This incident has actually brought about a realization or an epiphany of a truth about life that is more of realism than of a warm and fuzzy moment within the boy's young existence. ... The final despair is the condition of the boy himself. ... The light, happy story of the young boy in love never came to be. ... Joyce seems to describing the life in Dublin as one which will only bring about defeat and disappointment. ... The final defeat of the story is that the boy simply gives up. ...

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In other words, in this kind of work an author writes (this process is called 'outer narrative'") about a narrator who is telling a story ("inner narrative"). ... For instance, while the narrator is telling the romance story, he insistently adds comments and details about aspects of the story: "Did I say that she had honey-colored hair? ... The young boy and Rebecca meet at a cottage, where there is a group of eight or nine people. ... She is a Jewish girl from the exotic Bronx and, to the boy, this "vast borough seems a Cythera." ... Although both of them are married and have childr...

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The prose fiction "Catcher in the Rye", explores an inner conflict, of a boy, "Holden Caulfield", and his journey from his school to his home. ... Another conflict he has is with women, in his journey he meets many women and when he meets them, he always thinks about the topic, Sex. He wants to experience it but every time he tries he is scared about it or he feels that he is ruining someone's innocence. ... In this short story, initially the main conflict focus on an Asian boy being beaten in the toilets, but it moves on to one of his opponents, who experiences a great inner conflict as ...

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(O'Connor 1390-1391) With these lines in the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor expresses the difficult questions that a non-Christian might feel about the faith. ... In this case Bandy is referring to the phrase "cute little pickaninny" (O'Connor 1382) to describe a little black boy without britches. Bandy forgets to mention that the reason the old lady wanted her grandchildren to observe the little boy was to see him for whom he was and to acknowledge him. ... He only sees the words "a nigger boy ate it"(1382), and reflects on it as a racist remark,...

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Readers are quick to treat novel characters like other people and immediately upon their introduction, the reader often can begin to decipher the kind of person that she or she is reading about and will make no hesitation to like or dislike the character very quickly. Looking at the characters in the novel that represent the idea of "good-, one can see that the actions of each boy are directly related to the name that Golding assigned them. ... He is described by Golding as a skinny little boy with black hair and is slightly younger than Ralph is. ... Piggy is a heavyset boy with asthma and...

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One could assume that the character is being sincere in her speaking, but just the same the reader can be lead to assume that Tessie was merely joking around and is very eager about the events that are about to take place. ... Tessie's character change is very important to the story because it shows her true feeling towards the lottery, and how she feels about winning. ... As a matter of fact the old man seems outright disgusted that someone could even think about bringing to an end something that he has valued for over seventy years. "Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, c...

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It is tremendously ironic that the grandmother is worried about Pitty Sing suffocating himself if he was left at home, when he ultimately becomes a key factor in the story's dreadful final events. ... The grandmother, Bailey, his wife, June Star (the little girl), John Wesley (the little boy), and the baby make up five or six people, depending on how you view the baby. ... O"Connor's choice of the town name lets the reader know that the character's lives in the story are about to take a dramatic turn for the worse. ... Hoping for a car to come along, the family does not real...

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The picaro of Lazarillo de Tormes, who is named Lazaro, fits the definition such that he was born in a poor family and lost his father when he was a boy. ... Especially, when he talks about his masters he mostly describes them as bastards. ... However, there are some cases in which the audience begin to suspect about who the actual narrative authority is. ... It is questionable that how Lazaro have heard about Penelope even though he is illiterate. ... Here, it should be reminded that he was just a little boy when he asked this question. ...

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This leads to the madman's concern for the younger generation, with the story ending with "Save the children . . . .(16)" In "Kong Yiji", the narrator is a young boy who is a waiter at a tavern. The story is about his observation and brief interaction with a failure scholar by the name of Kong Yiji. ... Also, he shows kindness when he tries to start a conversation with the narrator by teaching him how to write the character hui, he tells the narrator that he should know how to write this character because he will need it when he has his own shop, implying that he beli...

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He was little more than an errand boy, yet he attracted attention with his styles and manners (Dictionary 82). ... This is a dark and eerie book about the ruthless murders of four family members in Holcomb, Kansas. ... In describing the novel Other Voices Other Rooms, Baumbach states: "What is the novel really about? The boy's father? ... The narrative deals with these concerns, and to that extent that is what the novel is about." ...

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Chopin is well known for her writing about gender related topics. ... One of La Blanche's quadroon boys was near the baby when Desiree noticed the resemblance of the skin color between the boy and her baby. ... The quadroon boy is one quarter Negro ancestry and so his mother La Blanch is also of mixed ancestry. ...

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I chose this quote as an example of characterization because it shows the writer making comments about Gawaine with his own voice. 3. ... I chose this quote as an example of a main character because Gawaine is who is focused on and talked about throughout the whole story. 4. ... Exposition is the beginning of the story where you learn about the main character & conflict. ... Theme is a message about life or human nature. ... On page 169, the story says, "The headmaster kept him at home when it rained, because he said the woods were damp and unhealthy at such times and that he didn't w...

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He would write about the upheaval, which this particular class saw. ... They had hardly acknowledged their love for each other that, the King finds out and on the spot the boy is imprisoned. ... Usually, irony can be deciphered by a different, tone that the writer uses while describing a certain scene or talking about an instance. ... "The lady or the tiger", was also something to write about, because it has to do with the typical, barbaric culture, that has been a part of the world all the way from 1800's till today in some parts. ...

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It looks natural, like a yarn being told about bush life without much artistic planning, but in fact it is carefully structured. ... The young boy, Tommy, seeing how drained and distressed his mother is, with a burst of insight exclaims "Mother, I won't never go droving; blast me if I do!" ... The use of these flashbacks or anecdotes is to give more information about the Drover's wife and it creates a good characteristic of the women. ... It is the older Joe looking back on the younger man he once was and a story about how he met his wife. ...

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He grabbed her by the face and kisses her hard on the lips and didn't let go for a while and Esperanza never told anyone about it. A boy named Sire really brought out the mature side of Esperanza when she got enough courage to stare back. ...

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A few details about the author of The Turn of the Screw should not be neglected. ... We also find in the beginning a strange statement made by Douglas: "I quite agree - in regard to Griffin's ghost or whatever it was - that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, as a particular touch". ... On the one hand, Douglas adds verisimilitude by giving more details about the characters and, on the other hand, he subverts the perception: "it appeared that the narrative he had promised to read us really required for a proper intelligence a few words of prologue", so this introdu...

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