The American Classic ~Moby Dick~ The story of Moby Dick is truly an American literary classic. The word classic, itself, means belonging to a certain category of excellence, or having a lasting artistic worth which to most people fits the novel perfectly. ... Through his character the reader establishes a bond with him, and together get to witness one of the best adventures ever written and of course a powerful lesson. ... So in conclusion it is what Moby Dick stands for that occupies the readers" attention. It is the classic formula that Melville stuck to for tragedies, a classic strug...

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In fact, this is the essence of this division of children's fantasy: Enchanted realism is created for the characters in the story, or actually readers, to see through the real world. ... What is presented to the readers in Harry Potter is only a magic world of mysterious astonishment and adorable imagination, while The Secret Garden demonstrates profound concern about the inside world and an attempt to resolve the situatiion with the power of nature and love. ... The Secret Garden, as serious writing, is taken in Oxford University Press World's Classic, Penguin Twentieth-Century C...

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When a reader picks up a book, they will most likely expect the pages to be adorned with the classic structure of what is called 'prose', which is defined as "the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse." ... However, the book Ludlow, by David Mason, surprises and entices the reader with its non-traditional style of writing, as Mason writes in poetry, which compliments the book better than classic prose style could. ... Poetry is usually romanticized and written in a uniquely artistic way to evoke a specif...

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"Tess of the D"Ubervilles" is a classic tragedy by Thomas Hardy. ... The emotional and descriptive writing created a good balance that caught the reader's attention and kept the reader interested in the novel. Beautifully written and unforgettably striking, the style of writing unwittingly ensnares the reader. The reader believes that "Tess of the D"Ubervilles" is the best of Hardy's novels. ... Thomas Hardy fans would immensely enjoy the tragic story of "Tess of the D"Ubervilles" because it's full of poetry and is a classic example of Hardy's talent as a writer. ...

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(Dumarier 2) is the famous opening line to the classic novel Rebecca. ... Rebecca is in many ways similar to the story of Cinderella, a classic Gothic Romance (Masterplots 3). ... hough, and that helps the reader relate to her and sympathize for her. ... This keeps the reader trying to figure out if Maxim really loves her or not. ... Dumaurier starts off her novel with elements of a classic Gothic Romance, and ends the story in mystery and suspense. ...

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Beowulf is a classic epic that dates back to the Anglo-Saxon time period. ... It is a classic story of a kingdom that finds themselves in trouble from a monster that is terrorizing, and killing people at random. ... Here the writer uses a sort of "grr" sound to imitate a growling, which helps the reader to visualize how the monster may be. ...

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I can see why Jerry Spinelli won the Newberry Award for his mondern classic, Maniac Magee. It has everything I like in a young adult book:fascinating characters, believable dialogue, humor, and a strong theme. Maniac (Jeffery) Magee is one of the most refreshing and memorable characters in ...

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The photographs that Findley has supplied the researcher (and consequently, the reader) are more pictures that give insight into that time; they are windows into the past and into peoples lives. ... Through these images, Findley is not only able to show the death, despair and the loss that war brings about, but is also capable of drawing the reader into the novel and giving an almost first-hand experience with the casualties of war. ... Although the first thing that comes to mind when reading about fire is the destruction that the element can cause, Findley compels the reader to look further ...

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The reader can choose whether to read the novel as satire or fantasy. ... In offering readers the opportunity to interpret and imagine, the author keeps the reader straddling between what is fantastical and what is real. ... The narrative voice and its tangents and interruptions break the story line and throw the reader off. ... The entire novel can be thoroughly enjoyed without any understanding of Goldman's satirical motives, and because the storyline falls within the margins of the romantic tradition, it can truly be appreciated as a "classic tale of true love and high adventur...

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The narrator apparently sees and lets the readers see what Miss Emily is oblivious to. ... This timepiece symbolizes how time has been hidden from her all of these years as opposed to the fully aware narrator, and this hidden time results in her stubborn unchanging ways which are presented to the readers through this evident narration. ... This intentional point of view holds strong to its duty at presenting this theme to be obtained and analyzed by the reader. ... The point of view in a story usually can shed light on the theme to a story, and it is evident of that in Faulkner's cl...

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Subsequently, the writerly form of the novel, drawing the responder in through use of rhetoric and exaggeration, is replaces by a more readerly text when adapted to the film medium, with the responders observing rather than experiencing the story. ... In the book, Goldman's frequent comments on the novel and his creation of an external world help the responders to relate to him as fellow readers, while the relation of the book to the real world helps to convey his message that "life isn't fair." ... The different mediums of production have different audiences, purposes and techniq...

