"Literature opens up a dark window to the soul- This is a good quote for the story "The Most Dangerous games." ... This is the other half of the quote that now relates more to the person that Rainsford has become. ... The other story "The Lottery" can also relate to the quote. ... This is why the two stories "The most Dangerous game" by Richard Connell and "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson are two wonderful examples of this quote. ... By writing to the interpretation of the quote, makes the story much more interesting and that just proves the quote correct. ...

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This leads to the quote, "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. ... " The veil in this story symbolizes sin. It is evident in this quote that Father Hooper said, "I look around me, and lo! ... " This quote reveals Father Hooper sees the sins on the faces of everyone he sees. ... In this short story, the old man in the forest, quoted in the story as, "he of the serpent," represents a man, but also represents the devil. ...

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This quote shows that Haroun doesn't fear Khattam-Shud and is willing to fight for his ideas no matter the situation. ... This quote shows that Haroun is prepared to act in order to save the Ocean and all of his friends. ... This quote is important because it shows that although Haroun only just came to Kahani he still loves the Ocean. ... This quote shows that Haroun is extremely concentrated on his wish and is determined to succeed in order to save the Ocean of Stories. ... " (pg.175) This quote describes the effect of Haroun's wish and how it saved so many people, which there...

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"The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty - This quote comes from In Another Country and understates the horrifying images of war. ... These strong adjectives create the gloomy tone that continues throughout the stories. ... In/out imagery is depicted throughout the short story as well. ... This quote illustrates the detachment the American soldier feels from the others. ... This story also displays a contrast in setting. ...

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In Alice Munro's short story, Red Dress-1946, the character Mary Fortune represents the symbol of influence. ... Throughout the story, it has been noticed that the narrator is a child who does not 'know' how to live her life. ... Such is the case with the narrator in the short story. ... It was said in this quote: "We had made a pact to tell each other everything. ... From the story, it was clear that the dress her mother was making was for the Christmas Dance. ...

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In the short story "Just Lather That's All" the author develops the theme that it is not easy to kill through characters, conflict and events and actions in the story. In this story the author develops that it is not easy to kill through characters. ... This quote proves Torres could of killed him right away or token him hostage. ... In this quote the barber is making up reasons not to kill because killing isn't easy. ... Here is a quote that proves it "And how easy would it be to kill, and he deserves it. ...

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The story is bursting with figurative meaning. ... " In the story "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne uses two great symbolic characters in the story. ... Later in the story, Hawthorne reveals Faith's pink ribbon as it falls from the sky. A quote that symbolizes the loss of Brown's belief in people is one that states, "But something fluttered lightly down through the air, and caught on the branch of a tree. ... He uses various amounts of allegorical perception throughout the story. ...

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The quote, ""The Magic Barrel" can be seen as a projection of the whole course of human spiritual existence, its" moral and erotic dimensions, including and subsumed by the human relationship to god."... The quote "In refusing Salzman's well intentioned and rational matches, Finkle-Adam rejects the insufficient first version of Creation, the lonely abyss of self. . . ... Another interesting fact that helped with interpreting the story was a quote from Malamud himself, "I like imaginative interpretations of my books, whether I agree with them or not. ... (Field and Field) This quote alone...

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It can be an object, a person, a situation, an action, or any other thing presented in a story. ... In this quote, Lawrence also refers to the rocking horse as a wooden horse. It was mentioned earlier in the story as a wooden horse, but only as a detail note. ... In the last part of the quote, Paul's mother sees what her son has been doing with the rocking horse, but her greed for money causes her to stand there in her "dress of pale green and crystal". ... The use of symbolism in these short stories carries out different functions the author selected prior to writing his/her story. ...

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In the southern gothic story, "A Rose for Emily," a member or members of the community tell the story of the sympathetic Miss Emily Grierson. ... Both of these quotes are important to her character because they show her will to remain in her own little world cooped up in her house. ... This quote shows that he was the only male presence she had had for years. ... The main character in this story symbolizes the southern aristocracy during the civil war. ... This quote shows how they were viewed from the community's eyes, the white southern moderately wealthy class. ...

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" In the short story "Two Kinds", it is made clear early in the story that the family immigrated to America from China to give their children a shot at the American dream. As Tan indicates with the quote from the mother saying "You could open a restaurant. ... This quote tells me right away that the mother's intentions are very pure even though she conveys it in a different way than most mothers would. ... Illustrated in the following quote-"In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect" (306). ... In both stories the pa...

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Many times in order to understand the moral or theme of the story, you need to be able to recognize irony. ... In these Short stories we have similarities of both dramatic and situational irony. ... In "By the Waters of Babylon-, a quote is "All the same, when I came to the Place of the Gods, I was afraid, afraid."" ... The irony in this quote is clearly dramatic, because the policemen think that they are just eating a piece of meat that is definitely not the murder weapon, but in fact they are eating the murder weapon. ... There are also forms of verbal irony in other stories. ...

