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    Cora Hart- Narrative Short Story- Working Draft There. Right over there. At locker number three hundred sixty eight. The new kid‚ awkwardly fidgeting with the dial. When the locker stubbornly refused to open‚ she gave an exasperated sigh and pulled a small slip of paper out of her mud-stained jeans. She squinted at it for a moment‚ then once again attempted the endeavor of opening the locker. This time‚ it swung open with a victorious click‚ and she crammed her bag‚ bursting at the seams with who

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    Short Story Today I learn how to stack boxes in to shelf‚ for example Gatorade‚ Food cans etc. Working at a church is somewhat tiring but you’ll get a lot of exercise. Especially working out your biceps and your arms and legs etc. Helping the needs is a wonderful thing to do‚ especially around your community like a church‚ Food bank‚ shelter etc. Doing community service is a good life experience to learn new things and to help out around your community. The reason why I had to do community service

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    In “A Story” by Li-young Lee the poet used literary terms to represent the theme and relationship of the poem and the characters. Some of the literary terms that the author used to represent theme were rhetorical question‚allusion‚ and imagery . In “A story” by Li-young Lee the poet used allusion to represent the theme of the poem. The quote he used to identify theme using rhetorical question was “Am I a god that should never dissapoint”. This question shows the father and son relationship. It shows

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    In the short story “Araby” and in the short story “B.Wordsworth” both characters go through life changing experiences. The boy in “Araby” invests his heart and his time into his first love while he dreams about her and follows her. The boy in “B.Wordsworth” learns to think outside society’s view of life because he new friend teaches him to take another look of everything he sees. Unfortunately‚ the boys’ short-term attachment ended. Both boy narrators both gained an enhanced experience‚ which resulted

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    Short Story Review Eveline – James Joyce Eveline is a very sad story. The story’s tone is a very sad one. In the beginning of the short story the narrator talks about Eveline Hill sitting at a window and thinking about her childhood. She begins to recall all the things that happened and how she played with the other children. As she sits there and thinks her thoughts turn to her sometimes abusive father who she lives with and begins to think about the possibilities of her freeing herself. Eveline

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    wishes with revising your paper! Hi‚ Gregory! I am Kobe F.‚ and I am happy to read and comment on your work today. I like your choice of Jimmy Cross for your discussion because he suffers the most important conflict between desire and duty in O’Brien’s story. Below I suggest some improvements to your thesis statement‚ conclusion‚ and comma use to help you enhance your paper. The ERF and embedded comments include the draft being on topic and grammatically correct as in “Help Requested.” So here we go! 

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    English 102 12/10/13 Secret Life of Bees In 1964‚ Lily Owens is fourteen years old. She has no mother‚ a father whom she despises‚ and no friends to turn to when she needs a shoulder to cry on. Not only does Lily have to deal with feelings of loneliness and betrayal caused by her parents‚ but in a time troubled by negativity towards the Civil Rights Act‚ she is also faced with situations that force her to grow up very fast. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a page turning novel

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    full title · The Secret Life of Bees author · Sue Monk Kidd type of work · Novel genre · Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) language · English time and place written · 1997–2001‚ near Charleston‚ South Carolina date of first publication · 2002 publisher · Viking Penguin narrator · Fourteen-year-old Lily narrates the novel in retrospect‚ from the house where she now lives with the Boatwright sisters. point of view · Lily narrates the novel in the first-person‚ describing the events she experiences

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    Nicole Banley ENG 125 David Schonfeld 04.07.2013 I believe the theme of the story is that Sophia feels it is her right to explore her sexuality however she pleases and to have an independent life‚ no matter what her father thinks. The writer uses setting to narrow the underlying idea‚ the theme. In this story‚ there are two different settings. The first one is in Sophia’s father’s home where she gets scolded for having love letters. Her father finds them and asks if she has been deflowered

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    Denis Johnson uses the short story “Emergency” to convey a few varying themes. One of these themes is unconscious fantasy versus actuality ‚ which is caused by the drugs taken at the beginning of the story. We can recognize Johnson develop this theme when Georgie and the narrator are lying in the flatbed of Georgie’s orange pickup truck. “I want to go to church‚” Georgie suggested. “Let’s go to the county fair.” Given their drug-addled state‚ it is difficult to tell their lucid thoughts from their

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