Jerry In the novel "The Chocolate War" a character that helps develop the plot is Jerry Renault. ... The following essay will outline how Jerry plays an important part in the plot. Jerry helps develop the plot by an assignment given to him by "The Vigils". ... He started to wonder if he had made a huge mistake his locker had been destroyed like every one was out to get him "he closed his locker quickly so no one would see the damage he felt ashamed. To conclude Jerry helps develop the plot but the story "The Chocolate War" is also based about Jerry's individuality and how he creat...

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• Grade Level: High School

 Nikko, Olen, Nicole, Rodrigo English AP Compassionate Souls Barbara Ascher, in her essay, "On Compassion" she states that compassion is a something that humans must learn, not genetically obtained. ... Personally my father, works for an organization that helps those in need. ... A fictional character that steals from the rich, and gives to the poor keeping none for himself, he like Gandhi looks for a way to help the who have less. ... In the 1893, an Indian nationalist named Mohandas Gandhi started a civil rights movement, so that the citizens of South Africa could have the rig...

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The climax starts as Esther becomes more and more depressed as the days go by. ... Opposite of the rising action, her life starts to brighten and turn for the good. Luckily, the same woman who sponsored her scholarship in college, a writer of romance fiction, helps pays for her stay at the hospital. ... Finally, she wins an essay contest that gives her the chance to work as an editor for a woman's fashion magazine in New York for the summer. ...

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This essay is to deal mainly with the writing techniques of The Old Man and the Sea as well as the character about the main hero, aiming to help the readers get a better understanding of the masterpiece by Hemingway. ... It is will, courage, confidence and endurance that help him to get out of a tight corner. ... To him, a new day is a new start. ... Solitary, he can turn to no one for help. ... He returns home exhausted, bloody, stripped of gear, and even poorer than when he started out. ...

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Indeed, when I informed people that I was writing a critical essay on Stephen King the most common response was laughter. ... This is what I have decided to investigate in this essay. ... For example, "Needful Things" starts and ends by us, the readers being addressed by an elderly man, "You've been her before. ... While in time this does become a part of the overall plot, there at the very start of the novel it seems to serve two purposes. ... This is evidently not a primary reason, but it helps to maintain the author's pre-eminent sales position. ...

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This essay will be a critical analysis of the three primary facets of structure - character, plot and theme - in reference to the novels Mary Barton and The Woman in White. ... Starting with an analysis of character one must first give it a literary definition. ... Hartright displays this when he helps Anne by not reveling her to the men in the chaise who would restore her to the asylum. ... This essay examined these facets of structure in turn, and related them to the novels of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton. ...

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Her role as a woman is clearly shown when Otama was at the house and Suezo came, immediately she, self-consciously started to serve him. As shown in the following example from the book, "After that, she secretly began to watch what she said and did, and when Suezo came, she started to serve him self-consciously instead of accepting him frankly and sincerely as she previously done. ... As shown in the following example from the book: "Otsune had injected the subject of the parasols into their discussion, and now that the words had taken definite shape, she couldn't help rememberi...

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He wrote short stories, essays, poetry and editorials for the school newspaper. ... Baldwin started writing as one of the many ways that he could be loved. With the help of Richard Wright, Baldwin began his first novel, In My Father's House. ... After they arrive in Giovanni's room, Giovanni pulls David down on the bed and their sexual relationship starts. ... He starts to feel trapped in the room. ...

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In this essay I will explore and compare both Charles Dickens and Roddy Doyle's way of presenting a child's view of the world in their novels, David Copperfield' and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. ... It helps make the novel more realistic therefore it doesn't seem so far fetched. ... Paddy then starts to become conscious that his friends are around and he is unable to sort his little brother out. ... The novel starts with Paddy talking to his friends as a young boy. He doesn't start the novel with Paddy looking back on his life from the day he was born as Charl...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Essay In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there are many different themes seen throughout the story. ... Chief Bromden explains a theory that the ward uses when he says, "I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he"ll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measur...

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Essay: War's Influence Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarqueare two novels which are both different and alike. ... His gestures that show this are his desperate pleading with everyone that could possibly help him, including the doctor and the chaplain. ... By being confronted daily with death, the war has not hardened Yossarian to fear; instead it has made him much more aware of the value and fragility of life: One of the things (Yossarian) wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting...

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She started to believe in this idea when her fiancée died. ... He knows that he now has a place where he can succeed in the world and help people at the same time. ... It started again and we went a little farther, then stopped. ...

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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated." These words may seem straightforward, but in actuality they are some of the most inspirational in all of literature. This phrase is from Ernest Hemingway's fictional novel The Old Man and the Sea. Which is the story of the epic struggle between an old ex...

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For the purposes of this essay I will be exploring the question of whether or not the formalities of literature have to be expunged so that adaptations can translate convincingly to cinema or can we see a much more fruitful relationship between these two texts, and one in which can grant Woolf a degree of prescience with which she is rarely credited. ... The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a M...

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And Invisible Man realized that "My problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own" (pg. 573), and so took to hibernation, to "shake off the old skin" and start living a life he could be proud of." ... Such diction also helped to define the main characters. ... These novels helped to not only advance the plight of African-Americans, but they also enlightened the white culture to the beauty and uniqueness of the African-American culture. ...

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"Everything is Illuminated," by Jonathan Safran Foer, was published in 2002 and is still on many bestseller lists. Foer was born in Washington D.C. in 1977. Foer's grandfather, Louis Foer, was a holocaust survivor. Foer never thought about having a career in writing, but was inspired to become a wri...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... Mistry as a writer has enjoyed an exceptional start. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... Mistry as a writer has enjoyed an exceptional start. ...

• Word Count: 4673
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate