Pendragon: The Merchant of Death by D. J . MacHale is about 14 year old Bobby Pendragon who is going to save the world. It all starts when his uncle‚ Uncle Press‚ visits his house before he goes to a basketball game. He tells Bobby that there are some people who need their help and asks him to come with him. After putting an ample amount of thought‚ Bobby agrees to go with Press. Press takes Bobby to an abandoned subway station in Bronx. Bobby is flabbergasted by the place where his uncle took him
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known for revealing aspects of Latin American culture during the 1980’s- aspects that still predominate today’s society. Specifically in his novel‚ Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ Marquez takes a journalistic approach to the investigative and the psychological component of the twenty-seven-year-old murder of Santiago Nasar in a typical Colombian town. Throughout this approach‚ Marquez intends to limit the influence of emotion‚ yet tension is inevitable after the spiritual
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and hatred‚ happiness and misery‚ excitement and lethargy – all of these emotions are inherited to the human nature. Hatred fits in among one of the strongest human feelings; it is a seed that engenders vengeance. In the Shakespeare’s play‚ The Merchant of Venice‚ these two inextricably bound terms are portrayed unequivocally. There are three main reasons why hatred was such a focal ingredient to the play: the Anti-Semitism‚ the unacceptability of usury and the personal altercations between the
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Blood will Have Blood “These deeds must not be thought / After these ways; so‚ it will make us mad”(II‚ ii‚ 32-33) Translation today: A guilty conscience can make a man go crazy. In the play Macbeth‚ this is a recurring theme throughout one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. There are many different images that help contribute to this theme such as sleep/sleeplessness‚ water‚ & children‚ but the most significant image would probably that of blood. Throughout
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MERCHANT OF VENICE ESSAY ------------------------------------------------- Despite its age Shakespeare’s play has some very important things to say about human nature. ------------------------------------------------- Do you agree? Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ explores several important universal themes which are common concerns for all human beings. These concepts include an exploration of Revenge and the importance of mercy combined with justice and what makes a loyal and faithful
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Antonio is the title character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. He is a middle-aged bachelor and merchant by trade who has his financial interests tied up in overseas shipments when the play begins. He is kind‚ generous‚ honest and confident‚ and is loved and revered by all the Christians who know him. Even Portia‚ who sees Antonio as a rival for her husband’s affections‚ reveres his character and appreciates — with reservations — his willingness to die for Bassanio. Antonio manifests his
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Truman Capote’s excerpt‚ from his book In Cold Blood‚ depictes exactly how the reader should be imagining this place to be a small town “nowheresville‚” Kansas. A place that just by itself and not known. The excerpt talks about a small town in Kansas that is irrelevant that even few residents know about. From the beginning‚ it’s apparent that the narrator needs the reader to see Holcomb as a shabby and torn-down town. The narrator‚ is seeing this from a more refined and from even a more classy perspective
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Literary Analysis of A pair of Tickets In Amy Tan’s‚ A Pair of Tickets‚ Tan uses a change in setting paralleled to a change in character to reveal that when a person learns something new‚ whether it be about a culture or another person‚ it changes the way they think and accept the world around them. Jing-Mei is a 36 year old woman of Chinese decent. She grew up in America in San Francisco and has never known what it is to be Chinese. She has denied any kinship to the culture and it has a lot
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Separate‚ but Equal: White Lies and Local Color The specific attributes of social‚ political‚ and cultural implications in both literal and metaphorical boundary crossing distinguish Kate Chopin ’s "Desiree ’s Baby" as a work of absolute realism. In therapy‚ a boundary is the edge of appropriate behavior in a given situation. In a boundary crossing‚ the therapist steps out of the "usual framework" in some way‚ but this action neither exploits nor harms the patient; indeed‚ it may advance the therapeutic
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Literary Analysis There is certainly a challenging‚ subliminal meaning to "A Family Supper" written by Kazuo Ishiguro. The story takes place in Tokyo‚ Japan‚ a couple of decades ago‚ "nearing the end of a sunny autumn day." (856) The setting has a great impact on the events that occur throughout the story‚ heavily relying on Japanese traditions and culture like tea drinking‚ views of death‚ and preference of food. The main characters are the son (narrator)‚ his father‚ and his sister Kikuko.
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