Abbey Road

Netflix’s To The Bone is Honest but Sometimes Uninspired To The Bone is a drama written and directed by Marti Nixon and starring Lily Collins that is Netflix’s latest shot at creating real and insightful programing targeting an audience of young adults. Ellen, a twenty-year old artist, struggles with anorexia nervosa. She comes from a dysfunctional family that includes her half-sister (If I Stay’s Liana Liberato), her talkative and often overbearing step-mother (True Blood’s Carrie Preston),…

Purpose: to get people interested in the desert, to inform readers about the dangers of the desert –educational appeal, to make people laugh. You should come and visit the desert but take care of it. Invites you as a recruit to come and protect what’s left of American wilderness. Pg. 17 “Nevertheless all is not lost; much remains, and I welcome the prospect of an army of lug-soled hiker’s boots on the desert trails.” Intended Audience: People new to the desert – first-timers or those who…

What is friendship? More importantly, what is female friendship? Jane Austen answers these questions in her book Pride and Prejudice , through the friendships of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet. Throughout the book, Austen takes us through two main friendships within Elizabeth's life. One that is shared with her sister Jane and the other with her neighbor Charlotte. These relationships offer different insights into what it takes to be in a female friendship. With Jane, the bond shared is much…

In “Tintern Abbey” by William WordsWroth, He revisits a place called The River Wye with his sister after five years. Throughout his tour, he discovers that his experience this time differs from the one when he was young. Simply because he looks at nature from a new mature perspective; he views nature in a very deep way with an intense understanding. In this essay, I will interpret one of the stanzas in the poem which describes what Wordsworth was feeling during that particular moment of his tour…

"Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

Though shy in real life, Jane Austen’s personality and wit shines through her heroines in her novels. Her works provide an inside perspective of her world and her mind. Her last completed work, Persuasion, challenges and also defends the status quo of class structure in early nineteenth-century British society through the character of Anne Elliot. Anne Elliot provides the reader with a sense of pride concerning her birth and rank, which was expected from a woman of her standing at that time.…

“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. Growing up around books influenced the way Jane Austen incorporated symbols into her own writings, sometimes even using books to build her characters and themes. Prominently shown through Austen’s Northanger Abbey and seen in her other pieces, she expertly uses engaging realism, subtle irony, and effective parodies of what was going on during her lifetime,…

Harrish Bhela AP English Lit 3/16/18 Pride and Prejudice is a romantic narrative written by Jane Austen which presents Netherfield, England time period differing from our era. Austen uses the romantic life of his two main characters Elizabeth Bennet and an aristocrat Fitzwilliam Darcy to bring out his ideas perfectly to the readers. The novel is much more than a straightforward romantic book as it is a real critical reflection of the societies today and addresses several other themes apart…

William Butler Yeats was a very talented poet. In his lifetime he accomplished many great things. He was a 20th century Irish poet. He helped with the foundation with the Abbey Theatre, and later served as an Irish senator. He was well known for believing in occults, and including them in his works. Also, William Butler Yeats was a pervert. The study of the childhood of William Butler Yeats, his natural origin, his religious beliefs, and his Irish decent affected the style and setting of his…

Wallace’s analysis of Northanger Abbey focuses on the reader’s relationships with the narrator and the author. To highlight this relationship, Wallace chooses to concentrate on the character of Henry Tilney. More specifically, Wallace shows how Henry Tilney’s satire relies on reductive generalizations of other characters, particularly female ones. Wallace then connects this trait of Henry’s to Austen’s tendency to reductively generalize her readers and manipulate her reader into becoming an…