For example, in the story "The End of Something," Hemingway uses the moon, a common word with a simple denotation, to add depth to the story. ... This quote really proves that Hemingway was honest with his writing. ... This quote describes how Hemingway used a lot of true description to write about his settings in order to convey purpose, yet he still kept his writing to the point. ... One quote from the story states, "Mrs. ... The quote is actually describing how Mr. ...

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In writing a definition you should, "make your essay personal, amusing, vigorous, stimulating, memorable, and choose a generic topic rather than a specific topic" quoted by LEO. ... (LBH. p 98) The writers of each of these stories use different ways to define their terms or meanings of these words. ... She quotes, "You ask me what is poverty?" ... She quotes, " ...

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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 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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Whitman's father Walter Whitman was a carpenter who married Louisa Van Velsor at the age of twenty-seven and brought her into a two story house, in Long Island, that he build. ... Keeping this in mind when he wrote Leaves of Grass he mentioned that his inspiration was his mother quoting, "The best part of every man is his mother" (Collow 16). ... As Leonard Unger quotes, " The killing's from the Civil War were as memorable to the people of the United States as to Whitman" (Unger 335). ... Having experienced war, riots, and lack of communication between his father Whitman began to ...

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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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The inscription on the award was "for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America." ... His resume now includes several books: "All Over But the Shoutin" (1997), "Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg" (2000), "Ava's Man" (2001), "I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" (2003), "The Prince of Frogtown" (2008), and "The Most They Ever Had" (2009). ... Rather than memoirs, Bragg refers to this as his mother's story, although he is definitely the narrator. ... I won't embellish the truth, but I will tell it in a way that engages the reader and p...

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He also wrote his story to show God's hand in their experiences. ... For example, all throughout his story he constantly made fun of settlers. ... His tone remained simple and unbiased throughout the story. ... This satirical tone was conveyed throughout his entire story. ... This quote by Byrd clearly showed his frustration with the colonists very. ...

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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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The story was great and they did a flawless job on casting the actors. ... Despite of this the theme and the story were great. ... He showed his unfairness when he was challenged be Jamal on quotes from famous authors and when Jamal turned in his essays he did not think that he could write so well, he doubted Jamal's smarts. ... Once I started watching it I started to remember the previews that I have seen a while back which refreshed my memory on what the story was about. I liked this movie not because of the story or the plot, but because of the emotional effects that it had on me. ...

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In all of his writings Cormier used realistic story lines that often left critics objecting to his writings. He frequently drew on experiences from his own childhood and that of his son to make his stories more realistic. ... However, it was when one of his teachers read a story he wrote and told him he had a natural talent, he decided to pursue writing (Stiens, 111). ... It was the story of a New England mill worker who was dying of cancer. ... Cormier was once quoted as saying, "...They lived on the knife - edge of emotional crisis. ...

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During this period of his life Carver was quoted as saying that each of his characters has a "fleeting moment where they don't want to compromise anymore. ... In the story "Will You Be Quiet Please?... This story, "Cathedral," has become one of his most popular. ... The first story however is left undecided with a vague and open ending like many of his earlier stories. ... In the second story however, Carver writes an ending. ...

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This story was one of the most well liked stories of its time. ... One such eastern writer, if I may quote, also used a plot in the same fashion, he wrote a play called, "Anarkali". This story was based in the court of "Akbar the great" one of India's greatest kings. ... Depending upon their mood the story can take a sharp turn as well. ... The story might be a fiction, but the theme is a reality. ...

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His stories are not to be easily read and understood. ... In a quote from Conrad Aiken he says "Mr. ... In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. ... As well as a quote from Gertrude Stein regarding those younger Americans of Hemingway's time saying "you are all a lost generation." ... The story his told with grace and excellence. ...

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" These pages post both fiction and non-fiction stories written by amateur writers like me and edited by their admins. ... Even in those writing courses, I was assigned to read at least one story or article before the class. ... Our experiences, culture, and everything about us shapes the people, the scenes, and the messages in a song we hear or a story that we read. ... The following quote has been my inspiration and kept my motivation alive for reading: "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. ...

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Authors, known or unknown, have an enormous responsibility to write only the framework of a story, allowing readers to fill in the gaps with their own life experiences. ... In the quote above Iser speaks about reading a book. ...

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Andrew Leonard, a contributing editor for Newsweek and a senior technology correspondent of the online magazine Salon.com, is the author of the report "We've Got Mail-Always". In the report he describes the conveniences and inconveniences of e-mail. He opens the report by asking, "Is e-mail a bles...

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In the first story I chose by Isaac Asimov, he goes on to describe how intelligence varies amongst different classes of people but in certain settings one type of people might have an advantage over the others depending on the topic. ... This story may have caused the readers to have a change in their perspective of the definition of intelligence. ... They proved their points with persuasive essays with relevant quotes and documentation from their theses. ...

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Washington wrote many pieces that include Sleepy Hollow, a tale of romance and horror, and Rip Van Winkle, a story about a man and how he changes over time. ... Rip wasn't what anyone would call a poster man for the American Dream as he lazed about and played with kids all the time as evident in a few quotes from this story; "He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors."...

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This story is told from the point of view/perspective of the Indians. ... It is always important to be able to hear both sides of a story and you can be sure that somewhere in the middle would be the truth. ... The author cited factual information providing dates and quotes of the chiefs and members of the Nez Perces tribe. ... In chronological order was the pattern of organization that was used in this story. I say this because the essay provides a vivid timeline for its readers, starting the story in 1805 with Lewis and Clark's expedition. ...

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A quote from Chapter Seventeen in The Grapes of Wrath provides another example of how Steinbeck alluded to Bible stories: "The families learned what rights must be observed - the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the right to talk and to listen; the right to refuse help or to accept..." ... Throughout the entirety of the book, there are numerous references to God, Jesus, Moses, and Biblical stories. ... A controversial quote in Chapter twenty-five shows Steinbeck's message clearly, "Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. ...

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You can use writing to convey your feelings, tell a story of your actions, or even express your thoughts. ... I can't exactly quote what was said in the letter since it was extremely personal but I put each and every last one of my feelings into the words that shown up on that paper and sure enough by the end of that day I was back into the good graces of my coaches and my teammates; after I read the letter and ran twenty stadiums that is. ... Usually the objective is to just express yourself using your words and tell a story or inform somebody of something. ... How would you express your...

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The Argument of Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own is a story of a women named Mary, she is the narrator of Virginia Woolf and tells the story in first person form. ... The purpose of this story is to show how women need to maintain leisure time, money, and a room of her own so that she can become a writer. ... (p.31-32) By this quote that the book is saying that they were written in anger toward women and not knowing why the male race was angered. ...

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