o my many friends‚ both known and unknown‚ wherever you may be‚ I submit these thoughts for your consideration. As this letter will make clear‚ a great many of us don’t want Mr. Poison Leaf to declare that the world’s salvation comes from whims‚ irrationality‚ and delusions. Still‚ we feel a prodigious pressure to smile‚ to be nice‚ and not to object to his batty criticisms. Mr. Leaf likes to argue that public opinion is a reliable indicator of what’s true and what isn’t. Even if there were a faint
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be the ultimate silver lining of a dark cloud that has affected me many times in my life. You see‚ when most people get poison ivy‚ they get a small red rash on their skin that is terribly annoying at worst. For me however‚ the story is much different. When I brush up against a poison ivy plant I can expect to spend the next ten days constrained to my house. When I get poison ivy‚ I don ’t just get a small irritating rash‚ I get something much worse. It starts off similarly enough; the first sign
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My reaction of Happy Endings and A Rose for Emily. Happy Endings is a quite interesting short story. Margaret Atwood is such a great author of her peers. She has put a different twist in literature. I was quite impressed with this‚ since I have not read anything quite so unique. The short stories that I have read have always been the same type of reading. They all have a straightforward beginning‚ middle‚ and end. With Happy Endings‚ it has many different scenarios that can possibly happen before
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Yoknapatawpha County Collin Brandl AP English Professor Hertzog 2/26/13 A key trait to southern gothic fiction is that it often contains a character that is in a state of helpless isolation from the people around them. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”‚ William Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily Grierson with sexual repression and a psychological state that keeps her mind in the time before the Civil War. This characterization stems from her father‚ her boyfriend Homer Baron and the town
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The poem “A Poison Tree” talks about the two ways to deal with anger. The first two lines deal with how we should deal with it but the rest of it talks about the wrath that the speaker has. The main theme of this poem is not anger but how anger can be cultivated. It shows how not bringing your anger up to the surface and dealing with it directly with the person you are angry with‚ this anger can be germinated into something poisonous and destructive. This poem is appropriate for Songs of Experience
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A Rose For Emily “A Rose for Emily”‚ by William Faulkner discusses that change should be recognized by everyone. What was in the past for Emily‚ should be left in past. Although her father and Colonel Satoris are dead‚ Emily refuses to accept the fact that her loved ones are gone. In Emily’s case she wanted to change a number of times but never had the support of her own town. The townsfolk don’t understand why Emily won’t change‚ but in reality she cannot change. Locking herself inside a bubble
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chad Floyd 1 2/7/12 English 102 Professor Kathy Lynch Sonny Blues In “Sonny’s Blues”‚ the theme of poverty is characterized by the poverty of Harlem Youth’s spirit. The story focuses on the relationship between two brothers at various stages of their lives. The events of the story focus on the building of understanding between Sonny and his older brother‚ the narrator. Even though the story
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Butterfly Effect “In life the smallest things can make the greatest impact on the world”. This is known as the Butterfly Effect in chaos theory. The butterfly effects most famous example is a hurricane creation depending on whether or not a butterfly flaps its wings. For instance if a rat in a hurry is frightened it gives off a gas that tells all the other rats to run away saving the pack form harm. The most well-known illustration of the butterfly effect is also known as the ripple effect. The
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In the poem “A Poison Tree” by William Blake‚ the poet employs diction of deception‚ archetypal symbolism‚ and misleading syntax in order to convey the message that when someone subdues their anger‚ it will eventually turn into the growth of poisonous thoughts/feelings. The speaker in Blake’s poem displays their anger in the first stanza in explaining that “I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not‚ my wrath did grow.” This is relevant
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The Blue Bouquet I woke covered with sweat. Hot steam rose from the newly sprayed‚ redbrick pavement. A gray-winged butterfly‚ dazzled‚ circled the yellow light. I jumped from my hammock and crossed the room barefoot‚ careful not to step on some scorpion leaving his hideout for a bit of fresh air. I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night‚ feminine‚ enormous. I returned to the center of the room‚ emptied water from a jar into a pewter
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