This is how time plays a very important part. ... "Above their heads, Patricia's union Jack has migrated to the picture-rail where it droops over our framed polyphotos . ... In these footnotes she is able to portray her ideas, which leads to our conclusions. ... The setting also plays a very important role in this story. ... Ruby senses these from the beginning "our ghosts are particularly thick on the stair cases, of which there are many. ...

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We are all given gifts of different kinds in our lives. ... A happy home in a small town is shattered by tragedy. ... Suddenly, a pregnant stranger stops in town and decides to stay. ... The setting is in a 1950's small Midwestern town. Children play in the streets, on the skating pond, and attend the movie house. ...

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Prejudice towards children is something that happens in school, our homes, and in all other places. ... We should try our part to get rid of it because to do so would make us all better people. ... A good majority of the town suddenly dislikes Atticus because he did what he knew what was right, but contradicted the social laws of the time. ... These parties, however, are just an excuse to gossip about town's people or an event in Maycomb. ... Merriweather played her voice like an organ; every word she said received its full measure: 'The poverty the darkness the immortality "...

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Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of God. ... It was as if I had gone right down into Hell and through the worst of the fire, and come on a clear, pure pool where I could wash and be clean...they turned me loose the next morning...

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I argue this point because Emily fell in love with Homer Barron, a Yankee, who was contracted by the town to pave its sidewalks. ... In "A Rose for Emily" Faulkner placed Emily in the perfect spot of the town. Faulkner writes: It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily light-some style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. ... The location of this story played a big role, which makes it an important literary device. ...

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The next morning, he goes walking in the town of Ingolstadt, frantically avoiding a return to his now haunted apartment. ... By the time he arrives, night has fallen and the gates of Geneva have been shut, so he spends the evening walking in the woods around the outskirts of the town. ... This is where Victor is once again meet with the decision of playing God. ... The idea that I think Mary Shelly is trying to teach us is that you should not attempt to play God. It is not in our place as human beings to try to change the design that God has laid out, and if we attempt it their will be consequ...

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He was born in Cape Town in 1805. I chose Richard because he is caring to other people around him and he fights for what he thinks is right and I think that I can relate to him because we have similar personality and we both treat other people of different kinds as our equal. ... In the later parts of the novel he plays a larger role because of his beliefs and action he commits because of his idealism. Throughout most of the novel Richard isn't physically described besides the subtle mentioning of his age in certain parts of the book such as Richards birth which suggest his birth during t...

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They way the whole scene plays out is much the same way as when a man asks for a woman's hand in marriage. ... It could be that they were not like any other towns back in those days. After all, they were much more accepting of and caring towards the blacks in the town; which was also unheard of in that time. ... She plays cards like a man, drinks like a man, and even dresses like a man. ... Coping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Human Nature, it's our instinct, our reaction, our thoughts, and our ability to make decisions. ...

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First, it immediately intrigues the reader and stimulates our interest (where have we been before? ... Taking this to its logical conclusion, we want to escape from our own humble lives to a place where heroes and heroines still thrive. ... There is no real "good and evil" scenario in our world, there are only perspectives. In King's imagined world, in his little, sleepy Maine towns and in particular in "Castlerock" (a fictional town in which many of his books are set), there is almost always a good and a bad. ...

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Oedipa's first name, obviously, derives from Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles' famous play. ... It is a type of secular religion that deals with a pagan god of batteries and small towns--a type of order and structure. ... Now, we feel connected to Oedipa in our mutual struggle to ascertain what is real. ...

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She did it very well earning Jack the status Knight in the King's army and always providing for both of them even though she was treated worst than the cat in the game William and his friends played. ... He spent much of his time traveling to towns like Kingsbridge and Lincoln spending days on end examining and looking at Cathedrals with astonishment. ... This story teaches us many valuable lessons in life and we should learn much from it if we wish to be wise people in our lifetimes. ...

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Haze in a most fortunate turn of events for our Humbert. ... Humbert realizes then that the only way he can treat himself for his crimes is by "the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art."" (283) In the novel's final pages, when Humbert relieves himself of nausea on a hillside, his rendition of the "melody of children at play- in the town below him provides a heartbreaking apologia: I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessl...

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This event is the turning point in his relationship with Lolita - when they become lovers - yet Humbert looks back with remorse on that fateful night: "And my only regret today is that I did not quietly deposit key "342" at the office, and leave the town, the country, the continent, the hemisphere, - indeed, the globe - that very same night." (123) Humbert originally blames Lolita's "nymphean evil" (125) as the underlying cause of his future trials with her, as Lolita proves to be not so much the submissive little girl Humbert expected she was. ... Though Humbert admit, "It had become g...

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But isn't that exactly how our lives are today? ... This book is much like our lives, like I said before, many would find it boring because its just reading their life, however I found it intriguing because we find ourselves everyday asking why does this happen to me, when actually it happens to everyone. ... This young woman is the love interest of every man in the town. ... "Hey where did we go, Days when the rains came Down in the hollow, Playin' a new game, Laughing and a running hey, hey Skipping and a jumping In the misty morning fog with Our hearts a thumpin' and you My...

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In director, Johnathan Miller's words (1986:66): "Most novels are irreversibly damaged by being dramatized as they were written without any sort of performance in mind at all, whereas for plays visible performance is a constitutive part of their identity and translation from stage to screen changes their identity without actually destroying it." ... Sensory Experience The shift from a single-track, uniquely verbal medium such as the novel, which 'has only words to play with,' to a multitrack medium such as film, which can play not only with words (both written and spoken)...

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"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." -Gloria Pa...

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The town of Lorain on Lake Erie is where both families settled and is also where Morrison was eventually born. ... During her time at Howard University, she was a member of the theater company that presented plays about the lives of African Americans. ... It opens our eyes to the challenges of the past while allowing us to experience an absolutely wonderful and influential story. ... Our cultural knowledge and values that are central to the blues form the thematic and rhetorical understanding of The Bluest Eye, as the narrative's structure appears to follow a pattern common to traditio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate