Since the second part of the story features mainly exposition, the reader is forced to piece together information on the setting and characters during the first of the story's three parts. ... Furthermore, the author's use of foreshadowing is what allows this quote to be identified as the crux. Bierce drops hints throughout the story to build suspense, and direct the reader's focus towards the plot twist coming at the very end of the story. ... This technique creates the crux's significance before the main quote. ... As this quote ends, so does part I. ...

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The Narrator, in his right mind, proves this through out the story. ... This quote clearly shows the sanity of the narrator. ... The narrator tells the reader of his sanity in this quote, and then goes on to tell us how he hid the body. ... At the end of the story, the narrator confesses to the police his murder. ... This direct quote from the story tells us his awareness and intelligence. ...

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The entire story is told from the mind of the disturbed wife, the narrator. ... As the narrator's mind continues to wander uncontrollably, she leads us to this next quote, which moves us further into her disturbed mind. ... Her use of the word "I" in this quote does not become an act of assertion, but rather of compliance determined by John's authority. ... The narrator's insanity rings out loud and clear in this last quote spoken at the end of the story, and it offers us one final look into her mystifying mind. ... Her use of the name Jane in this final quote shows the use ...

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In the novel "Divergent," by Veronica Roth, there are many reoccurring elements which define the story and add depth to it. They are very significant to the story and play a large part in defining the characters and how they act. ... This Quote from Four displays the belief of the Dauntless and training to overcome fear "We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear,"(Roth 77) This belief ties into how the other factions work because all five factions believe that one human trait is to blame for the problems in the worl...

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In the quote, "Johnny was scared to death. ... At the beginning of the story, Ponyboy tells Cherry Valance the story of how a group of Socs simply thought that it would be fun to go up and out of their way and jump some unlucky Greaser. ... In the quote, "He wasn't scared either. ... In the quote, "The Supreme Court in 1988 banned the execution of those under 16 at the time of their crimes. ... Hinton's use of all of these literary devices have helped the reader put together an opinion on how Johnny should be tried over the course of the story. ...

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I can support this idea with a quote taken from Alastair Macaulay's Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures; it is taken from a handwritten announcement of his Swan Lake production. The company has attempted to retell these stories by applying modern-day logic, but without losing the essence of magic which is essential to these pieces. ... I think from this quote we may argue that re- staging an original piece with the same story line can be authentic, including the disparate choreography. ... It was a new ballet; no one had ever seen the story or ch...

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The way he speaks shows the reader that he doesn't really want to be telling this story. ... This passage shows that he feels as if he is being forced to tell the story. ... She's really smart" This quote shows that he thinks very highly of Phoebe and respects the fact that she is smart. ... This quote shows that he doesn't have much self-esteem. ... If Salinger had chosen to write this story any different, I don't think the reader would be as involved in the story as they are now....

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Some of the extraordinary stories encountered on this path to enlightenment I believe not to be true, while others of seeming importance and grandness, I choose to believe. ... This quote is a valuable lesson to anyone with any job, no matter what. ... In this separate quote, I can relate the two to being an asset to any managerial philosophy. ... Concentration on what is, rather than what may be keeps one from becoming distracted, which relates back to the fore mentioned quotes. ... I have picked out two quotes that represent the importance of developing and understanding true happiness. ...

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Anthem Essay "The only things which taught us joy were the power we created in our wires, and the Golden One" (Chapter IX). This quote shows how the world around them built to satisfy their needs has failed. Equality 7-2521 and The Golden One are flaws in this system. They were disturbed by its r...

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Thomas Wolfe associates night with darkness throughout the story. ... This quote shows that black men during the night are camouflaged by their skin color, just like a tiger camouflaged in a fire. ... The poem used at the end of the story uses this element when it questions Dick's character and background as being unknown. ... The store that the mob use and is described in the story is also where it will bring Dick to an end. ...

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She supports this by quoting over five different authors who wrote about the European-Indian relationship. ... There is no need to jump to conclusions without hearing the entire story and therefore hearing the words of Perry Miller and Helen Hunt Jackson helps you see the difference in stories and ideas on these Indians. ... This is due to the fact that the story is within the actual story and therefore to fully understand this clearer, we must challenge ourselves to figure out what is being said in the article. ...

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The essay is a story about the author's brother, Robby, who is in prison for robbery and murder. ... Yet he needs to avoid using his brother's words verbatim to make the story more credible and less fictitious. ... Through his confusing text, the readers tend to make a story on their own. ... In this quote, Wideman poses this specific question because he wants to let us to know that readers' trust is a definite prerequisite for him to feel at ease with himself, and to bring out the best and the most sincere out of him. ... Wideman's "Our Time" is more of a story than an e...

