Sydni Scherr Due Date: Friday‚ Sep.23 Journal 1 I have read “The Bass‚ the River‚ and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell. This story is about a fourteen year old boy who is trying to impress a seventeen year old girl. In this journal I will be questioning and evaluating. G pick Sheila or bass? Y bass R fish a lot/auto R important-doesn’t dump rod R big!!! Y Sheila R attractive/17 R watches her R willing to hide the most important thing in his life G I think he will pick the fish because
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How does Mrs Birling pretend to be something she’s not throughout ‘An Inspector Calls’ – Harry’s Part The next point I wish to make is how Mrs Birling acts as a motherly figure within the Birling family and how her character’s attitude changes to her children as the play develops. Firstly at the beginning of the playing in the Dining room the topic of conversation is the relationship between the characters Sheila and Gerald Croft‚ Sheila brings up a previous summer ‘(Half serious‚ half playful)
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and Mrs. Birling in ‘An Inspector Calls’. Priestly uses dialogue and stage directions to show a void between different generations. Although Mrs. Birling is Shelia’s mother she still refers to her as a ‘girl[s]’. The audience can sense Mrs. Birling’s condescending tone and how she still retains the view that Shelia is an immature and ignorant ‘girl[s]’ even though she is a fully grown adult who will soon be wed. This is ironic as it is in fact Mrs. Birling who is the ignorant character in the play
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Babylon Revisited: Analysis Of Characters. Charlie Wales Despite his many flaws‚ Charlie is a man whom almost everyone can’t help but like. It’s surprising that Charlie’s so likeable considering his wild past of uncontrollable alcoholism‚ his possible complicity in his wife’s death‚ and the fact that he essentially abandoned his child. He seems so earnest in his efforts to reverse the situation. We also note that he rejects his former friends and he merely takes only one drink per day. Fitzgerald
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to end Lennie’s life. The killing of Candy’s dog also adheres to he cyclical nature of solitude during that period that Steinbeck uses throughout the novel. Candy is really the only character with a real voice. He voices his opinions and is the man source of Gossip on the Ranch. Overall Candy is portrayed as a character that has outlived his use or ’usefulness’ and is clinging onto the hope of living the American Dream. ‘disposed of’- represents age discrimination- ‘tall‚ stoop’ shows how age is
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the female characters in An Inspector Calls Priestley includes a range of female characters in An Inspector Calls from an upper class snob‚ through a vain daughter to an oppressed factory worker. Throughout this play‚ the selfishness and moral hypocrisy of upper middle-class capitalist society is revealed. The vulnerability of women evokes sympathy‚ which supports Priestley’s belief in gender equality and community as “one body”. At the beginning of the play‚ Sybil Birling is physically
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Sympathetic Qualities: A Look at the Hotel Keeper in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” Sympathetic qualities endear characters to the reader in stories; they are the elements of a character’s personality that attract attention and hold emotion. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain‚” these characteristics and resulting actions support the story’s purpose. The hotel keeper exhibits several sympathetic qualities including fatherly concern and attentiveness to his work. The hotel keeper shows fatherly
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Book Review of “The Characters of Revolutionary Characters” by Gordon S. Wood “The characters of Revolutionary Characters” is a realistic portrayal of six most important members of the founding generation of the United States. They are: George Washington‚ Ben Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ Aaron Burr‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ Thomas Paine. The Founders‚ indeed‚ were a highly unique and exceptionally talented generation. The book takes as its accent not the story
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Arthur Birling and InspectorGoole’s philosophies on life and society contrast throughout the play. For most of the play Sheila‚ Eric and Mrs Birling are fully behind Mr Birling and his philosophies‚ but towards the end of the play‚ Eric and Sheila effectively switch sides and begin to back InspectorGoole’s philosophies on life and society. Mr Birling is a strong believer in stratas and classes in society; he believes he is in the upper class. In act 1‚ Mr Birling says "I’m still on the bench. It
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Invent a Character By Kimberly Dana‚ Award-Winning Author ©Kimberly Dana Invent a Character - Introduction About the Packet: During author visitations‚ kids will often ask me how I invent my characters. I tell them I think about someone interesting - then I think about their favorite candy bar. They chuckle and I say‚ “Seriously! This is how well you need to know and understand your characters.” In order to help kids invent their character‚ I’ve created this ready-to-use/student-friendly
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