Instead of answering the question‚ the reader says “be it so if you will‚”. The narrator says this because whether it was a dream‚ or real‚ it does not matter because Goodman will still be cursed. Goodman is cursed because of all of the supernatural events leading up to his return to Salem Village. Goodman will never be able to see good in‚ or trust the people of the village again. He does not trust his wife faith‚ the deacon‚ or Goody Cloyse in particular.When spiritual matters are concerned‚ it
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“Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen is a short story about a Chinese grandmother living in America. The grandmother lives with her granddaughter Sophie‚ her daughter Natalie‚ and her unemployed‚ Irish son-in-law John. She describes Sophie as “wild (105)”‚ and blames her Irish side. She claims: “She is not like any Chinese girl I ever saw (106)”. The grandmother babysits Sophie during the day and believes she should be spanked‚ even though Natalie and John oppose it. Sophie continues to misbehave and the
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prospective. George Saunders used a neat technique where it was as if we were reading the minds of the two main characters. It was neat to see this writing style used and how it effectively displayed the most important fictional element in my opinion. The most important fictional element for this short story is the use of symbols. One symbol in particular‚ the puppy. The puppy was symbolic in a few ways for both of the main characters. For the first main character Marie‚ the puppy represented a few things
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Claire Raines Period 4 3-12-12 Benny Goodman‚ The Swing King Considered one of the greatest jazz players ever‚ Benjamin David Goodman‚ or Benny Goodman‚ was called the King of Swing. The ninth child of eleven was ten or so when he picked up the clarinet. After a year he was performing impressions of Ted Lewis for a little pocket money. When he was fourteen he was playing for a band that featured the famous Bix Beiderbecke. By sixteen he was known as far as the west coast and was invited
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How to ANALYZE FICTION William Kenney Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College Monarch Press Copyright @ 1966 by Simon & Schuster Printed in United States of America How to Analyze Fiction 2 Chapter 1 Plot Choice Fiction and Choice: The act of writing. Whether one is writing a complex three-volume novel or a personal letter to a close friend‚ consists of a series of choices. To see just what this means‚ let’s consider the simpler form‚ the personal letter first. Choice
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Case Analysis: Goodman Company Problem Statement • How did the sudden adoption of a newly conceived production process‚ aimed at increasing efficiency‚ affect the performance of workers at Goodman Company? How come some workers thrived while others buckled under the new system? Analysis • The president of the company sought to hire a production analyst so as to increase efficiency at the plant. He viewed their future to be promising if they could keep up production to meet increased demands
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Goodman Reflection It opens to a sense of personal but then does a sharp curveball into a narrative third person. The words of the 26 year-old president of the company still ring in my ear. Those five words he spoke of could really make a person truly think over a story. Who’s been working the hardest? Those words that ended the story really compelled me to think this story in a larger perspective. The author takes the material and transforms it into an informative paragraph‚ describing the
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American Gothic Fiction From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction American Gothic Fiction is a subgenre of Gothic Fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rational vs irrational‚ puritanism‚ guilt‚ Das Unheimliche (strangeness within the familiar as defined by Sigmund Freud)‚ abhumans‚ ghosts‚ monsters‚ and domestic abjection. The roots of these concepts lay in a past riddled with slavery‚ a fear of racial mixing (miscegenation)
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Marlo Wilson Business Literature January 15‚2007 Lynn Nelson Comparing Narrative in Fiction and Non-Fiction Paper Comparing Narrative in Fiction and Non-Fiction Paper 1 " My Lack of Gumption" a non fiction story by Russell Baker and "Forty-Five Month a fiction story by R. K. Narayan were two very interesting readings. It was quite amazing to see how two authors with totally
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ENGL/101 Liberty University Online 10/14/2013 Introduction The environment has always been a major problem for the entire world. This is a problem is because of the excessive abuse of mankind to the planet by exploiting‚ wasting and draining the natural resources this planet has have to offer. Mankind has s have taken for granted what the earth has to offer us and which God gave to this planet to take care of for all the generation to come. As‚ the whole world can see now that this
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