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    preparing an outline.  Be sure that you have read the chapter before doing any further work for this assignment.   Choose two of the following short stories to compare and contrast in your essay: • “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson • “The Destructors” by Graham Greene • “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence • “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne • “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe • “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell   Also‚ make at least one of these elements of fiction

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    a cogent fiction essay. Be sure that you have read the chapter before doing any further work for this assignment. Choose 2 of the following short stories to compare and contrast in your essay: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson “The Destructors” by Graham Greene “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Also‚ make at least 1 of these elements of fiction the focus

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    Analysis The Destructer

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    The Destructor Analysis The first impression this story (“The Destructor” written by Graham Green) gave to me was this is just a normal story about depictions of childhood life of a group of children‚ but as I read through it again‚ I thought it differently. After World War Two‚ when everything was still bombed out and demolished‚ this is the time when the story happened. In Britain‚ a group of teenage boys who call Wormsley Common gang‚ they meet every day in a parking lot near a part of town

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    And here Graham Greene introduces the concept of the Divine Vengeance in the story. Divine vengeance is the main essence of the uncanny classic‚ "The Case for the Defence”. Initially‚ in the story‚ Greene presents forth that at least one of the Adams are certainly the murderers. This can be understood clearly by the number of evidences (witnesses)‚ and the manner of writing of Greene. The scene yet plays loopholes and ultimately both the Adams escape without any of them held guilty. This is certainly

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    not a silent observer. He Himself knows personally and infinitely the pain we face." Monday‚ November 19‚ 2012 Compare and Contrast A paper from my English Literature and Composition class this summer... Abstract   In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford and Trevor (better known as T.) are each faced with a moral dilemma. Each character is confronted with a post-war scenario. While T. is immersed in it‚ living in a post-war London

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    ’t believe there ’s any other kind." (Greene 5) Graham Greene uses his novel The End of the Affair to show that erotic love is truly the strongest human expression of the innate desire for God. Greene uses the fictionalized tale of his own real life affair with the beautiful Catherine Walston to examine the relationship of hate to love‚ of physical to spiritual‚ of holy to tainted‚ and of erotic love to divine love. A moderately popular novelist‚ Greene ’s central protagonist‚ Bendrix‚ tells

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    accused Adams is acquitted because of lack of evidence. And here Graham Greene introduces the concept of the Divine Vengeance in the story. Divine vengeance is the main essence of the uncanny classic‚ "The Case for the Defence”. Initially‚ in the story‚ Greene presents forth that at least one of the Adams are certainly the murderers. This can be understood clearly by the number of evidences (witnesses)‚ and the manner of writing of Greene. The scene yet plays loopholes and ultimately both the Adams escape

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    The Quiet American Research Task History of Graham Greene and The Quiet American Centered on a common theme of politics and twentieth century moral dilemmas‚ Graham Greene’s work as an English writer‚ playwright and literary critic is famed for coalescing ‘serious literary acclaim with widespread popularity’. Greene often chooses to emphasise Catholic religious beliefs‚ as evident in Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter. His writing style and personal life were both markedly affected

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    that determines the what and why in a plot or story. The setting is the sole reason for why characters act the way they do or even why they exist within the plot. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene illustrates this notion by making the setting such an intricate and irreplaceable piece of the plotline. Graham Greene uses the primary setting of Havana‚ Cuba as well as specific settings such as the current time in James Wormold’s life to form the storyline of Our Man in Havana. Our Man in Havana takes

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    The Innocent: A Misleading Label A first look at the title of Graham Greene’s story “The Innocent”‚ may give people a sense of purity and a feeling of bliss. Even those who have read the story can see the association between innocence and childhood‚ which is exactly what the author intended. Any reader can plainly look at the surface of what is happening in this story and see the narrator as an average man who is revisiting the town he grew up in‚ while having flashbacks of childhood memories

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