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    Literature broadens a person’s understanding and educates the reader about another`s biases. I believe isolation consists of failure to communicate and feeling no connections because the person isn’t open to new concept/ideas. Literature gives us the ability to remove a person from isolation; the author uses strategy like visualization so the reader is connected to the scene‚ diction/tone so readers can understand personalities and feel a sense of connection to the characters. Strategies like this

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    Cole through the book goes through three stages of being able to control his anger stage one being the beginning where he is only able to hide his anger‚ stage two he is able to suppress his anger and stage three he is able to control his anger. In the first part of the book we see Cole at his worst for his anger. At this time in the book we see that Cole is unable to control his anger when peter warns the authorities about cole robbing a hardware store. After hearing that a classmate has informed

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    The novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is set in the Mid-nineteenth century and is narrated by the main character and protagonist‚ Pip‚ who is formally introduced at his adolescent age of six. Pip lives with his older sister‚ Mrs. Joe Gargery‚ who Pip is not particularly fond of‚ and his brother-in-law Joe‚ who Pip describes as his best friend and teacher of the art of blacksmithing‚ in the cities of England. As Pip lives the typical life of a mischievous juvenile child‚ he encounters an

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    Charlie is a very interesting and unique person. He is one of a kind and very different from others in many ways. He changes throughout the book in both ways‚ positive and negative ways. Most of his changes were pretty good and he liked them for a little bit until he became mature to notice it wasn’t that easy to change and that he would encounter many problems on the way as he got smarter. Charlie changed in all parts of the book‚ the beginning‚ middle‚ and end. In the beginning of the book Charlie

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    some exceptions. Jane‚ of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre‚ is one of these exceptions. In her early life‚ Jane endures harsh treatment from her aunt and cousins‚ so she is sent away to boarding school in order to escape them. Later‚ she becomes a governess to a young girl‚ but leaves after romantic complications with her employer. Eventually‚ she returns to him after hearing about his terrible injuries from a fire. Over the course of the novel‚ she encounters these and other obstacles that

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    his most important victory was in choosing to leave Squizzy Taylor.’ To what extent is this statement true and how do the significant choices he makes determine his eventual success?’ Support your answer with evidence from the novel “Runner”. Throughout Robert Newton’s novel Runner‚ Charlie develops a sense of morality that eventually shows him that what Squizzy Taylor is doing is wrong. This was highlighted when Charlie was sent to collect the extortion money. Charlie sees that the people‚ who are

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    Great Expectations Do our views of Magwitch change during the course of the novel? Great Expectations is about an ordinary‚ working class boy who suddenly finds himself with a secret benefactor who wants to make him into a rich gentleman. The boy comes to learn some hard lessons in life. In this story Dickens wants us to realise that being rich is not the most important thing in life compared to love and loyalty. Pip meets a convict in the graveyard where the story starts. The convict scares

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    The book that I have just read is called Perfect by Natasha Friend. The book is about a teenage girl’s life and some problems she goes through. It also shows what she learns when she goes through struggles in her life. The two main characters are Isabelle and Ashley. Isabelle is a girl who struggles with the thoughts that she has to be perfect and bulimia. Ashley is the perfect girl in their high school however she also suffers from bulimia. Isabelle struggles with bulimia and her sister catches

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    There is a nihilist‚ sincerely trusting in correctness of his belief in the novel " Fathers and sons". Eugeny Bazarov is the nihilist‚ so the materialist‚ who is not recognizing dogmas‚ checking everything only with experience. He is a physician‚ being interesting in natural sciences. His days are filled with work and new searches. Turgenev creates a hero to check up what is necessary in that world and what has no right to exist. Getting convinced that the "person-comet" does not need for a life

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    Historical context and social criticism are both crucial to the novels of the period but also inseparably intertwined. The influence of both these factors are especially clear in Coetzee’s Foe‚ Behn’s Oroonoko and Richardson’s Pamela‚ three very different novels from different times all of which rely on‚ and are clearly influenced by‚ their historical context in order to validate the relevance of their social criticisms. Writing and living in Apartheid South Africa‚ it is evident in Foe Coetzee

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