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    PLOT OF INTO THE WILD (FILM) The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative‚ jumping back and forth between McCandless ’s time spent in Alaskan wilderness and his two-year travels leading up to his journey to Alaska. The plot summary here is told in a more chronological order. In May 1992‚ Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in a remote area just north of the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska and sets up a campsite in an abandoned bus. At first‚ McCandless is content with the

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    Analyzing/ Evaluating a Movie Y tu mama tambien Y tu mama tambien by Alfonso Cuaron is the movie evaluated in the next paragraphs. The movie is starred by Gael Garcia Bernal‚ Diego Luna‚ and the Spanish Maribel Verdu. The movie starts with the typical two best friends Julio (Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Luna) whose girlfriends are about to depart for summer vacations. As they leave the airport‚ after their take off they continue to their own world of irreverence and over stimulated

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    ‘The Lottery’ By Shirley Jackson Mode: Reading Genre: Prose Task: How does Shirley Jackson build up suspense in the short story ‘The Lottery’? The story ‘The Lottery’ was written by Shirley Jackson‚ throughout the piece the author builds up suspense towards the climax. The story takes place in a small village‚ where the people are close and tradition is paramount. A yearly event‚ called the lottery‚ is one in which one person in the town is randomly selected‚ by a drawing‚ to be violently

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    Imagine winning the lottery but instead of some kind of monetary reward‚ winning causes you to lose your life! Well in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” that is exactly what happens to the characters‚ at first everything appears like just another normal mundane village but gradually things take a much darker turn as the lottery persist until the unlucky fellow wins. After being announced victorious the victors family (including the victor himself) have a much smaller lottery and whoever wins that is

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    English IV AN ANALYSIS PAPER ON ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL AND THE CHERRY ORCHARD Submitted to: Mrs. Joneth D. Vibar Submitted by: Vincent del Castillo IV-St.Francis of Assisi Outline of Analysis 1 Author’s Style 1.1 Anton Chekhov as a Playwright and Author of Short Stories 1.1.1 Russia’s best known Modern Playwright 1.1.1 Master of the Modern Short Story 1.2 Anton Chekhov and his Influences

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    “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. The author states that some traditions are irrelevant. In this story‚ a tradition becomes irrelevant because it causes manipulation‚ cruelty‚ and death. The lottery is a form of manipulation because it controls the villagers. The villagers are being manipulated because of the lottery tradition to kill the person who chooses the paper with the spot. For example‚ in the story‚ the lottery is influencing the villagers to kill Tessie with stones

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    “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson that asks the same question. The narrator presents a small-town where a traditional lottery is held annually every summer on June 27th. The town’s people get together for a lottery (1). The reward is unknown at the beginning to reader‚ but increasingly becomes more apparent as the story continues to its climax. The reward is a sadistic random tradition in the form of murder by stoning. The killing‚ which is the purpose of the lottery‚ is foreshadowed

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    “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson talks about the villagers of a small town who gather together in the square on June 27 for the town lottery. In other towns the lottery takes longer‚ but since there aren’t a lot of people in this village (300 people) the lottery takes only two hours. Mr. Summers runs the lottery in this town because he has a lot of time. He arrives in the square with the black box. This black box isn’t the original one because since the other one was lost they use this one. Mr. Summers

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    In “The Lottery‚” the author‚ Shirley Jackson‚ reveals that human society may follow traditions blindly‚ leading to the loss of meaningful relationships. The members of this community follow the tradition of the lottery without understanding the significance. The lottery is an annual tradition in which a random member of the community is selected and sacrificed to improve the results of the harvest. When Old Man Warner brings up the old saying‚ “Lottery in June‚ corn be heavy soon‚” he is enforcing

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    The Color Black and Symbolism in “The Lottery” People are influenced by a variety of different sources – their parents‚ their friends‚ and their communities. While everyone must learn to make their own decisions‚ they often follow the beliefs of the people around them. Teenagers register to vote as a “Democrat” merely because their parents call themselves Democrats. Sometimes blindly following another’s influence can result in something much more severe‚ such as becoming a slave owner due to the

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