3. The ending of “The Speckled Band” is particularly effective because of 2 main reasons. The end of the story becomes more intense‚ suspenseful and anticipating. This makes readers want to read more‚ like a cliffhanger. The story builds up to this point‚ then there is the investigation and action. It is also suggested in the story near the end that something exciting may happen Holmes character becomes more mysterious. He brings a cane but he can walk so what for? He also asks Watson to have his
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The Controversial Ending of Shaw’s Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a play that has become a classic in today’s world. It is a retelling of an ancient story‚ of the same name‚ by the Roman poet‚ Ovid‚ in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue he carved. In Shaw’s story‚ Henry Higgins‚ an expert in phonetics‚ happens upon a poor flower girl with awful English and street manners named Eliza Doolittle. Throughout the course of the play Higgins transforms her into an elegant independent
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Stories Essay In the short story “Happy Endings” there were quite a few unexpected elements. At the beginning of the story‚ John & Mary meet. There are five different stories with five very different endings. In “Happy Ending A”‚ John and Mary actually have a happy ending. After the two meet‚ they fall in love‚ get married‚ have a wonderful life together and then die. I was not expecting the not so happy endings for the remainder of the story. In “Happy Ending B”‚ Mary falls in love with John but
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Remove this space James Nuyen Professor Julie Allen English 125 11 February 2011 “The True Ending” Remove all this space. In her short story “Happy Endings”‚ Margaret Atwood uses different literary techniques that can alter the interpretation of the story’s theme. The story starts off with a generic “fairy tale” ending in which a husband and a wife live a happy life together and eventually die. However‚ as the story progresses‚ Atwood’s style and tone makes the alternate scenarios of John
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How does Hosseini present the ending of ‘The Kite Runner’? The final chapter of ‘The Kite Runner is a deeply emotional and reflective one. It interchanges between a retrospective and current set of events. The mood also varies from positive to negative throughout the chapter‚ signifying the emotional roller coaster that Amir has been forced to endure since his childhood. Although now‚ at 38 years of age‚ he is much wiser and calculated and this is shown here‚ he appreciates the so called littler
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Ending Stereotypes What is a stereotype? Merriam Webster defines it as “to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same.” Many people generalize other cultures by putting all the people in a box. Society has made jokes of these stereotypes and expectations for people. In reality‚ they are a lack of knowledge that can be hurtful to others. Societal expectations limit people and can be offensive‚ however‚ for some people it pushes them to break through the
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She makes some deep‚ grunting noises as you twist your back and stretch your neck. Ashlyn grabbed her earbuds and her phone off her desk and ran straight down the stairs nearly tripping. But Ashlyn could smell the buttermilk pancakes and when She smelt the bacon her Nose twitched‚ brain sniffed‚ she
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top of his head. "I’ll change at the station‚ you folks enjoy your expedition." The kiss he stopped to plant on his wife’s cheek‚ allowed Duane the chance to in and whisper in Karmen’s ear‚ "Hope that there uniform doesn’t get your panties in a twist‚ lucky for me he ain’t wearing it‚" and poke out his tongue‚ before Kurt walked stepped past them‚ and Daisy waited expectantly for Karmen to follow
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The poem “Endings” shows a great amount of imagery and emotions. The writer applied a brilliant simile when saying- ’The kisses that were hot as curry.’ This simile is one of the many visceral lines that helps the reader understand the poets emotions. It gives them an appropriate representation of how the poet used to feel. In the poem “Ending‚” the author continuously stresses that the passion between them is from former experience by using words or phrases in the past tense such as ’were‚’ ’we
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I really like reading your post. I don’t think that anyone would like a unplanned ending. Unplanned ending can be really hard on group members because it’s a sudden change in their life and they have to adjust to loosing the relationships that they had. A planned ending is very beneficial to every one because there is time for preparation and he members know that the group is about to come to a end. I work for as a Behavior interventionist for ACES. One thing that we have been taught in our training
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