"The Scarlet Ibis" has a rather poignant plot. It focuses on how a physically disabled child‚ born William Armstrong‚ later referred to as Doodle‚ grows up with much influence from his older brother. The story is written in the eyes of his unnamed brother‚ and begins with the narrator’s words of grief that fade into his memories when his brother was still alive‚ when William was first born. The older brother was first extremely disappointed to have an "invalid" brother and was so raged at this that
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In his youth‚ Black Elk was an Oglala‚ Lakota healer. Later in his life‚ he was a practicing Roman Catholic. When Black Elk was 67‚ he collaborated with John Neihardt to write his biography. His biography captures the essence of Lakota life during the pre reservation and the Native American Sioux religion that was the beginning of Lakota life experience. Black Elks quote “the Circle of life” is a description of how the circle or sacred hoop held significant power and protection for the Lakota people
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article‚ Black Elk Speaks with Forked Tongue‚ Couser is giving his opinion on how he thinks that Neihardt was in actuality suppressing the Lakota way of life and Black Elk’s story. His opinion is backed by some good points from the text and as well as other scholars who have the same opinion as himself. Couser does believe that Black Elk Speaks is a well written book and he even respects and commends Neihardt in his attempt to honor Black Elk‚ “before detailing the short comings of Black Elk Speaks I
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Theme Analysis ! Henry James was an American-born British writer who was a key figure in the 19th century. James kept moving between America and Europe and eventually settled in England. He is most famous for his novels that portray Americans with Europe and Europeans. James is also know for his method of being able to write from the point of view of a character from his/her consciousness. In 1869 and 1871 he wrote his most popular novella “Daisy Miller”. “Daisy Miller” is based around the theme
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Plot The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict‚ Climax‚ Denouement‚ andFlashback. Dialogue The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction‚ dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays‚ characters’ speech is preceded by their names. act n. 5. One of the major divisions of a play or opera. scene a. The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation mo·tif a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
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It’s good when I get to go hunting. I enjoy hunting with my sister and my dad‚ I think it’s fun to sneak up and shoot deer. Hunting Elk is even better because it offers more of a challenge. It can get pretty exciting when you hear them breaking branches as there coming through the timber when calling them. Hunting also provides organic meat. Not all people like hunting‚ they think it’s animal cruelty and that it’s not right to kill animals. Some people say that it is environmentally bad and that
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THE PLOT DIAGRAM The plot diagram: most people learn about it somewhere in elementary school‚ and indeed‚ it is the most elementary of tools a writer and reader can use in summarizing and outlining a story. It is so basic and flexible that pretty much every story written in existence can be outlined via the plot diagram. And yet‚ there are stories that‚ when outlined‚ twist the plot diagram into interesting shapes‚ which leads me to suspect that there is a missing step in the plot diagram: the elusive
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The reading called Black Elk Speaks brings out many problems that the white people did to ruin the Native Americans way of life. Black Elk is telling his story to John Neihardt and John translated it. Black Elk is telling a story about how the white people roads ruin the way of life for the Native Americans. He relies on pathos to inform us on what the white people did. He is mourning about the loss of his tribe members. Some of the tribe meant a lot to him. Since he was the holy medicine
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The Babington Plot Anthony Babington was a young Catholic noble who joined a plot to depose the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Sir Francis Walsingham‚ the head of Elizabeth’s secret service‚ captured a Catholic plotter named Gilbert Gifford and ‘convinced’ him to act as a double agent. Gifford would act as an intermediary - smuggling letters to Mary who was imprisoned in Chartley Hall. All the letters were given to Walsingham. The letters were written
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comfortable life on a ranch under the loving care of his owner‚ a wealthy judge who makes his pet want for nothing. Then one day‚ Buck’s life takes a dramatic turn when he’s sold off by an unscrupulous servant to pay a debt. He travels in a cage for the first time and is sold in Alaska‚ where dog-sleds are the primary mode of transportation. Buck has to quickly adapt to his new life as a sled dog and learn how to survive in a dog-eat-dog world where the competition is tough and often deadly. The basic comforts
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