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    "No One’s A Mystery‚" by Elizabeth Tallent‚ is about Jack and the eighteen year-old girl he has been having an affair with for the past two years. They are drinking tequila and talking about their future‚ while Jack drives them in his pickup truck through the countryside of Wyoming. Jack is a cynical man who drinks heavily‚ doesn’t clean his truck‚ and has no obvious respect for women. He is currently cheating on his wife with a barely-legal girl he has been having an affair with since she was sixteen

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    "No One’s a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent - Summary In the Elizabeth Tallent’s story "No One’s Mystery" is talking about the eighteen-year-old girl-narrator and Jack. The story begins with a present that Jack gives to the girl for her eighteenth birthday. It was a five-year dairy. The young girl and men were sitting together‚ when Jack saw his wife’s car. He pushed down girl onto the floor‚ because he was afraid of his wife. He did want his wife to see him with other girl sitting together. When

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    Unstable Relationship In “No One’s a Mystery” by Elizabeth Tallent‚ Jack gives a five-year diary to the narrator for her birthday. Why does he give her a five-year diary? Will they be together in another five years? It is obvious that Jack is an unfaithful man. Thus‚ he knows that the narrator will regret seeing him before long. The relationship between the narrator and Jack is not likely to last for a long time due to their differences in attitude and view point. First of all‚ the narrator is

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    “No One’s a Mystery” is mainly about innocence and how coming-of-age plays an important role in a relationship. Tallent plays out a contrast between hopeful expectations and disappointing reality through the character of a naive‚ innocent girl involved with an older‚ experienced man. The girl appears to be very comfortable with Jack‚ even though he pushes her into hiding below the dashboard‚ and despite her spirited singing along with Rosanne Cash on the tape deck‚ her casual drinking of tequila

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    Jessica Ulrich Essay 2 Intro to Literature The story I am completing and analyzing is “No One ’s a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent. “No One ’s a Mystery” is a brief‚ sharply detailed distillation of a doomed relationship between two people of contrasting personalities. The question I ask is who the characters are‚ and what parts of the story lead me to deem and back up my feelings about that certain character. To start off I feel that Jack is a hard one to analyze while reading it in a critical

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    Jorge Duran ENGL 1023 Rough draft Tangman No Ones Mystery In the story called No One’s Mystery talks about an impossible relationship between an eighteen year old girl and an old merry man. The story begins with a present that the old man called Jack gives to the girl for her eighteenth birthday. The scenes explore a relation between two characters‚ in which both quite debatable. The young girl in this history remains nameless and could be considered ingenuous‚ while Jack is a corrupted guy

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    “No One’s a Mystery” and “The Girls in their Summer Dresses” are both short stories that raise the question; when is it time to let go of love? The obvious answer is when it begins to hurt somebody more than it makes them feel elated. ‘Love’ is not easily defined by a dictionary or an internet search; love is something that you must feel and experience for yourself‚ however some kinds of love are dysfunctional and do nothing but leave someone bitter and jaded. In the short story “No One’s a Mystery”

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    MYSTERY What is ‘MYSTERY’? Mystery is defined as something that is a secret‚ something where there is no clear explanation‚ something difficult to understand or explain or something unexplainable or unsolvable. A . An example of a mystery is the location of your Christmas presents. B . An example of a mystery is whether there is proof that God exists. C .An example of a mystery is how exactly people came to be. D .An example of a mystery is a situation where it is unclear who committed a crime

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    The Mystery It was Halloween night and I was throwing a Halloween party. My two friends Ella and Rachel were staying the night. I couldn’t wait because we were going to tell scary stories. Rachel started she told the story of the hand. Ella sat a thought for a minute when it hit her the story of the girl that got murdered a hundred years ago. She told us we would have to go to the grave yard to make it fun. We arrived at the grave yard a spent a half hour looking for the grave of Mary Louise

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    Who Built the Pyramids? Pyramids: Who Built Them? The Great Pyramids at Giza is the oldest monument on the list of the Seven Wonders of the World. There are several theories or believes behind the construction of these massive stone sculptures. However‚ after researching hard workers not slaves constructed these pyramids seems realistic compared to aliens or out of this world forces building these pyramids. These pyramids were built in 2570 BC‚ by ancient Egyptians and are located at Cairo

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