I. Read the following passage carefully‚ and answer all the questions A Moment of Madness It was Arvind’s birthday. In the afternoon there would be a cake and a party‚ but it would be like other birthdays‚ and Arvind was eleven. So in the morning‚ he collected his friends‚ Jimmy and Paudeni‚ and they set off to the forest that lay on the hillside in a huge half-moon behind the village. When they reached the first few trees they stopped‚ listening to the sounds of the birds and searching
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Through the story‚ “A Monkey’s Paw”‚ W.W Jacobs uses the character‚ Mr.White‚ to show that putting faith in a talisman and interfering with fate will wreck people’s lives. While the family and Sargent are discussing the spell put on the monkey’s paw‚ the Sargent defeatedly tosses it into the burning flames. Quite suddenly‚ “White‚ with a slight cry‚ [stoops] down and [snatches] it off.” The secret aspiration that he puts in the charm is revealed through that narration. Mr. White believes in the monkey’s
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to follow similar expectations. O Pioneers by Willa Cather is a perfect example of the antagonists that women face in their day-to-day lives. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant also shows that plot‚ or how their lives play out‚ effect many women’s attitude and the expectations they face from society. Finally‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows that symbolism in a story can effetely show the limitations that women are put into. In Cather’s O Pioneers‚ Alexandra
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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was roughly 30 seconds long and took place on October 26th 1881 in Tombstone‚ Arizona Territory. Although only three men were killed during the gunfight‚ it is regarded to be one of the most famous gunfights in the Old West. The Gunfight was quite unknown to the public until 1931 when author Stuart Lake published a biography (Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall) two years after Wyatt’s death. Lake retold his story in 1946 in a book
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Tim O’brien’s the Things They Carried is a collection of fictional war stories based on his own time in vietnam. Each stories features a role in a continuous narrative‚ fractured pieces of one squads experiences in vietnam. O’Brien throughout the novel continuously shits narration‚ from person to person giving the reader insights into each soldier’s perspective. One of the most powerful perspectives came from a character named Tim O’Brien. Throughout the novel his perspective is consistently boyish
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When one begins to read the story‚ it does not seem that the narrator and protagonist is Tim O’Brien. This is due to the fact that the entire story is written in first person except for the first chapter. This can be misleading to the reader about who the story is truly about. It is also confusing because the beginning of the book gives the impression that the narrator’s job was to merely tell stories of different soldiers. Only when one reads further into the book does Tim’s integral role become
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Thinking of People Liam O’Flaherty ends the story‚ “The Sniper”‚ with “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (par. 27). This morphs the story into something so much more than a tale about a war. Some people get so caught up in the negativity of life and their world; then‚ they become so hostile and do not realize the pain they inflict on others‚ until it is too late. Even if someone forgives another person‚ they still hold onto the memory. In the case of this
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‘The Sessions’ is about a man‚ Mark O’Brien‚ a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio. Sensing he may be near death‚ he decides he wants to lose his virginity and hires a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. The hired sex surrogate‚ Cheryl Cohen-Greene‚ tells O’Brien they will only have six sessions together‚ but soon after‚ it is clear they are developing romantic feelings for each other. O’Brien only had three functioning muscles in his body (neck‚ jaw and in his right foot)
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Tim O’Brien writes this novel differently than most novels because the characters are telling the story and writing this novel are being honest. It is written about actual events many people experienced who share their personal experiences about living in Vietnam during the war. Throughout the book‚ Tim O’Brien sneeks in the differences between what is real and what is made up with all the stories told and how people view the war and how it affects everyone. Everyone is affected by the war differently
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In the poem “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman he starts by saying that he has always questioned himself and life like most people regularly do. The fact that there are tons of others in this world like him‚ faithless and without direction and foolish‚ he admits he may be amongst the worst of them. He claims that he is always criticizing and analyzing himself in a negative light and how he along with other people long to become more and long to see the truth of what the meaning of life is. The poem
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