While these differences are blatantly palpable, through character, plot and setting, the values, morals and messages conveyed through each text are essentially the same. ... The two texts are set apart from each other in the fact they are of two completely different textual forms. ... While there are many obvious differences between Austen's Emma and Heckerling's Clueless, both texts use similar characters with analogous values to convey the same messages. ... Emma and Cher are protagonists used to convey the message that selfishness, vanity and prejudice do not advance a person&...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to make this message well received by the reader London uses setting and conflict. ... These examples along with the text of the novel prove that, in fact setting is a significant element of fiction used to send the message to the audience. Along with setting, conflict is another element of fiction, which is important to ensure that London's message is clear. ... White Fang by Jack London sends the message that life isn't always a "walk in the park" but if you try your hardest, you will succeed, or at least finish. Conflict and setting assisted London in sending his me...

• Word Count: 459
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• Grade Level: High School

The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to gain an insightful and critical view upon these widely studied texts. ... The Literary Canon is regularly refined and filtered with new regulations to advocate those texts encompassed with profound messages and their ability to handle delicate issues such as the human condition and the evolution of cultural values that are still prevalent to this day, this exemplifies the notion that some of the beliefs that we upheld in our modern age may have been overlooked in earlier eras, an example of th...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

They are intertwined, and each chapter plays its part in the overall message and themes of the novel. ... I think that is one of the fascinating things about this story: it is a simple story, with an important message. Steinbeck uses language that makes the text come alive for the reader; it almost captures the reader and puts them in that time period. ...

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The text is constructed as a first person narration from the adult of Jean-Louise Finch, in retrospect to when she was six. ... Constructing the text in the first person perspective, allows the reader to have a greater understanding of Scout and hence the ability to comprehend why she behaves the way she does. ... Lee is able to convey the prejudice attitudes by creating the lynch mob to be dark, mysterious and savage creatures who portray the role of the "evil" character, which is commonly seen in various texts. ... Not only does the image have to create and convey this response but the behav...

• Word Count: 1109
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In your answer you must consider how both ideas and techniques/ features of each text type contribute to your understanding. ... This technique helps in reinforcing what Sarah is talking about and also enhances the messages that are sent to the viewers as it makes the documentary seem more interesting. By drawing the readers into the program by the use of different sound techniques, we are able to understand the messages easier and they also appeal to us better so we are able to see clearer that love and support is needed in order to change one's self. ... Using this technique al...

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• Grade Level: High School

Composers develop distinctive voices within a text to invoke reactions and create experiences that the audience experience as they read or view the text. ... This is both the ideal characteristic of the typical masculine detective and it shows us that Claudia may be a woman but in the text, she is expressed with the typical characteristics of a male detective. ... Throughout Julia's speech, she uses emotive language, speaking with a powerful tone to convey her message on woman's rights. ...

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From a preview of the text Lolita there are a couple things to learn about Vladimir Nabokov. ... This kind of story regarding a pedophile was something new to audiences and pushed many boundaries especially the way the text sympathizes for the protagonist, or is he an antagonist, and his erotic love for a little girl. ... It may take a higher level of maturity to appreciate this text than one such as Potter or Games, but it should not mean people miss out on a work of literary genius. ...

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In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

• Word Count: 4697
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since imagination, symbolism, and character psyches are explored in a novel, the movies tend to lack the luster of the original text. ... It is able to do this because it depicts important underlying messages and incidents. ...

• Word Count: 1208
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• Grade Level: High School

Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. While the film can be easily be passed as a regular ' popular- teen flick merely for entertainment purposes, an understandi...

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In truth, the entire text of Fahrenheit 451 is a discourse in theme. The one positive message of the novel is that society can and will rejuvenate itself, no matter what state it has fallen into. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If there is a message implicit in the moment, it is deeply shrouded, and the clouds come in to end the moment before anything can be really gained. ... The text is almost completely "open," and readers who are looking for a single interpretation or imagination are setting themselves up for failure. ...

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Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. ... It is a genre appealing to both children and adults, teaching two different lessons for each of its audiences within the same text. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Emma and Ada have affairs, which show the joy of life in the texts. ... Ada is very close to Flora who communicates with her mother through sign language as well as being able to gives other people messages from her mother. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In order to uncover the actual story of paedophilia, rape, and murder within the text, readers have to immerse themselves in Humbert's words and their shadowy meanings, and thus they must enter Humbert's mind. ...

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Hemingway's works have been edited, analyzed, and rewritten over and over until the final product is the tip of the iceberg's surface that conveys a message, but leaves implications throughout that allow the reader to take from the story what they wish to take or interpret. ... As the story unfolds into the abortion discourse, that realization covers a hidden meaning within the text. ...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (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.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (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.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated ...

• Word Count: 4673
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Lunar Park," by Bret Easton Ellis is an exciting and thrilling novel. Most of all, however, it is a thinker. Throughout the novel, Ellis did a tremendous job by keeping the reader interested, wanting to read more. The average reader is left wondering which details are true of the author's real life and which are the only figments of his creative genius. Lunar Park is considered a work of fiction. ...

• Word Count: 3723
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School