The story begins in a very common and routine neighborhood of lower class people. ... The revelation of an ordinary place with ordinary people and ordinary things. This setting is reflective of the message of the story because of this very ordinary place. All made of the same ordinary things in his life. All which can be made up to be great wonderful things, but which in reality are still ordinary. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The collections of many short paragraphs of descriptions form the story, and Copperfield depicts the common themes of poverty, love, death, adultery, politics, and family with a very calm and ordinary attitude. ... Life is ordinary, and sometimes we need to appreciate this quality of life. ... In this busy society today, the majority of the people omit the surroundings of themselves. ...

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All of these stories are about ordinary lives and Carver puts these lives through quiet drama. ... In "Cathedral," Carver creates an encounter between two very different people which starts drama. ... The narrator displays how immature and stereotypical he is about people with disabilities such as being blind. ... He reveals that his view of blind people came from movies. ... His technique of writing short stories by creating drama from normal situations with ordinary people using simple language has captivated many readers. ...

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In addition, it gives the idea that people should not be in a hurry to grow up because they will miss out on their childhood. ... Parker, Jane realized she had grown up which puts a twist on an ordinary becoming of age story. ... The setting gives off a certain mood that makes the reader realize these are ordinary people in an everyday situation. In conclusion, this story was a wonderful example why people should value the time they have as a child. ...

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The ordinariness of day-to-day life that families encounter is most often the subject matter of Tyler's novels; many critics ascribe her popularity with reading audiences with the fact that her characters are relatable and ordinary but not simplistic (Concise Dictionary ). ... Perhaps one of Tyler's greatest family novels is If Morning Ever Comes, a story about a home that is "cluttered with people and objects and becoming the place characters often leave and always miss" (DISCovering Authors). ...

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"araby's" setting reinforces the theme and the characters by using the imagery of light and darkness. The experiences of the young boy in the story illustrate how people often expect more than ordinary reality can provide and then feel disillusioned and disappointed. The author uses dark and obs...

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"James Finney Boylan's glasses look ordinary enough. ... Many people from the town of Centralia say that there is more to this story than is being told. Some believe that the rich deposits of coal under the town are why they forced the people to relocate. ... "James Finney Boylan has the rare ability to combine the ordinary everyday and the outrageously surreal into a seamless, satisfying whole. ... There are not many people who can write like Boylan, and this makes him very well liked. ...

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The soap opera The Young and the Restless is an example of escape fiction that deals with the everyday life of so called ordinary people. ... A considerable amount of people in North America are getting botox and plastic surgery in the hopes of feeling good about themselves. When viewers see skinny people on television they think that that is the ideal weight one has to be in order to beautiful and desired by others. ... In third world countries people are unable to watch television. ... People in third world countries also have a significantly lower amount of people with eating disorders an...

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One of Bradbury's most praiseworthy abilities is to turn ordinary situations into the extraordinary. ... Bradbury characterizes the town as modern and urbanized in order to stress again that this is an ordinary situation. ... "For "October" in this early fiction is both a season of the year and a state of the soul, an atmosphere of sudden winds and dying leaves in which the marvelous and monstrous revelations come to lonely people." ...

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The use of irony can easily captivate us or excite us. Many times in order to understand the moral or theme of the story, you need to be able to recognize irony. In the short stories, "Lamb to the Slaughter- by Roald Dahl and "By the Waters of Babylon- by Stephen Vincent Benét we have fine exampl...

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He also feels that the people who live in the house are safe from the father. ... By his use of symbols, such as the four described above, Faulkner is able to use seemingly ordinary objects that contribute to the story's meaning. ...

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He takes a walk through the woods, but this is no ordinary stroll through the woods this is a eye opening experience that will change the rest of Goodman's life. ... In this passage the author criticizes at religion and the way that society believes that religious figures are good moral people but in some cases they are the exact opposite like pointed out in the story. ...

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Paul has embraced the theme and made it be an attribute of most young people. ... Most of the young people in the world today are more drawn to sports and music celebrities. ... In the story, Madame Mathilde, who is an ordinary woman, has a great liking for material things. ... They date rich people and later realize that they are incompatible. ... Several people participate in it, thus broadening the network of awareness. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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It speaks of political, sexual, and artistic endeavors within two divergent assemblages of people. ... Rufus discerns that his yearning for a blissful and ordinary life is not being fulfilled. ... After Rufus" departure, many people's lives begin to change. ... Theme: The theme Another Country conveys is lucid: People must witness the world with incontestable viewpoints. ... The "other" country is defined not as an existent place such as Europe, but a dream innumerable people hope for. ...

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For instance, the predisposition against Jewish people which hurt Alan, the death of Alan, Josef's own experiences in Sachenhausen - the labour camp with its medical experiments that sacrifice living people, and most horrendously, the gassing of one thousand people per day at Chelmno. ... The passing off of ordinary and horrifying events, discovers the real basis of her grandmother's story. ...

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We admire such courageous people and look up to them as heroes. ... Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." ... Court wonders "why people have to sing other people's songs" and why "I say Oy and nobody laughs but Malachy says Oy, Oy and Mrs. ...

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Women had their infants taken from them, they were locked away in isolated rooms, and kept away from other people and the things most familiar to them. ... She is seeing people who are not actually there, and overall, she is behaving in a strange manner. ... She does not feel threatened until later, when she senses something out of the ordinary about the house. ...

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Raskolnikov's theory upon the existence of two separate types of man - the ordinary and the "extraordinary" – is quite egotistical and arbitrary. He argues that the intellectually "superior" or "extraordinary," including himself, have the right to kill as long as the deed ultimately serves beneficial to the world and the people around the victim. ... Raskolnikov's theory fundamentally results in the significant events of the novel and their aftermaths; he becomes even more mentally unstable after killing the pawnbroker, he becomes physically ill, a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate