Plot Synopsis of the Book In this piece of literature‚ novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. The protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri‚ one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha‚ a woman who is both performer and courtesan‚ slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village. In 1929‚ at the age of nine‚ Chiyo Sakamoto is sold by her father along with her older sister Satsu to an OKIYA (geisha boarding
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What is defined as the “plot” of a novel can be explained and broken-down in very specific steps‚ although the actual content of the plot within novel has infinite variations and possibilities. Plot regards the organization of the principle events of a work of fiction(Wikipedia). Plot is different from the storyline in that plot worries with how events are related‚ structured‚ and how they depict change in the major characters. The majority of plots will follow some process of change in which
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Essay Comparing and Contrasting “Two Kinds” vs. “Blue Winds Dancing” While both of these stories have different themes regarding cultural issues‚ the characters involved similarly have their own reasons that compel them to oppose their individual situations. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” and in Tom Whitecloud’s “Blue Winds Dancing”‚ both narrators choose nonconformity regarding their unique situations‚ but have different motivations for doing so. In “Two Kinds”‚ the narrator struggles to be the ideal
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By: Anonymous Plot Flaws in The Great Gatsby: The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ was a novel that epitomizes the time in our history known as the roaring twenties. It was a time of great extravagances and frolicsome attitudes. The novel also revealed the darker side of this time with its underlying themes of greed and betrayal on the part of many of the characters. The novel as a whole seems to be a very well thought out piece of literature with little or no flaws. However‚ if studied
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The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and his orphaned niece‚ Catherine. They live in an insular‚ self-ruled neighborhood known as a polis. As the play begins‚ Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine‚ although his feelings grow into something more than avuncular as the play develops. His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice’s two cousins‚ Marco and Rodolpho. They have
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Graceling takes place on a large land mass‚ dubbed "The Seven Kingdoms". It is split into 7 different sections each controlled by a king and/or queen. The kingdoms are (in order from tops to bottom) Nander‚ Wester‚ Middluns‚ Estill‚ Sunder‚ Monsea‚ and Lienid. Kasta‚ the main character‚ comes from Middluns‚ a kingdom ruled by one named Randa. Po‚ a character Katsa later meets‚ derives from Lienid. Katsa is a Graceling‚ one of the rare people in her lad born with an extreme skill in a certain "category"
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Jamie Wilson We Were One We Were One is a book by Patrick K. O’Donnell about the war in Iraq. Specifically it follows 1st Platoon in the Battle of Fallujah. The book talks a lot about the friendships between soldiers‚ and practically every man in the platoon had a best friend that they did everything with. This just made it sadder when soldiers were unfortunately killed in action. The book starts out with the platoon simply training back in the United States. They learn the basic fighting
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01.08 Macbeth Plot Analysis Graphic Organizer Plot Elements Element Definition ACT in the Play Exposition: Rising Action: Climax: Falling Action: Resolution: What you need to know. Background information is presented‚ main characters are introduced‚ and the conflict is established. The conflicts and challenges encountered by the characters. How they respond keeps the story moving forward. The turning point in the conflict. Tension builds until the main character must make a decision
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substantial to humanity; provoking the reverberation of similar feelings in the human psyche. The revenge-tragedy Hamlet‚ being the most examined and decoded text of Shakespeare’s‚ implements several elements that contribute to strengthening the revenge plots by the characters of Hamlet and Laertes. The thematic concepts of mortality and verisimilitude are key principles in shaping Hamlet as a character motivated to take advantage of his toilsome relationships and problematic fellow characters‚ in order
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Oedipus is the King of Thebes‚ he was cursed and abandoned at birth; he meets with the priests of Thebes because of a plague that has fallen upon the city. Oedipus sends Creon to the oracle Delphi for instructions from the gods to see how to end the plague. Creon tells Oedipus and the priests that in order to end the plague the murder of the form king of Thebes Laius must be avenged. Oedipus then goes on to say that anyone who with holds information about the murder will be banished from Thebes
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