assigned readings for several reasons. First‚ it was a short story rather than a long-winded‚ descriptive novel. This appealed to me because that‚ in itself‚ shows a turn to the modern side of literature. Gone are the days of praising the sublime and merely hinting at characters emotions. More presently‚ audiences want to be quickly brought into the action‚ and to experience a high level of energy and enjoyment throughout the entire work. The Mortal Immortal is the first story to present this emotional
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the life experiences that shaped their character and personality. As a student of Brandeis University in Massachusetts‚ Album first meets Morrie Schwartz in a sociology class. In that first class he contemplates dropping it because its small size will make it difficult for him to cut. He decides to stay in the class and when he completes it he enrolls in another. At first he does this because the courses are easy and Morrie is a professor who doesn’t put much stock in grades. Quickly though‚ he
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proving that Socs and Greasers can be friends. Both Pony and Cherry share similar ideas and concepts‚ within a few hours of knowing each other they begin to reveal some of their inner most deep thoughts. “‘I never told anyone that. I think you’re the first person I’ve ever really gotten through to... (3.47)’”. Cherry also has the ability to show Pony that the Socs aren’t as spoilt as they appear to be‚ “‘Things are rough all over... (2.43)’”. Cherry continues to honour her friendship with Pony‚ even after
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He knew that being selected for this mission was a great honor‚ to be able to be the one to crack the mysteries and have first shots at figuring it all out. Wow that was as good as it got‚ he knew that the first person to do something was always remembered thought. How they did was remembered by history for quite a long time‚ their failings and their successes took on new weight‚ still the fact they were simply remembered
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elegant prose poem which elaborates on the sensuality of music through the vivid experiences of the first person narrator instead of the visit of a piano tuner‚ the inferred visitor in the title. Utilizing the narrator’s impressions‚ Ruark portrays the ‘blind’ (l. 1) piano tuner in the first lines as a frail‚ vulnerable‚ dependent person‚ ‘holding the arm of his helper’ (l.1). Although ‘He hesitates at first’ (l. 1)‚ the narrator notices the almost magical transformation the piano tuner undergoes—his
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A Worn Path VS A Rose For Emily In the pages of the short stories‚ A Worn Path and A Rose For Emily we are able to see a similar side and connection between the two. As we look at the theme‚ tone‚ and morals we are able to better grasp the conflict in these two stories‚ while detecting whether the two protagonists‚ Miss Emily and Phoenix Jackson are mentally crazy. The main moral in A Worn Path is the love‚ and life of Phoenix Jackson. The path she travels across interrupts her life. Her
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there’s hot issues at hand (32). The irony of the story happen when the secret Faye keeps from Kai is not what she expects from him. Faye’s voice when talking to Kai is filling with sorrow. Her future with Kai is unknown. Karen Van Zee use first person narrator in the story to give a firsthand message of what happens when you really love someone‚ and there
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going on‚ and a kid yells out that he saw somebody in the building that the police were staring at. Immediately the police start shooting. After a while the owner of the apartment in the building that the police shot at shows up. She wants a black person to go with her and the police up to the apartment‚ and the main character goes with them. Her apartment is filled with bullet holes and her dog is dead. They see that a door to an apartment nearby is open. When they walk in to the apartment they discover
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The warm sunshine that was streaming through the classroom window was doing nothing to help my concentration as I sat in class trying to pay attention. The teacher’s monotone voice droning on about some dead men who fought in a battle hundreds of years ago was slowly putting me to sleep. I was taking notes as best I could when suddenly I would realize that my eyes were closed! I opened them quickly and looked at my notebook. The last line I had written on the page ended in nonsensical words
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that loss are not vented but remain unconscious‚ thus weakening the ego."(Freud p.246). Dickinson uses several elements in her poem to relate this theme such as tone‚ imagery and rhyme. It is told through the first person point of view of an unknown speaker. Dickinson begins the first line of her poem by writing in iambic tetrameter. In the second line she switches to iambic trimeter and proceeds to alternate between the two. This rhyme scheme proves to be particularly effective in complimenting
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