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    include short stories and novels. The importance of the narrator goes beyond the act of simply telling a story that happens in a specific place at one particular point in time. Through the course of the years‚ famous writers have used the narrator as a tool to create suspense and force the audience to read the story from a specific point of view. Within this group of writers‚ William Faulkner and Charlotte Perkins Gilman have used the narrator to allow the reader to interpret the story from a desired

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    Speaker for the Dead Poems

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    Poetry Book By: Aaron Bastian English Period. 4 Mrs. Seeck 1/09/13 Speaker For The Dead written by: Orson Scottcard My Depart By: Ender Wiggin The time has come for me to go To leave this place I have called home It’s beautiful snowy landscape of mountains and seas where the cold of the climate is outdone only by the warmth of togetherness It will soon be but a memory the thought of abandoning my beloved Valentine for whom I care for like no other forces me to remember

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    The story of Speaker for the Dead is fixed in a world far way from earth‚ in which two communities exist. The human community‚ which colonized Lusitania‚ is bond together by the laws and regulations of the church‚ laws of God. The second community is made up of the alien species called the piggies‚ that were there long before the humans arrived. In the Speaker of the Dead‚ a community is symbolized as something positive that defines the personality of each individual. A Community plays an important

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    External Speaker Critique

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    External Speaker Critique Part 1- Background Information about the speaking situation The speaker was David M. Larrick the senior regional director‚ advisory services at Voyageur assets management inc. The title of his speech is Investment insight and his purpose was to inform on small cap and large cap growth equality with their company. The intended audience was investors‚ brokers‚ or finical

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    Noting Details

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    John Locke distinguished‚ in his Essay‚ “real essence” from “nominal essence.” Nominal essence‚ according to Locke‚ is the “abstract Idea to which the Name is annexed (III.vi.2).” Thus‚ the nominal essence of the name ‘gold’‚ Locke said‚ “is that complex Idea the word Gold stands for‚ let it be‚ for instance‚ a Body yellow‚ of a certain weight‚ malleable‚ fusible‚ and fixed.” In contrast‚ the real essence of gold is “the constitution of the insensible parts of that Body‚ on which those Qualities

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    Love and Narrator Triumph

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    of her youth and insecurity‚ the narrator is unable to understand why Maxim chooses to marry her. As she learns more and more about Rebecca‚ she begins to compare herself to Maxim’s first wife‚ who seemed to be far more beautiful‚ elegant‚ and sophisticated than she could ever hope to be. The narrator’s preoccupation with Rebecca develops to the point that she concludes that Maxim is still in love with her. With this revelation‚ the conflict between the narrator and the memory of Rebecca becomes

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    The narrator in the story is insane‚ because he loves the dark. The narrator does weird things showing that he’s insane. The narrator does live in the creepy house alone sometimes. The narrator is just insane it’s kind of hard to explain. The narrator in the story is insane because the way he’s acting. He stays in the house‚ he loves the dark‚ he stays in the creepy house. The narrator in the story is insane because he’s always in the house. Don’t you think sometimes he should go outside? Staying

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    Gender Role and Narrator

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    feminist influence on some issues found in "Boys and Girls"‚ written by Alice Munro‚ and “playing to win” ‚by Margaret Whitney‚ these stories emphasizes the external societal and parental forces that shape the protagonist. These aspects also change who they become. The external pressure by society and by family influence the protagonist in both story. Mother in the both story “playing to win” and “Boys and Girls” doesn’t support their daughter when they wish to be more masculine than feminine. For example

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    Farid IB 15/04/2015 Reliability of Nick Carraway as the narrator of S. Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby”: The story is about Nick’s perception of‚ opinions on‚ and thoughts about other characters and events. What makes a narrator unreliable with a compromised point of view? Can’t be trusted because they: 1. Lie 2.Make mistakes 3. Speaks with bias 4. Intoxicated/ hallucinations/ memory distortion 5.Are an accomplice

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    The characteristics of the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” The “The Yellow Wallpaper” story started off with a small family that moved into a new summer home to spend some time away. The narrator’s husband is her own physician‚ and he tells her that she needs rest away from people to recover from her mental illness. The main character’s favorite hobby is to write thoughts and ideas down on paper. She is also a mother‚ but she doesn’t mention her child that often due to the fact that she wasn’t

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