The two short stories "And No Birds Sing" by H.E. ... Although the main themes diverge in each of the stories there is a theme that is common in both stories and that is domestic violence. The fathers in the stories are both violent toward their child. ... The stories convey realistic issues and family impacts and lifestyle. ... The short stories And No Birds Sing and Red Back Spiders were both written post World War II and show similar ideas of life and different construction of characters and setting....

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In this particular short story, Graham Greene uses key elements to mold the story into a masterpiece. ... The story opens at the beginning of Bank Holiday, the day that the "last recruitment", Trevor, also called "T" arrived and joined the Wormsley Common Gang. ... The children in this story were raised in a time where nothing beautiful was appreciated, even by the adults of this society. ... Greene uses wonderfully constructed and woven elements of fiction in this short story. The plot of the story is enough to keep readers on edge but the fact that he uses great characters and a theme with d...

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Thesis Statement: Langston Hughes was an author and a poet and a musician before his time by overcoming family adversity and racial hardships. I. Begins Publishing Books a. Hughes first volume of poetry, "The Weary Blues" II. Return to college a. Attended the first African American College ...

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"Game- Barthelme, Donald 1/16/03 Donald Barthelme's short story "Game- is about two men who are in the military and are stationed in an underground bunker. ... Throughout the story the narrator keeps talking about "The Bird-(Barthelme 958). ... Repetition is the most used device in this story. ... In the story the Game Barthelme fails to write about the qualities of the narrator and Shotwell he only describes the way that he acts. ...

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At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... The Breedlove appartment used to be a storefront the furniture was dilapidated no love and comfort (no good memories) cold (like the cold atmosphere) a brutal family life The MacTeers have their own small house is poor but "loving" (for instance when Claudia is ill) "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die" (p. 7) The society The story implicates that Pecola li...

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The television series Band of Brothers is the story of Easy Company of the US Army Airborne Paratrooper Division and their mission in WW II France during Operation Overload. ... Also, men in the 1940s were shorter, on average, than men today. ... It is arguable that realism has a lot to do with narrative - how one tells a story, or rather how one uses the medium of form in order to cause people to construct a story in their head. ... Story tellers don't want you to realise that they are telling a story, and really its just a collection of devices for making up the story, then it's a ...

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"The Fifty-First Dragon," a short story written by Heywood Broun, has a critical appraisal of the sense of paternalism, a policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities, towards the characters in the story. The characters articulate against the paternalistic practices, and how the usage of it in real life is as devastating as applications of it in stories. The protagonist of the story, Gawain le Coeur-Hardy, is a knight in training who lacks confidence and is very isolated from the r...

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This is apparent in the short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene. Set in post World War II England, the short story centers on a gang of adolescents who decide to demolish an aged man's house. ...

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Short, were held responsible for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ... On the movie "Pearl Harbor" the love story wrapped around the factual attack is false. Hollywood tried to embellish the attack scene with a love story, the vast majority of the cast is people made up. ... Besides that, the movie really seems to focus more on the love story part than on the attack itself. ... This is because the main theme of the movie is actually the love story and the whole attack part was used as a background. ...

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The story "All Quiet on the Western Front" centers on a young man named Paul Baumer narrates the story. ... This part of the story was very upsetting to me. ... The only disappointment in the story was Paul dying. ... With today's world and me being of age to go to war, this story was realistic and frightening to me. ... The one thing that did bother me was his cynical view of men with shorter stature. ...

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Sing for your life- A true Story of the VonTrapp family When a family is in trouble, they always have to stick together. ... Drawn to the music, Maria stayed to listen to all of the wonderful stories and things that the people had to say about everyday life. ... I might as well introduce you to the next character in this story; this would be Captain Georg Ritter VonTrapp. ... They went from the wealthiest people in their town to the poorest people in America in a very short amount of time. ... It was very interesting to learn how different the true story really was. ...

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The story of Monica Sone (or Kazuko as called by her parents), a Japanese girl who grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s, showed the readers another side of the life of immigrants in the United States. Her story reflected the gap between the Issei and Nisei – first and second generation, and the difficulties of being a Japanese American during this time period. ... The first thing to notice about Monica's story is the distinct gap between two generations. ... In short, Nisei are not one hundred percent complied with being Japanese, but they followed their parents' wor...

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The story itself begins when an evacuation of Westerners is ordered in the midst of revolution in Baksul, India. ... After their departure from Shangri-la, the story is unresolved. We are lead to believe that there was truth to the story and that Lo-Tsen rapidly ages then dies, we are never definitively told the fates of the her, Conway and Mallinson following their departure from Shangri-la. ... "Give me a short life and a gay one", he says, explaining to Conway why even if the story of Shangri-la is true he wishes to leave. ...

