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  • Name Claire De Cintr E
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    A literary technique that authors often times employ is giving to the characters a name to enhance the reader's understanding of that character. In The American, Henry James uses this style with most of his characters' names. Often times, the names may translate into an English word, or it could even just sound like an English word. The novel is better understood because of this and the reader can get more meaning out of each character and his or her personality traits. In whichever way James ch...
  • Ellison's Use Of Colors
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    What are the larger implications of Ellison's story? To what extent is it about the "invisibility" of black men in white America? Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game" encompasses a variety of different implications that transform an otherwise sad short story into a political statement regarding racial injustice towards African Americans. Ellison's use of colors, slang phrases, names, irony, and his almost constant use of metaphor change otherwise meaningless sentences into poignant testimonial of ...
  • Aureliano Segundo And Jos Arcadio Segundo
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    Women are portrayed differently in literature depending upon the societal customs and the acceptance of women in the culture of the author. Although this is true, it is only partially so. An author is not obligated to write about his customs and norms, and in fact may use completely different ones in order to show dissent to the ones he has lived with. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude takes place in a Latin American setting. The passage (1) used from the novel in the compar...
  • Next To Fortunato's Body
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    Creative Writing: Who's in the Wall? Ursula McIntyre At precisely 10: 30 a.m. I got a call from a Mr. Machiano saying that while renovating a palace his men found the bones of what seamed to be a human body. When I got to the scene one of his men showed me to the corps. It had dirty, out-of-date clothes draped upon its remains with a piece a rope beside it. I asked Mr. Machiano how the body was discovered. ' My men were knocking down a wall and one of them found a skeleton with on, and that's wh...
  • Jay Morgan And Ginny Conrad
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    Title: The Pistol Poets Author: Victor GischlerDate Published: February 2004 Number of Pages: 3401. Most Significant Characters In this story there were not many characters other than the main characters who had much importance on the outcome of the story. The most significant characters in the story were two characters by the names of Jay Morgan and Harold Jenks. Jay Morgan- Professor Jay Morgan was a man who very stressed who was forced to switch schools to teach each year. Switching schools c...
  • Ugly One
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    The Magic Circle The Magic Circle, by Donna Jo Napoli dealt with three main characters. In the story a woman named The Ugly One possesses the power to heal. The woman has a beautiful daughter named Asa. The Ugly one is a sorcerer; who also helps sick people who are possessed by demons. The Ugly one becomes a witch after biting the finger off a deformed baby child and desiring an exquisite golden ring. The main character is The Ugly Sorcerer who is a hunchback. At first she helps deliver children...
  • Fifty Eight Thousand Soldiers
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    The Vietnam War Memorial. It is a wall, but it is also a monster that many avoid, and many are nervous to visit. In truth, all it is though is facts. It lists the names of all the soldiers that died in the conflict that was staged in a small country in Asia. All the names. There are so many names. Names that go on and on. There are over fifty-eight thousand of them, and every single one of them is a real person. A real man. A real woman. A real person. A real soldier. A real American. It was pro...
  • Fallujah Marlboro Man James Blake Miller
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    The Fallujah Marlboro Man James Blake Miller, a Marine in the U. S Armed Forces, is seen here smoking a cigarette in the field of battle. His face covered in camouflage, blood and sweat. His eyes focused heavily on the horizon, scanning for danger. The edging of his helmet worn and tattered from intense battle, and the expression on his face shows his tiredness. He is a warrior, protecting what we have today in the United States of America. This picture has been posted in magazines, newspapers, ...
  • John Procter
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    Miller uses The Crucible to express his own views on what was happening in America at the time-McCarthyism he uses John Procter as he is interested in the person who doesn't allow himself to be caught up in hysteria but thinks for himself and stands up for his values against all odds. To see how Arthur Miller does this we have to analyze the character of John Procter in the play. John Procter is a complex character. He is respected in the town of Salem when he signs his confession Parris says-'I...
  • Easy's Name
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    A Social Aspects of Lit 04/22/05 Lavender Lavender is a mystery that unfolds in a way not atypical of other mystery stories, but sets itself apart by defying certain characteristics and conventions. There are many details to the plot (mainly to the descriptions of the characters) that are unexpected and deny the reader a chance to confirm their stereotypes about who a detective is, how they should act, and what they should look like. Specifically, in the role of the unconventional protagonist (d...
  • Their Possession Two White Handed Gibbons
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    Scientific Name: Hylobates lar, Family: Hylobatidae, Order: Primates, Class: Mammalia, Geographic distribution: Tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia. White-handed gibbons lack a prehensile tail and they use a form of locomotion called brachiation to swing from tree to tree and branch to branch. Among the anthropoid apes they are fully BI-pedal, walking and running in an almost erect position like man. Sugary fruits are delicacies to the gibbon. They are most selective feeders and are primarily ...
  • Fucking Bitch And The Bitch
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    then there was a man who said hi and i said wow cool man then we ate food and had bum sex then he said i love you then we made love and it was fun and he screamed and i was like ok cool man then i like to eat dog piss and eat cat piss and shit and feces and and like to play tack on the chair because little bitch likes to sit on it and then scream because it pissed her off then she got mad and then she got angry then she got pissed at me and i wanted to slap her and kill her but i could ent so it...

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