Thea reads An Abundance of Katherines by John Green By Thea On January 6‚ 2011 · 6 Comments · in 6 Rated Books‚ Book Reviews‚ Smugglivus The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In the Feats of Strength‚ we each dare each other to read a book that we know is so far beyond the other’s comfort zone as to put it in another galaxy altogether. It is more than a mere Dare – it is a Feat of Strength. Title: An Abundance of Katherines Author: John Green Genre:
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On her second day of school‚ a new‚ non-English speaking student named Farah‚ goes on a field trip to an orchard to pick apples and make cider. Farah is unsure of her new situation at first‚ but quickly warms up after enjoying her experience and makes new friends. While reading One Green Apple‚ I thought about my experiences with speech. On my fifth birthday‚ my family moved from Texas to Virginia. My accent was so strong no one could understand me. I was put into speech therapy where I stayed for
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class system and social issues‚ two of the best known being Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920). His most famous play‚ led to a prison reform in England.he Apple-Tree (1917) is one of the most popular long short stories written by John Galsworthy. Text Analysis The Apple-Tree By John Galsworthy Четвертый: In the novel «The apple-tree» the author tells us about two young guys‚ Frank Ashurst and Robert Garton‚ who after their last year together at college were on a tramp. Пятый: As their
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Historian Linda Porter in Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr‚ the Last Wife of Henry VIII describes Parr as “so naturally gracious and intelligent that it was not a difficult transition from being a minor noble woman to queen.” She is right; it was not hard for Parr to assume the role of queen. On top of the irreproachable reputation of her virtue and maidenhood given to her by her widowhood‚ Parr was also educated to the standards befitting an early modern woman; Parr was
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The title of this novel perfectly resembles it because there are a lot of Katherines talked about‚ Colin has trouble with Katherines‚ but there could also be a different title fit for this book. In this novel it talks about how one of the characters named Colin had dated nineteen girls named Katherine and that they all broke up with him. After the nineteenth one broke his heart he locked himself away in his room and didn’t want to come out. His parents came in to talk to him but he didn’t really
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1 2 A CUP OF TEA BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD 3 4 5 Comment [LS1]: The title is linked to the central incident in the story and also acts as a linking device between Rosemary and Miss Smith. As Rosemary emerges from the antique shop in the cold‚ winter weather‚ she feels she ‘ought to go home and have an extraspecial cup of tea’. Immediately after that Miss Smith appears‚ begging desperately for something Rosemary has plenty of but which Miss Smith needs to sustain her existence. Miss
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Jane Austen’s novels are recognized for their competent heroines. From Elizabeth of Pride and Prejudice to Anne Elliot of Persuasion‚ Austen’s heroines are independent‚ indomitable‚ and intellectual. Mansfield Park’s protagonist Fanny is viewed in the eyes of countless readers as weak‚ quiet‚ and even snobbish. Yet when her accomplishments in the Bertram household are taken into account‚ Fanny reappears as a deeper figure. Fanny Price‚ though reserved and sullen at times‚ aptly presents herself
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Philippines‚[3] Tree was the story about an unnamed Filipino boy‚ the son of a plantation manager and “subjugator of other Filipinos”‚[3] who grew up in an Ilocano town known as Rosales‚ Pangasinan. He was surrounded by acquaintances beneath his social class‚ relatives‚ and servants.[2] He was described as a youth who “searched for parental love” and a “place in a society with rigid class structures”. He was also the grandson of the landlord protagonized by José in the novel Po-on. In Tree‚ the boy narrated
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THE GARDEN PARTY (1921) By Katherine Mansfield And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party party if they had ordered it. Windless‚ warm‚ the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold‚ as it is sometimes sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn‚ mowing the lawns and sweeping them‚ until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses‚ you
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Katherine Mansfield’s story‚ "Bliss‚" is about sex. Yet‚ because Bertha’s sexuality does not manifest itself in an immediate desire for a heterosexual sexual encounter it is difficult to determine how sexuality figures in the story. The presentation of sexuality in Mansfield’s stories is so unique that most critics contributing to Jan Pilditch’s The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield do not realize how deeply sexuality figures in the stories and do not refer to it in their analyses. Cherry
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