This detailed account of the Misfit directly foreshadows the family's encounter with him later in the story, leaving the reader to ponder how and when the encounter will take place. ... The cat will eventually play a large role in the family's misfortunes, but, upon first reading, one does not realize this. ... O"Connor's mention of a family burying ground belonging to a plantation is a foreshadowing as to how the story will later develop. ... Readings on Flannery O"Connor. ... Literature: An Introduction to Critica...

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The visual interpretation is more efficient because this scene is critical to show an important development in Tessie's character portrayed later in the story. ... The literature could not place a mental picture of that magnitude, by just reading it, however, the film version gives a giant glass window into the tone of the scene. ... When reading the story many people were outraged at the so-called tradition, and its barbaric practices, but someone watching the movie may interpret that scene as a holding onto of a part of a culture. ... Like an answer to a question that no one asked th...

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Henry James's - The Turn of the Screw From the moment of its publication, The Turn of the Screw has continuously been a challenge both for the common reading and for criticism. ... Guided by the will of knowledge and of making sense, understanding is our basic expectation when reading the short-story. ... After finishing reading, we feel puzzled and frustrated which is due to the sudden ending, in contrast with the extended beginning. ... While reading he objects to having available only the governesses perspective and wonders who pulls the strings there. ... "The Prologue" works ...

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Silko's short story "Lullaby" lends itself well to close reading and analysis. ... After close reading "Lullaby", I came to the conclusion that the feelings of the protagonist, Ayah, presented the theme of fear and the ability of other feelings to conquer fear. ... The story began with Ayah in the later years of her life. ... They informed Ayah that Jimmie had died, and they later took Danny and Ella away from her. ... Ayah's time of reflection by the creek took place late in her life and during winter. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The importance of circumstantial setting is explained with further detail in the following two scenarios: First scenario; Your alarm does not work, therefore you wake up later than planned. ... Your significant other is reading the morning paper, while awaiting your arrival. ... Just as you finish reading the attached love letter, your best friend bursts into your office bubbling with joy as she recounts the events of her weekend adventure. ... It is late evening, and evening is a direct tie in to an ending. ...

• Word Count: 1865
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• Grade Level: High School

With utter disappointment in his son, he throws the girl into the prison and later orders for her to be buried alive. ... Narrative point of view; When we are reading the story, "The Lady, or The Tiger" we cannot help but notice the element of irony used . ... Another, aspect, after reading the story one comes across is the fact that, the author uses a very fairy-tale backdrop. ...

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When reading about the castle, it easy to discount the physical improbability of General Zeroffs having produced such a massive home. ... When reading this commercial fiction story one can recognize the first sentences as intriguing and questioning. ... When reading "The Most Dangerous Game" it is gradually revealed that the story is to be a battle between Rainsford, the hero, and General Zeroff, the villain. ...

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The character is "you" and the poem is about what "you" are doing now, which is reading the poem. At first, "you" dislike the idea of reading a poem, and then "you" begin to really like it. ... Then as he begins to lose trust in people and lose important relationships, he comes to the realization too late, that it is too much of an effort to protect himself. ...

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David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... During the late eighteenth-century, several different kinds of new fiction arose to challenge the Augustan tradition; leading the way was the Gothic novel. ... The differentiation between the mind and self was a relevant topi...

• Word Count: 1271
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... During the late eighteenth-century, several different kinds of new fiction arose to challenge the Augustan tradition; leading the way was the Gothic novel. ... The differentiation between the mind and self was a relevant topi...

• Word Count: 1271
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Days later, maid discovers the starved bird, which prompts Elizabeth Jane to search for Henchard, whom she finds dead in Abel Whittle's cottage. ... - Even the most cursory reading of The Mayor of Casterbridge reveals a structural pattern that relies heavily on coincidence. ...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: High School

When we discover later with amazement that the children in The secret Garden are growing up with health and vitality, their body is getting stronger and their mind is becoming opener, we couldn't help deeming that all these seem under the magic of nature. ... In addition, The Secret Garden is also serious reading for adults, as the story is apparently simple, but in fact of profound awareness of the power of soul to change one's destiny. ...

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Story-reading As mentioned above, blank spots constitute this short story and have to be filled in and coloured by the reader's imagination. ... That's why he comes in late at night, why he only eats when the waitress is gone and why he doesn't take off his coat. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

These are two famous short stories from different female writers that were written in the late 19th century and that illustrate the gender role at that time. ... In this story, Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth- century American woman's striking hour of awakening into individuality, which allows her to live the last moments of her life with a consciousness of life's extensive beauty (Jami 215). ... "A quick reading of the phrase might mislead the reader into thinking that Mrs. ... The story is about a young mother's mental deterioration, postpartum depression, in w...

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The narrator goes on to make more assumptions later on such as how blind men didn't smoke because "as speculation had it, they couldn't see the smoke the exhaled" (Norton36). ... While reading this final paragraph of this story I actually got goose bumps I was so intrigued and moved. ...

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For Hamlet this is not helped by the sudden, unexplainable death of his father which he later learns was due to the action of his uncle and now king and stepfather, Claudius and his quick marriage to his mother Gertrude. ... He is a character that is so difficult to pinpoint down, that he almost becomes a "mystery" and due to this the reader is able to make their own personal reading of him. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. ... The fictional novel is set in the moderate-sized city of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the late 1960s. ...

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The use of "may"" rather than "could"" suggests a current opinion: a thought in the present, and when placed in the context of Jane's description of past events, it gives the reader a sense that the events are happening now, as he is reading. ... An original, intended reader in the late 1840's would have seen Jane Eyre as an autobiography, so the presentation of Jane as a 'real live' person, telling her story in the wider context of a present, ongoing life, would have been stronger. ... There remains, however, some tension and uncertainty in parts of the novel, as to whethe...

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"It's a crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture" (Ordinary People 183). In Judith Guest's novel, Ordinary People, she unravels the truth of a modern family, exposing every crack and secret t...

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• Grade Level: High School