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This is, the bridge between the things that the reader knows is going on, due to the description from the child and what the reader thinks is going on. ... His stories walk the line of myth and reality, and tend to be deficient in the classic beginning, middle, and end structure. ... Of course a story is not the real world, however when reading David Malouf the reader can be tempted question that fact. ... This once again is a beautiful was of reminding the reader of the nostalgic trance of which the sorty was written in. ... Malouf's writing explores this idea so well that the reader is ...

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As the protagonist, R portrayed himself to connect with the readers through the use of emotion and empathy. ... Julie is the Juliet to R's Romeo, when R first encounters her he describes her eyes as "classic novels and poetry" (page 18). ... R conveys the reader to identify what he is communicating throughout the thoughts in his mind. This gives the reader an in-depth insight into R's perception on life as a zombie. ... The novel is suitably targeted for a range of various teenager and young adult readers. ...

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Her drive for success sparked a new literary classic, as well as a successful movie, produced just four years after the release of her book. ... By using this method, the reader is able to hear the thoughts of two different characters and how they perceive events. ... The plot structure of the novel is a very important element to Guest's technique, it leaves the reader questioning the past. ... This further drives the reader to seek more answers as to why the past occurred the way it had. ... He voices his opinion that Beth's point of view is barely articulated and it leaves the read...

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Stephen's ultimate rebellion is a classic example of a young person's struggle against the conformity demanded of him by society In the short story "A Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, the whole range of emotions are felt by the main charter Louise Mallard. ... Now the reader starts to see the world through Louise's eyes, a world full of new and pure life. ...

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She puts this American literary classic in the category of books she qualifies as "of dubious literary merit," "overwrought," and "depressing," yet she is not able to support the claims she makes with any quotes, facts, or sources to adequately prove her point of why the novel belongs with novels categorized with these awful titles. ... Prose claims that we, as the reader, will, "never harbor the racist attitudes espoused by the lowlifes in the novel," yet we still stumble upon nearly the same problems with racism today. ...

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Cisneros integrates her bilingual background as well as her experiences as a young girl, which really helps the reader relate. ... This is considered irony of situation because the readers and characters expect the next payday or Friday night out to open the door to a new relationship, however they do not ever meet. Cisneros uses irony of a situation to create a false sense of hope for the main characters and reader to believe in. ... Her brothers attempts to make her assume a traditional female role is reflected in the feminist strains of her writing, glorifying heroines who dream of...

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Great writers possess abilities to empathize with their readers. ... One example is Jane Austen's traditional classic, Pride and Prejudice. This piece of literature exhibits the time period's life style and significance by giving the readers a feel of what would be of importance to a typical family in relation to the time period. ... Doing this he makes the readers feel like he understands their misery and pain. ...

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The effect of this is that the reader is able to discern that Baudelaire has far more doubt about Religion than Shelley and other pre-modernist composers. ... The effect of this is that the reader is left without a morsel of doubt in the fact that women are undervalued in Frankenstein's society, and this allows Shelley to express her view that women should be valued members of the public. ... Both the nautical metaphor and judicial simile demonstrates Duval's power over Baudelaire, and so we as the reader are able to recognise that Baudelaire shares the opinion of Shelley in that wo...

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The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. ... It allowed the reader to be informed of some of the horrors that occurred during World War II, while not being overly depressing like many other novels covering this subject. ...

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Many writers use symbolism in their stories in order to reveal certain or multiple aspects of the story. Symbols can be anything in a story from a non-living object to a living object. In the short story "The Red Convertible" the author, Louise Enrich, uses a red convertible to symbolize the bond be...

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Both of these magazine had a more humanitarian and satiric view on the classic themes. When the atomic bombs were used in a way that science fiction had predicted, science fiction got more promotion and found many new readers. ...

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After much turmoil and tribulation, sorrow and pain, and sweat and tears, the final fates of the characters in Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the d"Urbervilles were dealt their final fate. ... However, in the end the reader finds him dead on the bed with a knife stabbed through hit heart. ... Through all of their mental and physical anguish they found a place to fit in at the end, and the reader can sleep easier at night knowing this. ...

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At first Cossette might signal to the reader anti-feminist ideas and may place Hugo in a negative light. ... Hugo, through his diverse representation of women, introduces the reader to admiration and sympathy for women and spreads knowledge about political fight for justice these women face everyday. ... Fantine, through her struggle shows the reader true strength. ... Eponine breaks away from the classic ideal of a women being controlled by a man, either a father or husband. ...

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