They are merely the framework that Le Guin uses to arrange the true story upon. ... The true story is how the experience of immersion in a wholly different culture transforms the Mobile. ... At that time nearly all the editors and publishers were operating under a code similar to the old Hollywood code of no sex and little violence. While there is no actual sex in this book (to the best of my recollection), the topic of sexuality is explored in such depth that it cannot be denied: this book is about sex. ... The story draws you along, and once past any initial hesitations, it moves ...

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1 "A Rose for Emily" "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, begins and ends with the death of Emily Grierson, the main character of the story. Throughout the story Faulkner gives hints that eventually lead up to the shocking revelation of Emily's character. ... Faulkner's central theme in the story is "To let go of the past", Emily has a tendency to cling to the past and a reluctance to be independent. ... In the story Faulkner's narrator comments that: "No one except an old man-servant a combined gardner and cook,...

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He is very abusive and is driven by sex. ... He always turned to alcohol and sex as the solution, and if he didn't gey any, he would go as far as possible to find what he wanted. ... He was very quiet in the story. ... Whenever there's a scene with them in it, you could feel as if you're in the story or as if the story is affecting something in you. ... Both Santiago and Esteban showed a lot of power in these stories. ...

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Burnett recognized Salinger's talent and ran a story by him, "The Young Folks" in Story Magazine. ... The first of his short stories appeared in several well-known magazines. ... He is also the narrator of this story, and narrates with a very cynical tone. ... In the novel, Holden is also very consumed with the idea of having sex. This is like Salinger in the way that he has been known to pursue younger girls for sex (Morrill). ...

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The House of the Spirits In the novel, The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende shows how many things throughout the story that repeats itself. ... After he met Clara and she got pregnant he started going back to the brothel because he could not live without the sex. ... For example, after Blanca left Jean de Satigny, Amanda, Nicholas" girlfriend, came into the story. ... The main things that are repeated are Esteban's sexual needs, the unchanging number of people in the story, the genealogical names, and Clara's innocence from birth to death. These repeats make up the stor...

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The people in the story spoke as real people of the 1940's would. ... She knows about love, relationships, sex, the real world, and the harsh realities of racism and how it divides people. ... All of this waiting leads up to the climax of the story. ... Frankie, John Henry, and Berenice played cards two times during the story. ... This meant that he took the sex out of the game and that is an important quality in the game of life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The student can relate to this novel, because the narrator of the story is their own age and reflects many problems that they themselves may run into someday. The language of the text is easily understood as are the themes in the story. ... I believe students would enjoy this novel because it is about "people roughly their own age, contemporary time, the obvious, but none the less potent, parental relationships, challenging authority, establishing ones own personality and future relationship with peers and sex" (Aidan Chambers, Booktalk, Bodley Head, London, 1985.)Another obvious problem would...

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The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him". Potter's adaptation of Orlando very m...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her nature (desire for sex) took control of her life. ... Zola did not find significance in the word "morality- because it is not in nature and not sensual; the drive for food and sex is natural. ... Frankenstein was written as a frame story, in which one person told his story, and other people's stories were told inside of his. ... Inside of his story was Victor Frankenstein's story, in which Frankenstein is told the monster's story, in which the story of the De Lacey family is told. ... Mary Shelley wrote a scary story about unusual events. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Grade Level: High School

She proved this by using strong women characters in her story. ... Stowe's book was made controversial because of her sex, or more specifically the proper limits of style and material that members of her sex should observe as authors (Douglas 11). ... Today Uncle Tom's Cabin is valued because it raises still pertinent issues of racism as well as inspiring feminist thought on the role of women and the issue of sex (Jakoubek 99). ...

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This novel takes on different characteristics with Jake Barnes narrating the story. Using him as a vehicle of information to tell the story adds many key twists and turns in the plot. ... This gave us a distinct advantage in this story. ... After all, his sex life with her is tender. ... Other insights into the novel would never have occurred if Jake did not narrate the story. ...

