When they open their papers, they find that Tessie has now drawn the paper with the black dot on it. ... From the first sentence on, it is described that the setting of The Lottery takes place in what is thought to be a pleasant day filled with traditions and celebration. The surroundings told are associated to certain things that would be usually seen as a positive thing, as if they were gathering for an exciting event actually conveys the opposite by a hidden feeling of panic and fear amongst the villagers. ... Therefore, this story shows a lot of irony right from the setting, showing that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

We, the readers, when being unaware of its complexity, may be very easily carried away and fall into all the traps provided by the intricacies of the text. ... The author was very likely to be attracted by the idea of placing his main characters in new settings and of watching their reactions, the stages of their response process. ... The governess becomes unworthy of our trust by the way she describes the setting in the first chapter. ... Her hesitations and contradictions imply that she is under the pressure of the scenery; we don't know whether the setting is as she describes it, as ...

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Even the setting of the twisting, long journey through the woods demonstrates indecision and conflict, as Goodman has to spend a prolonged time considering his actions. ... Goodman is explaining that the Brown fathers are known to be strong and courageous men, who do things, which they attempt to accomplish. ... In the end, we can never be sure if good or evil won the fight carried on within Young Goodman Brown, but Hawthorne makes it abundantly clear that Goodman was scarred for life by his experience. ... In our lives we should never lose faith in things. ... I feel that no matter how ma...

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Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.... The setting, irony, character motives and Glaspell's message to the female readers gave insight on what came really came of Mr. ... They were to take care of things such as household chores, taking care of the children, and providing food. ... Nothing here but kitchen things" (Ronson 218). ... The final act of irony was displayed when the men once again overlooked what the women were carrying out. ...

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She goes on to say, and which I think is inspiring and very important, "And what do we, and they find when we read fantasy? ... They know how important stories are, and they know, too, that if you start telling a story you've got to carry on till you get to the end," (Pullman 1) and that's exactly what Patrick Ness does in A Monster Calls: Carried it until the very end where he lets his mother go. He goes on to say "But children know what they need, and they go for it with the intensity of passion, and what they need is stories.... In my opinion, I think that paragraph...

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"The early nineteenth century was beguiled by things Gothic – quaint folklore, macabre legends, preternatural events, medieval history, forgotten tombs, ruined abbeys. ... "3 Besides frightening subjects like death, disease, dark setting, haunted locations and others, characters who exhibit madness4 are the gothic elements incorporated in number of his stories, like for example in, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Berenice," and, "The Cask of Amontillado.... "10 They view Poe simply as adaptive writer who tried to appeal to reading public of his ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate