IB English HL Major Works Data Sheet: The Awakening | | |Author: Kate Chopin Year of publication: 1899 | | | |
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: Larissa Maggard Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters Name Role in the story Significance Adjectives Marlow Kurtz general manager Kurtz’s Intended Marlow’s aunt Russian trader African mistress of Kurtz protagonist‚ narrator of interior story
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Gabriella McLaughlin Period 2 Pre-AICE English Language MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway HISTORICAL FACTS President Truman ordered the construction of a hydrogen bomb in 1950. Polaroid cameras were invented in 1947. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1953. In 1948‚ Gandhi was assassinated. China became a communist state in 1949. Soviet Union possessed an atomic bomb in 1949. MAIN CHARACTERS Santiago - He is a protagonist and an old man who
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Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition | |Biographical Information about the Author: | |Title: Ethan Frome | | | |Edith Wharton
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: ALEXIS BARNES Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters| Name|Role in the story|Significance|Adjectives| MarlowKurtzAccountantCannibalsGeneral ManagerBrickmaker|European sailor‚ narrates the story‚ goes to Africa to pilot a riverboat for a Belgian ivory trading company‚ duty to seek out Kurtz‚ another riverboat captain‚ and bring him back to the trading companies central.Most successful
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Major Works Data Sheet In this column‚ choose five quotations from the text‚ one focusing on each of the following literary elements: In this column‚ analyze the significance of your quotations. Allow the following questions to guide your responses: Why is this important? What does this reveal? Why does the author say it this way? What is the tone/mood of this passage? Theme "Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition." -Victor Frankenstein This is part of the theme of the book
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Major Works Data Sheet: “The Things They Carried” Title: “The Things They Carried” | Author: “Tim O’Brien” | Genre: Fiction | Date Published: 1990 | Plot summary: First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is in love with a junior in college named Martha while he is in the middle of a war in Vietnam. While he travels around‚ he and Martha write letters to each other‚ in which he writes with love and she just writes back as a friend. Throughout the story‚ O’Brien lists all of the supplies they all carry
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Major Works Data Sheet by Yerim Jee‚ Shaleen Singha‚ Judith Suzuki (Band 8) Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Date of Publication: 1954 Genre: Adventure; allegory; social criticism Historical information about the period of publications: When this novel was published in 1954‚ it was about 9 years after World War II had ended. Therefore‚ during this period of time‚ Americans were getting used to the times after the war‚ which had increases in industries and population. When
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Title of Work: Frankenstein Author: Mary Shelley Date of Publication: January 1‚ 1818 Genre: Gothic Biographical information about the author: Born as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft on August 30‚ 1789‚ Mary was the only child of her father and mother. Hardly more than a week after having Mary‚ Wollstonecraft died‚ leaving William to raise Mary and her half-sister‚ Fanny‚ whom William chose to adopt. When Mary was four‚ her father remarried but resentment
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about the Author: Daphne du Maurier was born on May 13‚ 1907‚ in London‚ England‚ the daughter of actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier. She was a popular novelist known for her suspenseful‚ romantic and sometimes supernatural plots. Her best known works are Rebecca and The Birds‚ both adapted to film by Alfred Hitchcock. Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She died in 1981 in Par‚ Cornwall‚ England. Historical Information about the period of Publication:
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