Humanizing Morally Reprehensible Characters: Finding Sympathy for Protagonists in “A Rose for Emily” and “The Country Husband” Typically‚ readers have a difficult time rooting for or even sympathizing with characters who engage in behavior which is considered deviant or morally wrong. Two writers who challenge readers to find fallible and immoral characters sympathetic are John Cheever and William Faulkner. In John Cheever’s‚ “The Country Husband”‚ the reader truly sympathizes for Francis Weed
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• Question 1 In May 1856‚ ________ slaughtered five unarmed‚ proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in "bleeding Kansas." Answer Correct Answer: John Brown • Question 2 1 out of 1 points During the Lincoln-Douglas debates‚ Douglas argued that territories could circumvent the Dred Scott decision by not enacting the laws necessary for slavery. This was called the Answer Correct Answer: Freeport Doctrine. • Question 3 1 out of 1 points The Ostend
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The Reconstruction era was put into effect by Congress in 1866 and lasted until 1877. Reconstruction was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War. The reconstruction plan granted the means for readmitting the southern states into the Union‚ and tried to come up with the methods by which whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society. America’s position as a country was established on principles of freedom but those beliefs were weakened by slavery. At the end
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Gone With the Wind - The Evolution of the Southern Woman Depending on your point of view‚ the movie Gone with the Wind has many representations. Some will regard it as a romantic story between Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler. Others may view it as a glimpse into the rise‚ fall and rise (again) of southern aristocrats before‚ during and after the Civil War. Both points of view are valid. The Civil War and its consequences serve as the background of this love affair. Along with the
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own provisional governments. This‚ in turn‚ granted white southerners to reestablished civil authority in the former Confederate states in 1865 and 1866. In these new southern governments there were many competent but inexperienced leaders and carpetbaggers motivated by greed and corruption. Some of the first laws enacted by these new governments were the Black Codes. These laws restricted freed blacks’ activity and ensured their availability as a labor force now that slavery had been abolished. Furthermore
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1. Common Sense- Thomas Paine’s legendary pamphlet urging the colonies to declare independence and establish a republican government. 2. Deism- Belief system that emphasized reasoned moral behavior and scientific pursuit of knowledge; they believed in a Supreme Being but rejected the divinity of Christ. 3. Stamp Act-Widely unpopular tax on an array of paper goods‚ repealed in 1766 after mass protests erupted across the colonies 4. Virtual Representation-The British said the colonies need
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William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway are two of the most aggressively competitive authors in history‚ and trade literary blows through their correspondence. The most famous of these exchanges began when Faulkner was attempting to praise Hemingway’s bravery saying‚ “[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” As per usual‚ Hemingway took this as a personal attack against his writing and responded with the retort‚ “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think
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In Linda Hutcheon’s novel A Theory of Adaptation‚ Hutcheon examines adaptions as secondary work from the original and whether or not they are successful. In her novel she says that there are many forms of adaptions and different directors or producers will have their own unique perspective on it. Hutcheon explains that‚“They use the same tools that storytellers have always used; they actualize or concretize ideas; they make simplifying selections‚ but also amplify and extrapolate‚ they make analogies;
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ratified 14th amendment and came up with a good enough constitution to be readmitted to union • 2nd act- required military to register voters and supervise elections of delegates to constitutional convention • 3rd act- spelled out procedures • Carpetbaggers- term for northerners who came to the South to help freed slaves‚ better themselves financially‚ or to influence politics (some became office holders) o Many were blacks/connected with Freedman’s Bureau • Dawes Severalty Act o Govt plan to
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1) Choose one of the stories we have read to discuss “point of view” and how it influences possible interpretations. In Leo Tolstoy’s short story‚ “The Death of Ivan Ilych‚” the point of view of the story is third person‚ omniscient. Because the story is third person‚ omniscient‚ the narrative isn’t restricted to one character’s point of view. If Tolstoy wanted to‚ he could’ve told each section through the eyes of someone else. But‚ the narrator told the story primarily in Ivan’s perspective. Since
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