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    story through the tunnel talks about a little boy that goes to a beach with his mother‚ where he discovers a tunnel that at the end of the summer will mean something more. In through the tunnel‚ Doris Lessing demonstrates that a setting can influence a character‚ how the setting can also create a conflict and how imagery help us to imagine better the story. When a little boy goes to the beach with his mother he sees a promontory so he decides to check it out. When he arrives he sees an older boys

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    Great Gatsby Setting

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    "The Great Gatsby" Setting The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a popular novel that has remained one of the best-known literary works to this day. Set in the 1920s‚ the story is narrated by Nick Caraway‚ an easy-going bond salesman who lives next door to Jay Gatsby whom the story revolves around. Jay Gatsby is a man with a mysterious past‚ who lives in New York and is famous for his extravagant parties and fabulous wealth. The story is set during the summer in which Tom Buchannan‚ his wife

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    wanted to be. Each different environment helped her progress into finding on Edna Pontellier. Kate Chopin masters the use of setting as it concerns to Edna’s journey of spiritual awakening. The changing of settings in Edna’s life makes her feel trapped like a bird‚ which leads to her downfall and represents the changes she is going through internally. The different settings in The Awakening make Edna feel trapped like a caged bird. Edna originally hopes to

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    that kind of odd behavior is told about the now infamous Salem witch trials. In 1692‚ a group of young women were caught dancing in the woods and witchcraft hysteria went rampant through Salem‚ Massachusetts. The political‚ social‚ and environmental settings in the late seventeenth century Salem were instrumental in heightening the probability of the witch trials in this Puritan village. The government of seventeenth century Salem‚ Massachusetts is very different from today. When the Puritans arrived

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    Soldier's Home Setting

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    literature‚ setting is an essential part of a story. Setting is the time and place where the story takes place. It also can create a mood or feeling in the story. In the stories “Soldier’s Home‚” by Ernest Hemingway‚ “A Rose for Emily‚” by William Faulkner and “Eveline‚” by James Joyce‚ the all show how setting was essential to the stories. Setting was essential in “Soldier’s Home‚” because it took place after World War I‚ and it helped to create his problem. In “A Rose for Emily‚” setting was essential

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    Wuthering Heights Setting

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    Wuthering Heights: Change in Setting In the novel Wuthering Heights‚ by Emily Bronte‚ two isolated houses are highlighted because of their contrast to each other. The atmosphere of the two houses share similar characteristics as the characters that live inside and Bronte expresses throughout the novel that one will change in a difference of setting‚ but one will never change completely. Thrushcross Grange is a lovely manor that is located among the grassy fields of the Yorkshire Moor. The

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    Institutional Pharmacy Setting 1 Institutional Pharmacy Setting Axia College of University of Phoenix Leonalda Cruz Institutional Pharmacy Setting 2 An institutional pharmacy provides an array of services for residents of nursing homes‚ hospitals‚ hospice care‚ and other long term facilities. In this particular setting‚ the pharmacist will take responsibility for the medication that the patients’ need and ensures that patients’ medications are appropriate‚ effective‚ safe‚ and they are

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    Homeless People Setting

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    STONE COLD Setting Understanding the setting is a vital part of understanding the text Helping the homeless BRIEF 1. Shelter 2. Salvation Army recently decided to 3. The Children’s Society donate £150‚000 to a 4. Centrepoint homeless charity. 5. The Trussell Trust They have invited 6. The Big Issue 7. Whitechapel Mission 8. St Mungo’s Crisis The National Lottery Commission has Complete the activity below ••• Robert Swindells’ Stone Cold largely

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    Falling In Love Setting

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    Investigation of setting’s revelation of character in the works of Falling in Love by  Sandra Birdsell and A Scarf by Carol Fields                                            Katelyn Lobzun  329452171  Due date: 11­17­14  Word Count: 1343             Settings used throughout stories are often meant to portray a deeper meaning of the  story‚ character(s)‚ or conflict‚ as opposed to merely serving as passive backdrops. Within the  stories Falling in Love by Sandra Birdsell and A Scarf by Carol Shields‚ there are first­person 

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    Setting in Life of Pi

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    Setting/Historical Element The time and place that the novel‚ The Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ starts with Piscine Monitor Patel as a middle-aged man in Toronto‚ Canada recalling his early life‚ beginning in Pondicherry. Pondicherry is a French colony in India in which Pi grows up. He and his family are zookeepers and decide to emigrate with their zoo animals to Canada in 1977 on a Japanese cargo ship. When a storm sinks their ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and Pi is the only survivor

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