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    The book Annie John follows a young girl as she is forced to mature through the many trials and betrayals she faces. As a young girl Annie lives her life as the shadow of her mother, spending each day trying to imitate her. When Annie’s mother rejects her worship, stating that Annie has to be her own person, her whole world is turned upside down by this betrayal. Almost everything about Annie changes, and continues to depend on her relationship with her mother. Annie’s idea of the world becomes constantly changing, but the only thing that remains steady is her overwhelming wish to escape her life in her home of Antigua, and her mother’s influence. Annie’s mother’s betrayal causes Annie to not only change the idea of the world Annie wants to…

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    Mae Holland arrives for her first day at “the most influential company in the world”: The Circle. Mae owes her newfound position at The Circle to her old-time friend, Annie, whose belonging to the “Gang of 40” makes her one of the most influential members of the company. Established by the “Three Wise Men” , The Circle becomes the #1 company on the forefront of technological advancement. The Circle’s goal is to work towards a new era of communication and safety, what it claims is a more…

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    with the tragedies of what is American history. Inequality is the most important struggle that women have had to overcome. Gender inequality is the basis of which this novel lies around. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the women are portrayed as housewives who can only depend upon the power of their spouse. Along with Annie Tyler and Mrs. Turner, Janie Crawford is just one of these characters who is represented in an unfair way. Janie deals with all of the struggles that life throws at her…

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    Annie Desmond and her friends Talisha and Margie are inner-city teens struggling with the many implications of living in a lower-income community. Annie’s mother, Myrna Desmond, had Annie when she was in junior high school and still dreams of being a writer. Myrna is a cleaning lady for an office and she repeatedly has gotten in trouble for messing with the computers in the office.Annie and her mother have a strained relationship due in part to the fact that Myrna resents Annie for being born…

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    Annie had always been a city girl so moving to a small college town was a hard adjustment for her. "She had changed her mind when some classes let out. Most of the coeds wore what was almost a uniform: dark heated skirts, loose pullover sweaters, a string of pearls, saddle shoes and socks. And she felt out of place in her city clothes. I 'll never be one of them, she thought sadly. I 'll never belong." (Smith, 49). Annie did not dress or speak like the people from the small town and she did not…

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    In the film, Imitation of Life, director Douglas Sirk utilizes the visual elements of mise-en-scene to affect viewers emotionally when presenting them with life’s limits of race. Throughout the film Sirk provides the viewer with a particular perspective of American life during the 1950’s. There are specific conventions and mise-en-scene devices that Sirk employs which are conducive to displaying the limitations of race. An example being, the scene where Annie and Sarah-Jane first arrive at…

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    n the novel Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden, survival is a repeating theme. Throughout the stories if the two protagonists, Annie and Will, their survival physically, mentally, and emotionally is continually tested. Boyden expresses the theme of survival through the use of symbols relating to the survival of Annie, Will and the Netmakers. Annie’s journeys expressed in the novel test her survival skill physically and mentally in the city and in her rural hometown setting. In the urban…

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    definitely in Annie’s radar. One day after school, Annie went looking for me with a group of friends. I was at the library hanging out with my friends, Harper and Justin. I saw the girls coming toward our direction, and my instincts told me to get up and hide. I lied to my friends that I was going to seek for some books to read in order to make a little escape. At the library, there were rows of bookshelves, and I decided to pretend to hide there. I heard Annie’s and her friend’s…

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    This is a quotation taken from Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘’The Voyage’’. The story is about a young girl called Fenella, after the death of her mother she went with her grandmother to move in her Grandparent’s house in Picton, which is inspired from Mansfield’s personal life when she had to move out from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to London, England. Mansfield uses imageries, metaphors, and the setting to convey the two main ideas of darkness and light and the transformation of…

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    Annie and Rafael’s mother had them involved in a trial before she died to make them like their ancestors. The three can help heal animals, and once they get to Annie’s stage they shift into cougars, which becomes uncontrollable. Maya’s curiosity wants to learn more but at the same time she doesn’t want to believe it because she is mad at Rafe. Rafe tells her about how he found her which makes her learn about her biological family, she asks herself why her mom gave her up but not her twin. “That…

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