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    My poem‚ “Dorian”‚ responds to the character‚ Dorian Gray. My first stanza of the poem reflects Dorian’s character. Dorian Gray was terribly egotistic‚ After reading the yellow book he was very Hedonistic. All he cared about was his vanity‚ After that‚ he started to lose his humanity. My poem explains how Dorian is egotistical and thinks his vanity is very important.He gets introduced to Hedonism which is the theory that pleasure or satisfaction is the goal of life. When Dorian lives his life for

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    Dorian Gray: Static on the Surface‚ Dynamic Underneath In The Picture of Dorian GrayDorian Gray is an extremely dynamic character‚ and who he is differs phenomenally from the beginning of the story to its end. Dorian changes from an innocent youth‚ completely impressionable‚ to a terrible man who indulges his every wish in secret. There are many events that show how Dorian’s character transform‚ but I picked three that display it at its three main points- little strong character at all‚ some

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by Oscar Wilde in 1891‚ who himself was a key proponent of the aesthetic movement created by Walter Pater. Within the novel Wilde shows blatant contradictions and struggles within his characters‚ particularly those of the upper echelons of British society. Wilde parodies with great success main characters such as Lord and Henry and later on Dorian‚ yet also lesser characters‚ such as Lord Fermor. . As a potential ‘reincarnation’ of Narcissus‚ Dorian Gray embodies

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    Per. 4 AP Lit. Freud. Psychoanalytic Essay on Dorian Gray Many people go through Sigmund Freud’s stages of personality in order from the “ID” to the ego to the superego; however‚ in the book “A Picture of Dorian Grey” we see a regression instead of a progression of Dorian’s character. He is portrayed as an innocent young man and is highly praised by Basil who admires him for his good character. It is possible he has a type of “superego” because of the fact that he may be “tainted”‚ as Basil says

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    Dialectical Journals of The Things They Carried Idea/Stylistic aspect | Quotation | Response | Truth | “Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts…it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say.” | The narrator‚ in making a seemingly offhanded comment about Rat’s tendency to lie‚ reveals another major point of the novel: the truth of a particular story is differing from person

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    Summer Reading Assignment: Dialectical Journal Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |NOTE TAKING (QUOTES) |Pg. No. |NOTE MAKING (RESPONSES) | |“This room was chill‚ because it seldom had a fire; it has |10 |The red room is significant to Jane‚ because it admonishes her| |silent‚ because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn | |uncle’s passing.

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    Summer Reading Assignment English Language AP Dialectical Journals Passage/Quotes from Text Page #/¶ Response 1. "The priest was blessed with a long‚ incriminating finger‚ which he used to point out sinners in public‚ and tongue schooled in arousing emotions." Pg 2 /¶2 (C) As I continued reading on how the priest was to spot the sins his fellow community has committed‚ it kind of surprised me. My priest could probably tell the people who sin from the guilt that appears in their face but the

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    Prompt 1.1: “Iron gray hair” Emily’s iron- gray hair has chronological significance in the story. First‚ the hair belongs to Emily‚ who had sometime slept on the bed beside Homer Baron’s dead body‚ near where it was found. This term “Iron-Gray” had only lied within passage 4 in paragraph 6 when the narrator describes changes in appearance of Emily: “During the next few years‚ it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron- gray‚ when it ceased turning”(Faulkner‚ 4.6) this

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    York AP English 2 12 December 2010 Novel Project: The Picture of Dorian Gray 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a young and beautiful man named Dorian Gray who is frightened by the fact that he will eventually lose his good looks and youth as he ages. Dorian Gray is the subject of a painting by an artist‚ Basil Hallward. Basil introduces Dorian Gray to Lord Henry Wotton‚ who slowly begins to gain greater influence on Dorian Gray. Lord Henry believes the only things worth pursuing in

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    Journal 2 I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ and I am on page 42. This is a book about a girl named Scout and her brother‚ Jem‚ who are both scared of Boo Radley and his family because of the rumors they have heard about the family and they also has not seen him. School is also starting in Maycomb‚ Alabama for Scout and Jem. Scout got in trouble with her new teacher already. In this journal‚ I will be predicting and characterizing. G- I predict the kids will not meet Boo Y- He

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