So did this new strategy make A Tale of Two Cities a classic? ... Dickens' uses foreshadowing to give the reader an idea of what is to come in the novel. ... In addition to symbolism and foreshadowing, another cause for A Tale of Two Cities being categorized as a classic is its wonderful imagery. ... This form of imagery increases suspense and makes the reader want to keep reading. ... A Tale of Two Cities is a universally recognized classic. ...

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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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This is a [timeless] classic which continues to speak to our own time." ... It has been, and will be passed down among generations, and it is these qualities that make it a timeless classic. ... The book also intrigues the reader by drawing empathy from him/her. ... The fact that the story has all these equivocal ideas is one of the main reasons it is a timeless classic. ... Of Mice and Men is a timeless classic in which readers of all ages and reading levels may enjoy. ...

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However, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most significant pieces of classic literature in this country. ... In reading the novel, a reader sees what life was like through Huck's eyes. ... By choosing as his narrator a child who fails to judge the world and conditions he is living in, Twain forces readers to make that judgment themselves. ... Twain makes a reader recognize how ironic it is that a country that was founded on freedom denied that very right to so many of its citizens. ... Many criticizers of the book fail to see that Twain is simply using irony; he was in no...

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A classic gothic novel emphasises fear and terror. ... The connections, and relevance it has to today's modern society and the lessons that can be learned from it, is what classifies it as being classic. ... The strongest feature, which identifies Shelley's Frankenstein as a classic gothic novel, is the creation of the creature itself. However, the creation of the creature is not truly supernatural, as the reader is informed of his origin, but in that the creation is still something out of the ordinary, unnatural and reflects Gothic ideas and a vision of horror. ... For the mod...

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By stating these answers to questions readers can begin to develop an idea for identifying a photographic essay. ... This essay compared to other photographic essay is rather different in its separation of text and pictures and is known as a "minor modern classic- (Ward 133). ... This is another classic example of the coequality yet independence of the photos and text in a photographic essay. ... He brings photographs to life with his words and instills in the reader a meaning that cannot be comprehended by glancing at the surface. ... This allows the reader to create a separate meaning f...

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What many flaws Willy possesses, most do not correlate with the classic tragic hero. ... It lets the reader gain a better understanding of the family's conflict with being something they"re not in a place where they don't belong. For the most part Death of a Salesman does not conform to the structure of the classic tragedy even though a few elements agree with the classic tragedy, namely Willy's consistency and the "Requiem" as a Greek chorus. Among the main inconsistencies with the classic tragedy are the dialogue and character discrepancies. ... Death of a Salesm...

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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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Barakas's classic Beat response to these forces however, was one of cool disengagement. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxii) A major change in Amiri's thoughts about political activism began when he was invited to go to Cuba with a group of black writers. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... There was some truth to it, because I was struggling to be born, to break out from the shell i was instinctively sense surrounding my own dash for freedom"(...

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The beginning of the story presents the reader with two male characters in a country store. ... The reader wants to know what will happen in that room and what the consequences will be. Chopin then sets her characters in a classic 'love scene' next to the window. ... She is showing the classic signs of guilt by over-expressing and over-emphasizing everything she says and does. ... Near the end of the story, the reader is allowed a glimpse of Alcee and his actual life. ...

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In attempting to explain the differences between Virginia Woolf's Orlando and her own, Potter states, "So I made various changes with my heart in my mouth, as one does when dealing with a great classic of literature. ... One critic, Jane Marcus responds to Potter's statements about the changes made in her version of Orlando saying: "I can't believe anyone who helped with the making of this mockery of genius has ever read the book They were not familiar with the contested meanings critics have seen in Orlando, because it is not even a minor "classic" in England, or they would not...

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The reader needs to consider how they were constructed and for what purpose. ... The Slave narratives gave this "mode of production" a voice, allowing the reader a glimpse of the human side of slavery. ... Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the introduction to The Classic Slave Narratives states "the slave narratives came to resemble each other, both in their content and in their formal shape" (1987: x). ... They give the reader a picture of how the master and the slave interacted. ... The reader must always keep in mind the limitations of each source and be aware of who was writing it and why....

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Tolkien continues the lives of the fictitious creatures that he introduced in The Hobbit, in his modern classic The Fellowship of the Ring. ... James 558) He delighted and titillated readers of all ages by first introducing them to the middle-earth in The Hobbit, a story of Frodo's cousin Bilbo. ... James 560) being hailed as a modern literary classic, it was something that almost didn't occur. ... This allows the reader to have insight into all of the characters instead of limiting it to one character's perspective. It allows the reader to see beyond what only Frodo sees, hears...

