Imagine if you just saw your best friend being taken in front of your eyes‚ and never being able to see her again? How would you react? In the book‚ “Rage Of The Fallen” by Joseph Delaney‚ a boy by the name of Tom Ward goes through that exact situation. This is a fantasy book in which there are things like worlds‚ magic‚ and other things‚ which is why it’s important to understand it. In order to do so you need to know about the setting‚ the characters‚ the conflict‚ etc. There are a lot of interesting
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Heart of Darkness By: Joseph Conrad According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary‚ a lie is an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker or it is something that misleads or deceives. In other words‚ a lie is an untruth. In life lies are told for many different reasons. In fiction they give a little more body to the plot. In Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ Marlow dislikes lies and therefore only tells them in extraordinary circumstances. The lie show that Marlow
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The poem is well known for a number of reasons. The extensive judicial scene gives a degree of insight into the legal system of the period‚ which is also well documented from a technical point of view in various Anglo-Norman texts of Henry I and Henry II of England. In contrast to Marie’s other lais‚ such as Guigemar and Le Fresne‚ nothing is made of the mistress’s intellectual or spiritual qualities. Rather the description is of the opulence of her wealth and her beauty. Guigemar: "She was
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In the essay "Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn‚ the author explains how television separates people from each other. Television‚ she claims‚ replaces the human contact by keeping the television viewers interested in the television programming instead of having a human companion. In the essay "Dearly Disconnected" by Ian Frazier‚ the author describes the cell phone as an object that will take out the payphones‚ increase human contact and decrease privacy. For example‚ televisions and
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Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness is essentially the story of Charles Marlow’s journey into the center of Africa. The first person narration‚ however‚ is not provided by Marlow; an unidentified fourth person traveling on the cruising yawl Nellie provides background information and infrequent commentary as the group of friends waits for the tides to turn so they may embark on a journey down the Thames to the sea. Marlow tells his story in the first person‚ describing the events that he witnessed
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Individual ICEing #2 (pg. 205-251) In Legend by Marie Lu‚ the author uses characterization to explain how June might believe that Thomas had murdered her brother instead of Day like she had previously believed. At this point in the story June is looking through the case file of Metias‚ her brother’s death. She looks at the poorly taken crime scene photos of his dead body and notices some marks on the knife’s hilt. Looking at the photos more in depth‚ she sees marks that are not blood. Instead
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therefore‚ the answer to such a simply-put‚ yet broad question usually doesn’t exceed a standard myth’s generalities. Most people will conclude that a myth is fiction and neglect to realize that the overall definition goes far beyond that. According to Joseph Campbell‚ neither a myth nor the hero’s story from within the myth is manufactured by its author; moreover‚ a myth is a collective and unconscious exploitation of the mind in which it dwells. It thrives off of representations and ideas from within
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medieval society and structure‚ as well as determining religious‚ political and personal ideas. Such things as women’s roles and importance seem rather like a modern movement‚ but in reality were very much active during these days‚ as seen in Beowulf and Marie de France’s Lanval. Although written almost two hundred years apart (with some major societal changes at that)‚ both Beowulf and Lanval give the modern reader a great inside view of the roles‚ lifestyle‚ and importance
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The Lais of Marie de France offers an inquisitive perspective on the nature of love and the sacrifices one must make in relationships and marriage. While reading‚ I encountered many examples of a man and woman in love who must suffer for one another. This collection of narratives contains characters in relationships in which each partner suffers equally for one another and characters in which one partner sacrifices more than the other. In the first narrative “Guigemar”‚ when Guigemar is wounded
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Warcross by Marie Lu is an exciting story that takes place in the near future. The book seems to take place 10-15 years from now‚ when everyone is obsessed with a virtual reality video game called Warcross that is played on a device called the Hololens goggles. One day‚ when Emika Chen‚ a bounty Hunter‚ accidentally hacks into a Warcross championship tournament‚ she thinks she will be arrested. But instead‚ the creator of the Hololens goggles and Warcross is impressed with her skills and recruits
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