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    “Westley, it’s freezing in this nursery!” Buttercup shouted “I know but we don’t have money to pay for heat.” Westley said. “Well then, I guess I will get a job.” “No need for that.” Westley said annoyed. “Just knit some blankets while Emily is taking a nap.” Wesley grabbed his sword, kisses buttercup and his two week old baby on the forehead and leaves for work. “Don’t worry baby. Soon we will get money and build a nice home.” Buttercup lays the baby in the crib, picks up a knitting…

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    Upon first glance the princess bride may seem like just another “hero-saves-the-girl-and-helps-all-his-friends-achieve-their-goals” type of story, which it is. However what the book and movie both accomplish is to recognize the irony in itself. The book is basically a “Book within a book” and the movie is “A book within a movie”. Both of them achieve their goal in showing this. The book starts with a boy being read a book, his grandfather stops reading because he sees that his grandson is…

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    The overall structure and organization of this movie is really impressive. It starts off with the story being told by the narrator to his sick grandson. The movie The Princess Bride is a fairytale adventure about a young girl and her one true love. The story begins with Buttercup, a young blue eyed girl, that lives on a farm. On the farm there’s Westley, a poor farmboy. Buttercup spends most of her day bossing Westley around ,until she realizes she's in love with Westley. Lucky for her, Westley…

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    In the novel The Princess Bride, William Goldman illustrates the theme that “Life is not fair, it is just fairer than death” by “abridging” S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventures. Firstly, Goldman satirizes the romance genre to reveal a collective idealism embedded within human nature. Then, he uses metafiction to contrast the parallel stories between Westley and Buttercup to Goldman and Helen. Lastly through Domingo, Yeste, and Inigo’s stories, the author illustrates…

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    The Princess Bride From climbing up seven hundred foot cliffs, to fighting off unusually large rodents, and a climactic resurrection, The Princess Bride is the story of an adventure keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. The story surrounds the cliché: the hero always gets the girl. We follow the protagonist Westley as he sets out on an action filled journey driven by his love for a woman named Buttercup. The manipulation of tropes, commonly recurring literary devices, give a comedic feel…

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    Located south of Sydney, Australia, the beach town of Austinmer is home to some unique and beautiful beach homes. The Austinmer Beach House designed by Alexander Symes of Australia, is an incredible beach home that sits up high on the coast of the Tasman Sea. The family beach home consists of: a “floating box” living space that sits on top of concrete pillars, a ground floor that contains the majority of the community space, and an underground loggia that opens out to a beautiful sub-terranian…

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    significance of May 10, 1933, the day Hitler and his army burned the libraries in Alexandria. The impact on Ray Bradbury was highly effective. It was because of 1933 that inspires Ray Bradbury to write and symbolizes Fahrenheit 451. The picture of book burning inspires Ray Bradbury to write Fahrenheit 451 as an attempt to show that if people do not do anything about society’s behavior the next generation will follow that example, making it harder for Ray Bradbury to make his point about changing…

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    (1471). After reading Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”, Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, and William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, you easily see how the protagonist in each of those stories experience their own epiphany. In “Revelation”, the protagonist, Mrs. Turpin, realizes that everyone is equal in God’s eyes regardless of skin color or social status (331). Sarty Snopes in “Barn Burning” has the epiphany towards the end of the story, realizing some people do not change, even if you…

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    In Barn Burning by William Faulkner, Abner Snopes effortlessly establishes authority over his impoverished family by being the father of two boys and two girls. Throughout the story, he makes his family lie about his burning of neighbors’ personal items, especially his neighbors’ barns. Instead of having a terrible temper and burning neighbors’ property as a result of rage, Abner remains very tranquil, yet demanding, while controlling his family and forcing them into keeping his burning a secret…

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    I am reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I have read chapters one through three. In this story Scout and Jem live by a house that everybody fears and the house is occupied by Boo Radley. I predict that the kids will not meet Boo Radley. G Through the first chapters Scout and Jem are scared of Boo and he is locked up. Y Locked up R Radley’s don’t leave their house (page 11) R Jem and Scout have never seen Boo (page 10) R not many people come and go from the house…

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