originated “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is Anderson’s best film yet. A concept that is hard to envision considering he’s a director whose first five films were rated R. Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s novel “Fantastic Mr. Fox” tells the story of other fox aptly named Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney)‚ a sly and daring chicken‚ duck‚ turkey and cider thief. When Boggis (Robin Hurlstone)‚ Bunce (Hugo Guinness) and Bean (Michael Gambon)‚ the three meanest farmers in the land‚ realize Mr. Fox has been stealing
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Goodbye Mr. Chips In the novel Goodbye Mr. Chips‚ James Hilton shows through Katherine how one person can make a substantial change in somebody’s life present or not. Goodbye Mr. Chips is a sentimental story of a gentle aging schoolmaster and his long‚ close association with the school in which he taught. The two main characters that appear in this book are Mr. Chips the English schoolmaster and his lovely wife Katherine. Mr. Chips’ life covers the second half of the nineteenth century and the
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James Hilton’s novel Goodbye‚ Mr. Chips is the story of an English schoolmaster who dedicated his entire adult life teaching young boys. He was a somewhat shy person. Nevertheless he was a competent school teacher‚ professional and attractive in many different ways. Although his first teaching experience was not successful‚ he was determined to become a good schoolmaster. After coming to Brookfield‚ he began to warm up to his students. But more important he brought discipline to his school which
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New Criticism approach to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway‚ by Virginia Woolf‚ was set in a time period shortly after World War I. An omniscient narrator narrates the novel and it gives the reader response full access of what is happening in the minds of the characters from different points of views. In the close reading of a particular excerpt‚ it shows the relationship of a husband‚ a WW I veteran‚ and his wife. The text can be found on page 23 of the novel. “For she could no
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Dear Mr President: Oral Draft Pink‚ is an American singer-songwriter‚ musician and actress‚ she has been singing since 1995 to present. Pink was born on September 8‚ 1979 in Abington Township‚ Montgomery County‚ Pennsylvania‚ U.S. Pink began her career with her first single‚ "There You Go" off her debut album‚ Can’t Take Me Home in 2000. The song Dear Mr President was recorded in 2005 and released on December 21 2006. It was written by Pink and Billy Mann. Dear Mr President has won a Gold
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The Talented Mr. Ripley Insanity is a behavior that is often judged by our society. If one behaves in a manner that contradicts the societal norm‚ he is ostracized for his inappropriate actions. Insanity however is not to be confused with irrationality. Tom Ripley’s many immoral acts‚ namely‚ murder‚ forgery‚ and deceit could be perceived as insane; however‚ when one takes into consideration the calculated motives behind them‚ it is evident that they are merely irrational. Tom’s irrational‚ yet
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Woolf tells us in the introduction to the 1928 eidtion of her book that Septimus is intended to be the double of Mrs. Dalloway. Indeed‚ she first thought that he might live while Clarissa would die. As a result‚ many critics understand his death to be a substitute for Clarissa‚ for if he dies for his war experience (especially the death of his friend) and his inablility to adjust to life‚ she is able to live‚ to adjust to the confinements of her married life. Clarissa’s meditation on Septimus’s
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Throughout the poem‚ Plath uses metaphors about the Holocaust to illustrate Lady Lazarus’s pain and suffering‚ and this may provoke sympathy in the reader. She decribes Lady Lazarus’ foot as a “paperweight” and her face is “featureless fine Jew linen” which may connote the narrator’s feelings of being heavy and undistinguishable from those around her. The poem may be an extended metaphor for depression. If the character’s foot is a “paperweight” then it would be difficult to move‚ and Plath may be
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Analysis the use of stream of consciousness in Mrs Dalloway BY Qian Jiajia Prof. Zhang Li‚ Tutor A Thesis Submitted to Department of English Language and Literature in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of B.A in English At Hebei Normal University May 8th ‚ 2009 Abstract As one of the representative writers of novels of stream of consciousness‚ Virginia Woolf has made important contributions to the development of the technique of stream of consciousness
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As a student I have read many poems through my school years‚ but I have three poems that are my favorite there are "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath. "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost and "Driving to town late to mail a letter" by Robert Bly. These poems are my favorite because I can relate in some aspects on a personal level in "Lady Lazarus"‚" Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" and "Driving to town to mail a letter" reminds of nature. Sylvia Plath is one of my favorite
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