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    In the Novel, Indian Horse, Saul is forced to overcome the adversity in which once shattered his spirit on his early life. He overcomes his angst and thoughts by retracing his steps to locations of his early life. With this, he demonstrated his self-healing and the positiveness from what the land offered him, as the land seems to play an important role in saul's life. The land has a positive influence in Saul's life because It helps him connect his abilities as a seer, it gives him solace and it…

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    The making of a good character begins with his or her backstory and the memories that make the character who he/she is. In the stories TOMATS (The Old Man and The Sea) and Casablanca, Santiago and Rick Blaine both have memories that they hold on to but the two characters backstories have many contrasting aspects to each other. Santiago’s memories are of his boyhood, which of full of joy and happiness and Rick’s deepest memories are of sadness, heartbreak and Ilsa, his/former love. Throughout…

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    Conflict In Sonny's Blues

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    Whether it be addiction, racism, poverty or grief, how a character accepts and deals with pain and suffering determines whether they let it consume them or they choose to fight through it suffering is something that is inescapable. Through complex characterization and conflict, James Baldwin in “Sonny’s Blues” shows how both Sonny and his brother handle all of the suffering they experience throughout their lives, and how that pain shapes them as characters. Both of the main characters in this…

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    In life there are many people that can have a clouded vision in their moral decisions, Amir is a perfect example of moral ambiguity. In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner young Amir makes some unethical decisions, he was selfish and afraid to stick for himself or others. He would later greatly regret these decisions. Amir spends the many years following his youth trying to fix is mistakes and truly redeem himself. On the surface Amir comes across as a terrible person, especially in in younger…

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    Introduction Grabber: Benjamin Franklin was one of the most successful yet audacious men to live in all of American history. Neutral Bridge: Although Franklin used a kite to observe electricity, there was a period during his life where he felt pleasure in arguing with people due to the fact that he prioritized contradicting people in conversations. Specific Bridge: Freud’s Last Session written by Mark St. Germain revolves around the conversation between a Christian named C.S. Lewis and an…

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    “What would I have done?” This excerpt from the memoir of Simon Wiesenthal reveals a difficult time in his life when he was forced to make a difficult choice about the telling the truth and forgiving someone who has done wrong. He ends the excerpt by leaving the reader with a profound moral question: what would we have done? I would like to think of myself as a kind and forgiving person because no one has wronged me so severely that I felt I could punish them forever. However, if I were to…

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    Moonshadow Analysis

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    Dragonwings by laurence yep is about a little boy named moonshadow who lives in san francisco they refer to him moonshadows father as windrider because he is known to make very good kites as a hobby.Moonshadow has never seen his father or spoke to him other than by cards. Moonshadow makes a life changing decision to go to america with his dad.Moonshadow was stunned when he got to san francisco california he imagined there to be a great big mountain, but sadly there wasn't.He noticed how there…

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    The present book Outcaste: A Memoir is an expanded version of Jadhav’s best selling Marathi novel Amcha Baap Aan Amhi written in 1993.This memoir is a multilayered saga of the social evolution of the Dalits in India. It is a tribute from a son to his father as well as an appraisal of the caste-system. It tells the story of the awakening of the Dalits through three generations. The caste-system represses even stupefies the Dalits so that they grow into the dutiful lambs that need no shepherding…

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    In the novel, We are called to Rise by Laura McBride, Bashkim is an 8 year immigrant child from Albania. In contrast to his impulsive and volatile father, perceptive mother, he is introverted and passive. There are many ways in which Bashkim demonstrates his sensitivity in the novel. The unanticipated response he received from Luis dismayed and nauseated him. His letter was innocent,candidly written and consisted of a brief summary of his life. Bashkim must have looked forward to reading…

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    Gatsby set himself on a self-destructive crusade to destroy yet recreate the past. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Jay Gatsby who uproots his entire life to around his personal quest to be reunited with his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s mission takes him from poverty to wealth, to a reunion with his beloved, and to his tragic death. The story of Gatsby is the story of a man who is pinned between an ever-consuming shame and immense guilt. Gatsby is ashamed of the fact that…

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