The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a girl named Esperonza who gets lost in the struggle between childhood and adolescence. The theme is childrens unwillingness to drop the lifestyle of childhood and take on the challenges and demands of yung adulthood. In the story Esperonza tells us about this mysterious garden‚ or backyard for those noncreative minds. To her and the other children on the block the garden was a place to be feared. Eventually‚ after the neighbors move‚ the now
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Abby McDermitt The Secret Garden One of the major themes in this novel is the relationship between landscape and a person’s welfare. One of the most important ways that the novel shows this theme is by creating an opposition between India and England. The novel subtly attributes Mary’s childhood sickness to her time in India: "Her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another." India is consistently presented as a place which gives off
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THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett 1- Provide information about the author’s biography. 2- Find the themes of the story. Provide examples by means of extracts. 3- Look up the notions of Theosophy and New Thought. In what ways do they relate to the book? 4- Describe the characters in the story. 5- Which symbols can you find in the novel? Explain their meanings according to your interpretation. 6- Mention characteristics of children’s literature in the story. 7- Analyse:
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The story‚ “The Garden Party” By: Katherine Mansfield is a story about a young girl named Laura who was dramatically changed when a passing of a man happened. Laura was in charge of a garden party then suddenly her neighbor Mr. Scott died. Laura has never experienced anything like this in her life. Mr. Scott left behind a wife and 5 children. Laura felt so bad about what had happened she wanted to cancel the party. Each year her family planned a large garden party. Every year her mother
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“The Secret Garden” written by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a fantastic children’s Literature book. There are several critics on what is the real metaphoric meaning behind the novel. There are several themes that exists amongst which is the theme of “Utopia”‚ which can be defined as a perfect society‚ a place of perfection and happiness‚ and the opposite to that happiness‚ “Dystopia”. As a reader who has read the book I couldn’t agree less on the ideal idea of the secret garden in the novel that is
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The book the Lexus and the Olive Tree was written by Thomas L. Friendman. The book is about how globalization has taken the world by storm. The book has twenty chapters and is split into four parts. Part one is called Seeing The System‚ part two is called Plugging Into The System‚ part three is called The Backlash Against The System‚ and the final part is called America and The System. To continue‚ Friedman uses vivid stories to give the reader a vivid ideal to what this new system looks like. To
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This poem uses the deterioration of an Edenic garden to represent the corrupting effect of organised religion upon our internal state of being. Blake’s ’The Garden of Love’ functions as a criticism upon organised religion‚ poignantly reflecting on its capacity to replace humanity’s innocent joys with rules and empty routines. Stanza 1 The name ’Garden of Love’ almost appears hackneyed through its traditional‚ Edenic connotations. It is a representation of innocence‚ with green‚ open spaces often
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In Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden Stephen is sent from his homeland in China to Japan to recover from tuberculosis. In his journey to recovery he begins to learn from the culture of the Japanese. Stephen soon discovers that Matsu‚ the family’s servant‚ shows quintessential characteristics of Japanese culture. Matsu’s traits can often be compared to those of medieval Japanese warriors. Throughout Samurai’s Garden‚ Matsu shows characteristics of a true samurai. One of the characteristics present
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The short story “The Parsley Garden" set in the 1940s in California dramatizes the plight and choice of a young boy named Al who struggles with his sense to correct a serious error when he stole a hammer. When a person loses his self respect‚ only he can regain it . This is dramatized when young Al is tempted‚ steals‚ gets caught is humiliated‚ searches and then finds a solution .Al‚ an eleven year old boy with no money wandered into a hardware store to amuse himself. While walking
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Executive Summary-The Garden Depot The Garden Depot‚ a family-owned floral company‚ carries a larger variety of floral‚ gardening and lawn-care products with sales and profits growing. Janice bowman has 13 years of operational knowledge in the industry as office manager in the company. She is responsible for inventory management‚ computer system management and logistics. Derek Sinclair‚ the son-in-law of the Depot owner‚ is the landscaping manager with no experience in management. However
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