The Light in the dark Home sweet home Max and I quickly huddle around a fire that the soldier has created from some wood in the shed. I look at his young‚ now hardened face. His blue eyes brighten at the sight of fire. I sit there thinking deeply‚ completely mesmerized by the glowing orange inferno‚ thinking what happens next. I collect all the facts. Max doesn’t have a mother to look after him. Sixpence I promised Tia I would look after. I looked at billy his face looked weak from the adventure
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Guards guided the people toward the village‚ and the soldiers trudged toward the castle and stables. Faye and her children remained behind‚ as did Vaughan‚ Rignuth‚ Rory‚ and Dillan. The men bearing the king’s body remained there‚ too. After Vaughan gave his wife and children kisses and long hugs‚ he took a knee before Audra‚ then leaned down and kissed her shoes. It was like nothing he had ever done before‚ not even in jest‚ this symbol of total submission. “I offer you my life.” Vaughn kept his
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Belew Professor Marc Muneal English 1102 27 September 2011 Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw illustrating the effect language has on each character‚ from how others perceive them to what they are capable or incapable of doing in their lives. In society during that time‚ just as now‚ your accent and the way you speak can tell a great deal about your background and where you are from. But more so in the story of Pygmalion does the accent and the way they speak‚ grammatically speaking
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Pygmalion by George Shaw Shaw "the second greatest English playwright‚ behind only Shakespeare" Title- Shaw called Pygmalion a potboiler and subtitled it "A Romance." Thus the play’s main thematic concern is romantic in the literary use of the term. It is a play that has a highly improbable plot. Professor Henry Higgins transforms a common flower girl into a graceful lady‚ like the legendary Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved an exquisite female statue out of a shapeless piece of ivory. Preface-
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In the stories Pygmalion and The Makeover‚ a lower class individual who aspires to have a higher position in his or her career prompts two upper-class citizens for their assistance. Even though the Pygmalion and The Makeover display numerous similarities‚ the two have apparent disparities. In Pygmalion‚ the story began with a rainy day‚ and Eliza was trying to sell flowers on the street when Freddy bumped into her from behind. Eliza then began to shout at Freddy in her unorthodox dialect‚ and he
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prostitution are seen as degraded‚ uncivilized‚ and uneducated‚ but that is not always true. In the romantic film Pretty Woman‚ the prostitute Vivian is transformed to become a worthy date for Edward‚ a high class businessman. The movie portrays the Pygmalion myth by taking a uneducated prostitute with a heart of gold and turning her into a sensible‚beautiful woman who strives for a real rewarding life. The ideal woman‚ as portrayed in the movie‚ is dignified‚ ambitious‚ and noble‚ both physically and
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"So.... their names are Arato‚ Masato‚ and Takeshi?" Kuroo asks. Kenma nods. He wasn’t quite comfortable knowing he was basically sending Kuroo after the three‚ but Kuroo had insisted that he know who the people were who beat Kenma up. Oh‚ does Kenma remember Kuroo’s reaction when he told him...... "Are you fucking kidding me!?!?" "Kuroo! There are first years present!" "Fuck off‚ Yaku! I’m going to unleash a holy hell-storm on them!" "K-Kuroo.... calm down..." "Kuroo‚ you should listen to
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A boy laid the middle of the road in the outskirts of the small village. Bruises and gashes covered the young man from head to toe. The wounds still slowly oozed blood from his head onto the ground. He laid where the local guards had thrown him after beating him. Behind the gruesome image of the broken and bloodied body was a handsome young man of 13 years of age. If it wasn’t for the savage beating the guards gave him for insulting the local lord’s son he would be considered quite a handsome
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Alison tried to obey‚ but her legs still refused to cooperate‚ her head spun again and in fear of falling she took his hand. She loathed to accept it‚ but she wouldn’t have been able to stand without his support. He wrapped an arm around her in what she felt was a parody of an embrace and pulled her close. Alison capitulated and leaned her forehead against his shoulder until her legs could support her properly again. The Master spoke softly into her hair “Little girl‚ you are completely mine now
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Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion primarily highlights the definitive contrast between different levels of modern society. Though people generally accept that there are distinct social classes present in their lives‚ they rarely consider what makes this distinction so clear. In the play‚ Shaw illustrates and discusses the defining qualities of two entirely different strata‚ emphasizing their difference in speech. He also demonstrates that these differences are so dramatic‚ that a person from one level of
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