narratives: chapters written by Jonathan‚ Alex‚ and Jonathan. Chapters written by Jonathan describe different events in his family’s history in Trachimbrod. Chapters written by Alex describe Jonathan’s present trip. Letters from Alex to Jonathan reveal the two characters’ growing relationship as writers and friends. The characters have all grown‚ and discovered things about themselves throughout the book as Alex is also known as Shapka and Sasha‚ even though he doesn’t like it. He writes chapters for Jonathan’s
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While chapters one and 2 serve to characterize Meursault as generally emotionless (ie: his Mother’s funeral and affair with Marie) Chapter 3 works to establish Meursault as a “friend” to different people. Just the same as his relationships with his mother and girlfriend‚ Meursault’s relationships with his friends are what one can deem as unconventional. In doing so the author reveals some truths about Meursault and the nature of free will and judgement. The first set of interactions involves both
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Of the two assigned chapters in the Betrothed‚ I found chapter 34 to be the most interesting. Alessandro Manzoni‚ the author of the historical novel‚ begins chapter 34 with the character Renzo trying to find his way into the heavily guarded‚ plague-filled city of Milan in order to find the love of his life‚ his fiancée Lucia. Renzo finally finds his way into the city by paying the guard a half-ducat. However‚ one obstacle that Renzo often encountered in his journey to find Lucia was
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In chapters 7 and 8 in Enrique’s Journey‚ Enrique has finally made it to America. He is now living in the same house as his mother and has found a job in North Carolina. During this chapter I also found a few more key points that made me start to think about different aspect about coming to a new country. The first key point in the chapters with Enrique and his mother dealing with their kind of rocky relationship. Their relations begins well and then it begins to go up and down‚ almost like a rollercoaster
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“Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds onto of race… everything piling into a single human body”. I agree entirely with this statement but rather than a sequence of ‘one is caused by another’ I find that all forces impact each other in an extremely complex web. The exact causal reason for one action or another cannot be determined in such a simplified method. The sequence of impact could be written
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This is a Sharon M. Draper novel called Tears of a Tiger about a group of high school basketball players at Hazelwood High that just took a big win‚ and decided to celebrate with a few beers. They end up getting on the road after they’ve been drinking and crash into a fiery abyss. Everyone ended up making it out except one of the guys that got stuck and was killed- Robert Washington the most talented and gifted of the group. Andy Jackson was the designated driver who had also been drinking. After
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semester‚ I read The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness‚ Love‚ and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean. The main reason I wanted to read this book is the concept behind it: every element is unique and has had a unique role in history and society. It is such a clever idea to write a book that outlines the uniqueness of each element and the roles that each one has played in our daily lives and the lives of those before us. And like I was expecting
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niece. I found it interesting that they were dancing with their slave considering she was not accepted in the this period of time. Abigail states that Betty fainted only because of being shocked to have Parris see her in the woods. Abigail denied any form of committing witchcraft with Betty. Parris states that Abigail’s name is not all clean and perfect in the town. He also states examples of why she has been nothing but trouble and she has been called a “soiled” woman. Parris is scared that he
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide a written report of the five part M&M project. Part one was sampling. We were to purchase 3 bags of M&M and record the color counts of each bag in an Excel spread sheet. For part two we calculated the sample proportions for each color‚ the mean number of candies per1.69oz bag‚ created a histogram for the number of candies per bag‚ use Excel to compute the descriptive statistics for the total number of candies per bag and summarize the information
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without a father. This appealed to me because I grew up in a similar situation and could relate to the void that is present when a parent leaves a child’s life‚ the struggles that are left for the family trying to make it on one income‚ and not having the support of both a mom and a dad. He is very descriptive when talking about various scenes of his life‚ making me not only picture what is happening‚ but also feeling it. Towards the end of the speech‚ I can hear the pain and emotion
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