authors recognize its power and thus fill their work with symbolic meaning and representation through color and shading. James Joyce‚ known for packing symbolic meaning in almost every word‚ utilizes colorful descriptions to enhance his short story‚ “Araby”‚ from the collection Dubliners. Both color and shade manifests ideas about growing up and finding love. F. Scott Fitzgerald mimics this descriptive technique in his novel‚ The Great Gatsby. In this piece‚ Fitzgerald develops key characters by using
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Araby By: James Joyce I. Elements of Fiction A. Settings The year is 1894. The place is North Richmond Street in Ireland’s largest city‚ Dublin. The street dead-ends at an empty house of two stories. Araby - the name of the bazaar B. Characters * Boy (Narrator) – the protagonist of the story‚ an adolescent who is in love with her friend’s sister. * Mangan – the boy’s best friend‚ who is about the same age with the narrator. * Mangan’s sister – the boy’s crush‚ who lives
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The Explicator‚ Vol. 68‚ No. 2‚ 119–121‚ 2010 Copyright C Taylor & Francis Group‚ LLC ISSN: 0014-4940 print / 1939-926X online DOI: 10.1080/00144941003723873 THOMAS DILWORTH University of Windsor The Passion of Gatsby: Evocation of Jesus in Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY Keywords: F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Passion Douglas Taylor was the first to explore at length Gatsby’s symbolic identification with Jesus‚ and other interpreters have noted it‚ including Robert Emmitt‚ who
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character is different‚ as well as each story‚ their epiphanies reveal a similarity between the three. They all have something in common‚ some kind of timidness or weakness. The three stories I will be analyzing are “An Encounter‚” “Eveline‚” and “Araby.” The main character in “An Encounter” seems to recognize that he is slightly more timid than the other boys his age. At the end of this story‚ the main character becomes upset with himself for being so timid and shy‚ unable to speak up for himself
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an alternate view of the character’s personality. In James Joyce’s Dubliners‚ he creatively exercises figural narration to portray different views of the character’s identity in the story "Eveline‚" but he chooses to use first-person narrative in "Araby" creating a contrast in the exposition of the characters in the two stories. In the story of "Eveline‚" Joyce uses figural narration to give the reader a chance to explore the character‚ Eveline‚ and interpret her identity however they want. For
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Annotated Bibliography One Delaney‚ Bill. "Poe ’s THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO." Explicator 64.1 (2005): 39-41. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 Sept. 2013. This article describes the emotional aspects of Montresor‚ the protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.” While Montresor seems uncaring and without emotion as he is murdering Fortunato for the insults against his family‚ Montresor is not as ruthless as he seems. He shows care and concern for his
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university research database. I also surveyed the commentaries in The Story and Its Writer to add substance to my own analysis of the story. The most useful sources were the more scholarly ones that came from EBSCO host in journals like Critique and the Explicator. Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" is an account of O’Brien’s drafting into the Vietnam war and the subsequent disillusionment of typical values associated with war (honor‚ heroism‚ courage‚ etc.) O’Brien endures. In this work‚ O’Brien
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paper ... ...oem because the athlete lived a short choppy life‚ yet‚ be it for only a moment‚ he lived elaborately. Works Cited Bache‚ William. "Housman’s To an Athlete Dying Young." The Explicator‚ 1951. (185) Henry‚ Nat. "Housman’s To an Athlete Dying Young." The Explicator‚ 1954. (188-189) Housman‚ A.E.. "To an Athlete Dying Young." The Bedford Introduction To Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford Books Of St. Martin’s Press‚ 1993. (967) Leggett‚
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Senior English Final Exam Study Guide The Rocking-Horse Winner 1. Paul’s parents create their own problems because they continually? 2. What does Paul say makes him different from his parents? 3. Paul’s belief that he NEEDS his rocking-horse suggests what about his belief in himself? 4. Basset takes racing very seriously which impacts Paul suggesting what theme? 5. Why did Paul want to win money? 6. Why does Paul’s mother say it’s better to be luc ky than to be rich? 7. Why does Paul trust Uncle
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English 110 John Tyberg May 7 2013 Annotated Bibliography 1. D ’Avanzo‚ Mario L. "Marvell ’s to His Coy Mistress." Explicator 36.2 (1978): 18-19. Print. The article analyzes the use of irony and Biblical allusion in the poem To His Coy Mistress to argue that sexual intensity is the righteous way to triumph over mortality. Marvell used different examples to portray his love towards the mistress (such as the flood and the judgment day). The author give details why and what Marvell thinks when
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