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    gives for love. Over the course of the novel‚ Amir‚ Hassan‚ and Baba all face dramatic events that shape them to the person they are. Each one of them sacrifice a piece of their own happiness for the one they love. Hassan is loyal to Amir even though in their childhood Amir was not a good friend. Baba sacrifices his life in Afghanistan for Amir to have an education in America. Amir risked his life for Sohrab‚ Hassan’s son‚ to repay the wrong he commits toward Hassan. The recurring theme of sacrifice

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    Theme Of Love In Othello

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    regards than Othello. Seemingly she holds it dearly as it was the first token of love given to her by Othello. Nevertheless‚ in the scene when she offers it to him for his headache she drops it and does not notice its disappearance for a while. It is not until act three scene four “where should I lose the handkerchief‚ Emilia?” that she becomes away aware of her negligence with it (3.4.21). Historically this token of love was a common gesture during Elizabethan England that was traded amongst couples

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    is Estella. You see‚ her lack of feelings and caring gives your attraction for her an inevitable pain. For the reason being she has no feelings‚ doesn’t regard others feelings‚ & treats you terrible! Essentially‚ what love & care can be given/shown to a person when there isn’t any love or care to give? Estella has no feelings Pip. She constantly uses your attention for her benefit of using your time and bringing you closer to her. When her feelings stay stable; without upgrade or downgrade. And she

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    story “Great Expectations” to show that cruelty acts as a bridge to a newer phase in one’s life and wants to show how one has or will become in that phase. In Great Expectations‚ Miss Havisham will present cruelty at its finest after one gets to know her more and learn what tragedies she has been through. Dickens also presents that cruelty comes at a different time later on after you assume you got to know someone really well. It will come as you are in someone’s “trap.” In Great Expectations‚ Miss

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    The change or growth of a character throughout a book is necessary or else the book would be bland and the reader would lose interest‚ Charles Dickens and he did that with his character Phillip or Pip in the book‚ Great Expectations. Pip was a simple boy raised by his mean sister and kind brother in law‚ he never wanted or expected much till he met a cold hearted little girl raised by an insane woman‚ but yet he wanted to become a gentleman to win her heart. His wish came true‚ he was becoming a

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    East of Eden by John Steinbeck is an optimistic film about a boy becoming a man and trying desperately to earn the love of his father and mother in the troubled times of the Great Depression. Cal‚ the main character is a troubled teen who lives with his entrepreneur father‚ and a brother who is following closely in his fathers steps. Cal’s mother left him and his brother to become a madam of a whorehouse. The struggle takes place between Cal and his father due to his fathers lack of compassion

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    Great Expectations: Symbolism In life‚ symbolism is present all around us. Whether it is in the clothes we wear‚ the things we do‚ or what we buy‚ everything has a meaning. Symbolism is also present in literature and it is shown in Charles Dickens Great Expectations. The symbols of isolation‚ manipulation‚ the tragic hero‚ and wanting to be someone else are seen throughout the book through the characters of Estella‚ Magwitch‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Pip. The character of Estella represents the symbols

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    Themes In A Father's Love

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    the information he knows about the gang members. Father Boyle has worked hard to gain the gang members’ trust and he shouldn’t jeopardize it. We know that the gang members gave the father their trust because in Elizabeth Venant’s " A Father’s Love " it states‚ "... The gang members honored him with a handle‚ ‘G-Dog’..."revealing that they now trusted and treated him like one of them and allowed him to know information that an everyday person wouldn’t know. Also‚ the text states‚ “... Listening

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    The inspiring and Heartfelt story The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald . The Great Gatsby novel falls under the genre of ‘Romance’ Nick Carraway‚ is a young man from Minnesota who moves to Long Island New York in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of long island. Nick’s next door neighbour in West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan lives

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    return to save her. Miss Havisham also foresaw years earlier‚ her own lying on the table in the room‚ after the fire and the surgeon attended to her burns. Pip does his best to ally her guilt‚ in that she is a shell of a person with no family that loves her. With Estella married and gone she has no one and is alone. There is nothing but time‚ for her life to think about what she has done to the people she cared about the most‚ if her

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