that. She came over from China with her husband and started a successful Chinese food business to support and raise her family. Later her husband dies and she still faces hardships of assimilation. Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” employs indirect characterization of the protagonist mother to employ her theme that assimilating and relating to a new culture is one of the hardest tasks immigrants might face. First‚ the mother in the story firmly grips her Chinese values and this hinders her assimilation
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Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in England and published in 1932. Its literacy period is the Modernism. In Brave New World‚ science becomes the search of accuracy and fact in the different sciences‚ from biology to physics as it also become knowledge. Brave New World elevate the terrifying prospect that advances in the science of biology and psychology by changing the way how human beings anticipate and perform. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ the main character named Victor Frankenstein
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Robert Gray is a weaver of images‚ at the loom of the mind. He creates sensual images that elicit and evoke responses from the responder. His poems ’Meatworks’ and ’Flames and Dangling Wire’‚ both social commentaries‚ exemplify techniques he calls upon in order to reproduce the personas feelings‚ emotions and thoughts through powerful images. Assonance and alliteration are employed by Gray to increase the memorability of an image‚ leaving it lingering in the responders mind. He uses these techniques
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Robert Yates was an American politician and was part of the Philadelphia Convention. Yates was born on January 27‚ 1738 in Schenectady‚ NY. Between 1771 and 1775‚ Yates sat on the Albany board of Alderman. Robert Yates spent most of his political life as a judge‚ and was well regarded by New Yorkers of all political casts. During the pre-revolution years‚ Yates was one of the Radical Whigs‚ but once the revolution did break out he served on the Albany committee of safety and represented his county
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but can also be very dangerous if not handled correctly. In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein‚” Shelley portrays these two aspects of accomplishment as dangerous‚ destructive‚ and even fateful. Shelley begins her novel with an ambitious seafarer named Robert Walton. Walton is determined to reach the North Pole‚ where he may “tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man” (6). During his journey‚ he writes constantly to his sister‚ Margaret Saville. Unfortunately‚ due to the laws of nature‚ sheets
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In her novella‚ Ethan Frome‚ Edith Wharton uses characterization to indicate that Mattie Silver is lively and innocent‚ which is refreshing to Ethan Frome after managing Zenobia’s sickliness and bothersome personality. Mattie’s last name‚ Silver‚ compares her character to the precious metal: bright‚ valuable‚ and a luxury. Ethan greatly values being in her presence‚ as “no moments in her company were comparable to those when [...] they walked back through the night to the farm” (Wharton 13). Additionally
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Wuthering Heights deals with the very nature of controversy and paradox. The novel expresses deep criticisms of social conventions‚ and Brontë uses her characters in their incongruous surroundings to exemplify her concerns of the strict social code which she herself was expected to abide by‚ whilst remaining true to the principles she considered most important. Wuthering Heights challenges orthodoxy with heterodoxy‚ of which destruction and chaos triumph over social pretensions. The most undeniably
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Edgar Allan Poe’s use of character in his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” has left me wondering. The reason it left me wondering is because of the way the character acts. The character changes throughout the whole short story. The meaning of “character” is an imagined person in a fictional story. The author then invests the character with moral and emotional qualities. The importance of the character is determined by what he or she does. The main character as well as the minor characters are
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Imagine if everyone around you considered you a hero‚ but in order to become a hero‚ you had to murder somebody. Not just anybody either‚ but Captain Torres. A murderer‚ who has killed many of your people. Given the option‚ would you kill them? This is the same scenario a Barber faces. In the story “Later and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez‚ the protagonist faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide to either kill‚ or not kill‚ Captain Torres. He must weigh the pros and cons of his reputation
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Harper Lee‚ author of the novel‚ "To Kill a Mockingbird" exploits various textual features which are used to make characters like Aunt Alexandra marginalized. Throughout the novel she is illustrated as a foil to Atticus’s attitudes and beliefs; additionally she symbolizes high-class society during the Great Depression. These techniques position the reader to view Aunt Alexandra as an antagonist. There are many reasons for the marginalization of characters and these are expressed through different
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