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    Bryan's hunt

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    Steven Newberry 12/18/2012 Period 6 Title: Brian’s Hunt Author: Gary Paulsen Protagonist: The protagonist in this story is Brian himself. He is about 16 years old. he is a very strong and spirited person. He has many obstacles come his way but his bravery helps him overcome the obstacles. Once he was rescued he decides he wants to pack his bags and go back out the canadian forest and live for a month or so. Antagonist: Later in the story the bear becomes the antagonist. The bear has killed

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    The Haunting: Analysis

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    The Haunting In “The Haunting” by Joan Lowery Nixon develops the protagonist and antagonist in the beginning and middle of the novel. Lowery presents the protagonist Lia Starling‚ and the antagonist Mr. Slade the evil in the Graymoss Plantation. The author gives the readers that Lia’s a typical teenager with a love of literature; but when she’s in the hospital at her great grandmother’s deathbed‚ her great-grandma thought she was her mom Anna Starling and she was telling her about Graymoss and telling

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    ‘Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit’) burnt into ashes by the antagonist. They both go through harsh rite of passage as they realize the world isn’t as shining and simple as they thought.     Both stories start with fantasy worlds created by the protagonist- naive hallucinations without any sign of the real evil.  In ‘Darkness’‚ Sandra‚ just another innocent girl with great expectation of life‚ was part of the good neighbor’s craze-“Come and have fun giving a helping hand to the old folks”‚ helping

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    Cosi Essay

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    Così Practice Essay: What does Lewis learn by directing Così Fan Tutte? In the famous playwright ‘Così’ written by Louis Nowra and published in 1992‚ Lewis Riley‚ the play’s protagonist discovers more about himself than ever before. In a setting of a ‘burnt out theatre‚’ which involves characters deemed ‘insane‚’ Lewis is portrayed as the ‘normal’ solitary and the driving force of the play. Through his journey from being an unconfident ‘director’ and idealistic on Australia’s current involvement

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    Analysis Of Limitless

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    the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of his brain abilities‚ a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard‚ but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers. At the beginning of the trailer‚ the main protagonist (Eddie) does not conform to the typical stereotype of a male in this genre. We are introduced to a man who starts off as a low status citizen in New York City‚ with little money‚ power and authority‚ and it appears to be struggling with his life

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    Analysis of Maltese Falcon

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    I don’t recall if Gutman said it in the movie about the Falcon being coated by lacquer to obfuscate that it’s really made of gold and jewels. I think it was implied that nothing is what they really seem to be. This is what I believe Dashiell Hammett was trying to communicate through his novel‚ ‘The Maltese Falcon.’ In this paper I will write about why I believe what is Hammett trying to convey through his cast of characters. These characters are unlike the image and stereotype

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two well written short stories that entail both similarities and differences. Both short stories were written in the late 1800’s early 1900’s and depict the era when women were viewed less important than men. The protagonist in each story is a woman‚ who is confined in solitary due to the men in their lives. The narrator in “A Rose for Emily” is the mutual voice of the townspeople of Jefferson‚ while Emily Grierson is the main character in the story that undergoes

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    My Son the Fanatic

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    background at the same time as embracing others’. In his short story “My Son the Fanatic”‚ Hanif Kureishi treats the drawbacks of immigrating while bringing it together with more universal matters such as growing up. We are introduced to the Pakistani protagonist Parvez‚ who once migrated from his native country. He now lives in England with his wife and their son‚ Ali‚ who hasn’t been brought up very religiously in spite of them being Muslims. This is presumably related to some unpleasant happenings that

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    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Evaluation of Literary Elements Swinging from a noose off a railroad trellis‚ many thoughts race through a condemned man’s mind. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‚” Ambrose Bierce effectively uses literary elements to allow the reader to look through the keyhole of the mind of a dying man in his last moments of life. Elements such as realism‚ flashback‚ metaphor/simile‚ setting‚ point of view‚ and character allow the reader to become

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    horrific murder in fictional movie history which takes place in the infamous shower scene. The shower scene of Psycho was one of the most controversial scenes in the movie‚ the era and possibly of all time. The point of the scene begins as the protagonist‚ Marion Crane‚ decides to return the money the has stolen and mulling the thoughts over‚ has a shower. But at closer scrutiny it is revealed that the shower is washing away the darkness and guilt of her crime and seems that she is becoming her innocent

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