Themes of West Side Story: Peer pressure: this is seen when the gangs are about to have a rumble and some of the members don’t want to use weapons or even fight. By looking at this scene closely you see that they seem to be forced to do so to stay in that gang. As well as Maria being forced to accept Chino’s marriage proposal which is also in Romeo and Juliet where Juliet is being forced to marry. Family: There is a bond between Maria and Bernardo that is seen‚ where Bernardo is seen as being
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“Once upon a time…” that is how many childhood stories begin. However‚ Voice is a different type of story. It does not tell of pretty princesses or fairy godmothers‚ but instead of a girl who can sing rhythms and songs never heard before. Stories that are told to my generation are ones that have been around for a long time about superheroes being the good guy and always being there for crime. Voice is no different. Nevertheless‚ some skeptics wonder if Voice is worthy of acclaim it receives. Voice
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Chapter 1: her story Life was always hard‚ always a challenge for Elizabeth Welch. She was just a regular teenager‚ (on the outside) everything was going wrong in her family‚ her parents devoiced‚ her sister Angela died in a car crash with her boyfriend‚ Justin‚ (my mom can’t sue him so she’s going to sue his parent’s) her best closest and only friend is in the hospital‚ (she jumped out of a window‚ well more like throne) and it gets worse‚ her brother was in a motorcycle accident and
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like the sun is one of the famous short stories for R.K.Narayan . It talks about saying to people the real truth . Sekhar says that the truth is like the sun . He promised that this day he is going to say the truth to every one . First ‚ he said the truth to his wife that he can’t swallow her food . Second ‚ when Sekhar’s colleague told him about death of a person . Sekhar then told him that this person always struck him as a mean and selfish bruite . Third ‚ the headmaster asked Sekhar to come to
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In Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Writing Short Stories”‚ she offers a range of advice that she believes to both improve and enrich short fiction. The most key among these are the importance of developing strong characters‚ a story’s inability to reduced‚ and the priority the dramatic action takes over the author’s personal thoughts and emotions. It is these traits that truly define a great story‚ and although many of the stories from our class good examples of O’Connor’s advice put into action‚ Hemingway’s
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The Story of an Hour In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin it starts off by letting you some of the characters such as her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards. They also make sure they to let you know that Mrs. Mallard‚ the main character in the story‚ “was afflicted with a heart trouble and that great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 71). After reading this sentence I began to wonder how she was going to take the news
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The puritan story was a story of many things; from the landing of the first group of puritans in New England‚ to the formation and trouble of the bay colony bible commonwealth‚ to the puritans versus Indians‚ ending with the New England family. This story wouldn’t be anything without the help of the one and only King Henry VIII. It was King’s‚ tie breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s that launch the reformation of the protestant church. The reformation of the church led to a group
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The Untold Story of Racism My friend Rhonda is an African American female living in New York‚ who has a masters degree in accounting‚ in addition to a law degree. One day‚ as she was surfing through the internet looking for jobs‚ she came across a law firm that had a single job position open for a lawyer specializing in financial cases. This job intended to promote an existing employee. Rhonda decided to apply for that job. The following day she was called for an interview. On the interview day
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The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin Although the readers and I am aware of the cause of Mrs. Mallard death‚which was heart trouble‚ I believe that her death troubles were more then that. The readers should understand that joy of independence‚ oppression‚ and disappointment was involved in her death. It is shocking to Know that these characteristics played a role in her death until you read between the lines. When Louise hears from Josephine and Bentley of her husband’s death‚ she
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different idea about who they are‚ where they come from and what they stand for. Not every aspect of who a person is is something they get to define for oneself. Sherman Alexie’s book‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ and Roddy Doyle’s story‚ “Home to Harlem”‚ inspire the idea of an identity crisis of two young men because from an outsider’s perspective‚ they feel they are not good enough for their own heritage. Arnold from “True Diary” and Declan from “Home to Harlem” experience the same
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