Language and Composition Fourth Hour 24 January 2017 Extended Response I: Reading with a Critical Eye Books are precious pieces that improve one’s knowledge and help define one’s personality by relating themselves to characters within the text. As Vladimir Nabokov said in Good Readers and Good Writers “The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine.”(Nabokov‚ 973) I always believed that by reading a book you become one with yourself by somehow feeling all the
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Arkansas to Vivian and Bailey Johnson. Her parents divorced when she was three years of age. Her and her brother‚ Bailey Jr.‚ were sent to live with their grandmother in a small town called Stamps‚ Arkansas. Like many of the African American children that grew up in Maya’s time‚ she faced racial discrimination. She was always positive about it‚ because of the tradition old-fashion African American household she was raised in. She gives her grandmother and extended family in Stamps credit for all of the
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DHORTON Mercer Mayer Mercer Mayer was born in 1943‚ and has been writing and illustrating children’s books for almost forty years. As a child Mayor moved all the country with his family‚ because his father was in the Navy. I believe that this was an influential factor in determining his success. His pictures are drawn without signifying any particular region‚ which helps children to create an emotional attachment to the story. Mayor’s family settled down in Hawaii when he was a thirteen years
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Six Characters in Search of an Author is about a family of unfinished characters who take over the rehearsal of another work in order to have their own story told. Pirandello’s playful opening moments soon give way to the horror of the story the characters have to tell. Though the characters fight to have their scenes played out at last‚ they are often at cross-purposes‚ unhappy with the actors’ interpretations and arguing over who is at fault in their tragedy. Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play
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started producing poetry at the young age of eight. Her inspiring poems have awarded her with a Pulitzer Prize‚ which is a huge honor for any writer. “Metaphors”‚ which was written in 1959‚ is a poem with obvious‚ but hidden meaning. It is a very short poem‚ with only nine lines. She also uses only nine syllables in each line. A bunch of other subliminal messages can be found throughout this whole piece. The seemingly unrelated metaphors clearly describe her own pregnancy. Plath starts the poem off stating
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Metaphor Analysis Performance The novel opens at the opera‚ aptly introducing the recurring metaphor of performance‚ or keeping up an appearance of correct and moral behavior‚ whatever the reality might be. Julius Beaufort is an example of someone who manages to do this until the end of the novel‚ when he is unmasked and ostracized. Correct dress and customs become the props that hold the performance together. When Beaufort is trying to fool people into thinking that he is being financially
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Hawthorne manages to create many metaphors within his novel The Scarlet Letter. The rose bush outside the prison door‚ the black man‚ and the scaffold are three metaphors. Perhaps the most important metaphor would be the scaffold‚ which plays a great role throughout the entire story. The three scaffold scenes which Hawthorne incorporated into The Scarlet Letter contain a great deal of significance and importance the plot. Each scene brings a different aspect of the main characters‚ the crowd or
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Johnson 1 Ramel Johnson English 2 Mrs.Widemon Friday‚ November 22‚2013 Animal Farm Extended Essay The idea of rebellion is planted by Old Major‚ who is at the end of his life; he has a vision of a farm owned by Animals‚ who work together for the common good. His ideas are taken and expanded by the pigs‚ led by Snowball and Napoleon; Snowball is an idealist‚ while Napoleon seeks personal power. When Jones forgets to feed the animals‚ they rebel and drive all the humans off the farm
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Mumbai slums are dirty and leave visible marks on its inhabitants. “She’d been distinguished by her ability to work like a donkey even when she hadn’t eaten for days” (136) Boo uses a simile to describe the character’s hard working nature. By using a simile‚ Boo characterizes the person in a more meaningful way. “An urban‚ college-going girl was a firework in the village.” (140) Boo’s use of a metaphor shows how out of place an urban‚ college girl is in a place like that village. It helps the reader
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Explain how Robert Frost uses inverted word order in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." What effect does Frost’s word order have on the poem? Does it contribute to your understanding and/or enjoyment of the poem? Robert Frost’s inverted word order in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”‚ gives me‚ as a reader‚ a childlike dream like feeling. He uses his repetition and imagery to make you feel as if you are in the woods with him in his head. The way he describes the bells on the horse jingling
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