considered as Henry James’ masterpiece. The story revolves around Isabel Archer. She is a young American who meets up her destiny. She values her freedom. She does not want to get married because she thinks that marriage will suppress her independence. James handles the theme of how a young protagonist attains maturation. The Portrait of a Lady relates us how Isabel grows up to explore the world by herself. When the novel opens‚ Isabel is introduced as “a young person of many theories; her imagination
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a young slave girl by the name of Isabel is sold to a Loyalists couple who live in a rebel occupied New York city. Isabel‚ 11‚ and her younger sister Ruth‚ 5‚ have lost their parents and their kind owner and are being sold away from everything they have known. Although Isabel is owned by a family of Loyalists‚ she continues to avoid choosing a side and claims to be only fighting for herself and her sister. After being treated horribly by the Loyalists‚ Isabel should support the rebels and help them
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Isabel is an active‚ engaging‚ and curious young girl who has been exposed to Spanish and English throughout her four years and six months of life. In the spontaneous language sample obtained‚ we learn that Isabel is demonstrating second language learning characteristics‚ as well as some depressed linguistic skills‚ which differentiates her as a child with a language impairment. Influence from her first language acquisition are apparent as she consistently produces the objective pronoun “her” in
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out and how they were constantly dropped from one house to another. Although Jackie and Luke had a civil relationship‚ for the sake of the children‚ their children emotionally did not understand what was going on with them. To make this even worst‚ Isabel living with him did not help the children cope with their parents’ divorce. They felt like she was trying to replace their mother‚ which added to the stress. To handle the problem of divorce‚ both parents did have time with the children. In one
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Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Outside Reading Books (ORBs) & Summer Reading Instructions- 2010-2011 Patrice Norris- Instructor Email: elwyn.norris@mnps.org READ THIS HANDOUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE QUITE SPECIFIC Part I. All AP Literature students are required to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. You will refer to this book throughout the year. The book is very entertaining and very informative as an introduction to
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IB English Essay *Written in the literary present *In class essays are in ink‚ though several essays(long term) should be typed and double spaced. *IB English 11 essays tend to be more student driven‚ whereby the student is asked to come up with his/her own topic with minimal direction from teacher (prompts are usually given in 12th in preparation for the exams at the end of 12th). *Essays focus on examining authorial intent with regards to a work‚ rather than the historical implications or cause-effect
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playing games‚ and try to act as grownups‚ when they are not. Sinclair Ross explores this idea in "The Outlaw"‚ a story about a boy who seeks guidance from his horse‚ Isabel‚ on his path to maturity. The boy projects his thoughts and feelings onto his horse‚ which represent his dreams and his attitude toward life. He gives Isabel anthropomorphic qualities‚ which depict her as a temptress‚ as trying to seduce him to ride her. He mentions that: "She had sized me up‚ evidently‚ as soft-hearted as well
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Royal Family‚ and we only had a total of thirteen colonies. Chains was based in the time of slavery and of the Revolutionary War. Isabel and Ruth were slaves for Miss Finch; in her will‚ Miss Finch wrote for the sisters to be freed once she had passed. After the funeral‚ the will could not be acquired. Now the girls were slaves‚ not free. After this unfortunate event‚ Isabel was confident that she could find the lawyer who had written the will to prove that they were free. The sisters were then returned
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Chains by Laurie Haldane Anderson‚and in Charles kuralt’s “Independence Hall” both Isabel and the patriots faced obstacle before attaining their goals. Some of the conflicts they faced similar and others were different. In Chains and “Independence Hall”‚ there were external and internal obstacles. Isabel had faced many internal and external conflicts in Chains. One internal conflict Isabel faced was when Curzon asked Isabel to be a spy for the patriots “He stopped beside a barricade. The brim of his hat
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mother Jackie. After Isabel (the stepmom) had been working a long day at her photo shoot and trying to keep an eye out on Anna and Ben the worst happened‚ Ben was lost. After Ben was safely found at the zoo‚ Jackie wouldn’t budge and demanded a court order for Isabel to never be with the kids alone again. This was something Jackie and Luke agreed to never do so Luke was not going to let this happen now. He went over to Jackie’s house and talked it out with her to give Isabel another chance and to
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