The most evident technique he used was his used of plot and intercessory chapters. I only read the first few plot chapters, but by reading those along with the intercessory chapters preceding those I clearly saw how Steinbeck used this technique to paint a clearer picture. In the intercessory chapters Steinbeck tells specific stories which represent events going on in many peoples lives, and they give you either background information or symbolic knowledge to set up the next chapter. ... I was glad to take part in reading such a masterpiece and will always give it a good name. ...

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(Chapter 7, p. 38). ... But Heathcliff is soon proud (Chapter 5, p. 29). ... " (Chapter 15, p.116). ... Heathcliff listens to Catherine telling this part but the irony is that he misses what is much more important. ... The most important irony is that the part where Heathcliff plots to bring about revenge would be meaningless if he had heard what Catherine really felt about him. ...

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As the story progresses, chapter by chapter, the ties between the environment and to the representation of the characters in the novel become more apparent. ... In chapter one, the overriding theme of the relationship of people and its environment is slightly furthered in this chapter. ... (Chapter II, pg. 26) which he envisioned to be written on each tablet. ... Chapter 4 follows up on the preceding chapters by furthering the discussion of the entrapment the environment has on Ethan. ... Chapter 6 continues with the theme of the environment's power over men. ...

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As I read chapter after chapter, I started to not pay attention to the wonderful descriptions of indian culture, a just started really paying attention to the hidden meanings in certain sections and trying to keep up with the flip flopping it did alot at the end of the novel. ... I enjoyed the fact that Sherman included that part about her teaching Elvis, Diana Ross, and Chuck Berry, and that you cen her them thank her in their songs. ... The strangest part of this story was the chapter where George Wright goes home to his grave.... So now I'm asking if anyone ca...

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Although the novel is spread out over 1124 pages, 21 chapters, and 2051 years, Rutherford expertly keeps the reader's interest. ... Each chapter contains its own time period and its own characters, although a few chapters overlap. ... Rutherford typically introduced a new generation of characters with every chapter. Therefore, in every chapter, he had to make every character memorable. ... Nothing is kept from the reader; the character's sexual lives are also part of what keeps this work interesting. ...

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The Red Pony The Red Pony is a short novel that consists of four chapters. It is episodic, meaning that each chapter could stand alone. They are intertwined, and each chapter plays its part in the overall message and themes of the novel. ... In the final chapter, as Jody watches a flock of white pigeons sitting in the black cypress tree, he throws a rock and they all rise from the tree. This is symbolic for the final chapter, because Jody is maturing and realizing the cycle of life and death. ...

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This technique also keeps the novel flowing from chapter to chapter. ... This reading would be a critical part of David's friendship with James Steerforth. ... David's personality and his friendship with James Steerforth, both integral facets to this story, were in part, formed by the imprisonment that David experienced under the brother and sister Murdstone. ... Micawber is a very important part to this novel and makes this setting very important. ...

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Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The excerpts from "Dick and Jane" that head each "chapter" are typeset without any spaces or punctuation marks. ... Names play an important part in The Bluest Eye because they are often symbolic of conditions in society or in the context of the story. ...

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In The Rise of the Novel, the chapters preceding the analysis of Tom Jones, Watt hints at the importance of psychological verisimilitude in creating a realistic text. ... The narrator says "To say the Truth, there are several Ceremonies instituted among the polished Part of Mankind, which, tho' they may, to coarser Judgments, appear as Matters of mere Form, are found to have much of Substance in them, by the more discerning" (263). ... Fielding, in the second chapter of Book X, has fulfilled the criteria of the eighteenth-century novel. ... Watt picks up on this idea in his anal...

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There are many other themes and symbols in the novel, many of which are from quotes As part of the book club assignments, the students had to find quotes from the novel and discuss its significance. ... The questions were the most interesting part of the book club experience as everyone had very thought-provoking questions to share. Tetyana noticed that every chapter had its own title and inquired on its significance. As a group it was decided that it provided foreshadowing and it gave clues about the hidden themes within that chapter. ...

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Hence, during this translation, it is inevitable that the style and the language may altered to some extend, such as the "wearing shoes" concept in chapter 4 or "you have got more sauce than the meat" example in chapter3(p57). ... In this part, the aim is not to explain this period, but to mention the widespread mentality of public which will be related with the style of the novel later. ... For instance, during a chapter Lazaro stops telling story due to the fact that the audience may got bored: "but I don't want to go on and on so I will miss out a lot of things-(p33). ... In another oc...

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At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. ... At the beginning of chapter eleven, after Jane's departure from Lowood, she tells the reader "I sit in my cloak. ... "A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play," she tells the reader. ... Jane, then, herself presents an alternative viewpoint: an understanding of the other characters as people in their own right, and thus encourages evaluation on the part of the reader. ... Unlike Jane, they only exist as a part of the sto...

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In chapter 34, Thomas points out that the creators were able to generate a closed-off environment through science. ... Part animal, part machine" (Dashner 126). ... In late chapter 9, Thomas "looked down just in time to see the sun flash off something metallic – a toy rat – scurrying past him A beetle blade. ... So, the environmental crises outlined in The Maze Runner relate back to the book being a part of the science fiction genre. ...

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The use of the same character traits is most likely part of the fact that all of Forster's themes seem to remain constant. ... This is a very important part of writing because without the characters the writer would have nothing. ... He creates great story lines for his books but it takes a reader six or seven chapters to ever understand what is going on. ... That becomes very boring; and when it goes on for six chapters, it almost becomes never ending. ...

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"Our bus slid on the ice, swerving into a spin then we hit a lamppost and there was a sick metallic shriek" (5). this dramatic event happens on the fifth page of the first chapter, making clear that thriller novels are fast paced. ... Readers feel as if they were a part of the novel due to the extreme detail in the realistic horror scenes, therefore allowing the topic of fear to be a key role in a thriller novel....

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He is a determined and diligent man but the fact he keeps his emotions internal and does not express them is part of his downfall. ... It is clear that his true motives and desires are geared towards his business and making money, but this poignant scene in chapter eleven allows the reader to empathise with him. ... (Chapter 12, Forster). ... Wilcox begins to open up his mind to the outer world in the final few chapters. ...

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The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the prose, but linguistically create an epigrammatic style of deliverance. ... The involvement of the reader through emotive and sympathetic diction evoke...

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Bearing in mind the fact that "the Prologue" plays the most important part in the organization of the text, we have to read it very carefully. ... We will find the same kind of image in the first chapter of the governess" story: "I had the view of a castle of romance, inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take color out of story books and fairytales. ( ) No, it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost...

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The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the prose, but linguistically create an epigrammatic style of deliverance. ... The involvement of the reader through emotive and sympathetic diction evoke...

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Then later in this chapter she is relating the story of selling her maize in the city and she tells us that "I would have been frightened of being alone if I had thought about it." ... Though her initial argument was on the treatmetn of Tambudzai, I think the most important part of her argument was her dissatifaction with the treatment she received from him and his family and the rigorous acts that she had to perform for them all. ...

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Then later in this chapter she is relating the story of selling her maize in the city and she tells us that "I would have been frightened of being alone if I had thought about it." ... Though her initial argument was on the treatmetn of Tambudzai, I think the most important part of her argument was her dissatifaction with the treatment she received from him and his family and the rigorous acts that she had to perform for them all. ...

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I think that this is an interesting point because the first chapter of the novel was entirely dedicated to the physical burdens and metaphorical weights that soldiers carried as they trekked through Vietnam, and now the end of the story relates back to that in explaining the reason why O'Brien needs to write stories the way that he does. ... I think this was the purpose of the novel, to show normal readers that they can comprehend stories from people who served in war but they'll never really understand or have the full experience of what its like to have to keep those stories as a ...

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Ethan Frome Character List: Ethan Frome: By the time the Narrator meets Ethan, he is a grizzled old man with a tortured expression on his face. Ethan is a sensitive character with a deep appreciation for nature, and who is drawn to the beauty and vitality of Mattie Silver, his wife's younger cou...

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Ambrose Bierce is also famous for the circumstances surrounding the end of his life In 1913, after the breakup of his marriage and the death of his sons, he set out for Mexico to meet Pancho Villa and observe the Mexican Revolution at first hand and this was the end chapter of his own life because after that his fate still remains unknown. ... He introduces the situation in part one, and tells us what is happening in-between Farquhar's falling through the end of the rope and his actual death from hanging in part two. Both of those are in the present while part three is a flash back and...

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In the earlier chapter, when the three sisters visit Gemma in the nursing home, the reader is confronted with opposing characteristics between Shana and Sylvia compared to Becca. The two older sisters are self-centred and egoistical, while Becca is different with them - as it is written: Becca the youngest, smiled at them both, but she was not part of their magic circle and never had been. In some ways, Shana and Sylvia can be seen as types of the "ugly sisters" in Cinderella although they still have a good, decent part in their personalities. ...

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