Carroll O'Connor

“Mirror Image”: External and Internal Identity In the short story “Mirror Image”, Lena Coakley explores the relationship between internal and external identity through the life of the first successful recipient of a brain transplant. Alice, 14, has been given a new chance at life after a near fatal accident rendered her body useless; Alice’s brain has been transplanted into the body of another young girl. In the time following, Alice struggles to come to terms with who she is, now that her…

"Face" is one of the best story by alice munro. What makes it different from others is In “Face” Alice Munro makes one of her best detours into the past to contemplate on the present. She focuses on the intricate effects that a childhood event can have on adult life. This story is very touchy though. 1) The story begins with a father’s dramatic rejection of his newly born son because of a birthmark covering the right side of the baby’s face. The boy grows up facing the extreme polarity of his…

Classic novels are ones that are passed down from generation to generation. They continue to be understood by readers during the current time period, even though the author had written the novel with a different time period in mind. Roald Dahl’s children’s novels are books that have been read for many generations and will continue to be passed down as time goes on. James and the Giant Peach is the first of Roald Dahl’s children novels that he completed. Even though it was first published in 1961…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. The heroine of the book is six-year-old Alice Liddel. She enters the world of Wonderland after falling down a rabbit-hole on a sleepy afternoon. Subsequently, Alice changes throughout the book in two significant ways: physically and psychologically. These changes were introduced in the beginning of her adventures and play substantial roles in the story. The first changes Alice encounters are physical. Firstly, she…

Charles Carroll was born in Annapolis, Maryland on September 19th , 1737. He was a strong supporter for the armed resistance with the object of separation from Great Britain. He served on the first Committee of Safety in 1775. Carroll also served in the Provincial Congress. He visited the Continental Congress in 1776. After his return from being enrolled in a mission in Canada, the Maryland Convention decided to join in support for the Revolution. Charles Carroll was elected to represent…

After the book was published, its sales went through the roof and many foreign editions had to be made. Inspired by how well Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland performed, “Carroll began work on a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, published in 1872,” (Stanley 18). Unsurprisingly, the sequel was just as successful as it’s prequel. Many 19th century critics found Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to have a “sheer imaginative force, coupled with a blend of humor,…

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is a little girl who lives during the Victorian Era in England. Throughout the story, Alice showed many character traits. In the beginning, she shows the reader that she is both curious and brave. She also shows thats she is a very polite mature girl for her age. In the beginning of the story, Alice shows she is a very curious child. When she saw the white rabbit, it caught her attention and she decided to follow it. She followed it down the rabbit…

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll is a fairy tale poem describing a boy’s quest to rid his land of the evil Jabberwock. Lewis Carroll wrote the first stanza years before the rest of the poem appeared in Through the Looking Glass (Jabberwocky, n.d.). Carroll uses portmanteaus, words made up of other words, and shows the use of several onomatopoeias, which occur when the sound of a word becomes it meaning (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Carroll invented blended words and called them portmanteaus. The…

Manley also tells her that “ [h]e wants to devote his life to Christian Service… and become a missionary because he thinks that is the way he can do most for people”(511-512). He even starts to talk nonsense, telling her about how his family is struggling and that he is basically on his own in the world. Everything that comes out of his mouth is sad or is something that makes anyone has pity for him. As soon as he enter the Hopewell’s home evil fills the home. His name, Manley Pointer, is a…

Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in southern town called Savannah located in Georgia on March 25, 1925. She earned a M.F.A. degree at the University of Iowa’s School for Writers in 1946. She was known for her religious and southern short stories. She had a different way of way of writing and expressing her ideas. Her writings style and creativity was criticized by some because of her methods she used to get her point across. Flannery O’Connor used horrifying violence in “A Good Is Hard to…