The writer also uses great relating stories which are endearing and also help show her specific point of view and also help pull the reader to her side. ... From the introduction she tells of a friend who died of a disease that is now curable while at the same time starting to develop her central theme. ... She uses these figure's opinions to support her own which helps to exhort her own thoughts. ... This helps the effectiveness of her essay by providing an underlying sense of honesty. ... Starting out she introduces with a story with which the reader gives sympathy....

• Word Count: 1235
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• Grade Level: High School

Mary Louise Pratt discusses a relatively foreign concept, the contact zone, in her essay "Arts of the Contact Zone." ... This "contact zone" that Pratt describes helps link together two cultures without the knowledge of doing so. ... Sam started to eat, breathe, and sleep baseball. Almost a decade later, Sam and his friend Willie can start a conversation with an adult and they can understand everything discussed, even if it does not directly relate to baseball. A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in w...

• Word Count: 293
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rose ended up being successful thanks to the help of his English teacher, Mr. ... MacFarland and Rose became close, MacFarland even influenced and then helped him get into college. ... It is a very laid back type of essay which makes it easier for his audience to read through and stay connected. The essay is easier to relate to because it was not worded so formally. ... Mitropetros, would make everyone in the class switch roles and start over. ...

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Ever since your husband left, your daughter has done everything she can to help you through the troubled times alone. ... Let's start this essay by taking a closer look at Michael. ... Zoe naturally assumes the role of supporting Michael wherever they go (p. 2 ll. 25-26: " when the film starts, she translates the images on the screen for him"), but it does not seem like he is not able to take care of himself without the help of Zoe. ... At no time is he asking Zoe for help, Zoe just provides the help automatically. ... Actually, I think Zoe sees it as her natural responsibility to help Mi...

• Word Count: 1106
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• Grade Level: High School

The Mood of Misery In this essay I will be discussing the mood of Anton Chekhov's story "Misery." ... He next offers a man a glass of water and starts telling him about his son's death. ... He starts off talking to his horse about how poor he is and how they have to eat hay but then goes on to talk about his son's death. ... In conclusion, the cold in the story "Misery" not only relates to the mood of the story but also helps in explaining the title and how it relates to the main character. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Roald Dahl For this essay I will be comparing four Roald Dahl short stories and their social, historical, and cultural content with reference to a fifth story which I felt differed from the rest. ... The historical influences that effect "The Man From The South" are that the Cadillac is described as a new car which suggest that the time of the story was around the 1950's because the Cadillac was stopped being produced until last year when they were started to be produced again. The historical influences that effect "Way Up To Heaven" are that the cars have gas lamps to help them s...

• Word Count: 665
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• Grade Level: High School

Twain's earlier novels, short stories, essays, and public lectures poke fun at human imperfection with delight and cordiality. ... After hearing that news he became very depressed and it did not help his current situation at all. ... It looked as if everything awful started to happen all at the same time. ... He has had many great short stories, essays, and etc. throughout his career. ...

• Word Count: 1459
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• Grade Level: High School

Twain's earlier novels, short stories, essays, and public lectures poke fun at human imperfection with delight and cordiality. ... After hearing that news he became very depressed and it did not help his current situation at all. ... It looked as if everything awful started to happen all at the same time. ... He has had many great short stories, essays, and etc. throughout his career. ...

• Word Count: 1459
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• Grade Level: High School

Her story started her path to American literary realism. ... Davis went on to publish ten novels and a collection of short stories, an additional sixteen serialized novels, hundreds of short stories and essays for adults, more than a hundred short stories for juveniles, and a memoir.  ... Davis also started the progress of women writers in literature, she stated that " It is but reasonable to expect that all the avenues now open to women who can hold a pen will be crowded.... " Davis wanted her movement to be carried on, "they will help themselves and the world by so writing...

• Word Count: 1151
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• Grade Level: High School

"I went because Uncle Willy was the finest man I ever knew, because even women couldn't beat him, because in spite of them he wound up his life getting fun out of being alive, and he dies doing the thing that was most fun because I was there to help him," is how the boy describes his admiration for Uncle Willy. At the time when a boy is this age he doesn't understand the aspects of addiction like the people in the story who were trying to help him, such as his own father. ... Faulkner seems to capture the moment in a boy's life when he is just starting to understand the ev...

• Word Count: 1764
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• Grade Level: High School

In Susan Cooper's Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children, she states "Fantasy goes on stage beyond realism, requiring complete intellectual surrender" (Cooper 85). ... 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. ... I think the monster does a really good job of breaking Conor's shell, as he helps him express his true feelin...

• Word Count: 1423
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will analyze how authors use child protagonists in first-person point of view to support their thematic goals of disappointment, betrayal, and loss of faith versus what children expect in adults they trust and have emotionally close relationships. ... I believed her. " The use of first person in this story helps one clearly identify evidence to prove a point. ... It helps them present their theme and message they want to send the audience. ... But Reza disagrees, the pain is starting to consume him alive, and he knows that his trust in his dad has been broken. ... I want to ...

• Word Count: 1548
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• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will examine how Poe utilizes plot elements, style, narration, setting, theme, symbolization, and literary devices in order to create such a horrific and suspenseful masterpiece. ... This story starts its inciting incident with the Montresor meeting his friend Fortunato seeking revenge "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend" (Jerome B et al. 70). ... The Climax Occurs after there decent,...

• Word Count: 2072
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay, we aim to analyze the main characteristics of short story which can be found and applied in Carver's well-known short story Cathedral. ... Here it is, the story says: what you have is what there is; take it or leave it; if you are blind, he will help you feel your way through, but never as a direction to meaning, only to an apprehension of the facts (Jerome, Wallace. 2007: 2827). ... They started to listen but were interrupted before the narrator can hear anything about himself. ... Robert puts his hand on the narrator's hand, the one holding the pen, and tells him to ...

• Word Count: 3978
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistib...

• Word Count: 3985
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• Grade Level: High School

(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: 4675
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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
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate