After being served a decadent plate of smoked turkey, drizzled in gravy, with a side of creamy mashed potatoes, one turns its head to contribute to the family conversation. When turning back to grab another bite, the dog had already gained possession of the plate and began chowing down! The dog gobbles down all the food and without stopping, strolls...
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Andy Lee’s “Life of Pi”, is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and animated magic realism. Inspired by Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, it is a visual masterpiece that encapsulates the human ability to overcome hardship through faith and resilience. Audiences feel like active participants in the plot through powerful cinematic techniques and rich motifs. Life of Pi is a story about...
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Pride and Prejudice plays a big part in Elizabeth and Darcy’s relationship. It provides obstacles for their relationship to overcome, and prove their love for each other. Many characters pull them apart or draw them together throughout the novel, which is again another obstacle for them both. One of the people who plays the biggest part in pulling them apart...
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Hi, I’m the editor of The New Yorker magazine and I’ve seen quite a lot of people confused about The Lottery or described it as “perverted” and “gratuitously disagreeable”, so I’m making this video of me analyzing the story to give everyone a new perspective when looking at The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The setting of the story is set...
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When Pi was thrown into the Pacific Ocean on the lifeboat with only a limited stock of food and other resources after the ship capsized, he had to make a plan to survive the uncertain and indeterminate period in the harsh seas; “when your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for...
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As inside the earlier traditional epic verses of Greece and Rome, the characters are generally shown in common shape, however too now and again as the artist considers they must be. Sometimes, the writer breaks his objective tone to offer an ethical judgment on one of his characters, even though for the foremost portion, he lets the activities of the...
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How Do Writers Protest War War has now become the norm because of its impact on society. Poets include literary devices in their works to help illustrate their meaning. With this, each writer can share their protests against different wars. Writers have used literary devices throughout all of their writings. All four writers protest the war in various ways. The...
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The reader – like the soldier – never knows how the day will turn out. O’Brien even adds stories whose veracity is challenged later on, thus allowing the reader to understand that the stories are not the most important thing. Stories are used only to provide insight into the emotions of war; from these stories, O’Brien effectively teases out the...
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In 1992, an American writer and cartoonist, Art Spiegelman won the special Pulitzer Prize for 'Maus,' which was the first time a Pulitzer had been awarded to a graphic novel. Because the author abandons the traditional text and adopts the form of comics to present the holocaust which is narrated by his father with the animal image as the protagonist,...
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The text that my group chose was Maus by Art Spiegelman, which is a graphic novel about the experiences that the author’s parents lived through and after the war and Holocaust during World War II. Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek and gets his experience and own perspective of being part of the war and living through it and The...
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Dystopian themes where a future society is suffering is a thread that runs through the books ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley and ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’. They both represent a dystopian nature. ‘Brave New World’ is a new society that has been shaped where there is a faultless human. However, an individual called Bernard Marx rebels against society’s...
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Pride and Prejudice is written in the form of a generic Shakespearean comedy as with a fair few of Austin's novels. Most of these archaic comedies begin with mistaken identity, followed by a sudden revelation, and then, most commonly conclude with marriage or multiple marriages. Pride and Prejudice is a novel that fulfills all of these criteria. The contemporary idea...
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Repetition is needed to remember the men as they were and not the men the war has turned them into. This literary device gives insight and more importance to the physical and mental weight they carried on their shoulders. We learn what kind of men they are. Mitchell Sanders is a man who disguises his fear with misplaced and slightly...
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The upper class is responsible for creating friendships, initiating invitations, and more importantly, being charitable to those in a lesser position. When someone violates these social norms, they are met with indignation as evidence of Mrs. Elton not understanding entirely her social position in society. Mrs. Elton is insufferably conceited about new money and only has money because of her...
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel that tells the story of the conflict between two rival gangs, Greasers and Socs, captures the voice of Ponyboy and his friends to talk about stereotype threats. In Ponyboy’s role as the narrator and main character in the story, he talks about the expectations of Greasers being violent delinquents, which sways his internal...
