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    Cultural materialism has become an influential discipline in recent years‚ particularly so in ’Renaissance’ studies‚ but also more generally in ’English’‚ as well as departments defined as practising ’cultural’ or ’communications’ studies. The phrase is usually linked with the name of Raymond Williams‚ but a cursory examination of Williams’s own work quickly establishes that it is a phrase he rarely uses‚ and only schematically attempts to define. The thesis therefore takes the form of an investigation

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    The Illusion of Dreams I think that when Amanda’s says “you live in a dream; you manufacture illusions.” Is true for each character. I believe this statement goes for each character because each of them do have dreams and they do want these dreams to come true and have tried but yet have succeeded in that. They each also live in an illusion and I am going to give examples and support on why I believe Amanda’s statement to be true for all the characters in “The Glass Menagerie”. First we have

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    Final Exam First Draft Introduction Paragraph: Body 1 – Character Analysis: Character analysis is one way of discussing a novel or short story. Character analysis uses connection to themes in the plot; roles characters play in the text‚ relationships and characteristics to analyze the text. There are eight words that are used to describe characters. Those eight words are protagonist‚ antagonist‚ minor‚ major‚ static‚ dynamic‚ round and flat. A protagonist is a character that performs a heroic

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    The Analysis of the Main Character – the Grandmother In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O ’Connor‚ the grandmother is the central character who grows and changes with the story develops‚ she is a round and dynamic character. At first‚ she seems to be an unpleasant‚ contemptible and selfish old lady who is skeptical about her religion. But in the end‚ when “her head cleared for an instant‚” the grandmother becomes a real believer of God. And she is heading straight to heaven

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    o Find Flannery O’Conner shows a multitude of diverse and different themes‚ with a great amount of depth into each and every one. Among these themes are mortality‚ faith‚ parenting‚ ingratitude‚ and generational shifts. The most prominent of all of O’Conner’s themes is most definitely parenting. Parenting also ties into ingratitude‚ generational shifts‚ and pretty much everything else. Parenting‚ or bad parenting‚ is a strong and clearly defined theme in A Good Man is Hard to Find along

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    An Assessment of the Grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor The grandmother who remains unnamed all throughout in the story is the protagonist and the central character of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is hard to Find‚ a tragic story of a family who decided to go on vacation but got killed randomly on the road by a criminal on the loose named “The Misfit”. She is endowed with a joyful spirit‚ a passion in life in spite of her age. She is a non-stereotypical

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    Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is hard To Find” is a story about a family heading on a vacation from Georgia to Florida. O’Connor uses literary elements; Point of view‚ foreshadowing and irony to make this story arouse to someone’s curiosity. In the beginning‚ the first sentence O’Connor lets the readers know that this story is not told directly by one of the characters & also who this story is mainly about. (1) The grandmother is the character we are told the most about and she is also the only

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    sexual orientation‚ etc.‚ is it fair to attribute someone’s disapproval or bias towards more progressive perspectives because they were raised in a time in which those perspectives were practically non-existent? Throughout her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ Flannery O’Connor explores the unwavering constancy of people’s prejudices. By utilizing the concept of a “lady” as a symbol for biased ways of thinking‚ she demonstrates the importance of having a dynamic mindset

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    In the story A Good Man Is Hard to Find the grandmother considers herself to be a lady as well as a good person. The grandmother does not think it’s a good idea for the family to go to Florida with a criminal‚ the Misfit‚ on the loose and says that she “’couldn’t answer to [her] conscience if [she] did’” (O’Connor 454). On the trip the grandmother is dressed in a blue dress and a wide brimmed hat‚ even though she was reluctant to go on the trip she was the first in the car. The grandmother says

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    “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Conner portrayed the unnamed grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” as a very manipulative‚ deceitful and selfish old woman‚ unlike an average grandmother. Grandmother posed as a “know it all” woman who bases her life on the past. In the beginning of the short story‚ the grandmother tries her hardest to change the families mind about traveling to Florida for a vacation because “she” wants to go to Tennessee to meet some of her relatives. Her trying to

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