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    her writing style and incorporates themes such as violence‚ action‚ humor‚ and more. The story was written based on O’Connor’s own experiences living on the farm‚ living her faith‚ and her own experiences with life and death. There are many parallels in O’Connor’s stories to her faith. In the story‚ A Good Man Is Hard To Find‚ O’Connor shows a twisted view of grace in ordinary people’s lives. (Plot

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    for much of his great short stories he wrote during the twentieth century. After graduating high school‚ Hemingway instead of going to college decided to take a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star newspaper. The Star’s style guidelines influenced his writing style for the rest of his career: Use short sentences‚ short first paragraphs‚ and vigorous English. Soon World War I came along and Hemingway left the newspaper to join the U.S. Army so that he could fight in the War. However‚ The Army

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    The writer of the letter is Bob Dylan. He is a folk rock singer-songwriter whose career began in the early 1960s with songs that spoke social issues like war and civil rights. He was born in 1941 in Minnesota‚ where he grew up‚ and attended the University of Minnesota. In 1960‚ he dropped out in order to pursue a singing career‚ and moved to New York. People loved him thanks to his poetic lyrics about everyday life that the ordinary “folks” could relate to. He was known for reinventing himself

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    snigger mcgee drinks weet famepfrbkpmaefobaekfmngleOJValewfgjnwoKNwldknlkgnwldkjfnwljk- fnwuHNJWPOJNwoifjpwiofjoiwefjnoierjgnoiaerjgoiaerjgoiaerjgoi- aerjgiaerjgoiaerjngoierjngoiaerjgnoiaerngoiaerngoiaengolaier- ngoiawerngioaerngoiaerngopiaerngoiaengoiaengoiaerngoiaernfoa- wngpoiawrgjpoiaerngaopergnpoaegjnopaiergj[0aergnpaoerf[lgkakjfiogkikrofkneifuop ;lczhtop;’ef; 90ow`WEBVIOKs.;vhaowec ASoc/ Both Plath’s The Bell Jar and Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye tell a coming-of-age story with two protagonists

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    it means to age. Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ Mirror‚ is a poem that deals with the truths and lies in the struggle a woman goes through when grasping the reality of aging. The poem is appealing due to the ways in which Plath successfully uses personification‚ figurative language‚ and diction in her writing to emphasize this idea‚ as well how the concept of keeping up appearances and aging are relevant topics for many women in modern day culture. One of the many literary devices Plath utilizes in the poem

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    Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath is known as the poet of confession. Her life is strongly connected to her works. She uses poetry as a way to confess her feelings‚ to express and release her pain in life. “Mirror” is one of her most famous poems. Sylvia Plath wrote the poem in 1961‚ just two years before her actual suicide. After suffering a miscarriage‚ she realized that she was pregnant again. She and her husband moved to a small town and their marriage began going worse. The poem

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    It is said that George Eliot ’s style of writing deals with much realism. Eliot‚ herself meant by a "realist" to be "an artist who values the truth of observation above the imaginative fancies of writers of "romance" or fashionable melodramatic fiction." (Ashton 19) This technique is artfully utilized in her writings in a way which human character and relationships are dissected and analyzed. In the novel The Mill on the Floss‚ Eliot uses the relationships of the protagonist of the story‚ Miss Maggie

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    shocked as it discussed taboo topics. Confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath challenged America’s conservative attitudes. The poets did this by describing their terrible relationships with their fathers or mothers and unmasking America’s true scars. Throughout Sylvia Plath’s short life she has lived through troubled times such WW2 and the great depression; and these experiences would have affected the way that she wrote. Sylvia Plath father’s death when she was only 8 years of age had a dramatic effect

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    effects caused to a child are certainly shwn in Sylvia Plath’s Daddy. Sylvia Plath wrote Daddy as an attck aainst her father‚ exploiting her father’s faults in order to fuel her anger. Plath uses extreme and disturbing metaphores as a way to release the aggrevation and fustration that her father has caused her. At the vulnerable age of 8 years old‚ Sylvia Plath’s ather died of an advanced case of diabetes. The event of her father’s death‚ evidently caused Plath to experience emotional turmoil. However instead

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    “Plath’s provocative imagery serves to highlight the intense emotions expressed in her poetry.” I agree completely that Plath uses a lot of provocative imagery to highlight the intense emotions expressed in her poetry. The poem I will discuss in light of this statement is ‘Morning Song’. In this poem I found a lot of provocative imagery that made me feel various emotions. One provocative image that stood out for me was‚ ‘new statue’. I found this image provocative because it’s abnormal

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