Jessica Nohra Analysis Kerouac April 11th‚ 13 Bowery Blues Analysis Today’s society doesn’t look at how easy and chill was the past and the people don’t have an interest on how the life is anymore. Kerouac’s message throughout the poem was to show how lost he was and how the people around him influenced his bad feelings about life. During the poem we can really see that he doesn’t know how to act on what is happening
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“Blue Melody” Analysis "Blue Melody" is a short story by J. D. Salinger which was first published in the September 1948. It is the tragic tale of an African-American jazz singer; the story was inspired by the life of Bessie Smith and was originally titled "Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record." Cosmopolitan changed the title to "Blue Melody" without Salinger ’s consent. It is possible to interpret the original title of the story. Stratchy needle may mean time and experience of a person which
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The Hunger Games trilogyFrom Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation‚ search The Hunger Games Boxed set The Hunger Games Catching Fire Mockingjay Author Suzanne Collins Country United States Language English Genre Adventure Science fiction Young adult Publisher Scholastic Published 2008–2010 Media type Print (hardcover) The Hunger Games trilogy is a young-adult adventure science fiction series written by Suzanne Collins. The trilogy consists of The Hunger
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Escaping the Blues Reservation Blues begins with the tortured soul of a musician‚ and his guitar. The blues musician‚ a reanimated form of the late Robert Johnson‚ hands his enchanted instrument to Thomas Builds the Fire. This guitar possesses skill‚ precision and soul‚ no matter who its owner is. Johnson had given his soul to the Devil in order to acquire these powers. When Thomas was given this guitar‚ he too felt the music radiating with its strings. This power‚ compelled Thomas to create
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wonder how he portrays himself. The characteristics of a villain tends to be devious‚ mischievous‚ and never up to any good. In the past few years‚ there was a book and movie series called “The Hunger Games.” This section is about two people from each “district” get randomly chosen to compete in the Hunger Games‚ a life-or-death competition. One main antagonist I know is President Snow. President Snow is the the autocratic ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem. Thanks to him‚ many people’s lives
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Perry The Hunger Games Chapter 1 Dystopia is a community or society‚ usually fictional that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. This society is characterized by dehumanization‚ totalitarian governments and environmental disaster. Elements of dystopias may vary from environmental to political and social issues. Such societies appear in many works of fiction‚ mostly in stories set in a speculative future‚ one such story is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In the Hunger Games‚
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The Hunger Games Triology The Hunger Games Triology is a science fiction novel series written by Suzanne Collins. The triology consists of The Hunger Games‚ Catching Fire‚ and Mockingjay. All of the three books are best-seller books. The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time‚ in an imaginary country located in North America called Panem which has the wealthy Capitol and twelve poorer districts ruled by it. The books are written in Katniss Everdeen’s voice‚ a 16-year-old
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Would you sacrifice yourself for your sister? Prim got chosen for The Hunger Games and Katniss volunteered to go to Hunger Games instead of her sister. The Hunger Games are games that are make every year between 12 Districts‚ each District sends 2 tributes but only one can win. Katniss volunteered for The Hunger Games and she had to pass throught many situations‚ some bad and some good. Because Katniss volunteered for The Hunger Game ‚ she went to the Capitol to compete with the tributes from the
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The book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about the yearly event that the government forces the twelve Districts to participate in. That event is called the Hunger Games. Each year‚ they hold a reaping where two names will be drawn for all twelve of the districts. From district twelve‚ the girl tribute is Katniss Everdeen and the boy just happens to be Peeta Mellark. On their way into the arena‚ they get to eat all kinds of spledid foods. This is new to all of the tributes because they grew
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Teiairra Johnson Professor Drummond-Matthews English Comp. II February 1‚ 2012 Funeral Blues Explication In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”‚he uses a sort of calm or sorrowful tone. The woman in this poem says‚ “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚”(1) She is wanting to give respect to the dead. She says to get rid of the noises that may be distracting from the process of mourning. Auden creates a mood or sense of respectfulness. The first stanza is stating to get
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