He hints, from this, that he didn't have such a great past; he had lived a troubled life, and by sharing his experience, he wants us to understand that he lived a dangerous life full of risk and loneliness. ... Reading along the lines of his vivid, yet disturbing choice of negative words, we find ourselves wrapped in his emotions and encountering his experiences with him, feeling as if we are the one in his shoes. ...

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I expected for him to live through the war and to become old. On the other hand, his death finally let him escape from torture of the war that he may have lived with all of his life. ... I could imagine myself walking in Paul's shoes. ...

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In life you have many opportunities to make a decision. The opportunities that come maybe very large or they may be very small but it's the opportunities that you take advantage of that really Shape who you are. That may be deciding between a job, or which sport to play, which team to play for. Me, ...

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Most students do not understand how I can live under such strict rules, but I have grown to appreciate that my parents care for my safety - emotional and physical. ... This arrangement is what makes me who I am, one of a kind, and no one will ever be able to fill my shoes. ...

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Elisa feels a sense of isolation from the world and desires to express herself as a woman, and to live a fuller more passionate life. ... Her initial appearance in the story is very manly yet still allows a feminine side to be noticed: "Her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume, a man's black hat pulled down over her eyes, clodhopper shoes, a figured print dress completely covered- (260). ... Therefore the man she meets is a very important figure in this story and represents the kind of life Elisa Allen would like to live. ...

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He couldn't sustain his job and as a result, McCourt, his brothers and mother, Angela, lived in dirty, poor conditions. ... The book tugged at my heartstrings as my childhood was a relatively contented one and it opened my eyes to the appalling conditions children my age had to live under. ... Court and his family as if I was in his shoes. ...

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Chris Adams, author of the article "Large numbers of veterans with PTSD live near military bases," also uses these rhetorical devices to help get his point across. Fallon indirectly faces the issue of what it's like for veterans to live on a military base with PTSD in her short story, while Adams is more forthright about the issue in his article. ... It's especially terrifying for people who live near or with veterans who have PTSD, and also for those who live near or on a military base, since there are higher rates of veterans with PTSD that live in those areas. ... While Adams&#x...

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Great Expectations is, I think, a very sad and rueful story. It is because this story shows how human life is empty. Pip dismiss Joe, his most important friend, exchanging for money and a good place. I feel sorry for Pip, because he makes serious effort to become happy only to fail. I think he i...

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"Am I too fat, am I too skinny, does my breath smell, will he like my shoes" all these fear induced statements run through our minds when someone does not show attention to us. ... Will I live after this? ...

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I. Southern Mail is a fictional book about a man, Jacques Bernis' journeys as a mail carrier, and is told by the author as the narrator. This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. But isn't that ex...

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• Grade Level: High School