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Poe successfully developed a mysterious atmosphere by using such literary crafts as diction, foreshadowing and so forth, and evoked readers' terror by providing few details over the narration. ... In classic gothic fiction, another essential characteristic is doppelganger, a ghostly counterpart of a character, and Poe incorporated it massively in "The Fall of the House of Usher." ... However, these terrifying events aren't the only factors giving rise to readers' anxiety; what prickles our nerves is the foreshadowing. ... It is the vagueness, the ambiguity that Poe applied clima...

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Present tense speech allows the reader to be involved in the happenings of the city in real-time, emphasising the opinion of the narrator. ... Being the opening paragraphs giving too much away at once would be counter-productive and so the fog acts as a barrier, as it does in the narrative itself, to the reader's vision, there is something to be seen, but not yet, and this links to the characters further on in the novel. ... Bleak House can be placed under the title of "urban gothic", and this opening passage has all the qualities of the classic Gothic forms, only updated for th...

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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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Though the modern heroes are much more popular than classic American heroes, the modern hero has rooted from these same literary works which once amazed people in the days of old. ... He was looked up to by the masses and is still a popular symbol of the classic hero. ... Readers have watched grow and mature as though they were with him the whole time. ... Because he made peace with the Indians, he had a mysterious and dangerous quality in the eyes of the reader. ... This quality always gave the reader confidence in Natty. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, is a classic tale of human frailty and sin and the hardships that are caused by a single mistake. ... The author, at no point, "stretched" or exaggerated a situation, but instead left it for the reader to decide. ... Hawthorne speaks directly to the reader, writing, "The reader may chose among these theories (p. 235). In doing this, I could see the uncertainty and the author's desire for the reader to decide. ... The reader is never certain about what actually becomes of Pearl, but we do find out that Hester never leaves Americ...

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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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Must classic tragedy embrace just the Aristotelian "fall of princes," or may it also include the modern common man? ... If this modern story is destined to challenge classic tragedy, or perhaps to take its place alongside, one must look behind the glitz and glitter to find a message. ... However, when the struggle extends itself out of the particular family circle and into the lives of the reader, it broaches the questions that trouble every human being: social status, honor, recognition, and success. ... His remarkable similarity to Oedipus classifies him as a tragic hero, yet leaves the r...

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Fantasy stories provide the reader with a story of an unlikely hero and their quest, an escape from reality into a world that includes magic, obstacles, deception, and mystery, and in doing so, provides an opportunity for the reader to develop a creative mind. ... A third point about fantasy novels is its ability to give the reader an opportunity to develop their minds. ... They provide so many things to the reader that cannot be overlooked. These books provide interesting hero characters and they give both the characters in the book and the readers an escape from reality and they also give th...

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Two classic pieces of literature, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, and "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson offer readers the chance to live this fantasy vicariously through their characters. ... His rather gray nature inspires a sort of cognitive dissonance within the reader. He is certainly a likable character that the reader wants to succeed, though the reader objectively knows that crime should not pay. ... Yet the story shows the reader that there is more to it than that. ... Though both books offer readers a grand adventure to whisk them away from their daily grind, they take t...

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Wharton's novel includes many archetypes indicative of a classic fairytale. ... However, Wharton applies irony to this as well, causing the reader to wonder the extent of how bleak fate can be. ... Literary critic Jeffery Lilburn describes Ethan Frome as a "tale of lost opportunity, failed romance, and disappointed dreams," summarizing the unhappy ending to what seemed like a classic love story at first. ... The ingenious use of irony within the book ultimately allows it to be defined as a classic work of literature because it brings forward the distinctive idea that people are responsi...

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The role of the detective, then, is not to deceive the reader, but to serve as the corrupted societies' hero. ... This is in stark contrast to the swift restoration of law and order of the classic detective literary form. ... However, Hammett's narration never strays away from the Continental Op's perspective, yet the reader never fully enters the Op's mind. Thus, the characters' actions remain just as much a mystery to the reader as it does to the fellow characters unless he chooses to explain himself. ... Having the Continental Op battle all of Personville at once...

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While the classic battle between good and evil forces is a major theme of the medieval epic "Beowulf," one may question whether these good and evil forces are as black and white as they appear. ... The raucous feasts and joyous celebrations within Heorot make the reader believe that Grendel is attacking the hall out of envy, an emotion generally associated with wickedness. ... The human attributes associated to Grendel in this line allows the reader to sympathize with his plight, and not completely cast him out as a monstrous and evil figure (Orchard, 30). ... Because she is much stronger th...

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