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    “The Story of an Hour,” “The Ledge,” and “The Crucible” all feature female characters who are faced with difficult internal challenges. In “The Story of an Hour,” we have Mrs. Mallard who yearns for freedom but cannot grasp it. In “The Ledge,” the fisherman’s wife often wonders what it would be like if she found another lover. Finally, in “The Crucible,” we have Abigail Williams who is in love with a married man who doesn’t want her. These three characters possess different traits and…

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    To Build A Fire Structure

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    organizes his or her story to make sure that the readers understand the important parts of the story. There are many different text structures that authors can choose from, including, chronological order/ sequential order, problem and solution, compare and contrast, descriptive or spatial, and cause and effect. First of all, the structure that the author chooses to organize the text, determines the style of the story. For example, in the short story, “To Build a Fire”, the story is written in a…

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    have any difference. In fact men and women have a lot of differences in just how they communicate. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” is a good source behind this topic. The difference in how men and women communicate deal with the; purpose of them communicating, the way they like to approach or be approached, and the way each gender listens while communicating. In the story of “Hills like White Elephants” it’s about a couple that is having a problem. The way they handle their…

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    After reading the story The Monkey’s Paw it is clear that there are many different themes that the reader can pull from it. Not every reader might see the same themes and the themes they see might come from a different aspect of the story. For me I saw themes appear within the characters. But how do these themes in the story show in the main characters? The first theme that jumped out at me was mystery. The author describes how the night was cold and wet. When we read about a story taking…

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    “The Making of a Short Story” Every story that you read, weather it is sad and makes one put things in a whole new perspective or a story with a happy ever ending that makes one feel like they never have before has some sort of theme. There a many important factors in any short story, all the way from the smallest details that can easily be read over without any thought at all, to the overall conclusion and lesson one learns at the end of the story but the theme is something much broader. The…

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    that could be resolved in less than 3 minutes. In the stories, “Everyday Use” and “Two Ways to Belong to America”, the reader learns about the vast difference that the sisters act, but are able to comprehend the similarities they had. For this reason, the sisters in these stories both share how different and similar they are when from their sisters when it comes to perspective and the attitude they have towards their heritage. In the story “Everyday Use”, Maggie is barely recognized and has…

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    As digital learning developers, my team and Iusuallyspent most of our working time behind a screen at our desks.This is great as it allows us to experience the flow of different digital artefacts creation. However,the stories that we want to share with our learners are not laying there. They are created, happening, exposed and shared where our customers are, where the products are produced, where the sales experts who are going to use our e-learning coursesare operating. Thus, it is important…

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    satirical short story illustrate a journey to identity? In Kurt Vonnegut and Ralph Ellison 's stories, Harrison Bergeron and Black Ball, there is a such jouney but they are far different from each other yet are in some ways the same. Both a satirical piece and a serious racial piece have real elements of a individuals journey to identity. Lets take a look at the two works. How are the two stories similar in their characters path to identity. First let 's look at the short story "Harrison…

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    21 September 2017 It is not always, what you think it is In “How to read literature like a professor” by Thomas Foster he explains different literary techniques that writers use when writing a story. Some of these techniques were symbolism, tone, major conflicts, foreshadowing and using certain settings. Even though all of these techniques are important to the story, symbolism is more important because it is used the most throughout the book. Symbolism is the use of people or objects to…

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    The two stories were Barro Boy and A Day's Wait the theme about these stories is that when you experience something you haven't done and you get explained you feel different and better.There are different because they have different emotions and they are scared of different things. The narrators don't do or like the same things but they are both men. They things the experience are not the same the two stories talk of something totally different. This stories have different meanings and feelings.…

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