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    The Upstairs Room This book is about a Jewish girl named Annie. Her life completely changed around 1941. When Hitler had started to do the bad things to the Jewish. She had two sisters‚ Rachael and Sini. They lived in Winterswijk. They weren’t safe living there‚ so they moved to the woods. Their mother was sick‚ so she didn’t want to go to America. She ended up in the hospital. But she died a week before they were taking Jewish people from the hospitals. The Germans wanted more people

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    something that readers cannot fully understand. The poem makes it a point to highlight the size of the man’s possessions to stress how big he was. “He was a big man‚ says size of his shoes” (1) and “a tall man too‚ says the length of the bed in the upstairs room” (3-4). Despite his great size‚ the man accomplishes little; after all‚ his farmhouse was falling into ruin and his fields were unkempt and strewn with boulders. This observation might hint that although he was

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    The Yellow Wallpaper is a story which is told in the first individual by the Narrator‚ a young lady. The Narrator and her husband‚ John‚ have leased a substantial‚ empty colonial estate for the midyear. The Narrator portrays the home as haunted‚ or possibly feeling extremely odd‚ and relates that her husband John‚ a refined physician laughs at her notions. The Narrator‚ on the other hand‚ furtively wants to stimulate the thought that the house is haunted. The Narrator is experiencing anxious misery

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    they have inhabited and the angry path of her life . She is a work of fine art‚ with a very sharp edge.Nora’s strong voice carries the novel‚ she is a symbol of the widespread lack of joy and anger that many women experience ‚not only" the women upstairs "‚ but also the mothers‚ wives‚ daughters‚ and sisters who reach what Messud describes ‚ those who are self-sacrificing ‚ who are angry on the inside only

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    Something Upstairs Something Upstairs by Avi is a historical fiction book based on the main character Kenny who has just moved into his new house in Providence‚ Rhode Island. He soon finds out that a ghost lives in the connecting room to his room because of the scratching sounds he hears coming from his closet. The ghost was a slave who was murdered in that house. Caleb‚ the ghost and Kenny are able to transport to the past‚ because of Caleb’s abilities. Kenny figures this is a great way to go

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    The Room

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    going to happen today. As always‚ I start my day by running around the walls in my room. I like how running makes me feel‚ I get lost in it and can try to picture a world where there are no rooms‚ where I can run free. An alarm goes off jolting me back to reality‚ telling me it is time to eat. The keeper who brings my food is new today. I do not like strangers so I watch him from the furthest point in the room. He starts talking to himself while setting up my food‚ no not talking‚ I do not know

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    The Room

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    Most of the times‚ the room is dark. There are days when it is bright and I can see almost everything clearly. The sunshine is reflecting through the cracks in the door‚ spreading across the room. My face breaks into a smile‚ my eyes shine and happiness fills my heart as I think I can leave the darkness. I can leave and be happy‚ be myself and no one will care. I open the door‚ just a little‚ and take a small peek. When I see the happiness shine‚ I expect to see smiling faces‚ people saying they’ll

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    The Room

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    Sabira Abdulla Mr. Craig Sinclair English 102 25 September 2012 Dystopia: Ray Russell’s “The Room” The short story “The Room‚” by Ray Russell‚ focuses on aspects developing in our society and creates exaggerations to show a future world that psychologically destroys the people. It explores the excess advertisement and addiction to technology present in the West today. While the protagonist tries to escape his horrible life‚ where he seeks refuge turns out to be a conspiracy of the government

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    My Room

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    Topic: Describe your favourite room at your home Although I like all the rooms at my home‚ my room is my sanctuary. It is the place where I go to get away from everything and everyone. As I go upstairs‚ the four walls remind me of a well guarded fortress. It is a place of peace. It is my castle where I am free from all the hustle and bustle of life. As I enter my room‚ a kaleidoscope of brilliant colours encircles me. The ceiling is as white as snow and it hovers over bright green walls punctuated

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    suicide in the same room where a young woman for whom he has vainly searched killed herself—it is the musty atmosphere of the room and the suggestion that every place bears the traces of the lives that have inhabited it that makes the story so compelling. It is a story of transience‚ of lives that move through a bleak‚ indifferent world‚ leaving only bits of themselves‚ which the young man uncovers as he searches through drawers and pokes into every corner and crevice of the room looking for something

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