because Brontë explores the lives of the Brontë sisters and mentions their literally achievements and Jane Eyre‚ written by Charlotte Brontë (adapted by Polly Teale)‚ explores the struggle of a woman choosing between her head and heart‚ a pressure felt by all the Brontë sisters. I play the character of Anne Brontë in Brontë by Polly Teale. Polly Teale is a British award-winning playwright. Since 1995 Teale has been working with the theatre company Shared Experience. Teale has gained acclaim through
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Madeleine L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time is about a young girl named Meg Murry‚ who is far from perfect. While she does come from a close‚ loving family‚ Meg has low self-esteem and a stubborn personality. As she gets caught up in the battle to save the universe from evil‚ Meg uses both her strengths and her weaknesses to help her. The novel begins by introducing Meg as a girl who has very low self-esteem. L’Engle describes Beg making horrible faces at herself in the mirror‚ flashing a snarling
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Literacy Response: The Speech of Miss Polly Baker Benjamin Franklin creates this powerful and intelligent character in the fiction story‚ The Speech of Miss Polly Baker. At the beginning‚ Polly Baker starts out humbly in response to being accused of giving birth to a bastard child for the fifth time. She asks the jury to listen to what she has to say. As she continues to talk‚ Baker starts to make strong arguments against harsh punishments that women are to bear from having an illegitimate child
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1. What is the main conflict in the book? Is it external or internal? How is this conflict resolved throughout the course of the book? The main conflict in the book with that the Murry family’s father is stuck in another world. This would be considered an external conflict. It is resolved with the help of the main character Meg and her two helpers‚ Charles and Calvin. Throughout the book‚ they meet three women who are from a different planet. They explain to them that there is a villain who is holding
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some excitement in her life. She wants to have some fun and spontaneity in her life‚ so one night while she is visiting Rome‚ Ann makes her escape from her handlers and heads to the streets of the city‚ where a handsome new reporter‚ Joe Bradley (Peck) stumbles upon her. There appears to be no place for her to go‚ so Joe takes her to his apartment for the evening‚ but the next day he discovers he may be onto the scoop of a lifetime when he realizes that the woman in his bed is none other than the
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dilapidated and gloomy house of the neighborhood “bogeyman”‚ a recluse named Boo Radley (Robert Duval)‚ who was rumored to be a vicious and scary creature. The focus on Boo is quickly overshadowed when Scouts widowed Father‚ lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck)‚ takes the insurmountable case‚ of a black man accused of raping a white woman. In a time before desegregation was even a thought‚ black people were viewed as despicable and disposable. Atticus‚ however‚ whose integrity and character is rare‚ wholeheartedly
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What happened to Joshua Michael Peck– What is Josh Doing Now Remember that rollie pollie Josh? He is not the plump fellow any longer but rather transformed into a charming hunk. It could be hard to believe‚ but it’s more than 10 years now since the adored series “Drake & Josh” appeared on Nickelodeon. "Drake & Josh" outperformed the other Nickelodeon shows of the 2000s. While the show provided the audience some great amusement‚ it also acquainted Josh Peck to the world who was an instant hit
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Annie Smith Peck had a distinguished academic career‚ including a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and advanced study in Germany and Greece. She taught Latin at Purdue University and Smith College. But her first glance at the Matterhorn awakened an interest in mountain climbing. She ultimately climbed the Matterhorn and went on to conquer other mountains in Europe‚ North America‚ and the Andes in South America. When she was 61 she crowned her ascent of Peru’s Mount Coropuna with a
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In the book Frozen in Time Polly Emerson is taken from the past‚ she faces challenges with trusting herself and others. Along with her brother Freddy‚ they are discovered by their great‚ great niece and nephew; Ben and Rachel. After being in chronic suspension from 1956 to 2010. Polly is bewildered as to why her father would leave her and Freddy. At first when Polly steps out of the lab‚ she doesn’t believe she really is in the 21st century‚ until Rachel is able to convince her. As anyone would
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By: Madeleine L’Engle Book Report By: Madeleine L’Engle a French author uses a creative mixture of science and fairy tale magic for building the story line in her book A Wrinkle in Time. From beginning to end Meg‚ Charles Wallace‚ and Calvin go through adventure after adventure bursting with animated fairy-tale characteristics. This book has a model preteen coming-of-age theme. The three are intertwined naturally‚ and work well within the science-fiction twist of this very unbelievable fantasy
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