Running Head: DIVERGENT LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER COREENA MEMMER Divergent Literary Analysis: Tris Finds Tris Coreena Memmer Delphi Community High School English 11B Period 6 11/26/2014 1 Running Head: DIVERGENT LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER COREENA MEMMER Tris Finds Tris Part OneIntroduction Living with people who are just the same might sound like a cool place to live. I mean‚ no one would be able to disagree with me. Sounds like paradise
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Rachel Aho 3rd Hour 1/30/14 Literary Interpretation In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ a woman is sick with cancer. The woman is confined to her room partly due to her sickness‚ and also due to her controlling husband. The woman was put into a room with dingy yellow wallpaper‚ which made her insane. The woman was cared for by her husband John. Soon‚ she began to regain her strength. Even as she was recovering‚ her husband kept tight control on her. He wouldn’t let her out
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The Blue Sky Gallery‚ in Portland‚ currently displays a photo series depicting the daily struggles individuals from Central America face as they make the perilous journey to the United States. In this series‚ Michelle Frankfurter‚ highlights the atrocities presently facing migrants as they attempt to reach and cross the border. Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer who has spent recent years capturing the difficulties immigrants face traveling to the American and Mexico border. Her work
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Literary Analysis Luella Miller There has been a flood of folklore and popular myth on the subject of supernatural beings capable of sucking the life out of their victims. One can find a mention of these creatures throughout the centuries. From a Succubus in the Bible to the Vampires of today’s Twilight Sagas‚ the short story “Luella Miller” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman is no different. This story‚ unlike many other tails‚ did not just come out and say that the creature was present for sure;
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The author uses literary devices to tell the story of an encounter with God‚ makes for an unique story. Furthermore‚ the author chose to portray God as a round and realistic character who emits humanlike emotion‚ this lightens up the story and shifts the focus to Martha
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In Macbeth‚ a play by the world renowned playwright‚ William Shakespeare‚ there are many lessons to be learned. One of these is that inner struggles result in mental and physical repercussions which‚ in turn‚ result in possible guilt that may never go away. How someone deals with their inner struggles affects the repercussions. Shakespeare’s Macbeth opens with three witches‚ “the Weird Sisters‚” foreshadowing the themes of the play. They speak to Macbeth and Banquo‚ telling Macbeth that he will
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Frederick Douglass was a fiery orator and his speeches were often published in various abolitionist newspapers. Among his well-known speeches is "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro‚" presented in Rochester‚ New York‚ on July 5‚ 1852‚ a version of which he published as a booklet. It is often studied in literature classes today. Douglass moved to Rochester in 1847‚ when he became the publisher of The North Star‚ an abolitionist weekly. There were approximately 500 attendees who heard him speak
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The Odyssey is a heroic tale of a man on a mission with many obstacles to overcome. When called away from his homeland and his family to fight in a battle against Troy‚ Odysseus‚ king of Ithaca‚ overcomes several different obstacles and portrays many different heroic characteristics over the ten years he is away in order to reach his beloved wife‚ son‚ and homeland again. Throughout his journey home‚ he encounters many things such as an uncivilized giant with one eye called a Cyclops‚ a witch-goddess
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Individualty Symbolizes Happiness Prompt: In the final chapter of Anthem‚ Prometheus writes that he now understands “why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.” What has Prometheus come to understand about himself? Why does his society regard the “best in him” as sinful? “It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon paper no others see.” “It is a sin write this.” So begins Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ a dystopian novella
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Everyone in this world has constrained to face complex challenges throughout their lives. Some have faced hardship with difficulties‚ loneliness‚ and suffrage. In the novel‚ The Odyssey by Homer‚ their characters has significant roles and inspiration for the author‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ to create the free verse poem‚ “ An Ancient Gestures”. The poem has developed through the inspiration of the two characters in The Odyssey‚ which includes‚ Penelope and Odysseus. Having Penelope waiting for her
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