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    By giving someone a second chance you also teach them a lesson. For example, in the story A Christmas Carol Scrooge was always cruel and mean to everyone he had a second chance when he was shown his Christmas past, present, and future.When getting a second chance you might learn something that you didn’t realize before that would change your perspective on things. The ghost of Christmas future showed him that if you are mean to everyone you won’t have anyone, Scrooge learned this when they were…

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    Although the book and movie were very similar, they were also very different in many ways. For example, the Ghost of Christmas Past was a very elegant, almost glowing woman. In the book however, the Ghost of Christmas Past was practically “like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man” (A Christmas Carol, 53). Secondly, Tiny Tim, in the movie, actually waited out for his father while he was at work, and they walked home together. In the book, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim’s father, walked…

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    1. The individual speaking is Monsieur le Marquis Evrémonde. His stagecoach has just runover and killed Gaspard’s son. Marquis is an aristocrat and Gaspard is a commoner. A crowd of commoners has gathered at the scene and there is growing tension in the air. Evrémonde is degradedly lecturing the commoners that they need to better control their children because his horses might have been injured when they ran over Gaspard’s son. Prior to the accident, Marquis was telling his horseman to…

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    In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, a boy named Pip grows up and experiences and learns about peculiarities, success, loss, love, and more throughout his life. On his journey Pip goes from being a common boy to an uncommon man while meeting a variety of people. Pip experiences his fair share of ups and downs, just like everyone else, but this gives him guidance that he can share with the twenty-first century. Based off of what Pip has learned in his life, he would most definitely…

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    In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Estella is constrained by her past, and she resents it because of the lasting impact her past left on her. The meaning of the novel is that the genuine relationships and being an honorable person through good deeds is more important than wealth and social class. Estella attained her elite social class and wealth because she was brought up by Havisham, her adoptive mother. But Havisham 's upbring results in her having no heart, she is isolated from…

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    youth; however, as individuals age, expectations, judgements, and corruption haunts and creates obstacles in their lives. In Charles Dicken’s 19th century novel, Great Expectations, and J. D. Salinger’s classic literature, The Catcher in the Rye, they both highlights the importance of preserving childhood innocence in order to create a healthy development of individuals. While Dickens…

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    People would say that Christmastime is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the time of the year where people are generally a lot more altruistic with one another. However, a person who truly shows the spirit of Christmas is if they are truly altruistic, in which a person makes sure they improving the welfare of others without the pretense of fame or glory attach to it. In the article “The Two Moralities of Ebenezer Scrooge,” Dwight R. Lee discusses the two morality A Christmas Carol…

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    as a loosely-connected novel. Indeed, one needs to read all nineteen of the stories to discover what finally happens to the characters introduced in the first story. The plot of the “novel” details the adventures and misadventures of various Latin American dictators and patriots and American consuls and outcasts. The unifying element of the work is setting more than character. After the publication of Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry infrequently but successfully returned to his Latin-American…

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    Though they lived centuries apart from one another, Christopher McCandless and Henry David Thoreau both uncovered the importance of living simplistically by retreating to the woods. When Thoreau first arrived at the house that he was to be staying at by Walden Pond, the first thing he noted was that the house was quite dilapidated. The walls were stained by the weather and had quite a few holes in them, causing the nights to be cold. The house also had no plastering nor a chimney, and the entire…

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    I have been reading the book Lord The Flies, by the author named William Golding. The book was given out in 1954, which leads us into the literary period of Postmodernism. The most common trait for this period is the very increasing diversity between the different novels written. In the earlier periods, the authors wanted to be fairly grounded, concrete and structured; but now they wanted more of the abstract and unrealistic plots, and often with paradoxes of various kinds. It is also said that…

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