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Character Sketch A character sketch is a written description of a character in a story. ... Personal reaction to the whole story An original lesson learned Recommendation on the book as a whole. ... Character Quote I include a quote that reveals something about the character's personality. I explain what this quote tells about the character. I include a quote that reveals something about the character's personality. ...

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The confusion of identity is shown before the start of the story where Andy gets stabbed and is obviously on the sidewalk bleeding. ... " this quote shows that the stabbers had something against his gang and not Andy which goes back to the idea of confusion in identity. ... He is quoted saying "someday i would marry Laura and we would have lots of kids". ... Because of this event, Andy realizes later in the story that he wants to set his true identity free by taking the jacket off as a symbolic gesture of expressing the real andy. ... The common idea of confusion in identity is ...

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The way Brown wrote this short story keeps the reader wrapped up in the story. ... This quote for some reason made me shiver. ... Brown used pathos very effectively in this story. ... The quote, "Children in this culture grow up knowing that you can never be thin enough and that being fat is one of the worst things one can be," is absolutely one hundred percent true. ... Brown used pathos mainly in his story, and ethos as well. ...

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The way Brown wrote this short story keeps the reader wrapped up in the story. ... This quote for some reason made me shiver. ... Brown used pathos very effectively in this story. ... The quote, "Children in this culture grow up knowing that you can never be thin enough and that being fat is one of the worst things one can be," is absolutely one hundred percent true. ... Brown used pathos mainly in his story, and ethos as well. ...

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She shows her view on this from a quote by Leon Kass, which states, "That's one of the big problems of the contemporary scene. ... In the essay, she reflects on sad stories of quote, "ordinary people, with yearnings as old as humanity -- for children, for health, for a long and healthy life" (Fatalist Attraction 934). ... In almost every paragraph is a quote and cited source. ... Starting out she introduces with a story with which the reader gives sympathy. The next thing the author does is develop from the story to science at the time of the story to now and how we've ...

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Liam O"Flaherty portrayed an experience of a Republican sniper during the Irish Civil war, in the short story "The Sniper". ... A segment of the story that shows his determination and intelligence was when he is shot in the arm by an enemy sniper after killing an armored car driver and a civilian spy. ... One quote from the story that shows this is "The flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching. ... The republican sniper in the story "The Sniper" by Liam O"Flaherty is a complex man with many character traits, one of which is being determined and intelligent. ... Th...

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Percy explains this in following quote "It is a generalized surrender of the horizon to those experts"(304). ... Percy's essay has many conflicting stories and it can be difficult to step back and intake what Percy really means by these stories. ... The short story about the tourist who leaves the beaten track and goes his own way shows how complicated Percy's stories are. The following quote is a section from the story, "the end result will only be the closing of another access to to the canyon. ... Percy explains this in the following quote, "A degree of soverei...

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It gives a certain twist to the story in which would entice a reader and makes him/her more anxious to finish a story. ... I shall not die of a cough." " This quote shows an example of irony for it is true that the cough does kill him. This is a very good example and use of irony in this story. ... Along with the example above, there are other examples in the story. ... His name says fortune but in fact he is not fortunate in the story. ...

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My favorite genre is fantasy, though I read quite a bit of science fiction, philosophy, science, poetry, short stories and educational papers - papers about computer technology, mathematics, and everywhere in between. Basically there are two reasons I read: to get lost in a story, and to learn. Neither one is more significant than the other, though more of the reading I do is to get lost in a story. ... How about a good quote, those are supposed to be useful for ending papers, here's one that seems fitting. ...

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Before the story begins, O"Connor provides the reader with an epigraph. It quotes, "The Dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. ... This quote about the "dragon" relates to the story in that the anonymous ordinary family sets out on a road trip to Florida, and the passengers are consequently "devoured" by the Misfit and his accomplices. ... He finds the family on the side of the road, just as the quote states, "The dragon is by the side of the road..." ... The story begins with the typical nuclear family setting out on a journey. ...

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Before the story begins, O"Connor provides the reader with an epigraph. It quotes, "The Dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. ... This quote about the "dragon" relates to the story in that the anonymous ordinary family sets out on a road trip to Florida, and the passengers are consequently "devoured" by the Misfit and his accomplices. ... He finds the family on the side of the road, just as the quote states, "The dragon is by the side of the road..." ... The story begins with the typical nuclear family setting out on a journey. ...

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Point of view also allows one to tell his or her story most effectively. In the short story "Everyday Use," a first-person narrative is used. ... That is the way my Maggie walks. (70) In this quote, Momma is claiming that Maggie is truly her daughter. ... Near the end of the story, Dee finds two quilts that belong to Momma. ... The significance of this quote in the story is the basis for the rest of the story. ...

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The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. ... That quote represents time going by slowly. After he commits the murder, the story gets to a faster pace. ... The noises in the story create a spooky atmosphere for the reader. Poe uses this noise technique to make the story full of horror. ...

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