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    Required Question for all Students I chose the book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I chose this book because I had watched the movie a long time ago and everyone says the book is always better than the movie. I knew I was going to like it because I love animals and I have always wanted to be a veterinarian just like Jacob in this book. I thought it was very inspiring how even after Jacob learns that his parents have been killed in the car crash and their home has been mortgaged to pay for his

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    1804. It was inspired by Dorothy’s journal entry describing the walk:[8] J. M. W. Turner – Ullswater from Gobarrow Park‚ watercolor‚ 1819‚Whitworth Art Gallery When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side‚ we fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore & that the little colony had so sprung up – But as we went along there were more & yet more & at last under the boughs of the trees‚ we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore

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    Introduction The Hope for the Flowers of Trina Paulus started when Stripe was born. He saw other crawlers who were climbing a tree for them to reach the top. It was climb or be climbed. Stripe chose to climb and not mind other crawlers. He was very persistent to reach the top. He stepped on them and continued this single –minded approach. One day‚ he met a caterpillar named Yellow. They immediately fell in love with each other. Yellow encouraged him to just go down and not continue the climb. He

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    and Theme in Water for Elephants Masterful symbolism and psychological themes contribute to Sara Gruen’s literary success in her 2007 Algonquin Books historical fiction title Water for Elephants. Symbolism Revealed Through Character Sara Gruen’s title Water for Elephants provides a symbolic study of the fundamental human need for love and acceptance. The primary symbols are revealed through unique characters who struggle to feed deep internal desires. Rosie‚ the elephant referenced in

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    In this psychological literary criticism of On the Lake‚ by Olaf Olafsson‚ the characters Margret and Oskar will be analyzed. The main conflict is the determining of Oskar’s character; the question that keeps Margret unsettled until the climax of the short story. Throughout the short story‚ Margret subtly questions her husband’s character. She often compares Oskar to her father. “She had mentioned it before‚ and Oskar hadn’t hidden his opinion that her father’s rules had no place in their home”

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    for testing‚ just wanna be member.Literary criticism is the study‚ evaluation‚ and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory‚ which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Though the two activities are closely related‚ literary critics are not always‚ and have not always been‚ theorists. Whether or not literary criticism should be considered a separate field of inquiry from literary theory‚ or conversely from book reviewing‚

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    UDK: 821.111.09:305-055.2"17/18" FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (How does it apply to ‘Pride and Prejudice’-by Jane Austen?) Sanja Dalton1 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to express Feminist Literary Criticism in English Literature‚ as critical analysis of literary works based on feminist perspective‚ as well as to uncover the latent dynamics in a novel relevant to women’s interior role in society. Feminist Literary Criticism rejects patriarchal norms in literature

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    ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ - Gerard Genette Structuralism is a way to examines a literary text to arrive at their meaning‚ rather than the actual meanings of the text themselves. It is a study of structure wherever they occur. In the essay Genette analyses content‚ logics‚ grammars and semiotics. He is considering structuralism as a method to study literary criticism. In the beginning of the essay Genette is establishing difference between Bricoleur and Engineer‚ Art critic and Literary critic and

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    Feminist literary criticism Throughout the years‚ women have struggled for proper treatment and life style. They were oppressed and seen a male property. They were deprived for their simplest rights‚ even putting their thoughts into words. This situation led to the emergence of feminism‚ which is a set of ideologies that were meant to defend women’s rights in different areas of life‚ in other words it is the struggle for women’s rights. This set of ideologies‚ feminism‚ extended into

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    10 Literary Criticism approach An Overview of Approaches The Three-fold Purpose of Criticism: To help us solve a problem in the reading. To help us sift between and resolve conflicting readings. To enable us craft interpretative‚ yet scholarly judgments about literature. 1. Historical / Biographical Approach: Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times). H/B approach deems it necessary to know about the

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