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    Peter pan, who is a carefree boy, never grows up. Shown in Barrie’s story, Peter Pan lives in the Neverland which is a fantastic place separating from real life. The unconscientious boy always is naughty, arrogant and naïve, he never cares about other things or people except for himself. In his life, there are many interesting events as well as strange and eccentric things, thus he is too busy to observe all and remember everything. The reason why Peter Pan’s story is so popular is that no one…

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    dictator El Lider, she starts to think whether what they were subjected to was work or exploitation. However, the primary different in between these two texts are that Viramontes’ character is not forced by family members to work but out of each family understanding of the need to work. On the other hand, some of Garcia’s characters such as Pilars are forced to work. For instance, after Lourdes discovery of the sexual pleasure Pilars had done to herself by use of a shower head, she had to force…

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    Can you imagine life without your most important morals? Well, Elie Wiesel can, and the “journey” throughout his novel, Night, that led to his decline in beliefs was not so pleasant. As he experiences dehumanization, and as his identity alters, Wiesel reminds us that if you are not careful, your morals and core beliefs can be re-defined completely as a result of traumatizing struggles. To start, Elie’s most important moral was his religion. At the start of the book, Elie hasn’t experienced any…

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    3.1.3. “Free Radicals” The next short story under analysis is entitled “Free Radicals.” The story is told by a omniscient third person narrator focalized in the protagonist of the story named Nita. The story is set in the past, with no time-shifts to the present or the future. The first pages of the story are devoted to narrate some details about Nitaʼs life. She is sixty-two years old and has unexpectedly lost her husband, Rich, not a long time ago. Nita has been diagnosed with cancer a year…

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    perceives life. Gatsby’s views are more hopeful whereas Tom, Daisy, and Jordan views are harsh and realistic. Due to their judgment and actions, these characters are viewed as selfish and uncaring, especially towards the end following Gatsby’s fall. To begin with, Jordan Baker can be described as a selfish person. An example of this character being portrayed by Jordan is her demeanor during the dinner with the Buchanans and Nick. Tom…

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    difficulties in basic aspects of social interaction, which may include failure to develop friendships, share interests with others, a lack of social or emotional reciprocity and a reduced use of non-verbal language. The author, through the main character, shows these difficulties explicitly saying that, even though his teacher taught him to associate emotions to facial expressions, he still has difficulty in identifying real people’s faces, therefore making him take out a smile chart, to compare…

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    the main character has a change in attitude about what confession means to him, and the other characters around him through different points of view. Thomas Foster’s book, How To Read Literature Like a Professor, can be seen through any and all of the aspects that are going to be brought into the different points within Frank O’Connor’s short story, and the different characters points of view. This story is written in first person, but includes the points of view of the other characters in the…

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    utilizing a particular writing aesthetic upon which he set forth six principles that make up a good story. Some of those principles include: the absence of lengthy verbiage, total objectivity, extreme brevity, compassion, and truthful descriptions of characters and objects. One of Chekhov's fundamentals when it comes to writing a good story is fleeing the stereotype. His “impressionism was seen as a form of art for art’s sake a denial of the writer’s social role, and he was attacked for…

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    To begin with, I am going to talk about the role and the importance of music in separating a person from the ordinary world and allowing Lucy Honeychurch to express her internal feelings. Throughout the novel, Forster uses music as an agent for Lucy to express her internal feelings. To begin with, I am going to talk briefly about her background. We see in the novel that Lucy has been presented as a repressed, commonplace, a naive and upper-middle-class British woman born in the Edwardian…

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    Time, place, situations, and characters are all something that come together to make an interesting story. Each of these is necessary to communicate some type of message to the audience, which is then how the audience becomes invested in the tale being told, but often times the thing that keeps the audience invested the most is the characters. Two stories which provide good examples of this are Midnight’s Children and Mother Courage and Her Children. Each of these stories has all the aspects to…

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