In the passage from Passing‚ by Nella Larsen‚ Clare attempts to compensate for her guilt by warning Irene about the affair that she is having with Irene’s husband. When Clare ties to warn Irene‚ Clare does it in the most ambiguous way and does not distinctly communicate anything. Clare tries to show Irene her dislike towards settling down with a family. When Irene reminds Clare to “think how glad you’ll be to see [Margery] after all this time‚” Clare states “children aren’t everything.” Clare
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Classic Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (edited by William H. Gilman)‚ and the 1983 Library of America Essays & Lectures (selected and annotated by Joel Porte). Emerson prefaced the prose text of the 1836 first edition of Nature with a passage from the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus. The 1849 second edition included instead a poem by Emerson himself. Both present themes
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Passage from Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Weary was as new to war as Billy. He was a re- 1 placement‚ too. As a part of a gun crew‚ he had helped 2 to fire one shot in anger---from a 57-millimeter antitank 3 gun. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening 4 of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty. The gun 5 lapped up snow and vegetation with blowtorch 6 thirty feet long. The flame left a black arrow on the 7 ground‚ showing Germans exactly where the gun 8 was hidden
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In the chapter‚ A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life‚ Brent’s lover has tried and failed to buy her from master. Dr. Flint now implements new schemes in attempts to woo Linda into sexual obedience. He now is offering to build a home in the woods‚ where he could make her into a “lady” but she has a different plan. Later in the chapter Brent meets Mr. Sands‚ a white lawyer who has shown much attention in her. She decides to consent to be his mistress in the hopes that he will buy her from Dr
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Close Passage Analysis Prompt: In a well-organized essay‚ discuss how the author’s use of language-particularly diction‚ dialogue‚ and selection of detail-serves to develop and/or compare the characters of Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Thesis: By using confrontational dialogue and the contemptuous tone during the dialogue‚ Fitzgerald portrays that the characters of Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are in fact very similar. Topic Sentence: Fitzgerald emphasizes Tom and Gatsby’s similar characteristic
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Lady Macbeth Passage Analysis After Lady Macbeth reads the letter in Act One‚ Scene 5‚ she decides that she will make sure Macbeth is crowned King. Lady Macbeth suddenly becomes a character of evil‚ she knows the murder will need evil power and it does not take long to get her evil spirit. Throughout Act One‚ Scene 5 Lady Macbeth shows the audience her ability to commit evil and supernatural acts upon people. Lady Macbeth knows immediately that murdering King Duncan is the only way to quickly achieve
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internal guide‚ Dr. V. K. Vasal for his continuous support and guidance throughout this project. I would like to thank my external guide‚ Mrs. Chetna Khullar for her time and support. I would also like to thank Mr. S. K. Seth‚ General Manager (P&C)‚ RITES for his valuable information without which this project wouldn’t have been possible. Deepti Jayam TABLE OF CONTENT Executive summary ……………………………… 5 1. Introduction………………………………………6 1.1 Objective...……………………………………6
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Passage Analysis Analysing the passage on page 179: Nonsense The passage which is going to be analysed is from A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers by Xiaolu Guo. The main character of the book is Z. Z is a young Chinese woman who is sent to England by her parents‚ to take English classes. By sending Z to London‚ her poor parents hoped to give their daughter a better future than that they had. While Z is in London‚ she’s very lonely and experiences a culture shock. After a while of
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” (Achebe‚ 131) This passage created a question in my mind. Who’s perspective are we reading from? It seems as thought we are reading what a narrator is saying‚ but the narrator is somebody from that tribe. In most books‚ if a character doesn’t do the narration‚ the narrator knows what is really going on or what is going to happen. In this book‚ and shown in this passage‚ the narrator seems to have full believe in everything he is saying. When it comes to what the passage itself says‚ I start to
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I am Hamish Gillies and today I am here to discuss the bible passage 1 Corinthians 13:1-13‚ its meaning and how it is relatable to today’s society. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 is part of the first of a series of letters written by St Paul to the Corinthian church to correct and restore the weaknesses within the church‚ to correct misteaching of the resurrection and was a response to queries from Corinthian Christians asking for advice. Because we have no access to the questions that the Corinthian Christians
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