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However, the game may be a larger allegory for the broader scheme of the detective story about to begin. ... The sex scene at the end of the chapter is full of Freudian sexual imagery, all of which is tied in with the events on the margins of the sexual act. For instance, when Oedipa and Metzger begin having sex, Pynchon mentions that the people outside in the hallway are "plugging in" their guitars into amps. ... She cannot even relieve her boredom and isolation by engaging in sex, which is ruled out by the homosexuality of her company. ...

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I will give a basic summary of the story line, and I intend to show the omniscient narrator's point of view in analysis of the characters. ... The story is told over a time period of several months, from December 1952 through December 1953. The book opens with the story of the death of the five-year-old who is adored by her family. ... Maribeth makes a huge mistake by letting an older boy talk her into drinking and having sex with him one night. ... Throughout the story, Maribeth tells Tommy that some people are only here for short periods of time, to help other people and to teach th...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story begins with the death of the main characters' mother. ... He asks her to a movie and afterwards they have sex. ... Raymond also enters the story. ... This is the setting for the story's climax. ... Once again, the heat becomes an issue in the story. ...

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Clothing does and will always take on different significant forms as authors use it in different transformations to suit the purpose of their story as a way to reflect the cultural values that exist within the context of the story line. ... Because Santiago and his white suit are so often referred to, combined with the fact that Santiago is accused of premarital sex, the strength of culture values is tried repeatedly. By setting up the story as such, Marquez shows that image is not what it is meant to be. ...

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But on 198 Tower Hill Road, a different story was taking place. ... There is never a dull moment due to the fact that the reader feels as though we are taking part in the story. ... The reader is thrust into a world of sex, lies, friendship, school and love. ... The story unravels going back in time while the narrator is still in present time. ...

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Holden ends up not wanting to have sex with the prostitute and pays her to talk to him. ... In reading this novel I experienced what I felt was a well thought out story which covered a lot of issues many of us face today. ...

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For me, such a segment of the novel was the variety of characters of women depicted by Allende throughout the story. ... La Senora was fond of Eva, a little girl that came into her life from nowhere and fascinated her with stories. ... But hiding away and even leaving the country with the help of her powerful friends did not take away the only stir of feelings that La Senora was to have in her life: imprisonment of Melesio did not let her sleep at night or carry on her revolutionary activity in the sex-care industry during the day. ... Without her patronas knowing this, Eva in a way exploited ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He wrote short stories, essays, poetry and editorials for the school newspaper. Baldwin also received a prize for a short story which he wrote for the church newspaper. ... This novel was set in Paris and is the story of a disastrous affair between a white American student and an Italian bartender. ...

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However, the main plot line tells the story of two women, Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, and the trials and tribulations of their life in the 1920's and 30's. ... There have not been many stories written about homosexuality in the first half of the twentieth century. ... The idea that Idgie and Ruth are lesbians is rampant throughout the story. ... As women like to say to men, just because you are a couple, does not mean you must have sex. ... Throughout the story, there are scenes where it is obvious the community thinks of Idgie as "one of the guys-. ...

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The theme I am going to focus on in this book report is innocence, which is directly related to theme of authentic versus artificial. This theme reflects Holden's view of the world and life. Holden sees life as a conflict between authentic and artificial and this theme relates to his attitude toward...

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Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. ... However, even though sex before marriage is assumed in most social circles and prevalent in current film, Cher herself steps out of social expectations and admits to remaining a virgin despite friends whom "say it like it's a bad thing-. ...

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For example, homosexuals are trying to make same sex marriages legal, but they have been facing enormous difficulty because other people refuse to change their attitudes. ... At the beginning of the story, Montag is a robot like the rest of the people in his society. ...

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Northanger Abbey is a novel that is about more than a girl who is looking to find a husband. Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated...

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La Semana de las Senoritas Mejicanas, was the only magazine that carried a home economics section, and the magazine developed into a magazine that published signed stories, poems, and serialized fiction. ...

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