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    Theme Of Humor In The Miller's Tale

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    The climax of the story is funny while the plot presents a joke. The plot resembles a joke in which the climax is the punchline. In the climax, each character gets a suitable punishment for what the Miller believes is his or her problem. The clear way the story's two actors intersect make the events seem funny. The author injects many humorous events into the plot and ties all of the events together at the highest point of the story. Therefore, the humor…

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    Bill Pronzini’s A Dip in the Poole is a simple short story that has a magnificent plot twist ending that is somewhat predictable but not inevitable, and the reader is left in shock as they discover who the protagonist is. Berton Roueché leaves the reader hanging in Phone Call, which forces them to put the pieces of the puzzle together and construct their own ending in their head of what will happen next.…

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    explore the ideas of the novel while not sacrificing game play in order to do so. It is just an unfortunate truth that as an interactive medium games cannot be a perfect map of a text. In order to do that they would have to leave the narrative and plot intact, and take away the player’s ability to grow as the character. A better solution instead would be to take the ideas of the text and spread them into a new direction. Parasite Eve did very well in repurposing the text and so stands as an…

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    Romeo + Juliet: a summary Imagine that you are to explain the main plot and other interesting details of the movie Romeo + Juliet to a person that you do not know very well. This means that we can be a bit informal in our language, but not our grammar and punctuation. The summary should be around 300 - 400 words, Ariel and 1.5 spacing The summary should include: Film title. Plot: what happens in the film? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy enough to follow? Is it believable?…

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    The two films, Midnight in Paris and The Great Gatsby, are effective to the novel because their characters parallel each other and they have similar concepts in both stories. However, the more effective movie was The Great Gatsby movie since it does represent the novel. In the movie, it has some real scenes that would have happened when it played out in anyone’s head and made it come to life. To make a book into a movie, it is not always accurate and not as straightforward to how it plays out…

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    In the story, “Good Country People,” there are many themes; however, the main theme is identity. Throughout the story, many identities are shown but by the end of the story the real identities of the characters are revealed. O’Connor enlightens the reader they may often be fooled directly by an individual who is pursuing a separate identity. For example, during the story, the Bible Salesman fools the community by betraying their trust in him, Mrs. Hopewell rudely misjudges others, and Joy…

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    In William Shakespeare's work Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the ghost of the deceased king to play a significant role in the plot of the story as a whole in multiple ways. The first way Shakespeare uses the ghost of King Hamlet is by first using him to play a crucial role in the development of the characters in the play, especially Hamlet. An example of the ghost doing this is sending Hamlet into his descent into madness and furthering his complex character. Shakespeare does this by having the ghost…

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    Theme Writing Prompt The stories “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes and “The Storyteller” by Saki both portray a theme. These themes are hidden in unique ways. For example, “The Storyteller” has a theme that appears throughout the story, but “Thank You Ma’m” has a theme that comes at the end of the story. The story “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes has a theme. Its theme is good things come to those who work for it. In order to find this theme, I had to pay close attention to the…

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    In the epic poem and movie Beowulf there are a lot of differences and similarities between the two. Can you spot some of the differences that happened in the movie and the book? Well here is some of the things that I spotted out during the movie that didn’t happened in the book. First, the battle between Beowulf and Grendel in the movie they were awake and partying during his attack; however, in the book they were sleep. Second, the battle against Grendel’s mother didn’t happened in the movie,…

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    being right, later on in the book we found out the therapist is really one of the monsters in disguise and lured Jacob to the island so he could find the rest of the peculiars. Lastly I think this book is a mystery because of its puzzle piece like plot. By this I mean in mysteries there are usually parts where they give us lots of information and then give us blank spots that we must fit together to make sense for us like this book did. This novel was a spine tingling work of words that gave me…

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