novella by Kate Chopin‚ the main character‚ Edna‚ explores the depth of this question as she awakens from her blind submission to society’s demands. Realizing for the first time in her life that she is trapped in a box culturally deemed appropriate for women‚ she struggles to break free and pursue individuality. In the processes of trying to find herself‚ she sacrifices society’s approval‚ her husband’s
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The novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham‚ is set in the future and starts in the town of Waknuk‚ modern day Labrador‚ years after a nuclear holocaust. The people of Waknuk believe it was God who sent Tribulation upon them for all their sins; this makes the Waknukians strict about anything different. The story’s main character is a boy named David Storm‚ son of Joseph Storm one of Waknuk’s most intolerant people. David‚and only a select few‚ can communicate without words but in what they call thought
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The Psychology of Fight Club The movie Fight Club features a story that‚ on the surface‚ appears to be about an underground boxing club‚ but goes much deeper. It focuses around one man‚ the Narrator‚ whose name is never revealed. The Narrator‚ like everyone else in the world‚ is looking for fulfillment in life‚ but tries to obtain it by odd means. His first obsession that we notice seems ordinary and quite common: his IKEA furniture collections. It then starts to get a little bit more unusual when
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nightclub in New York during the Harlem Renaissance was the Cotton Club. Important black entertainers of the times played to all-white audiences. The attitude white Americans had toward African Americans‚ the African American entertainers‚ and the colorful atmosphere caused white Americans to be the clientele of the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a famous nightclub in the Harlem district of New York City. It opened under the name of Club Deluxe during the Harlem Renaissance in 1920‚ with former boxing
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