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    through its life. Le Guin also used personification in her story like if the werewolf had a house and family. It affected the way I responded because it was very interesting and made the story suspenseful. It is kind of hard to make up your own voice in your head but with and werewolf story it had to be a little eerie‚ he would change from a werewolf to human and when others would see his transformation it was very shocking. The growling and howling also added more to the story. Overall the

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    B Exam Questions Zeinab Dafalla I HAVE USED MY NOTES TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS Part A) What methods does Steinbeck use to present Curley’s wife? In the passage the first words that Steinbeck uses are that “Both men glanced up‚” and through this we are introduced to Curley’s wife through her effect on men and not through any notion of herself‚ which Steinbeck does to show us she is only worthy for the use of men. Not so long after in the sentence we are told

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    before when they gave their first impression to you. You realize that there is an exceeding amount about your character that is not visible on just the surface. You have to dig deeper with them to find out who they really are. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Curley’s wife changes right before our eyes throughout the

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    Character‚ named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious‚ mischievous but most of all an isolated character. She plays a main part in the novel; in doing this she displays and presents many of the main themes. Before we are presented to Curley’s wife‚ Candy talks about her‚ to George and Lennie. She is spoken about in a gossipy manor. “I think Curley’s married a … tart.” Steinbeck is prejudicing or preparing us before we meet Curley’s wife. He does this‚ so that we

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    John introduced us to a character called Curley’s wife‚ she plays a complex and misfit character as she got so many different sides to her‚ as sometimes the reader feels sympathetic and unsympathetic about her. John Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men is an example of how the reader’s perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. Steinbeck uses many different techniques to present Curley’s wife such as colour imagery‚ appearance‚ metaphors and similes in the early

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    - Curley’s Wife is the downfall of the American Dream as far as George and Lennie are concerned; this is because of her death (could be considered as a murder due to Lennie accidentally snapping her neck) that the dream dies. Curley’s Wife‚ dressed in red‚ foreshadows the trouble to come on the ranch. Also red itself is a warning colour. - In Curley’s Wife’s first appearance she stands in the doorway‚ blocking out the sun- the physical darkening of the room represents the darkening of the dream

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    eThe gap between rich and poor Wife Swap is an American TV show in which two mothers/wives from completely different social classes or lifestyles switch houses and families for two weeks. The show is a way of revealing the diversity of American values and lifestyles and sometimes it may be a shock to cope with people who differ culturally and socially. In this way‚ Mark Beauvais and Steve Clayton represent two completely different social classes‚ which can be identified in their economic situation

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    true feelings. The Wife of Bath contradicts with everything a woman was back then. I believe that similar the additional characters in the Canterbury Tales‚ The Wife of Bath was intended to display how culture actually was through irony and drama. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is voiced from a woman’s position. She demonstrates in her story that the entity women most yearn is whole control over their husbands. It is said how she had the greater influence in all of her marriages. The Wife of Bath tells a

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    Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath Canterbury Tales is a story written by Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer was satirical with most of the characters in Canterbury Tales. The story tells about the journey of a group of pilgrims to Canterbury to the shrine of Thomas a Becket and the stories they tell along the way. The pilgrims are in a competition to see who can tell the best story. The host of the Tabard is in charge of the competition and giving a complimentary dinner to the winner with the

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    “I ain’t never seen no piece of jailbait worse than her” What is the reader meant to think about Curley’s wife? Curley’s wife eventually goes on to be the very cause of the destruction of George and Lennie’s dream and this statement acts as a foreshadowing device for the detrimental role she’ll eventually play. The term ‘jailbait’ itself carries various connotations. The dictionary definition is ‘a young woman‚ or young women collectively‚ considered in sexual terms but under the age of consent’

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