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    Odyssey Literary Analysis

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    The Author and his Times The author of the Odyssey‚ to this day‚ remains unknown. Early Greeks have accredited works such as the "Homeric Hyms"‚ The Iliad‚ and The Odyssey to an individual by the name of Homer. However‚ there are some scientists that insist these said works were product of a group of people and not one man. This particular group of scientists claims that the subject matter of the writings is too diverse for them to have been the product of just one person. Despite these differing

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    Legend Literary Analysis

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    In Legend‚ Marie Lu uses connotative diction that creates an accusing tone in order to elucidate how individuals within a society automatically resort to class hierarchy. She concludes that humans are willing to submit to ignorance in order to live in a society that benefits them. The Republic is a place of extreme economic polarization. High-ranking characters like June and Thomas enjoy lavish lifestyles and fancy events while the poor live in slums and do not receive adequate medical care. Just

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    The Hobbit written by J.R.R. Tolkien is classified as a children’s novel‚ this would be the first steps to the series‚ he would later publish; The Lord of the Rings which resides in the same fictional world established in The Hobbit. The work of The Hobbit mirrors that of various mythos and aspects of the real world. The Hobbit shares many of it’s themes and several of its key qualities in characters with those established in previous stories or myths‚ starting with Bilbo Baggins. The aristocratic

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    Anthem Literary Analysis

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    Freedom: The Underrated Concept In Modern Times‚ the concept of freedom is to be entitled by every man and women with exceptions in some cases‚ but underrated to those who are given it. In the case of the early 1900’s‚ freedom was a foreign concept to some countries and citizens of the unlucky wanted a taste of what they couldn’t have. In the novel‚ Anthem‚ by Ayn Rand‚ she uses her childhood and knowledge of the strict Romanov Reign to instill a concept in her dystopian novel where real freedom

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    PLOT SUMMARY Hrothgar is the King of the Danes in southern Denmark. Through success in battle he has become rich and mighty. As a symbol of his power and prosperity he builds a magnificent mead-hall‚ called Heorot‚ in which he and his loyal warriors can feast‚ drink‚ boast‚ and listen to the tales of the scops‚ the Anglo-Saxon bards. But soon after Heorot is finished‚ the mirth of the men and the music of the scop anger Grendel‚ a monster descended from Cain. Grendel raids the hall‚ snatching men

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    The Gym Literary Analysis

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    The author uses settings to help show us themes and develop characters. The gym is a setting the author uses to show us the theme “A person must take action in order to persevere goals”. The gym is where Junior could just kinda get away from life and don’t worry about anything except basketball. I chose to do the gym with my theme because Junior had a goal to get onto the team and he did‚ he didn’t get on any special team he got on varsity. Junior could do anything if he put his mind to it in the

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    Hamlet Literary Analysis

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    The Wilting Flowers: The Loss of Innocence in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Innocence and purity wither away in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the protagonist strives for his revenge‚ yet wrestles with his past morals and current confusion. However‚ it is not Hamlet’s angst-ridden struggle that is best examined‚ but rather the slow downward spiral of the female characters‚ Hamlet’s mother and his love interest‚ who are somewhat neglected in the plot. Queen Gertrude and young Ophelia’s loss of female

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    Momaday uses this memoir to document‚ not only the end of his grandmother’s life‚ but also the “end” of several ways of life for the Kiowa people by constructing this world for the reader as if the reader had been there himself. Momaday begins his memoir with strong and descriptive word choice illustrating Rainy Mountain. Each sentence acting as a brushstroke in the reader’s mind‚ the paragraph painting an elaborate picture‚ the reader feels as if he has been dropped into the setting. Momaday then

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    Ashley Bennett English 203 Allison Tharp Date Title In the short story “The Veldt” Ray Bradbury expresses how modern technology can destroy a family. People are trying to remove the challenges and difficulties of being a human‚ so they are making technology better and better. The “Happy Life Home” is a prime example of this. The “Happy Life Home” played mother and father to these children and made them turn on their parents‚ and kill them. The children in “The Veldt” turned on their

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    “The reader should realize himself that it could not have happened otherwise‚ and that to give him any other name was quite out of the question.” - Nikolai Gogol. This is the epigraph for the Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake‚ for the quote foreshadows a lot of what the novel contains and helps us understand the difference between what we’re being told and what we’re‚ seeing. Jhumpa Lahiri chooses to start with a quote from Nikolai Gogol for it connects to both The Overcoat and The Namesake for names

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