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    A Haunted House

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    In the story‚ “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf‚ a seemingly haunting‚ but wonderful story is told about a ghostly couple that is seeking out something they had “lost” in their old home from many years ago that another couple lives in now. The ghostly couple spends the night in this house searching high and low for a specific something that they cannot exactly put their finger on. As they search though the house‚ they relive some nostalgic moments that they had in the times they lived there and

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    Feathertop Setting

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    Setting: The Birthplace of “Feathertop” Many times in life acting upon jealousy usually backfires. So when a jealous witch in a seventeenth-century town in New England started “making a scarecrow‚” you start to piece things together and things don’t seem like they will turn out right (Hawthorne 1). And thus begins the short story‚ “Feathertop”‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Using archaic word choice‚ wicked words‚ and talking about things that were popular in the seventeenth-century‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    The Landlady Setting

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    Setting of “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl (From Billy Weaver’s perspective from outside the boarding house) One of the main settings in the short story‚ “The Landlady”‚ was the boarding house’s parlour inspected from outside of the building. The setting first took place when I traveled down the wide street of Bath heading to the hotel‚ Bell and Dragon. There were no shops on this broad street. In the darkened evening‚ I caught a sight of a notice propped up against the glass on one of the upper panes

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    As she stated in her autobiography‚ "In writing [The House of the Spirits]‚ I wanted to recover all that I had lost—my land‚ my family‚ my memories‚ and the memories of those who were no longer with me" (Rogoff). Allende wrote the novel to keep her memories of her family and country from disappearing altogether. As Sheffield puts it‚ "through rewriting‚ such as is evident in The House of the Spirits‚ memories that history ignores are preserved and given voice" (34).

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    A Doll's House

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    right when your friends tell you that it is not? The more you go further into the relationship the deeper you fall and the harder it gets to break free? A Doll’s House explicitly portrays a role and status of women in the 1900s. Ibsen uses clear characters and morals to support his ideas. Throughout the whole novel Ibsen uses a female character Nora‚ to perfectly contrast the social status of female to male.  However I personally did not get some of the ideas that Ibsen showed but‚ I have seen a relationship

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    “You’re in the Dog House Now” Cast: Owner of a poodle named Lacey (Samantha) ………………………..................Christine Petrakis Owner of a pit-bull named Max (Jillian) …….................................................Kaitlin Montgomery Character Description: • Samantha is getting close to the age of forty as she is a thirty-seven year old woman‚ who has a poodle named Lacey. In the past‚ Samantha would always bring Lacey to a beach called ‘Sugar Beach’‚ but their memories of lying in the sand‚ soon

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    Conflict is a primary theme within Romeo and Juliet and merchant of Venice‚ Shakespeare conveys this theme through the characters to reinforce and emphasis the conflict between the father and daughter. Linking this to the historical/ social context‚ there is a fear of non-acceptance within the community‚ and due to the hierarchy of the Capulet family‚ there is more of a requirement for Juliet to be more dominated from her father than the average Elizabethan family. As the extent of dominance towards

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    The Conservatory Setting

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    The setting of a book explores the place and time in which the characters live. The setting in this particular book brings many terrible effects to each character. The decision to dance at ABC did affect each character’s life. Growing up‚ Gigi’s ballet was for fun- nothing more‚ nothing less. However‚ as she started to develop her skills‚ she needed a more prestigious conservatory to better fit her needs as the ballerina she was becoming. So‚ she traveled all the way across the country to train

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    he is a blackmailer. When inconvenient‚ he is converted‚" I believe he had entirely missed the point of his character in A Doll House. Krogstad’s characterization is a flagship example of the way Henrik Ibsen wrote all the characters in the play: representations of man’s true multi­faceted nature. On the surface the reader makes quick judgement about the content of the roles’ characters; Nora‚ ditzy; Torvald‚ loving; Linde‚ reliable; and Krogstad‚ evil. It is not merely a convenience to the plot

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    Atticus Conflicts

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    novel set in Maycomb County‚ Alabama in the 1930’s. Throughout the book‚ many conflicts happen and the setting plays a major part in the conflicts. During this time period‚ racial discrimination is coming into full swing and the character Atticus unfortunately gets in the middle of all of it. With everything revolving around Atticus‚ his character develops the theme of the book. Throughout the novel‚ Atticus reveals the theme of the book as “Always do the right thing‚ even if it is the hard thing to

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