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    Courtney Barnes Page 1 Intro to Lit. Prof. Rupp Feb 18 2013 You’ve Got Good Blood Literary Analysis of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” By Flannery O’Connor “You’ve got good blood.” “I know you come from nice people‚(504) cried the grandmother. “Pray!”(505) she pleads using grace and religion to plead to the better nature of what she thinks is still a good man. The story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a family on vacation to Florida. The family takes a detour down a dirt road to

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    the duality of man. Shakespeare uses the characterization of Iago to evoke many emotions from the audience; this is composed through elements of theatre and literary discourse. Othello was set in the

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    Irony: A Short Story

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    It was a dark night when Archie got home from his baseball practice. He was so tired that he quickly jumped in his pajamas and went to sleep without even taking a bath yet! As he was snoring‚ two little shiny lights flew into his bedroom. "Is he the one?" asked one of the lights‚ what are they? They are fairies. "He must be‚" answered the other fairy‚ knocking over a bat which knocks down the yo-yo which was beside it and made a loud noise. The two fairies quickly flew out the window as Archie woke

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    Loving your enemies does not seem easy‚ praying for them even harder‚ and doing both for those who persecute you‚ practically impossible. Conversely‚ during the Sermon on the Mount‚ recorded in Matthew 5:43-48‚ Christ calls his followers to love their enemies‚ a calling that perhaps seemed just as contrary to first century culture as today’s culture. However‚ as seen through Christ’s ministry on earth‚ he did not call his followers to what seemed easy‚ but to radically transform their lives to adhere

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    Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain characterizes Pap as an entitled hypocrite through irony as a literary technique to reveal the undeserved sense of importance felt by people at the time. When Pap arrives to the cabin after getting drunk in town‚ he begins to rant of how unacceptable the government is. Pap complains Judge Thatcher is repressing him of “[his] property” through his attempts to remove him as Huck’s parental guardian. (Twain 28). Irony is employed as Pap refers to the money Huck obtains as his own and

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    Tanner Varner College Writing I Character Comparison The grandmother and The Misfit of Flannery O’ Connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are backward‚ opposite images of each other. However‚ the grandmother does have similarities with the character‚ Ruby Turpin in O’Connor’s short story‚ "Revelation". The grandmother is portrayed as being a selfish self-involved woman who wants her way‚ a person with little memory‚ just a basic old woman living with her only son. The Misfit on the other hand

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    Great Expectations Irony

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    Great Expectations The title of Charles Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations‚ refers to Pip’s many expectations. Pip expects to inherit money‚ but he first has to be educated a gentleman. Pip has “great expectations” of himself and Jaggers also tells Pip that “he is a young man of great expectations”. During the time of his education‚ Pip focuses too much on himself and values too little what he already has. For an example‚ Joe always lets Pip talk to him and Joe never takes advantage of Pip

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    Surname 5 Name Tutor Class Date Irony “The Story of an Hour” is a short story by Kate Chopin’s. It is a story about marriage‚ one filled with rather many instances of irony. It is about a lady‚ Mrs. Mallard‚ and how she reacts to the news she receives about the apparent death of her husband. She suffers a heart condition and thus when her sister and friend‚ Robert come over to give her the unfortunate news‚ they do it carefully to prevent a possible heart failure due to the shock of the news. Mrs

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    I am on page 200. This book is about A kid named John running a farm on his own. He has to protect the sheep and chase coyotes away. John starts to get more mature along the way. In this paper I will be evaluating the symbolism and evaluating the irony. The symbols in this book are Johns Great Grandpa‚ and tink a worker at the Barron Spread. Johns grandpa he thought of as a hero‚ and also a very hard worker. His granda claimed land and built a farm all by himself. The farm that Johns grandpa owned

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    In this short story‚ “A Story of an Hour”‚ Kate Chopin uses irony and symbolism in order to describe Mrs. Mallard’s state of being for an hour in her life. We learn of Mrs. Mallard‚ a woman who cried out for freedom and independency from a marriage that she did not have the desire to no longer be in. In a marriage‚ one can lose their identity‚ especially in the times of Mrs. Mallard where women did not have a voice. The setting of this story justifies why Mrs. Mallard’s feels the way that she

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