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    In the text, Le Guin uses Omelas to represent Americas political morality. The child represents the poor and lower class in the United States, as well as Americas perception of third world countries. “They know compassion. It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence,that makes possible the nobility of their architecture...They know that if the wretched one were not there snivelling in the dark, the other one, the flute-player, could make no joyful music as the young…

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    A motif is a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. In ‘The Pearl’ one of the motifs is nature imagery. At the beginning of the novella Kino is very at one with nature. He is a pearl diver and he lives in a brush house, he works with nature to make a living. But as Kino changes he loses this connection with nature. Although in the book nature is often described as peaceful, and innocent - reflecting Kino’s innocence and peacefulness at the beginning of the…

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    Have you ever told a story, but adjusted some of the finer details in order to make it more appealing to another? People do this. It is just human nature to try and convince someone else that the event was genuinely intriguing. O'Brien does this within the storyline of The Things They Carried, by using metafiction to distinguish his storytelling and how to tell stories according to his thoughts. "By telling Stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down…

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    Chloe Hoses November-3-2009 Reader Response The Color of Water English Michael Reader Response For my reader response, I will base it off of the book “The color of water” from pages 1-85. In the first three chapters you learn a fair amount about main charter. The details you learn in these chapters don’t tell you about the main charter James himself but his mother Ruth. Some details about Ruth are that she was born on April 1, 1921, white, Polish Orthodox Jew and was married two times.…

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    According to Gauby and Noone, L.L.C. (1996), legal counsel for Smith System Consulting, states these contracts to be fair and just to the company and their customers. (University of Phoenix). Smith System Consulting has rare copyrights and patents, since most of their business is believed to be work for hire basis. Based upon the nature of Smith Systems Consulting's business and the information provided by the company's legal counsel, some of the legal issues that the company may face are…

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    Reading furthermore of the text we can see how greatly the girl is affected as she states that her best friend is a white girl named Denise. She has been affected by her best friend simply because her family culture is completely different from her friend Denise. The little girl in the story also sees herself as part of the american world because she states activities that an American would do with her friend, Denise. For example, her and her friend watch boys together. The little girl "feels…

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    Furthermore, symbols play an important role in the short story “The Lottery”; indeed, they inflate the theme of the story and make it more impressive. First symbol in the story is the lottery, which stands for the certain ritual and tradition presents in society. “‘Some places have already quit lotteries,’ Mrs. Adams said” (144). ‘“Nothing but trouble in that,’ Old Man Warner said stoutly, ‘Pack of young fools”’ (145). Although there are places where the tradition of holding the lottery has been…

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    Short stories are a great way to escape into literature, without having to spend hours on end reading. I’ve recently heard about your hate against the idea of all short-short stories, not only did I find that tremendously disappointing but I cannot seem to comprehend. Seeing as I am taking a short story class at the moment really surprises me, not only can short stories spark a reader but it can show them different aspects of writing longer novels cannot. A few stories I will recall are…

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    Jamaica Kincaid, the author of the short story “Girl,” was raised on the island of Antigua. During the time in which she was raised, Antigua was influenced by the British government. Because of the British control, Kincaid was raised in a culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New…

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    The betrayal between human and the betrayal of the personal value holding. The two short story will use to discuss. In the story “Lottery” the betray appear when human facing the stress of surviving. In the story, Bill drawn the paper with the black dot, Thessie want to protect Bill so she argue the fairness and claim her daughter(married)…

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