This short story by Graham Greene is a critical yet humorous one in which a group of young teenagers have formed a gang in post-blitz London and plot to tear down the only symbolic house left standing after a bombing raid leveled an area. It would be wise to look at the characters and their influence in this short story and the results they have on various subsequent view-points that the reader will see. Main Characters: Trevor or T. is the protagonist in the story as the plot revolves around
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Tone and Mood Tone and mood greatly affect the way readers precieve a poem‚ essay‚ story‚ etc. Tone is how the author feels about what he/she has written. A tone can be either positive‚ negative‚ or neutral and is given through context clues such as setting and word choice. Tone may change throught a piece of writting. Moo is how the writer wants the reader to feeland is generated through the setting‚ dialouge and plot. Mood can either be positive or negative and like tone can change throught the
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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Book report by Allen Rabinovich It is the story-teller’s task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State Approval. I. One day I gave The Power and the Glory to... a native of Mexico who had lived through the worst persecutions... She confessed that your descriptions were so vivid‚ your priest so real‚ that she found herself praying for him at Mass. I understand how she felt. Last year‚ on a trip
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Graham Greene’s novel‚ The Quiet American‚ is more than a political statement about whether or not America or any other country for that matter should become involved in the affairs of another country; Greene makes the question human and personal. The novel can be read as a political and moral reflection on the opening stages of the United States’ involvement in Southeast Asia. Therefore‚ Greene’s novel becomes a commentary on the pointlessness of the United States’ later investment of men and material
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ESSAY DESTRUCTORS BY GRAHAM GREEN A war always leaves a great impact on people´s lives. It changes their temper‚ their lifestyles and‚ thus‚ their relationship with others. The consequences of a war are wisely depicted in Graham Green´s story‚ the destructors‚ through its main characters: Trevor (usually) called to‚ Blakie and “Old Misery”. (Mr. Thomas) To begin with‚ Trevor; T‚ is the latest recruit of the gang. Because of his witty ideas‚ he becomes the leader of it. He is portrayed as a cunning
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Стилистический анализ текста: Graham Greene “I Spy” The text under stylistic analysis “I Spy” is written by Graham Greene in the style of fiction. It deals with author’s feelings and emotions about relations at school‚ relations in the family. The main theme of the story is how main character of the story Charlie Stowe was able to steal some of his father’s stock - a packet with cigarettes from his father’s shop‚ with the purpose to prove his classmates that he is not a little boy. The idea
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Intro about the story The Case for the Defence is a well-written thriller by Graham Greene‚ a famous English novelist‚ which deals with a strange murder trial. The defendant‚ guilty of murder of a woman and having four eye-witnesses to testify against him is thought of standing no chance of acquittal. Yet‚ a twist in the story renders the jurymen helpless and they have to acquit him for lack of evidence. In the end‚ he or his twin brother meets with a horrible death‚ having been crushed under a
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of hurting others of their ignorance‚ “They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved”. Greene uses many symbols to this demonstrate these shades. Light being one‚ and the manifestation of an explosion; the Vietnamese people are ageless and often child-like in appearance‚ although Greene in no way infantilizes these people. Pyle is idealistic and strives for honour - he insists upon being fair‚ but we do not admire him for these heroic
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The Destructors Graham Greene showed the destruction of war clearly in the short story‚ “The Destructors.” While the bomb craters and destroyed buildings were made evident‚ the damage done to the psyches of the children were a little harder to see. Even though these children were too young to experience much of the war‚ and definitely never saw the front lines of combat‚ they still wore scars that maimed them forever. Childhood was a very formative time in their lives of a person. It shaped who
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Ben Ling Mr. Jensen Honors English 11 12 February 2007 Their Eyes Were Watching God: Tone/Mood Analysis She got up that morning with the firm determination to go on in there and have a good talk with Jody. But she sat a long time with the walls creeping in on her. Four walls squeezing her breath out. Fear lest he depart while she sat trembling upstairs nerved her and she was inside the room before she caught her breath. She didn’t make the cheerful‚ casual start that she had thought out
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