High."(29) Dorothy Plunk was Sonny’s first love but she also broke his heart. In October Sky‚ written by Homer Hickam Jr.‚ Dorothy is a pseudonym for a girl he knew during high school. She is known for her beauty‚ power‚ and inexperience. Dorothy was known for her beauty because of Sonny’s persistence. That’s why he was so attracted to her. "She had long shimmering ponytail and eyes the electric blue of my father’s 1951 Buick."(29) He had managed to say hello to her a couple of times but
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tried in a different way: I went to YouTube and looked for someone reading out loud The Weary Blues. Then I founded Langston Hughes reciting this precise poem‚ accompanied by a jazz band. Immediately I felt transported to 1958‚ seated in the front row of the theater‚ felling a mix of rhythm and depression in the air. Then‚ sitting in a stool in front of me‚ Langston Hughes starts to recite his "Weary Blues". In the way that Langston recited the poem‚ seems for me more like a song‚ the arranged of
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Elements of literary analysis Plot Summary Setting Character Analysis Theme Symbolism and Metaphor Conflict Moral Plot Summary The narrative structure of a story is divided into 5 parts. Organize‚ by list or diagram‚ the events of the story into the following points using as few words as possible. (Complicated stories may have multiple turning points.) #1 Exposition (introduction) Introduces the main characters‚ setting‚ and conflict. #2 Rising Action (conflict complicated) Secondary
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1) How would you convey the message of the book “Half the Sky” to family‚ friends‚ and colleagues? This book is a crucial dose of reality for those of us that are spoiled by the comforts we have grown used too. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explain in the book “Half the Sky” why empowering women in the developing world is ethically right and extremely vital.It is a gripping story of how customs and culture have historically oppressed women. The strength of the human rights movement and
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No Highway in the Sky The film follows Theodore Honey a highly eccentric scientist with the Royal Aircraft Establishment. A widower with a young daughter‚ Elspeth ‚ Honey is sent from Farnborough[->0] to investigate the crash of a "Reindeer" airliner in Labrador[->1]‚ which he says occurred because of a structural failure in the tail caused by sudden metal fatigue[->2]. To test his theory in his laboratory‚ an airframe is continuously shaken in eight-hour daily cycles. It isn’t
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Literary Analysis of “Gravity” by David Leavitt The following pages will consist of a literary analysis of the short story presented by the author David Leavitt‚ which is taken from his book “A Place I’ve Never Been” (Nguyen‚ 2006). “Gravity” narrates the story of a boy with AIDS‚ whose life is slowly consuming like the wax of a lit candle. The author presents the reader with the crudity of enduring such disease mainly from the patient’s and his mother’s perspective. The underlying intention
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an image of the cold and harsh conditions that he was feeling while his father was gone. The icicles hanging on the door represent the time and rigidity that Clarke experienced during his father’s absence. The ’late blizzard’ goes along with this as well. Typically‚ when a blizzard comes later than expected‚ it is harsher than it should have been because it comes unexpectedly. The image further develops the condition that Clarke was
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Poem: There is another sky by Emily Dickinson There is another sky‚ Ever serene and fair‚ And there is another sunshine‚ Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests‚ Austin‚ Never mind silent fields -- Here is a little forest‚ Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden‚ Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum: Prithee‚ my brother‚ Into my garden come! * Theme: depression‚ death * Imagery: Visual imagery
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presented themselves such as science and politics‚ but the clearest is the theme of life and death. There is not one person who hasn’t questioned life and death at least once in their life‚ and Mary Godwin Shelley embodied this curiosity in magnificent literary form. Each character represents important qualities about life and mankind‚ and lessons can be learned within them. Mary Shelley’s novel impacted modern culture greatly‚ with many movies and other merchandise created‚ but they can never capture the
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Literary Analysis “Revelation” Flannery O’Connor short story entitled “Revelation” was swayed by her personal upbringing in the South. She lived in the time where people from the South were very intolerant and narrow-minded towards people who had a different lifestyle and who were of a different race. Because Southerners believed people who did not live up to their wealth or status were inferior‚ it offered O’Connor the exact descriptions she wanted for the characters in this story. The main
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