The episode I have chosen is the end half of chapter four and chapter five, which is when Ethan and Mattie are left alone together, while Zeena (Ethan's wife) has gone to see a doctor. ... The author uses light as a technique to show the effect each of the main female characters have on their environment. ... The author turns this sense around when Mattie is described in the same environment as the author tells of she is connected with light, warm surroundings, "Mattie had pushed his chair to the stove and seated herself next to the lamp". ... The first inclination of this is in the epi...

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The people that are being led often choose the leaders; however, sometimes the best leader is not always the one that is chosen for the task. ... On the other hand, in Lost, Jack is chosen to be the leader. ... Whether a leader is chosen by votes or by their abilities, they would eventually face similar obstacles such as, differing opinions and desires between the leader and the people. ... By this, the author suggests that the people control the leader and if they don't get the results they want, they will rebel. ... Thus, it is necessary for the leader to prove their ability whether the...

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Two books in which the author's writings supported this quote were Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In both of these novels, the authors used literary elements that supports the idea that Edwin Markham believes to be true. ... This mood was created because of the act that Hester and Dimmesdale had chosen to commit. ... These all had to occur since it was there destiny because they had both chosen to commit the act of adultery and the life they lived was there destiny because of it. ... In the novels, the decisions of Guy Montag, Hester Pry...

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That Was Then, This Is Now was chosen as a notable book by the American Library Association. The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald Tribune as one of the best teen-age books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. ... To remedy this oversight, the young author began to write about teens in a setting she felt would be familiar to her contemporaries. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... I got the feeling that it was a very personal novel for Hinton and at the end of the book it was almost like I had gotten to know the ...

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Fanny Fern, the author of Ruth Hall, and J. ... John de Crèvecœur, the author of Letters from an American Farmer both wrote novels that illustrate the contrasting ways of life in the city and the country. ... A world where no one has to be bothered and each man can have the right to do as he pleases is what the author chooses to relate to a sort of "happy place." Crèvecœur takes a drastic step in his writing when he says that "We are the most perfect society now existing in the world" (41) At this point in the novel, everything that Crèvecœur ha...

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Characterization There are 8 methods through which most authors characterize the people in a novel. ... This report will include quotations from the novel as well as your personal observations about the character you have chosen to study using a third person point of view. ... Introduction/ Paragraph 1: name the character your have chosen book title and author's full name Briefly state your feelings about the kind of individual your character is-what do you think are three OUTSTANDING characteristics of this individual? ...

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Ruby is like a distraction that the author, Charles Frazer put in the book, to help keep Ada's mind off of Inman. ... By the end, Ada is showing that she has developed into her own person, and that she didn't really need Inman at all, that she had move don, and chosen to be her own person. ...

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The way the author divided the novel up into monthly installments makes you think of hour long series events that come on television. ... In "Like water for chocolate", the author Laura Esquivel extends the cultural themes of magic realism to the domestic world or a female responsibility dominated household. ... This theme of emotions being translated through food was purposely chosen to show how women are seen as care givers or nurturers despite stress being placed on them by the very people they provide sustenance for. The author does not present the existence of a utopian togetherness of wo...

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The character I have chosen to discuss is Richard 'Dick' Thornhill, the 2nd son of William and Sal Thornhill. ... Through the novel, the author explains what defines each character. ... The author designed Richard to be one of the few people to be sympathetic towards them especially in the eyes of his father. ... Whether this lets the audience to accept the aboriginal's liking/traditions, but for Richard and other characters (Thomas Blackwater and Mrs Herring) the author expresses the idea of sympathy and acceptance. ...

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Chapter 15 of Voltaire's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. ... In this essay, these elements will be explored and critically analyzed, with examples from the chosen chapter extract. ... Voltaire is an author who handles character dialogue expertly. ...

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It possesses its own form of life, which breathes through meticulously chosen words and sentence arrangements. Madame Bovary "defies judgment " in that it is viewed objectively, by a distant author, who presents events realistically and does not interfere with the reader's thoughts or interpretation of the work. ...

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Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated and complex adult society. ... Coleridge thought that gothic novels provide unfathomable characters that the gothic romance authors have come up with very quickly and have not put much thought into. ... Jane Austen stood up for the novel when she says, "Yes, novels- for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous c...

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Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to anoth...

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