LAST LEAF biography William Sidney Porter‚ best known by his pen name O. Henry‚ was born in Greensboro‚ North Carolina‚ in 1862‚ the second son of Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter and Mary Jane Porter. When his mother died of pneumonia three years after his birth‚ he and his father and brother moved into the home of his grandmother and his aunt Lina‚ who took over his education and started him in his interest in literature. Lit. approach In The Last Leaf‚ as lingering pneumonia takes her will to live
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Dee In “The Necklace”‚ Mathilde is seen as a poor woman who had low self-esteem and was married to a clerk. In this story‚ she was invited to a ball and borrowed a friend’s necklace. After the ball‚ Mathilde discovers that the necklace was lost. As a result‚ she had to search for a similar necklace and had to take out loans to make a purchase. She was forced to work for ten years to pay off the debt until one day when she saw her friend. Little did Mathilde know that the necklace she lost was
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as the “preps”‚ “populars” and the “jocks” near the top‚ while groups such as the “nerds” tend to be near the bottom (Heathers n.pag). The popular people of the school are four girls named Heather Chandler‚ Heather McNamara‚ Heather Duke‚ and Veronica Sawyer. As Roz Kaveney says in her reading “Teen Dreams”‚ the girls “dominate school life through beauty‚ bitchery‚ and sexual favors.” (Kaveney 49). The girls were shown to be frequent bullies‚ spreading hurtful gossip and rumors (Heathers n.pag)
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The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is focused on four Chinese Immigrant families in San Francisco and about their sacrifices for coming into the United States. Each family tells their own story. The story of the Hsu family with An-Mei as the daughter The purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to show the reader that people to reach their dream they have to make sacrifices and that their choices can change their fate. The language Amy Tan uses imagery to show how things affect the characters and how
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Monica has a website that she has people vote on what she wears or does. Before the police detective Liz comes to her house‚ it shows a necklace she got from a pawn shop that she did not put up for votes. When Liz came to her house‚ she shows the picture of the necklace and asks if she knows where it is or if she has seen. The necklace was actually a diamond necklace that was stolen. Liz told Monica there was a reward‚ but instead of money
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Veronica at first seems like the most compassionate person of all the group and trying to fix the problem of her son’s injury caused by the child of Alan and Annette and trying to convey them that they should do something to their son’s actions. Towards end
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Fulbright Scholars I am going to present ‘Fulbright Scholars’‚ the first poem from Ted Hughes’ powerful autobiographic ‘Birthday Letters’‚ which were released in 1998- 35 years after Sylvia Plath suicide and only months before the poet’s death. Hughes’ poems can be regarded as a personal reply to the critics‚ who have been arguing for decades that his infidelity and cruelty drove Plath to suicide. However‚ ‘Fulbright Scholars’ explores the poet’s first sighting of Sylvia Plath in a photograph
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could be downgraded and that person could lose everything; this portrays how society can control people’s lives‚ how they live them‚ and who they share it with. Although there are a multitude of ideas presented in Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” the most significant idea is that Madame Loisel is victimized and her life ruined because of the nineteenth century France
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Many times authors use irony to prove a point. There are three types of irony: dramatic‚ verbal‚ and situational. Situational irony is present in “The Sniper”‚ “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ “Gift of the Magi”‚ and “The Necklace” to help create the theme in the stories. In the story The Sniper situational irony plays a major part in the story.”The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by remorse” (O’Flanerty). This shows situational irony because he was ready to kill‚ but when the sniper
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