The book I chose is Ransom by Lois Duncan. This is a story about five teenagers‚ Dexter‚ Jesse‚ Bruce‚ Glenn‚ and Marianne‚ that get kidnapped and their parents are contacted to pay a ransom to get them back. The teenagers are from very different backgrounds and have different social statuses at school. They all live in a “rich” known neighborhood called Valley Gardens which is how the kidnappers chose them. Ransom is a crime thriller and the mystery of not knowing what’s going to happen next keeps
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Ransom Qualities of the ‘epic’ hero: Heroes embody the values of their civilisation * Wisdom * Humility * Compassion * Endurance * Honour * Integrity * Bravery Key Quotes: Mortality: “a hero’s death out there in full sunlight under the gaze of gods and men‚ for which the hardened self‚ the hardened body‚ had to be daily exercised and prepared” Hero: “to break free of the obligation of being always the hero…to take on the lighter bond of simply being man” Human condition:
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tends to transcend the category of ‘season‚’ and more accurately takes on the form of a revival. By utilizing personification‚ Dickinson is able to bring to life the natural elements that form the essence of spring‚ while implicitly relating these intrinsic qualities of spring to her faith. Throughout most of her works‚ Dickinson tends
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Poetry Analysis - “Inferno” In a composure of escalating intensity‚ "Inferno" is a twenty-five line poem of increasing intensity just like a musical arrangement. In "Inferno‚" an anonymous teenage author uses metaphors‚ personification‚ and well-chosen diction that explores how an inspiration to achieve a goal is partnered with a strong motivation for succeeding. The author uses several metaphors throughout the poem that compare how a musical composure is a constantly building and developing work
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Ransom Riggs is a children’s literature author with books including‚ The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World’s Greatest Detective‚ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children‚ Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past‚ Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Children‚ and Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #3). He like to tell story with words‚ pictures‚ and often both. Riggs is an American born in 1980 in Maryland. He grew
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Zeus‚ who disobeys his father and gave humans fire. In "Prometheus” he states‚ ‘“It is very greedy; you must feed it twigs until it becomes a proper size. Then you must stop‚ or it will eat everything in sight- and you too’” (Evslin 57). This personification can tell the reader how fire actually is since they both have greed and know how concreted greed is making it ideally difficult to stop. They can also infer how dangerous it is for the people to have such thing since they are not sure what it
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just the melody but the lyrics that flowed between them. Fela wrote music that made people think and point fingers at the Nigerian government‚ and he did that using music as his medium. Fela Ransom kuti‚ born October 15th 1938 to middle class Christian parents but died the day he changed his middle from Ransom to Anikolapo meaning “The man who carries death in his pouch”. In the 1960’s felas political consciousness ignited after a trip to the united states where he was exposed to the black power movement
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In chapter 14‚ personification is used to help convey the emotions that Rukmani and her family are feeling. The rains had failed and their crops dried out‚ followed by series of events revolving around Rukmani’s family not being able to pay their rent. By the time the rains come‚ the crops have all died‚ and Rukmani’s family plant seeds immediately afterwards. In the narration‚ Rukmani says‚ “Hope‚ and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction then in another‚ and which was the stronger
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The brilliant uses of imagery‚ personification‚ and symbolism in Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death” reveal that death is not the end‚ but only the beginning of an eternity. Through Dickinson’s use of imagery‚ she successfully paints the different scenes with descriptive language and metaphors to allow the reader to get a deeper sense of the mood and what the poem is conveying. Using personification as one of the most important tools of literature in the poem‚ the author creates
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narrative clarification‚ the images in Shel Silverstein’s picture book The Giving Tree (1964) consequently solidify as the dominant mode for communicating the text’s overall themes to the reader. In visually presenting the pattern of action of personification and sacrifice‚ and the recurring image of isolation‚ Silverstein’s illustrations actively portray one such theme of the destabilizing physiological and psychological effects of rape on the female body and mind. As such‚ these trends ultimately
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