they can. It requires analyzing documents and interviewing with the people of the story‚ which makes it a primary source. 3. DeGregory got her undergrad and master’s in rhetoric and communications studies from the University of Virginia. After writing for the Virginian-Pilot for 10 years‚ she moved to Florida to write for the St. Petersburg Times. 4. DeGregory uses a lot of raw description in her writing. The reader is able to see almost exactly what was going on at the moment and draw their
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The girl in the window was written by Lane Degregory. The girl in the window is about a girl named Dani. She lived in a house more like a closet. The closet she stayed in slept in and was in all the time wasn’t clean‚ there was molded mattress that she slept on and she was surrounded by cockroaches and maggots‚bugs. SHe didn’t have any toys and she didn’t have any clothes that she could actually where. She didn’t come out of the closet and she never went outside‚ never went swimming‚ never felt the
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Brittaney Doss ENG 303 November 15‚ 2012 Girl in the window Response Questions 1. What is your initial reaction to this piece? Use descriptive language to describe how you felt while reading this. * I endured several emotions while reading this piece. It was an emotional roller coaster for me. Emotions of sadness‚ hopefulness‚ and happiness came over me while reading this piece. I was floored when reading the conditions of the home in the beginning of the piece; I couldn’t believe
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Lane: Good People Lane Dean Jr. is a young man of nineteen. He is just starting his life with his girlfriend. He is attending college and working with UPS. He seems to play more of the antagonist role with in the story. Lane shows weakness as his complex personality reveals his struggles in the plot of the story line. In this story Lane is faced with many struggles‚ internal and external. The struggle within his thoughts has him frozen‚ unable to move and he only becomes more still as the struggle
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‘Portrayal of women in literature is heavily influenced by the social and cultural views of its context‚ but it is the author’s view that matters most’ Through close analysis of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane‚ one is able to see the various ways women are represented in literature‚ showing that both social and cultural views of its context‚ as well as the author’s own view are equally important in crafting an ingenious storyline. In this novel‚ Ali focuses on several Bengali women as they embark on a journey
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This passage taken from the novel Brick Lane by Monica Ali depicts the journey and feelings of the persona‚ Nazneen in her navigation of the streets of London. Using the setting of the novel‚ mood and various literary devices‚ the author‚ Ali‚ is able to convey to readers the subject matter of the extract‚ which is the loneliness and confusion faced by the persona. The setting of the extract plays a major role in the understanding of the passage as a whole. The passage is set in London‚ England
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Analyse of Brick Lane “Brick Lane”‚ written by Monica Ali‚ is the story about Nazneen‚ a young Bangladeshi woman living in Brick Lane‚ London. Nazneen was given into an arranged marriage to a lower middle class man‚ almost triple her age. Nazneen struggles to find her voice in the British society‚ and faces several multicultural difficulties. I find the main character’s role in the story to be very interesting. Therefore I will analyse the main character and some of the multicultural differences
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yet became my favorites for opposite reasons. The image of Penelope‚ a painstakingly well-crafted likeness‚ contained a haunting emotion that I found myself returning to day after day‚ simply because it pleased my eye. The other image of a Girl By a Window seemed to be painted by an amateur. Its crudely painted background images that were nearly unrecognizable combined with a whimsical representation of a woman that drew my attention in disbelief that anyone could think this painting
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for PTI to achieve long-term growth since PTI has no proprietary assets and that the company is in a mature industry in a slowing economy. Business Venture Status and Characteristics As an established manufacturing company in a mature industry‚ Lane will have difficulty creating new growth through manufacturing a nonproprietary product‚ particularly in a slowing economy. However‚ the management vacuum created by Elson’s death provides opportunity to create new proprietary products that can grow
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Brick Lane by Monica Ali When you begin Monica Ali’s first novel‚ which catapulted her on to the Granta best young British novelists list before it was even published‚ you might be forgiven for feeling that the fuss has been a little overstated. The first chapter‚ with the birth of our heroine‚ Nazneen‚ her survival against the odds and her preparation for an arranged marriage to a Londoner are trundled through without much individuality. In her rather predictable portrait of life in Bangladesh
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