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    Sea by Anita Desai mirror its society’s values? What to include: Define the cultural values and ideas of this society. Theme as a cultural representation of values and ideas Characterisation – characters as a stereotype of values and ideas Hari‚ his father (role of fathers in society) Setting – city and village – as representation (symbols) of values and ideas Introduction: (Author and the title of the book must be included in the first sentence). The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai

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    Plot device

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    Many stories‚ especially in the fantasy genre‚ feature an object or objects with some great power. Often what drives the plot is the hero’s need to find the object before the villain and use it for good rather than evil‚ or if the object has been broken by the villains‚ to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it‚ or‚ if the object itself is evil‚ to destroy it. In some cases destroying the object will lead to the destruction of the villain.[according to whom?]

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    story‚ “The Shawl”‚ was first published by The New Yorker in 1980. Her story takes place during a time of trial and tribulation. The time period and setting is set during World War II during the holocaust. The main purpose of this story is where “The Shawl” takes place known as the setting. The setting is the natural‚ manufactured‚ political‚ cultural‚ and temporal environment including everything that characters know‚ own‚ and otherwise experience. The setting throughout the story‚ “The Shawl” enhances

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    I. EXTRACTS BASED QUESTIONS Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow : 1. “I am going back to my grandmother. My lawyer will communicate with you later ?” (a) Who speaks the above lines ? (b) Why is she going back to her grandmother ? (c) What effect does the above extract have on the listener ? 2. “Well‚ I was not in a position to contradict Jenkins.” (a) Why was the narrator not in a position to contradict Jenkins ? (b) Who was Jenkins ? (c) What had Jenkins

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    Anita Scism Case Summary

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    In this case‚ Anita Scism was ultimately chosen as the second President of the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville‚ Arkansas (Todd and White‚ 2002). The first President‚ Bill Mitchell‚ had led for the previous ten years from 1987 until 1997 and although he was well regarded and grew the center‚ he also experienced the growing pains of financial limitations and the expansion stressors of the original organizational structure. Anita’s main challenge within her new role was to increase revenues. Amongst

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    Plot In The Alchemist

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    Plot in The Alchemist The four obstacles are presented to us in the early pages of the introduction. The first obstacle: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. The second obstacle: love. The third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. Finally the fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream of which we fought for all our lives. We find the first obstacle Santiago faces in page 9‚ where Santiago mentions to his father at a early age that

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    Anita Desai’s story is all about duty and devotion. It draws a picture of the life of a son. The son is brought up by his father‚ starts earning his livelihood and then‚ dutifully looks after his father. However‚ crisis develops as his father‚ whimsical due to age‚ starts misinterpreting his son’s treatment. The question that the story posse is that how long should a son take care of his father? What should be the extent of his dutifulness and obedience? This is a problem of the modern world caused

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    delineated beginning‚ middle‚ or end.." (qtd. in Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Upon closer inspect we can clearly see that Glaspell does indeed have a beginning‚ middle and end‚ and the action does not meander. The plot of Trifles follows the pyramid created by critic Gustav Freytag to follow the plot of dramatic work. According to Freytag‚ a play usually starts with exposition‚ this is where were introduced to the charters‚ setting and the basic situation the characters are involved. Exposition is then followed

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    addressing the same concept to portray their own perceptions on various situations or rather to position their reader to respond into certain ways. Anita Desai and Nasra in the short stories ‘surface textures’ and ‘ANDBWAND’ appear to raise a similar concept nonetheless in varied ways. Nonetheless they both use characterization and style to build up on epiphany. Anita Desai’s stories are set in present

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    Plot Summary

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    Plot Summary By Michael J. Cummings...© 2009 .......Wounded‚ the narrator takes refuge at nightfall with his valet‚ Pedro‚ in an apartment in the turret of a grand but gloomy chateau in Italy’s Apennines Mountains. Pedro had broken into the building‚ which appears to have been temporarily abandoned‚ so that his injured employer would have a place to rest. .......The furnishings are elegant but old and run-down. On the walls are tapestries‚ armorial trophies‚ and modern paintings in frames

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