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Teddy's Mom
499 wordsWendy Abram February 9, 2000 Book Report (about a boy character) Title: Super-Duper Teddy Author: Johanna Hurwitz Setting: The story takes place in Teddy's neighborhood, Teddy's apartment, and in Anita's house. Main Character: The main character is Teddy. Supporting Characters: There are many supporting characters. They are Teddy's mom; his sister, Nora; his neighbor, Anita; his friend, Bryan; his turtle, Mr. Hush; and Anita's cat, Cassandra. Favorite Character: My favorite character is Teddy be...
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Characteristics Of Comedy
1,268 wordsCharacteristics of Comedy There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of. ".. and they all lived happily ever after... ". Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story...
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Medieval Ballads And Lyrics
1,629 wordsRecently, the term 'ballad' can be associated with everything from Solomon's Song to an Aerosmith song. The dictionary defines it as a traditional story in song or a simple song. However, the medieval ballad is something of a different nature than that of the popular musical ballads of today. The definition of ballad in the medieval context is a narrative poem. The authors usually remain anonymous and the ballad is more often than not accompanied by dance (Gummere). This is not surprising consid...
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Claim Ming The Right
421 wordsMrs. Pauley Period 8 March 26, 2002 Reading Between the Lines Huxley has a style where you can make complex ideas simple but it really makes the reader think. A dark satire would be a good way to describe the literary style. You can tell because one of England's most notable places, Westminster Abbey is now merely the site of a nightclub the Westminster Abbey Cabaret. The narrator of the story stays right where the action is all the time and even gets inside the head of one of the characters at ...
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Just Being An Acquaintance To Foyle
1,589 wordsThe Stars My Destination Introduction '... The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened. What emerged expunged the Common Man forever. ' ; The Stars My Destination ~pg 22 Gully Foyle. Uneducated. No skills. No merits. No recommendations. A short description given by the author Alfred Bester of his main character as the stereotypical Common Man of humanity. A man who later motivated himself to become something more than just a 'mere' man. Within the few pages of just the first c...
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End Of The Story
421 wordsThe Pit an the Pendulum By: Edger Allen Poe The Pit an the Pendulum by Edger Allen Poe is what this essay came from. The story starts with the heretic getting sentenced the death penalty. He is thrown in a big pitch black pit, with a swinging pendulum hanging from the roof, to eventually be killed in some way. I believe that this character is a dynamic character because he goes through a lot and changes a lot. One thing that was interesting was, that the heretic might have been post humus. He sa...
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Warren's Cold Reaction To Bernice's Bobbed Hair
1,301 words"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald teaches a very important lesson about superficial popularity, and the cruel pressures which demand that individuals conform to the standards of a social set. It was interesting to watch the development of the main character, a quiet, passive person who longed for popularity, then found it, then lost it, and finally became strong and independent. The story is about an eighteen-year old girl named Bernice who is visiting her snobbish cousin, Marjorie....
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Gimpel The Fool
1,435 wordsGIMPEL THE FOOL Through clever characterization, underlying symbolism, and an in-depth point of view, the short story "Gimpel the Fool", written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, clearly reinforces the age-old concept that repentance, along with good deeds, will ultimately be rewarded in time. Gimpel's whole-hearted yet gullible characterization weaves an important pattern in the story's meaning. The deeply embedded religious connotation and use of dynamic symbols both aid in allowing the reader to pick...
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Twenty Minutes To Nine And Miss Havisham
534 wordsCHARACTER ANALYSIS OF MISS HAVISHAM In the book Great Expectations, Charles Dickens created a very eccentric but interesting main character named Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham was introduced in the book by Pip. Pip was taken to her in her bedroom and described her as an old, yellowed woman with white hair, dressed in white satins, laces and silks, wearing a long white veil with bridal flowers in her hair. He described her room by saying, "But I saw that everything within my view, which ought to b...
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Story For Their True Nature
1,420 wordsA World Without Beds: stories lacking sex and shut eye by: Allison Magpayo Despite surface differences in Jeanette's Wintersons Disappearance, and Welcome To The Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, both authors have created stories with pointed commentary at the worlds progression into the future... Both stories are set in a futuristic society that has abandoned human needs (sex and sleep) in order to benefit what the mass thinks of as the greater good. Through the plot sequences and characters used ...
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House The Houses Of Stewart And Baines
4,953 wordsThe Piano The analysis is broken down into models, where is one looking on denotative / connotative levels, while another is concerned with the dialectical dynamic in the story, eliciting the opposition on a culturally moral point of view. A third model is a simplistic, although effective, progression line examining the development of Ada and her status. The first division is concerned with four visual signs that recur throughout the story, and therefore should be paid special attention to. Deno...
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Tom's Wisdom
554 wordsTwo short stories that have been effectively crafted to leave the writer with a strong impression of the main character are, 'The Wedding Gift" by Thomas Raddal and "Piece of steak" by Jack London. Both Stories evolve around entirely different circumstance but show the journeys of the main character. "A Piece of Steak" is the story of a prize fighter called Tom King who has gained wisdom but has lost his youth. His body was now battered and bruised, his knuckles were swollen and his arteries no ...
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Walker's Traynor And Gracie Mae
961 wordsElvis Presley was an important figure in popular music and culture at this time in the 1950?'s; Willie Mae Thornton represents personal, artistic, and ethical values admired by Walker. The author bases her characters, Traynor and Gracie Mae? Little Mama? Still, on these real people but abandons biographical accuracy to amplify the symbolic meaning of each character. In this process, Elvis becomes an interloper destroyed by stealing what he does not understand. The Thornton character is poor but ...
