"The Bike" Choose a short story in which a technique (e.g symbolism) is used by the author and is ,in your view ,vital to the success of the text. Explain how the writer employs the technique and why, in your opinion, it is so important to your appreciation of the text .In your answer, you must refer closely to the text and to it's theme as well as to the written use of the chosen technique. ... The technique which is used by the author and that I find crucial to the success of the novel is symbolism. ... Once again it shows the authors intent ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author James Joyce has written Eveline as a third-person narration. ... So, the author has chosen to tell about the hardness of Eveline's life quite frankly. ... To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. ... The author seems to suggest that the similar faith of becoming forgotten might await Eveline as well. ... As the author has written it, Eveline is like a helpless animal and has to yield to the life in Dublin. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The author James Joyce has written Eveline as a third-person narration. ... So, the author has chosen to tell about the hardness of Eveline's life quite frankly. ... To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. ... The author seems to suggest that the similar faith of becoming forgotten might await Eveline as well. ... As the author has written it, Eveline is like a helpless animal and has to yield to the life in Dublin....

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• Grade Level: High School

The author James Joyce has written Eveline as a third-person narration. ... So, the author has chosen to tell about the hardness of Eveline's life quite frankly. ... To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. ... As the story goes on, the author subtly brings out a possible threat that Eveline will face if she leaves home. ... The author seems to suggest that the similar faith of becoming forgotten might await Eveline as well. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another example of irony in the story is when the author stated " The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles." ... When an author foreshadows something this means they"re giving clues to the climax of the story. ... The author also uses the black box to set an uneasy mood when she says" "the stool was put in the center of the square and Mr. ... Nobody really seems to want to participate, and definitely nobody wants to be chosen. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the case of the chosen pieces, short story "William Wilson"" by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem "The Tunnel"" by Mark Strand, both stories slowly draw the reader into an empathy with the main characters. ... The venue's chosen by both authors differ in various degrees. ... Much imagination is required to conclude them both, but in various degrees and to designed intent by both authors. ... Most profoundly is the symbolism chosen by Poe of the outer garment, the "mantle " as the narrator explains how that "all virtue dropped bodily as a mantle " and later, reference is made again to a ...

• Word Count: 1660
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The stirring first stanza of "Tiger," chosen by Wolfe to precede his story, braces the reader for the darker imagery to follow. ... Thus develops the author's lasting theme. ... His use of William Blake's "Tiger" and the psalm from the Bible were chosen for their symbolic imagery and lasting impression upon the reader. ...

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The author has chosen to present this story through first person point of view. ... Although some critics question Updike's use of sexual overtones and exploitation of women in several of his writings (ACC par.1), this story would not have provided the reader insight to the raging hormones of Sammy, had the author chosen a less descriptive method of story telling. ...

• Word Count: 1283
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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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The author used a happy, warm setting to throw the readers off. ... The "chosen one" was probably believed to be the one person who is holding back luck and prosperity from the village, and killing him or her was believed to bring prosperity and luck back to the village. ...

• Word Count: 620
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• Grade Level: High School

One message the author may be conveying to the reader is that blindly following traditions could be fatal. Throughout the story the author uses irony to shock the reader at the tale's conclusion. ... By the the end of the story readers then figure out why the the kids were gathering small rocks, as the author states, "The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready" (Jackson 6). ... The author could have chosen any other name, but she decided on "Graves". ...

• Word Count: 1411
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One message the author may be conveying to the reader is that blindly following traditions could be fatal. Throughout the story the author uses irony to shock the reader at the tale's conclusion. ... By the the end of the story readers then figure out why the the kids were gathering small rocks, as the author states, "The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready" (Jackson 6). ... The author could have chosen any other name, but she decided on "Graves". ...

• Word Count: 1411
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To define and make a short story successful out of the many that are written, the author often builds a single focus around which the whole short story is concentrated. ... The author, O'Flaherty, describes each motion and nuance of the sniper, his looks, emotions, and thoughts. ... Both short stories use their chosen single focus and maintain that focus through the whole story. Both stories have their own single primary focus and each author uses its own focus to its fullest extent, concentrating and even building their stories around this one centre. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

I think the author has chosen to let Gary bring along his brother instead of for instance a girlfriend, because with the girlfriend he would have to prove himself all the time, telling about what a big hero and great soldier he is. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorn, author of "The Minister's Black Veil- and "Rappaccini's Daughter,"" lived a life of solitude "devoting the majority of his existence to the acquisition of knowledge. ... Father Hooper's isolation is more chosen than destined, as it is by his own wish that he wears the dreaded black veil in an attempt to prove a point to the blind people of his community. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is the point that the author, Shirley Jackson, is trying to make in her short story "The Lottery". ... After his mother had been chosen, "The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles" (278). ...

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"THE LADY OR THE TIGER" Introduction: The short story "The Lady, or The Tiger" is written by, "Frank R. Stockton". This story was one of the most well liked stories of its time. It was one of the biggest selling stories in 1895, which made him voted as the fifth best living American writer of th...

• Word Count: 1579
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The government has chosen that freedom of choice is not an option and therefore has shackled the minds of the people. ... In "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," it is unclear from the author's standpoint if he agrees with the use of power wielded by professor Barnhouse. ...

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It provides detailed biographical information on the author's life and analyzes the faith and nature of his religious perspective. ... Browns reluctance to take the devils offerings illustrates his misgivings about becoming one of the devils chosen. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, the author uses irony to expand on a theme of traditions that continue although they are ludicrous and barbaric. ... Even if it means that the other person is his or her own mother, they celebrate that it is not they that are chosen. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In an interpretation that requires less reliance on the beliefs held to be true in O'Connor's worlds and likely held by the author herself as a Catholic, the grandmother can be seen as responsible not only for the death of her family but even for the creation of The Misfit himself (Renner). ... Although Joy-Hulga chose the name because of its "ugly sound"; it was chosen for that very reason. ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper The short story, Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and it is from our nameless character's writings that we are introduced to her world and her life. It is through this that we see our main characters transition into a world that only s...

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• Grade Level: High School

"I suppose the reasons for the use of so much violence in modern fiction will differ with each writer who uses it; [nonetheless], violence is strangely capable of returning...characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace" - Flannery O'Connor From a rather simplistic poi...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School