Reader Response for The Yellow Wallpaper Darlene Santangelo August 13‚ 2013 Vocabulary: • Derision – disapproval‚ disgust • Flamboyant – flashy‚ garish • Interminable - unending • Bedstead – hardware/woodenware on a bed • Querulous – irritable‚ difficult to deal with Difficult sentences: I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors‚ but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative
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he decided what to do after Billy Budd killed the Master-at-arms‚ John Claggart. Everyone agrees that Captain Vere sympathized with Billy‚ but some people believe that being an abject slave of one’s emotions and a miserable prisoner of one’s feelings and the so called mistaken impulse of the heart‚ should be considered greater than the sacred call of duty and the honour in keeping an oath to uphold the king’s law. Captain Vere should have sentence foretop man‚ Billy Budd to death for three reasons
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To Kill A Mockingbird—Response Harper Lee’s book‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” is‚ in my opinion‚ a book with a diverse collection of messages‚ skillfully woven into an interesting and engaging story. It seems to me‚ though‚ that the book is very focused on symbolism. The symbol of mockingbirds is reoccurring in the book. It appears in the title‚ it is suggested in various characters and situations‚ and in parts of the book it is stated explicitly. For example‚ on page 90‚ Atticus told Scout and Jem
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movies is guilt‚ whether criminal‚ political‚ moral‚ or metaphysical. This guilt concerning the Holocaust was discussed in terms of different groups of people‚ including the offenders‚ bystanders‚ or future generations of Germans. In Schlink’s The Reader (1995)‚ for instance‚ guilt is an integral topic for the book’s main characters and they wrestle with it decades after the Holocaust. However‚ in non-fictional accounts from survivors‚ I do not think that their intent is to discuss or imply guilt
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that you write what you are thinking and continue writing even if it’s bad or may not make sense. He means to put all your thoughts down on paper and start from there. Ballenger gives his students permission to write badly. He expresses that “when the writing stops‚ so does the thinking.” He also states that he is far more interested in encouraging thinking than error-free sentences and concise‚ clear writing. Do I agree with Bruce Ballenger? I feel that I absolutely agree with him. If you would
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contestants something they desperately needed. I like how the author came up with these ideas‚ how she explained that the game makers did all these cruel things‚ for the sanguinary capitol people‚ who enjoyed watching these boys and girls kill each other. Collins made Katniss look like a very thoughtful‚ warm-hearted and intelligent girl with a special talent for hunting. During the hunger games Katniss never meant to directly kill people or hunt them down. She only hid and ran and defended herself when she
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The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about the Capitol which hold an annual game known as The Hunger Games. The games are a test of strength and skill in which the games the participants have to kill each other until there is one survivor. In the novel Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark‚ childhood friends from district 12‚ have been chosen to take part in this year’s game. The novel is written in the voice of the 16-year-old protagonist Katniss Everdeen who lives in the nation of Panem
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took over everything and closed the bar and the bus depot and the pool hall and swimming pool and forced all the teachers to follow an oddball curriculum that had nothing to do with the standard provincial guideline‚”(Toews‚ pg 13) . In this quote you can see that the life in East Village is very boring since every activity is shut down by Nomi’s uncle‚ The Mouth aka Hans. The people in the town have to tolerate with his power. I can totally relate to Nomi in this situation because many times
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Allentown by Billy Joel was a song that described the troubles of the late 20th Century blue collar worker. As workers moved away from cities and jobs moved overseas in the 1980s and 90s‚ the typical blue collar worker was hurt as their unions and workplaces were closed to make way for the new serviced based economy. Specifically‚ Billy Joel is describing Allentown‚ Pennsylvania. Of which was affected by the economic turn of the 80s because most of its residents worked in Bethlehem‚ PA at a steel
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ENG-101-W03 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood 23 January 2013 Reading Response 1 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood is a short story about a trauma that had a tremendous effect on the life of a young girl named Lois. The story begins with Lois living alone in an apartment. She is a widow with two grown children. Lois collects paintings of landscapes and she likes her apartment because they all fit on the walls. I do not believe that Lois likes the paintings‚ but she seems to need
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