In the late fifties Jose founded the Philippine chapter of PEN, an international organization of poets, playwrights, and novelists. ... Summary "I have trod and searched and searched but found nothing." (Sionil, 192) My Brother My Executioner follows the misfortunes of two brothers brought up in two different settings having the same desire to better the world they live in. ... (Sionil, 2) Victor on the other hand is Luis" half brother. ... As Victor in his dialogue with his brother asked "But how far will you go, my brother? ...

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Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders seems to lie out an instruction manual on life for readers and evidence of this can be found in a close reading of selected passages through out the book. ... (Defoe 55) Moll illustrated how through her future husband amplifying the negative nature of her life that she was forced to see the positive aspects of marrying Robin, the younger brother. ... Though the elder brother employed Moll as a prostitute, he helped to sway her decision towards marrying the younger brother, but he did make sure that Moll's past would not be discovered: his elder ...

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Hank has a brother Jacob, but his relationship with Jacob is not a close one, because Hank feels that his brother is very different from him. ... So he asked his brother to kill him. ... He had to decide between his brother and his wife who badly wanted the money. ... The conflict between Hank and his partners Jacob and Lou began to develop the moment they found the sports bag with money. ... The dead pilot in the plane was partially eaten by them when Hank, Jacob and Lou found the crashed plane. ...

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This made Beggarmaster and Shankar brothers. ... All of a sudden one evening I found out I had a mother, who was alive for all these years, whom I could have done so much for, had I only been offered the chance. At the same time I found out, my most loyal beggar, Shankar, is my blood brother and what has happened to him now he's dead. I regret not having told him the truth; he may just have been delighted to find out that he too has a brother, but its too late. ... I am happy he does not need to tolerate the pain of being a cripple and hope he has found his path to a better, more suc...

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Lyddie was to go be a housemaid and her brother Charlie to work at the mill. When Lyddie takes a day off to visit her brother and go spend a night at her house she was fired. ... Her brother takes Rachel to the mill where they are taken care of. ... The novel starts with Lyddie her mother, brother and two sisters live together in a Vermont farm house. ... After working as a housemaid for a while Lyddie went to check on her house while her boss was gone and found a run away slave Lyddie made the decision not to him in and Lyddie gave him $50.00 for the rest of his journey. ...

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Three of the main characters are the narrator, the narrator's brother, and the curate. The Narrator was connected to his brother through blood and family. ... My favorite character in the novel "The War of The Worlds" was the narrator's brother. ... I found that this was the climax because all of a sudden you realize that the Martian inside the machine must be dead. ... Also, after reading the "About the Author" blurb, I found that among other things H.G Wells was a biologist. ...

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She becomes obsessed with her brother Jarvis' wedding and wants to be a part of it. ... The rising action is the time of anticipation in which Frankie goes through until her brother's wedding. ... She considered suicide, but her plans were hindered because the police found her and took her home. ... At the end of the novel, I found out that Frankie finally reached her certain development because the ringing of the bell interrupted her. ... She tries to run away but is found. ...

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The arrogant claim by the "more tough and serious" brother, Pedro was "we killed him openly [] but we're innocent' as well as "we're going to kill Santiago Nasar," supports the idea of their self-lust and obligations to restore their sisters' pride. ... Due to the obligations of maintaining honor within the family, the brothers speak openly of their plan to everyone, which made it seem as though a joke, and a bad one, but also showed a sense of fear of going through with it. ... When he did not, Pablo and Pedro continued in search for him at Clothi...

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The first relationship that Hosseini puts forward is a brother and sister named Abdullah and Pari. ... Pari has a strong admiration of her brother Abdullah. ... They bickered back and forth like they would be brothers, arguing about the simplest things like having beans that week already. ... When Wahdati found out he was dying, most of his family came around, and his wife Nila stood by his side. Over time, he found less and less people beside him, but the one person who was always there for him was Nabi. ...

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Through this paper I am going to explain how God is found throughout the novel Frankenstien. ... Victor finds a letter from his father telling him that Victor's youngest brother, William, has been murdered. ... As he walks near the spot where his brother's body was found, he spies the monster lurking and becomes convinced that his creation is responsible for killing William. ... After the discovery of the body, a servant had found in Justine's pocket a picture of Caroline Frankenstein last seen in William's possession. ... As he nears Geneva, the monster runs across Victor&...

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The honor system is satired in Chronicle of a Death Foretold because of the fact that the Vicario brothers immediately believed Angela Vicario's outrageous accusation of Santiago Nasar and killed their best friend Santiago with no proof of his guilt. ... The legal system is also satirized in Chronicle of a Death Foretold because the brothers were set free, even though the judge hadn't found "a single clue, not even the most improbable, that Santiago Nasar had been the cause of the wrong" (116-117). The two brothers are found innocent at their trial showing that the people of th...

