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    that the narrator is mad by making him talk and shout directly at us‚ by using exclamation marks as his punctuation. When you read what the narrator is saying to you‚ you can feel the emotion‚ and hear the speed and volume of his voice. He does this by the use of punctuation‚ short sentences‚ and putting some words into capitals; one example of a capital worded sentence is‚ ‘it was A LOW‚ DULL‚ QUICK SOUND – MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON.’ The effect the narrator has on

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    Jackson Crain Professor Coney English 1123-B Period 28 April 2013 “Luck” Mark Twain’s short story "Luck" is written in third person point of view making it seem like your there at graduation day with Scoresby‚ and the Reverend. This story is very entertaining because it tells the story about a Reverend a former instructor and soldiers in the military who describe a man that he used to be friends‚ with as an absolute fool. According to the Reverend‚ his old friend‚ Scoresby‚ is only successful

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    nameSignatureDate TMA receivedDate returnedTUTORS REMARKS Mark Allocated to TMASTUDENT MARK 30For content a maximum of 30 marks Marks deducted for lang. communication errors a maximum of 6 marks Earned MarkEL121 The Short Story and Essay Writing AFTER TWENTY YEARS There are 2 types of point of view in After Twenty Years. The story is about loyalty and it is indeed full of passion. It describes how important is the friendships in the human relations

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    How does Stevenson use the concept of duality in his Jekyll and Hyde novella? In my essay I will conduct a detailed analysis‚ on how he displays a concept of duality that Dr.jeykll and Mr.Hyde battle in a conflict of good and evil in the vast double psychological character‚ also how the suspense will attract the reader with mindboggling suspense. This key element is vital in keeping the reader hocked to the novella. Robert Louis Stevenson incorporated the ideology of duality in the book as a main

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    lies‚ even people like Aunt Polly and the Widow Douglas. Huck gives a brief summary of how he and Tom got six thousand dollars each at the end of Tom Sawyer. Judge Thatcher has taken Huck’s money and invested it with a dollar of interest coming in each day‚ and Huck now lives with the Widow Douglas and her sister‚ Miss Watson. The sisters are‚ as Huck puts it‚ trying to "sivilize"

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    Mark Twain chose Huck Finn to be the narrator to make the story more realistic and so that Mark Twain could get the reader to examine their own attitudes and beliefs by comparing themselves to Huck‚ a simple uneducated character. Twain was limited in expressing his thoughts by the fact that Huck Finn is a living‚ breathing person who is telling the story. Since the book is written in first person‚ Twain had to put himself in the place of a thirteen-year-old son of the town drunkard. He had to see

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    With close reference to pages 183-186 analyse Salinger’s use of language and structure‚ exploring Holden’s contradictory view of the world. On Page 183 Holden says ‘you could tell the two hot- shots I was with weren’t enjoying it too much. They stayed close as hell to me‚ and the one that didn’t talk at all practically was holding onto my sleeve’. Holden calls them ‘hot shots’ because they acted phony by bunking school and then lying about there being no school. (P182). Throughout the novel‚ Holden

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    is this conflict important? This internal conflict that Chris faces on how to proceed with their financial situation and whether or not to pursue his dream of a dive shop is important to Chris’s decision to began diving. This goal of opening a dive shop propelled him to achieve higher goals in diving. Those higher goals came with a lot of risk. He could have lost everything‚ including his home and savings. 2. How does the person respond to this conflict? Internally‚ Chris is having a battle with himself

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    Mark Twain Character Analysis Mark Twain is a humorous man who often pokes fun at himself and others. For example‚ in his autobiography‚ he would never have published his first book had there not been "some industrial person" to gather his sketches for him. Later‚ on the second page‚ he pokes fun about the fact that he had fantasized often about killing Carleton in "new and increasingly cruel and increasing inhumane ways". In the second article‚ "Accidental Plagiarism"‚ he pokes fun at when he

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    Language is a power in and of itself; it is a fundamental part of life‚ and it is the way we express our innermost thoughts. Language can be a force of power‚ or it can be a force undermining power‚ it all depends on the way one uses language. Take Adolf Hitler and President Franklin Roosevelt: both men were impressive orators‚ but the way in which they used language exerted their power other the people of their nations. Adolf Hitler‚ using powerful language and persuasion‚ created an empire of hate

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