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    Chapter Summaries of Saving Francesca Chapter 1: Plot: Mia is Francesca’s mother. Very dominant and a University Lecturer. Mia is well liked. Acts how she wants. Actively involved in Francesca’s life. Gives her lots of advice/pep talks. Fran attends St. Sebastian – previously all boys. Only 30 girls attend‚ Fran misses old friends. Quotes Francesca- mother as “Queen of Limitations Placers” pg.2 (Meaning she wants Francesca to be like her) -Fran ‘saved’ from outrages behaviour “My friends always told

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    In The Inferno‚ by Dante‚ the main character operates on several levels. Dante serves as a Christian hero because he undergoes trials and tribulations in his search to find the souls true path in life. Dante also portrays himself as everyman. He does this by showing that he also suffers from sin. In The Inferno‚ hell is in a spiral shape‚ and is divided up by the seriousness of the sin committed. The sinners are stuck in their location in hell where there punishment fit the crime

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    sin and grows closer to God through his experiences in the afterlife‚ specifically as he sees how sinners in Hell are punished‚ encounters spirits in Purgatory who kept God waiting in life‚ and has a personal experience with God in Heaven. In (the) Inferno‚ Dante shows development as he grows from having sympathy for sinners in Hell to believing that they deserve punishment for their sins. When

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    Hi Francesca‚ it’s Daniel you know the kid that you’re ignoring for no reason. I don’t know what I did wrong‚ I mean I’m doing the right thing. I’m struggling in school not like you care or anything I wish you came back so I can be motivated again. Sometimes I feel like giving up and people telling me live it up but nah it’s ridiculous. I stress about it day after day. I still think about those negative things you called me/describe me as. It’s frustrating waiting Francesca‚ you wouldn’t understand

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    Early Influences An early passage of significance for Francesca was her becoming a faculty member‚ a teacher‚ and a scholar in German. Francesca reported that this was a gradual drift and that as a child she grew up in the company of a reference group of bright and intellectually capable students‚ all of whom felt guided and inspired by teachers who served as encouraging mentors. This was a patter she experienced in high school.. Well‚ I suppose in a way you find people who are somewhat like minded

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    Inferno; the Summary The Inferno starts on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300. Traveling through dark woods‚ Dante Alighieri has lost his path and now wanders fearfully through the forest. Here he encounters the ghost of Virgil‚ the great Roman poet‚ who has come to guide Dante back to his path‚ to the top of the mountain. Virgil says that their path will take them through Hell and that they will eventually reach Heaven. He leads Dante through the gates of Hell. The Ante-Inferno‚ where

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    Matt Eden Mrs. Brown W-3 1/26/11 Inferno Literary Analysis If given the opportunity to view Hell and its inhabitants‚ would you feel sympathy towards those you have known while they were alive‚ or would you feel as though they deserve the punishment they have been given? One such man who wrote a book about such an encounter is Dante Alighieri. Dante opened up The Inferno with a tone of sympathy and grief; however‚ his attitude toward the souls he encountered became increasingly opposite to

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    In the epic poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri‚ Dante’s experiencing pity for the damned souls in hell defies the Medieval Church’s concept of the absolute nature of Divine Wisdom. Dante’s natural impulse to pity those who suffer in Hell causes him to focus on their sufferings‚ rather than the fact that their punishments are merely a reflection of God’s Divine Justice. Dante initially pities the damned souls because he fears that the consequences of his own bad behaviors may also lead him into Hell

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    The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante Alighieri’s poem‚ the Divine Comedy‚ which chronicles Dante’s journey to God‚ and is made up of the Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory)‚ and Paradiso (Paradise). The Inferno begins when Dante strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood. He gets attack by three beasts that symbolize different sins. Fortunately‚ he then meets the spirit of the Roman epic poet Virgil. Virgil to the rescue! He’s an appropriate

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    the concern aroused by the misfortune or suffering of others. As the emotion of pity deepens‚ it can correlate itself with sympathy and lead to compassion (Baird 1). Dante comprises this idea of pity within the narration of his characters in the Inferno. Dante creates fluctuating moralities that contrasts with the narrative tale of the sinners to the protagonist. The contrasts that are made by the sinner are reflected upon by Dante‚ he refers to this as the struggle pity. The great struggle of pity

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