A character analysis of Elena Gilbert The Vampire Diaries | ‘The Vampire Diaries’‚ originally a book by L.J Smith‚ was translated to television by the CW Television Network in 2009. As the title goes‚ it is dominated by the supernatural. Vampires to be exact. The story is set in the fictional town called ‚“Mystic Falls”‚ in Virginia. Elena Gilbert is the show’s protagonist who is torn between the supernatural and humanity. Elena is a strong‚ caring person but as time progresses‚ she can be
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My new favorite word is suffering. I endeavor to use it in my writing and in everyday life as much as possible. This is because I’m reading Elena Ferrante’s delicious novel quartet‚ which recounts the tale of a complex friendship between two women from a very young age into their sixties. The story takes place in Naples‚ Italy. The neighborhood is run down‚ the girls’ clothing‚ drab; but the characters’ emotions are so alive! And the narrator’s repeated use of the word suffering strikes such a chord
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Elena Gomes was born during the Bangladesh Liberation War during the early 1970s. Although she started her life in a warzone‚ her family was lucky enough to immigrate to the United States of America in 1974; three years after the war had ended. Despite that they escaped their violence-filled village in Bangladesh‚ Elena’s parents continued to worry for their family’s safety‚ refusing to let their only daughter leave the house more than necessary‚ causing Elena to have a limited number of people to
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A response passing judgment on All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque opens the book “All Quiet on the Western Front” with an epitaph of “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession‚ and least of all an adventure‚ for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped its shells‚ were destroyed by the war.” The readers may ask: why the writter says that the book is not an accusation
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The work of the Neapolitan writer Elena Ferrante has received much attention in recent years‚ becoming the subject of countless articles‚ not only in the Italian press‚ but also in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. Paolo di Paolo‚ writing for La Stampa‚ provides us with a succinct description of the “caso Ferrante”: “Merita perciò di essere studiato il fenomeno-Ferrante: un’autrice di cui tuttora si ignora l’identità salutata qualche settimana fa dal New Yorker come una grande artista
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from several words and attitudes that the poet conveys to their reader. Poets‚ Pat Mora and Anthony Grooms‚ both use tone in their poems‚ but only one tone changes with the different setting‚ while the other tone remains constant. In Pat Mora’s‚ "Elena‚" the speaker is a Mexican woman who explains how her life has changed due to her and her family moving to the United States. The first line in the poem brings a slight negative tone‚ "My Spanish isn’t enough." Right away the reader is brought into
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same story with colours‚ pictures and actions. But I’m certain‚ that books are still popular‚ becouse it’s a cheaper way‚ than to go to the cinema and also you can keep a book forever and read it many time. My favourite book is written by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)‚ German-American novelist‚ born in Osnabrück‚ Germany‚ and educated at the University of Münster. He served in the German army during World War I. During the war he wrote his first novel " All Quite on the Western Front"‚ it became
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Topic: The effects of tradition and how it displayed in short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe. Tradition is something you pass down through generation to generation. Something that usually is a long established custom or belief that has been passed on a certain way. When the word tradition enters your mind‚ no one comes to think that tradition may have negative effects. Times have changed‚ should the way we live our lives change along
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is the disagreeing of love between Romeo and Juliet and Tony and Maria. Romeo and Juliet are not wanted to see each other because Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. Similarly‚ Tony and Maria cannot be together because Tony is a Shark and Maria is a Jet. When Bernardo see’s Tony and Maria kissing at the dance he runs over and pushes him of f her‚ “Get your hands of American‚ stay away from my sister.” Then he says to Maria‚ “Can’t you see he’s one of them?” One major difference between
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West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
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