Genre: Fiction Setting: Maycomb County‚ Alabama 1930’s Pint of View: First person Plot Summary: The story is about two children‚ Scout and Jem Finch‚ and their father Atticus‚ a lawyer‚ as they live through three tough summers. They reside in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ a town that discriminates people based on what they look like and/or what their social status is. The children face many difficult situations where they have to decide what is right or wrong (Main situation where the kids must decide
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The Lottery Point of View Shirley Jackson’s choice of point of view in “The Lottery” is that of being told in the third person. The story is told more by an observer’s point of view rather than that of a participant. In “The Lottery” she illustrates how what is being done to the family members‚ of people in the village‚ is an act of pointless bloodshed. It isn’t clear as to why they carry on with the ancient rite but what is clear is that the people in the village are obedient to the past law and
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dependent on point of view as to how successful it is in illustrating the theme and allowing the audience to understand the theme. Point of view is able to enhance and improve characterization which in turn is able to clarify and create the theme. In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin‚ the ability to understand the theme lied heavily on the point of view and its interaction with characterization. Throughout this story the point of view changed between first person limited and and first person limited
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boy who she is unable to care for due to her illnesses‚ and that is only making her suffer even more. She wants more than anything to take care of her child and live a normal life‚ but she can’t. The narrator lived in the restrictive Victorian time period‚ and experienced how difficult it is to have your voice heard as a woman. “I Stand Here Ironing” written by Tillie Olsen is a short story about a mother who has a daughter during the Great Depression‚ and the father leaves her to care for
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WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE? Abbe Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes As an ambitious clergyman from Chartres‚ Abbe Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes was a member of the First Estate. Yet Sieyes was elected deputy to the Estates General for the Third Estate on the basis of his attacks on aristocratic privilege. He participated in the writing and editing of the great documents of the early revolution: the Tennis Court Oath‚ and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The pamphlet for which he is immortalized
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of the title Arise is that you can live your faith and dreams where ever you are. Arise is also a missionary group name from Dallas‚ Texas that goes to Zambia‚ Africa. Zambia is where the Kershaws go and volunteer and do mission work. 2. This story is told in first person point of view but‚ is coauthored by Clayton and Ellen Kershaw so some of it is third person point of view. The point of view of this story impacts the book by you always get two points of view. Since Ellen writes a chapter and
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THE PERSON I ADMIRE/THE INSIPER There are so many people who have changed so many lives in my community especially to the youth‚ but Mandla Ndlovu was born to save the community with his uniqueness to others. He gave up his high powered job just to make sure that his community is a better place for everyone. Mandla Ndlovu was born and raised in Estcourt‚ he was very popular in the community their say it takes the whole village to raise a child. Everyone knew him at an early age and many parents
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"If you would attain to what you are not yet‚ you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding‚ keeps walking‚ and keeps advancing." My mother is the person who I admire the most‚ looking up at her as my idol‚ and listen to her is my mother. By interviewing Mrs. Suwipha Charoensin gives me an idea that to change because of someone who is very special is not difficult and it even gives someone a new life. My mother changes
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Maine at Mile 81 an abandoned rest stop on I-95 in Maine. The rest stop was surrounded by a fence‚ but now most of it has been torn down. There is a row of orange traffic cones in the parking lot. The former restaurants and shops are now boarded up. However‚ there are signs all over that people come to the rest stop to get high or drunk. The events occur around Easter in 2011. Point of View The story is told from a first and third person point of view. The narration continues to change depending
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The Person I dislike Hate is a very strong word. So it feels a little awkward to say that I hate a particular person. But there are certain types of people who are easy to be disliked. There are lots of people I met in my life‚ it is not necessary that I like all of them. I categorize the people in three types. One that I like most‚ second one I don’t like and the third one who has no impression at all in my life. It is a natural phenomenon that we can’t be friendly or alien to all people
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