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Pride and Prejudice is a novel on manners, social customs, and etiquette based in early 19th century England. One of the most notable themes in this novel is, of course, reputation and impressions. Austen originally titled this novel as First Impressions. While Austen does make numerous references to the importance of first impressions, this essay will primarily focus on the...
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In the science fiction book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, lives in a community that is excruciatingly controlled. The members of the community could not even make most of their own choices. Almost everyone who lived within the confines of the community never had to experience anything gruesome like pain or hunger, nor did they understand the...
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President Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States of America, once said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world...
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Freedom and Choice A utopian society has been created for people in the book so that they have no rights and no individual thoughts. Every individual is much the same. Daily, everybody takes a pill that erases all memories, pain, and tension. Jonas, the protagonist, is selected to inherit all the world's memories and discovers that anyone he cares for...
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Sirens, synonymous with their seductive and tempting voices in Greek mythology, which bewitch men causing their deaths, is one archetype intertextually present in both O Brother Where Art Thou and Homer’s Odyssey which the film is loosely based on. Through strategic employment of diegetic sound, the careful and thought-provoking composition of the mise-e-scene, and numerous camera shots, the archetype is...
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The Odyssey is a classic ancient Greek poem credited to Homer, following the Greek hero Odysseus and his extensive journey home after the fall of Troy. In his absence, his wife Penelope “is sieged by suitors who want her hand in marriage and with it her kingdom” (Morford, Lenardon, & Sham, 2019, p. 520). Despite having over one hundred wilful...
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Summary Because they kill Hyperion the Sun-god's bull/oxen/thing, his companions are dead, (great leadership right here) and Odysseus is stuck on the island of Ogygia with Calypso, a weird goddess-lady-nymph, Odysseus still longs for his better half and home. Back in Ithaca, Odysseus' home, Penelope sits trusting that Odysseus will return, while she is fighting off a castle loaded with...
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At first, Bob and Ponyboy seem opposed, with huge gender, socio-economic status, and temperament variations. However, as the story progresses, Hinton underlines the surprising similarities between such antagonists: the reserves of color and passion that they often lack, their differences between their peers and vices, and their deception in the family. More than double the other Soc/grazer pairs, like Bob...
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S.E. Hinton wrote the novel The Outsiders, which is realistic fiction. It shows key events demonstrating the respect Dally deserves. Some might think that Dally doesn’t deserve respect for the way he treats people, but he acts this way because he came from a neglectful family and wasn’t shown love. One place this is seen is when Johnny and Ponyboy...
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Analysis “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of...
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When the odds are stacked against you, find a way to preserve and fight as your life depends on it. Emmellie Lyon discovers how a young boy did just that. Imagine this, your parents both are killed in a tragic car accident, leaving you to be raised by your inexperienced, bitter 20-year-old older brother, Darry Curtis. Darry doesn’t care for...
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Hero. A hero doesn’t always mean outstanding powers to be significant. A hero has many meanings to different people. Some people see superheroes in capes or webs coming out of their wrists. But a hero that should be more recognized are the ones who do small things that stand out from the rest. Saving lives and cities from villains is...
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Bob begins the novel as the emblem of all things “Soc”—that is, all things rich, smug, entitled, and different from Ponyboy and his friends. The ominous blue Mustang that appears and reappears throughout the novel highlights the economic difference between Bob and Ponyboy; it’s as if Ponyboy cannot see past the beautiful car to the frightened boy behind the wheel....
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The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which female African Americans could educate society on the gender inequality of this era and discuss the importance of individuality through their works. Many of these pieces still serve as a tool for people today to learn about the oppression of women during this time. In the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching...
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Janie’s grandmother forces her to marry her first husband Logan Killick because she wants Janie to have a higher social status. She was born into slavery she has experienced a lot of discrimination and pain, and she doesn’t want Janie to have the same experience as her. In Janie’s opinion, she wants to marry for love, but she ends up...
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