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John Updike's short story "A&P", can be interpreted in several different ways. ... The spin put on the story by the reader is really a way to reflect on own behavior. ... These hormones create the story's conflict, as three bathing suit-clad girls enter his store. ... Sammy's mind takes a sharp turn during the climax of the story. ... The first time I read it, I had thought he was just another kid looking for some female attention, and that quote had solidified that opinion in my mind. ...

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This quote is from a letter that Dostoevsky sent to his brother at the age of eighteen. The quote shows the mindset of the author. ... (Dostoevsky 310) This quote shows that Raskolnikov knew what he was doing and that he was guilty. ... This story that was written over one hundred years ago still applies to society today. ...

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This quote, found in my neuroscience textbook, basically sums up why we study and write about the brain. ... Oliver writes these stories to teach the reader about the identity of people who fall victim to neurological diseases. ... Oliver presents numerous stories where neurological disorders have co! ... Sacks, however, provides us with stories that make us appreciate our working brains. ...

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Although Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarschall, quoted this in the 1940's he could easily have been making a reference for today's TV news since TV news has a limited power in telling people want to think. ... The newsworthiness of a story allows the news also to construct reality. ... Therefore, news stories are structured to provide a point of narrative closure that relates to a masculine fictional story. ... It then went onto stories of more interest to women namely, the Hanson case, Warne's affair, civil uproars and finally a public interest story of the white whale that was...

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A quote from his last deployment reads, "Just because war is hell and beyond, doesn't mean you can't have a little tough fun to break the repetitive damage on your mind" His attitude has changed drastically, altering his discovery in quite a harmful way. ... " From the shaky beginnings of young soldier, to the harsh endings of a damaged and fragile war veteran, American Sniper is a moving story of the consequences that can eventuate when we embark on an unplanned, innovative journey of discovery, yet also the achievements and triumphs that come as part of the packaged...

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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French artist. Quoted in: Huneker, Pathos of Distance, p. 128. What is Art? This very same topic has been on the minds of many great people for many years. Just what exactly is art? Art is a form of expression. It is beautiful, u...

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The narrative starts off with a quote that is utterly contradictory, "I am dead, but it's not so bad". ... The narrator of the novel is R, communicating the story through his point of view as a zombie. ... Alternatively, he encapsulates the story well and overall realistically portrays his character to its full extent. ... To conclude, overall the novel was an abnormally interesting and worthwhile read, incorporating humorous originality within the heartfelt story line. ... The novel provocatively incorporates different themes within the plot of the story. ...

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Throughout the story Hamlet presented himself as insane yet he was sane the whole time considering the fact of what happened after Hamlet's first encounter with the ghost, plotting the mousetrap play on Claudius, and knowing what Claudius' cunning plan was. ... With the quote being said you can tell he still has a concept of what emotions are and uses it to his advantage, which is something an insane person would be to foolish to comprehend. ... " This quote says he had put much effort into how he was going to rewrite this by having neat handwriting and overcoming the prejudic...

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In Descartes's theory of animal, he contributed a quote, which is that "animals cannot use language to express themselves" as we do when placing our thoughts on record for the benefit of others, or in other words using language to make known ones thoughts in a meaningful manner (Lavine 118). ... This is a true story. ... Hence, the famous quote "I think therefore I am," in Latin, which would translate to "cogito ergo sum....

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But something inside of me told me that I should go up there and tell my story of how I got here, how I did it to graduate early and manage to be in college dealing with people way older than me. ... He went on and told me about his story and how he had become a Christian. I cried because his story is very touching. And then I realized that although my story wasn't as interesting as his I had become a Christian right there and then. I used to like Mark Twain's quote because I knew that faith is not something realistic. ...

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A.I. deals with a variety of different moral philosophies ranging from personal identity, to AI itself and on top of that morality. The basic storyline of A.I. is that a group of scientists create a little Mecca (mechanical) boy who is supposedly supposed to "have a mind". The story then develops a...

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Jane reads about bleak things, such as the coast of Norway, of which she quotes, "Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils around the naked, melancholy isles- But actually she finds pleasure in this sort of writing, perhaps because she can relate to it because it illustrates her feelings. ... Of course, since the story is being told by an adult Jane Eyre, it is possible that the intelligent thoughts have been developed in retrospect, but some of them do appear to have been thought at the time. ...

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Into the mind of the then reading public, fiction inevitably came as a subgenre of (fact-oriented) nonfiction: a story was a true story or no story at all. ... Taken out of its original context and having undergone a patriarchal-type adaptation, the novel adopted the receptional function of "a true story about the wonderful adventures of a foreigner". ... On the other hand, "true" and "wonderful", without curbing the distance, added up a context of intimate sacrality: the story of Jesus was both "true" and "wonderful". ... The first time he was quoted criticising Britain's support for t...

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