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    With this year’s theme of “problematic protagonists‚” each of the summer works features a main character whose personality can be found unappealing. In Master Harold and the Boys‚ Athol Fugard explores themes of racism and segregation in South Africa during the apartheid. Hally‚ a white boy‚ has known Sam and Willie‚ two older African servants‚ his whole life and has intelligent conversations with Sam as his equal. After discovering that his alcoholic and handicapped father is being discharged from

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    SUMMER (Descriptive Essay)      Everyone has a comfortable place to escape to for relaxation.  They go there when they need to be alone and not with people to disturb them.  My place is nature in the summer.  The summer time relaxes me like no exact place could.  Nature‚ in the summer‚ relaxes me with its naturedness.      I love sitting in the grass and listening to the nature sounds around  me while it’s summer.  One of the sounds I tune to first is the sound of the birds singing and chirping

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    Colby Mr. Crase Literary Analysis – Foreshadowing‚ Allusions‚ Symbolism April 23‚ 2013 Literary Analysis over S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders This is an essay over S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders. In this essay I will be using the following literary terms: symbolism‚ allusions‚ and foreshadowing. I will also be giving several examples of these literary terms. The background of this novel is about two rival gangs named the Greasers and the Socials (or Socs). To begin with‚ I will be using foreshadowing

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    Beowulf Literary Analysis The battle between good and evil is one that has been going on almost as long as humans have walked the earth. In the epic poem Beowulf this longstanding battle between good and evil is present between Beowulf‚ the hero‚ and Grendel‚ the monster from the moor. The extensive use of both kennings and alliterations in the poem assist in defining these roles of good and evil through Beowulf and Grendel. Kennings provide a powerful description of these characters by exchanging

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    Literary Analysis Paper from a Psychoanalytical Perspective The major writing assignment for this week is to compose a paper of at least two pages in which you write interpretively from a psychoanalytical perspective about the assigned drama written on in W3: Assignment 2‚ not on The Awakening. You are to do this by applying a psychoanalytical critical perspective or lens to the story. Review the Week 3 PowerPoint located on page 1 of this week’s lecture‚ "Psychoanalytic Ways of Reading" to understand

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    Nick Paine 3/11/13 Beowulf Literary Analysis In the poem Beowulf‚ the issue of whether or not this particular period is more barbaric or is more civilized. The author of Beowulf is trying to present a certain message in the poem. The message that can be pulled from Beowulf is that even within a society of thought to be malicious and barbaric‚ there is still room for it to be civilized

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    Elements of literary analysis Plot Summary Setting Character Analysis Theme Symbolism and Metaphor Conflict Moral Plot Summary The narrative structure of a story is divided into 5 parts. Organize‚ by list or diagram‚ the events of the story into the following points using as few words as possible. (Complicated stories may have multiple turning points.) #1 Exposition (introduction) Introduces the main characters‚ setting‚ and conflict. #2 Rising Action (conflict complicated) Secondary

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    Literary Analysis Essay: In the fairy tales‚ the protagonists always gain their Snow Whites in the end and they all live happily ever after. In fact‚ all protagonists’ fate is decided by the narrator’s hand. Just like the literary works we have recently read‚ including the poems “Sunday Greens” by Rita Dove‚ “Sinful City” by Jaroslav Seifert and the excerpt from Like Water for Chocolate from Laura Esquivel‚ the characters’ fate was sealed from that moment. Therefore‚ the most relevant theme

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    Literary Analysis of “Gravity” by David Leavitt The following pages will consist of a literary analysis of the short story presented by the author David Leavitt‚ which is taken from his book “A Place I’ve Never Been” (Nguyen‚ 2006). “Gravity” narrates the story of a boy with AIDS‚ whose life is slowly consuming like the wax of a lit candle. The author presents the reader with the crudity of enduring such disease mainly from the patient’s and his mother’s perspective. The underlying intention

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    presented themselves such as science and politics‚ but the clearest is the theme of life and death. There is not one person who hasn’t questioned life and death at least once in their life‚ and Mary Godwin Shelley embodied this curiosity in magnificent literary form. Each character represents important qualities about life and mankind‚ and lessons can be learned within them. Mary Shelley’s novel impacted modern culture greatly‚ with many movies and other merchandise created‚ but they can never capture the

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