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    Metafiction and Happy Endings (Margaret Atwood) METAFICTION A. Definition: The narrator of a metafictional work will call attention to the writing process itself.   The reader is never to forget that what she is reading is constructed--not natural‚ not " real."  She is never to get "lost" in the story. B. Possible Contents: intruding to comment on writing   involving his or herself with fictional characters   directly addressing the reader   openly questioning how narrative assumptions

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    Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2015] 797-798) draws in the reader by describing what a siren song and what it may be. The definition of a siren song according to Merriam-Webster is “ an alluring utterance or appeal; especially : one that is seductive or deceptive.” This definition plays an important role in the entire story that is being told in this poem. There are many different

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    I’m Hungry: What Is Best For You and the Environment Margaret Lundberg’s essay "Eating Green" delivers the message that the way people eat is how they affect the planet. Lundberg has a very strong argument that the meat industry is the "Largest source of global warming" (Lundberg‚ 482) and if everyone were to become vegetarians the world be a healthier place. For everyone to become a vegetarian would be a lot to ask; however‚ Americans love for meat has affected the environment and the personal

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    Broken Age: Critiquing Patriarchy and Empowering Women through Play The recent Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ a feminist dystopia‚ otherwise known as a bad place for women‚ has caused quite the frenzy. And‚ you know‚ rightfully so—the adaptation captures an anxiety many women face in an extreme patriarchal world: the right to control her own body. I won’t spoil too much for you‚ but the cinematography and light/shadows are strategic‚ designed to demonstrate all the ways

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    Name Prof Class Date The theme of Totalitarianism in “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood All throughout the text “The Handmaid ’s Tale”‚ there is a permanent theme of totalitarianism. Regimes that follow a totalitarian cultural ensure dominance over their subjects with the use of manipulation (Finigan 435). Besides the use of manipulation‚ the authority figures in “The Handmaid ’s Tale” dominate the subjects by controlling their experience of life‚ time‚ memory and history (Finigan 435)

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    Picture of Death In the poem "This Is a Photograph of Me"‚ Margaret Atwood attempts to depict the parallels between a picture slowly developing and the narrators realization of her death. This poem is divided into two parts with the second half separated by brackets. The elements of the picture begin to emerge reflecting the narrator ’s awareness of her death. In the first stanza it is as if the speaker is trying to remember fuzzy memories of her past and maybe as far back as her youth. This half

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    In the speech “The Morality of Birth Control” given by Margaret Sanger‚ she argues that American society needs to provide birth control information to women and men who are in lower economic situation. This paper will analyze the evidence given in the speech supporting the reasons why America should provide options and information about birth control to control the population of unproductive citizens. THESIS: Margaret Sanger argued that birth control did not compromise morality; she believed that

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    Maya Angelou once said‚ “Freedom is never free.” This is true because a person always has to pay some sort of price in order to be free‚ whether in a literal sense or not. In the book Among the Hidden‚ by Margaret Peterson Haddix‚ Luke Garner is an illegal third child in a place where overpopulation forces the government to make unfair laws. Each family is allowed to have two children‚ so Luke envies his older brothers and cannot live his life the way he wants to. This is similar to in “Two Sisters

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    In the course of the many interrelated short stories written in Moral Disorder we tend to find out many thing about the main characters. In some ways the reader develops a sort of one on one relationship with each character‚ and learns more and more about them in each story. Specifically‚ one of the main characters who tends to stand out in the storyline as a person with a sort of mysterious personality is Tig. Tigs mysterious personality is brought to life mainly in the story “Monopoly”.

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    Dani Gardner AP English October 4‚ 2009 Morning in the Burned House Margaret Atwood is a contemporary Canadian poet‚ story writer‚ and essayist whose Canadian background is present in her writings. “February” is a poem in which death is discussed and pondered. Despair‚ death‚ and destruction seem to be the theme of this poem. The poem opens with a single word in the first sentence: “Winter.” With this being the first thought in the poem it gives the delusion of cold but happy times for many

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