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    ENGL 1005H Love and Hate (Winter 2014) Midterm Exam Date: Feb. 25th‚ 2014 Time: 9:00 AM (Section 09) Sarah Thickett 0551120 By then the scent of roses given off by her body had traveled a long‚ long way. All the way to town‚ where the rebel forces and the federal troops were engaged in a fierce battle. One man stood head and shoulders above the others for his valor; it was the rebel who Gertrudis had seen in the plaza in Piedras Negras the week before. A pink cloud floated toward him

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    The Possession In novels written by Henry James‚ a current theme is replayed over and over again. James is known for making his narrator seem unreliable throughout the novels‚ making the reader start to question what is true about the novel and what is not. This is shown all throughout James’ classic‚ The Turn of the Screw. In this novel‚ the main character‚ the governess‚ in counts numerous ghost sightings at her new job at the Bly. She starts to become spectacle that the children who she is caring

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    chaos. However it’s his reaction to these revelations which also enables him to restore order in his life. In the book “Curious” Mark Haddon has used an interesting narrative structure to convey the effects of Christopher Boone as the distinctive narrator. A distinctive feature we see in “Curious” is the use of Narrative Digressions. Haddon has structured this novel so that about every second chapter we see a Narrative digression which throws the story into pause and in these narrative digressions

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    ’In his writing‚ Edgar Allan Poe creates a particularly American Gothic sensibility. ’ Discuss‚ with reference to ’The Fall of the House of Usher ’. Creating an American Gothic sensibilty is an immense undertaking for any author‚ poet or playwright. One must make sure to include all of the vital ingredients in order to capture and tranfix the reader. A setting of a spine-chilling drafty old House‚ an immoral act of incest‚ doubling of characters and events‚ inconceivable supernatual and inexplicable

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    he is an unreliable narrator. Montresor can be considered an unreliable narrator because he never gives any details of the “thousand injuries” he has suffered at the hand of Fortunato or how he was insulted. Montresor says‚ “You‚ who so well know the nature of my soul‚ will not suppose‚ however‚ that gave utterance to a threat.” This is ironic because the reader does not know the nature of his soul and has no way of knowing because the reader has just been briefly introduced to the narrator. Irony

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    perAllison Lemack Mrs. Brewer American Lit. 1 March‚ 2013 A Nonconformist Narrator Huck Finn was a misfit boy‚ caught in a very racial society. Society had morphed his brain into thinking that he was better than the slaves. After Pap mishandled Huck as an innocent child‚ his longevity will materially and intellectually be scared. A Father should be a mentor to those who are younger than them‚ yet Pap is the complete opposite of what anyone should look up to. According to dictionary.com‚

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    Analysis on The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Ellen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” published in 1846 depicts an imperfect revenge operated by the narrator on his friend who has insulted him. Poe uses an unreliable narrator who is writing the story for a memoir. At the end of the story‚ the narrator commit the crimes and have a hard time as he has to live with guiltiness for the rest of his life. The title refers to wine as a temptation for humans to do evil things. Poe uses both irony and

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    affectionate. Point of View: Main character Nick Carraway narrates the story in both first and third person. He narrates in recent perspective written in mainly present tense‚ although sometimes reminiscing of Gatsby’s past. Caraway is a mostly objective narrator‚ although sometimes subtly inserts his own views on Gatsby and his decisions. Point of view is switched between Nick Caraway and Gatsby. Through the unique point of view through the different characters‚ Fitzgerald creates dramatic effects‚ positively

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    out weighs that of the other. Some may believe the narrator only wished Ligeia would return so he completely imagined the events contained throughout the story. While other readers may believe that Ligeia did actually return and it was through her own will that this event happened. The goal of this essay is to disprove the misconception that there is only one way to

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    comprehend the credibility of the narrators and the different symbolisms used to create informative yet suspenseful content. In “The Tell -Tale Heart‚” Poe delivers his story through an obviously mentally ill man‚ which is very similar to the character in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman. the mental illnesses the narrators are suffering from make it difficult to differentiate between actual events or from those that occur through the wild imaginings of the narrator. Of the two stories‚ “The Tell -Tale

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