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    prayer of desperation. Despite the simplistic language used to narrate the piece‚ Lawrence introduces a number of genuine issues that affect families of low income. These issues are highlighted in the stark contrast between the antagonist and protagonist consistent throughout the story. Paul’s mother is portrayed as a peculiar antagonist‚ however‚ as she is actually a victim herself‚ incapable of loving her son due to her dire financial situation and her sour relationship with her husband. Despite

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    betrayed by people whom they believed are their friends. Ibarra was denounced by the friars while Dantes was betrayed by Villefort‚ Danglars and Fernand. > > 3.) The protagonists both have friends who helped them escape (Elias and Faria). They also died in the course of the story. > > 4.) The protagonists used bodies of water to escape - a lake for Ibarra and the sea for Dantes. > > 5.) They both used buried treasures for revenge. > > 6.) Ibarra and Dantes both

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    People who learn of protagonists in some fiction novels tend to think of them as a normal person‚ but some main characters show to be anti-heroic. Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in The Rye and Naomi Nickel from Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness show they are anti-heroes. Not being able to comply with society’s expectations and acting rebellious are what negative traits these two possess‚ but show a softer side from their compassionate personality and actions. Although both Holden

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    Men (Coen & Coen‚ 2007)‚ which primarily focuses on the prevailing thriller elements of the story. In regards to eras in film history‚ No Country for Old Men (Coen & Coen‚ 2007) is reminiscent of New Wave cinema with morally ambiguous or depraved protagonists in a disillusioned world. No Country for Old Men (Coen & Coen‚ 2007) stems from the broader Postmodernism and New Historicism movements‚ which emphasize a disenchanted perspective of the world‚ instead of the blissfully ignorant perspective of

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    Code and convention of horror film: A horror film follows certain code and convection to achieve its purpose of scaring and alarming the audience. The following are some of them: Setting/location: The location used for this genre of a film is isolated and lonely area that has been abandoned or an area where the victim will feel vulnerable. For example small communities‚ dark streets‚ narrow alleyways‚ roads‚ woods‚ haunted places‚ farms‚ country sides and cities etc… sometimes places with ‘dark’

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    to visit a hermit in the desert of the Thebaid ‚ a place in Egypt synonymous with monasticism. She becomes a hermit. PROTAGONIST because she is the main character in story which it talks about her experience with Rustico and her innocence on what she could do to serve God. 2. Rustico A monk. A young devout hermit. He teaches Alibech to put the devil in hell. PROTAGONIST together with Alibech they are the main characters of the story because he is the one who tell Alibech to put the devil

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    makes of a story has to be made so as to grasp its audience in its claws in order for the actual audience not to get away. In the story of The Aspern Papers‚ Henry James creates an interesting main protagonist (whose name we are never given). The latter is a post-diegetic narrator as well as a protagonist belonging to the diegesis. This duplicity accounts for the ambiguity of the “I’s” found in the story. But let us first concentrate on the post-diegetic narrator. As we have said earlier on

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    "Her First Ball" is a short story written by Katherine Mansfield in 1921. A young girl‚ about 18 years of age called Leila is the protagonist of the story. The story expresses the Excitement and Anxiety of Leila‚ who is extremely self conscious at the prospect of attending her first formal ball. The prose is written in Third person Omniscient‚ where the narrator is not a character in the story nor Leila‚ but tells the story strictly through her eyes only and we read the thoughts going on in her mind

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    periods of time‚ and only changes when other outside elements interact with it. In this way‚ the dream in Harlem - the American Dream - can not be pure‚ as it changes - both physically and chemically - as time passes‚ and the Dream held by the protagonists of our literature is not pure either‚ motivated by sinful desire rather than purity and

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    No Angel Grief is individual because everyone handles his or her sorrows differently. No one wants to be alone and therefore to loose someone you love can be tremendously painful and difficult to overcome. On the one hand you want to get liberated from the pain and loss. You try to compensate from it by forgetting. Others want to keep the memory of the ones they have lost‚ because they fear the loneliness‚ and thereby find it challenging letting them go because death is so hard to accept. That is

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