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    Tortilla Flat‚ written by John Steinbeck was set after World War One in a district of Monterey named Tortilla Flat. This story was about not only the less than glamorous lifestyle lived by Danny and his fellow “paisanos”‚ but the importance of friendship through bad times over material values. All of the major events carry with them a strong implication of this theme which is often reflected through the characters’ decisions. Along with an incredibly ironic yet powerful friendship based on morals

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    Round Character Round character is a complex personality. Round character has various characteristic or traits‚ and can grow or change. This makes them a dynamic character‚ and readers see more than one side of rounds characters. They have layers like onions. I consider myself a round character because people see many sides of me and I reveal a range of emotions My personality is complex and many sided. I have both good and bad traits. Sometime I am mischievous and ill-behaved towards my siblings

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    Outcasts of Poker Flat At least once in our lives we have all felt like outcasts to a group of people‚ feeling different or rejected by society. The characters in Poker Flat felt this same exact way‚ but for them it was a case of life or death for being an outcast. Characters in the story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” symbolize different types of people in society. Characters in the story represent different types of people in the society of the time period. Some of the characteristics are caregivers

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    challenging stages that someone goes through in life. No one can escape becoming a teenager from puberty‚ to acting both immature and mature‚ seeking independence‚ rebellious‚ these are just the basic things a teenager experience. In the book The Round House written by Louise Erdrich‚ a young boy name‚ Joe is going through this stage of becoming a teenager not only that‚ but he is also facing a challenge going on with his family and seeks to find justice for his mom (who got raped and almost killed)

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    while being imprisoned for 18 years. He has acquired the many trait of someone who has also gone through any impacting event in their lifetime. From the beginning of the story‚ to the end‚ this is very noticeable in his character. Dr. Manette is what is considered to be a round character. He demonstrates qualities and actions in which are very similar to what someone in real life would do. His story that he has and the things that have happened to him changed him in a way that has changed many in a

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    believes that and she feels confused and out of place. Alice is an intelligent child because she begins to think twice when she understands the situation she is in. Alice has a difficult time growing up in wonderland. Readers can identify Alice as a round character because

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    look more impressive. In Tortilla Flat‚ John Steinbeck is the jeweler and his characters are the diamonds. Steinbeck’s embellished tone toward his characters is a pretense to show off his characters and present them as more admirable and chivalric than their outward actions would honestly allow. His admiring tone towards his characters in Tortilla Flat contributes to the emphasis of “simple things” presented throughout the novel. Each chapter in Tortilla Flat is a stand-alone narrative‚ and

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    2/23/2017 Throughout American Literature characters are represented in many different lights‚ some better than others. John Oakhurst in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte is a old school western man who is an avid gambler. Morgan in “The Pupil” by Henry James is a young boy who has a very kind but weak heart. Editha in “Editha” by William Dean Howells is a woman who only sees the romantic sides of life and not the whole picture. All three characters have very different obstacles to conquer

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    the ‘World is Flat’ thesis put forward by Thomas Friedman. Thomas Friedman in his recent book ‘The world is flat’ discusses a short history of globalisation in the twenty-first century. His discovering journey took him around the world to investigate the new concept in transnational business. He views himself as Columbus-like‚ but in a new modern word‚ in which he is searching for the sources of today’s wealth. Only to come to a rhetorical conclusion that the world is “flat” not round! His book

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    BOOK REPORT: The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is a bestselling book in which he examines an in depth analysis of globalization in today’s world. It is called the world if flat because it is actually a metaphor for looking at the world as a level playing field in terms of business where all of the competitors have equal opportunities. In this book‚ Friedman talks about ten different factors that play an important

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