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Lally one and Lally two are brothers. ... Lally one wasn't nice to his brother and now he is. ... All of the characters except Teft , used the radios and wore headgear but as the characters grew throughout the novel they found out that they didn't need them anymore so they threw them away. ... Teft found a way of transportation to get to the buffalo preserve. ...

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They end up saving the colonel who turns out to be Candide's love interest Cunégonde's brother, the baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh. ... The enjoyment found from reading this novel is proof that certain writing techniques will always be effective and this is certainly true of Voltaire's work. ... Another feature of Voltaire's work that can be found in this extract is irony. It is ironic certainly, that the baron cannot stop embracing Candide, calling him his brother and savior. But yet the idea of Candide becoming his brother-in-law appalls him. ...

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Arkady on the other hand, is a cheerful character who accepts the mistress with good grace and is even glad to have a little step brother. ... Nicholas has a child with Fenichka, but is embarrassed to have her in his house and will not marry her because he fears the condemnation of his brothers and son. ... The reader sees this when Bazarov is seen kissing Fenichka in the garden by Pavel, Nicholas' brother. ... " I have pondered deeply all this time on what I am now going to say to you...Brother, you must do you duty, the duty of an honest and upright man: put an end to the scandal.....

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Ruth had to work to support Stephen and his adopted older brother,David and the family had to move often. ... When he was a little older he found some stories Donald King, his father, had written with hopes of publication in a trunk along with some hopefull rejection slips and some Horror fiction novels. ... King actually began his writing career in1959 when he and his brother decided to publish their own newspaper they called Dave's Rag. ...

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He felt he would have much to write about especially since he had a close relationship with his mother and older brother Benjamin. ... People, places and situations from Wolfe's life inevitably found their way into his fiction. ... In Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe's brother Ben is portrayed as a loner who hides his love for his youngest brother behind a mask of short temperedness and sarcastic denial. ...

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He scrutinized his life for the aspiration and significance that he never found. ... Although the loss of her only brother was unfortunate to all, Ida accepted it as an indication to view the world differently. ... This stood for the friendship and vinculum they shared as brother and sister. It was referred to various times throughout the novel to insinuate how much Ida pondered about and wished for her brother's return....

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Throughout the novel Scout puts the advice into action with Boo Radley, Mrs Dubose, Mayella Ewell, Mr Dolphus Raymond and her brother, Jem. ... At a time towards the end of the book Scout is "so accustomed to his absence", that she, "found it incredible that he had been sitting beside", her, "all this time." ... This quote shows that Scout respect for both her father and brother. ... This quote shows that Scout understands what her brother is feeling. ...

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Guest found herself hiding her stories in sock drawers, just to make sure the only person to read her work was herself ("Judith Guest" 63). ... It opens en media res, after the death of Buck and the suicide attempt of his younger brother, Conrad, have already occurred. Conrad is caught in a whirlwind of emotions after he returns from the mental hospital, blaming himself for both the death of his brother and the troubles in his parents' marriage. ... Conrad feels as if he should have been the person to die in the boating accident that took his brother's life. ... Calvin and ...

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Felix her brother always takes care of her and tries to make life as easiest as possible even though they have gone through many hardships. ... This kind of relationship was mutual between the both of them and since they were not really brother/sister it was okay for them to have this kind of relationship in the family. ... Many times, a substitute cannot be found and life must go on with what you have. ...

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The best thing that I found throughout the novel was the relationships between the soldiers. ... On the opposing side it was Chamberlain and his little brother, Tom. ... I don't know how he handled knowing that he might have sent his brother to his deathbed. ...

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There are many ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by chance, by abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. ... The Supreme Test or the Ultimate Test, is the forth step of the Cosmogonic Cycle where the character or hero is faced with a dilemma of enormous proportions, often found in the Zone of Magnified Power. The Zone of Magnified Power is found within the Zone Unknown but is a place which has mystical and mysterious powers, such as the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz. ... The glass motif also appears when his brother, Allie, dies. ...

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Drug and alcohol abuse are what embody the theme of self-destruction, which is found throughout both novels. ... Having to discuss his dead mother with his visiting brother is what sparks memories that help the narrator deal with the loss. ... The most interesting character found throughout the two novels is Connor McKnight. ...

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"All's fair in love and war" said Francis Edward Smedley. Such could be the summarization of - according to critics - the greatest classic of our time, L.N. Tolstoy's War and Peace. Themes of dedication to one's homeland, war strategies, fate, bravery, rebirth, religion and love are po...

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Victor longed to rid humanity of " the diseases of the human frame"" and much like Prometheus who brought fire to humanity, Victor sought the secret of life and eventually found it by over-reaching the limits of humanity, bypassing the laws of nature, and eventually receiving prolonged punishment for it. ... Victor was in fact too inexperienced and wasn't ready to carry out the experiments he had in mind, as we can see on page 32 "When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. ... In retaliation to his...

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