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John Cheever's short story, "The Country Husband," presents a story in which the protagonist, Francis Weed, must make a decision about conformity. ... In interpretive fiction works, the development of the characters in the story is often the main focus. ... " Francis is a complex, dynamic character that is changing throughout the story. ... Another principal character in the story is the dog, Jupiter. ... The story illustrates the shameful blindness that conformed members of Shady Hill express. ...

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Later he relates his dark, hopeless story to a group of friends. ... The story itself is a parody of the classic British children's story Coral Island by R. ... In this story, three boys, Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, find themselves marooned on an island. ... The story is also heavily influenced by the impressionist movement. ... Do you see the story? ...

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Greatest Generation has seven different sections: Ordinary People, which shows the lives of citizens who contributed to the war and came home to lead normal lives; Home Front, about those who experience the change America went through as a nation at home; Heroes, both the decorated and the unsung of the war; Women in Uniform and Our, talks of the sacrifices of the mothers, wives, and girlfriends as they either supported the cause by filling spots in factories, or fought to get a taste of action as a nurse on the front line or as a WAVE; Shame, which addresses the disgraceful way that the minor...

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However, Leper contacts Gene and tells him of his horrific stories about the war later in the story. He tells of gruesome stories about furniture turning into body parts, a woman's head on a man's body, a corporal approaching him with a leg in his hand. ... The themes towards war characterized through Finny are that innocence from an enemy can be fatal, in the case of his war with Gene, or short-lived, in the case of his World War II beliefs. ... The conflict he has with Finny expresses one of the most important themes of the story: it is human nature to find an enemy in our lif...

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The story of her life is the story of the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Guatemala to maintain a way of life, even just to survive against the realities of a modern world. ... It was only a few short years later that even the Altiplano was affected by development as land-owners claimed more and more territory for their estates. ...

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Any students who played got to escape the stress, class work, and world for a short period of time. ... This trip showed how the theme escaping reality progressed throughout the story by letting them go off on their own and away from school. On their way to the beach Finny kept Gene very entertained by either telling him stories, joking, and talking about their characteristics. ...

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During this Summer Vacation I have read the life of " Mussolini" biography. The author of this book is John Narayan. Narayan is one of India's greatest writers. Ironically, he turned to writing after he proved a failure at teaching, having held two different jods for a grand total of two days. As...

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In Alden Nowlan's short story "The Glass Roses", protagonist Stephen is faced with conflicting views regarding the definition of a "real man". ... Through Stephen's character change, the story explains that having the courage to be one's own individual is the more important than the stereotypes others set out, and it nurtures the personality of integrity. ... (P35)" Stephen, just like the start of the story, chooses to wake Leka up. ... But when he meets Leka, who shares his stories about the World War he has been through, Stephen is moved by Leka'...

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But the decoded war declaration did not reach Kimmel and Short until the morning, after the attack had begun. Marshall and Stark later testified that the message about the attack was not sent to Kimmel and Short because the commanders in Hawaii had received so many intercepted Japanese messages that another one "would simply confuse them." ... Kimmel and Short were the scapegoats; they were publicly "crucified" and they were denied the open hearings that they had requested. ... The winds code was an earlier transmission that they had intercepted that turned out to be a fake weather repor...

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The film begins with a short sequence in modern-day France that shows one man visiting a particular grave in the sea of white crosses that marks the memorial to those who died liberating the country. ... The D-Day invasion at "Bloody Omaha" beach forms a prologue to the main story. ... Yes, it contains a framing story, as it must in order to engage its audience and continue moving forward. ... Story parallels are echoed in subplots, to point to the film's more thought-provoking questions, but they aren't dwelled on; they're simply brought up, and the film moves on. ...

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The majority of the story is told in multiple viewpoints, and in the second section of the book, the reader begins to get inside the head of Robbie. ... In fact, these two protagonists serve to move the story forward as their unresolved problems with each other and with the events that were set into motion that night circle around them. ... She has come to realize that affairs of the heart, of the mind, the spirit and body, like those war torn bodies of the war, cannot be mended with nice stories. She finds that the lies people tell themselves are as damaging as a bullet, and the biggest mis...

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Owen then uses short sentences, capitalisation and exclamation marks to portray a sudden panic, as he says "GAS! ... The poem is hard hitting and makes the reader think deeply about the shocking story he has told, letting it stick in their mind....

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