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    Although John Knowles’s novel, A Separate Peace, is set in the midst of WWII, there is a lack of the typical violence and combat associated with the war. However, Knowles uses wartime themes to depict the personal battles the protagonist is forced to face. The most prevalent of the wartimes themes present in the main characters of the novel are feelings of hostility and enmity. This demonstrates that the war, although not physically occurring with the United States, is still taking a toll on…

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    There are many elements within the book Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury that you have to read closely to catch. While he is more widely known for his science fiction and dystopian novels, Bradbury can write a very detailed realistic fiction. Therefore, we will have to dig deeper to find the true meaning of Bradbury's words. The certain elements that I will explore include character, themes, style, plot, and setting. The characters in Dandelion Wine are crucial to the plot of the book,…

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    Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is about a young soldier who just recently returned from serving in World War I. Unfortunately, the young soldier has a difficult time readjusting to everyday life at home. While he shows no physical side effects, he internally struggles with motivating himself to start a life of his own, restoring to a disinterest in girls and living the daily routine he has made for himself. Organization plays a role in the short story, providing enough information about…

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    In Ray Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine, the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to point out on Douglas Spaulding's imagination. In the authors writing, he uses metaphors and personification to portray Douglas's vision of summer. He describes the main character's hometown as "swarming seas of elm and oak and maple" and "early-morning stream" these are metaphors, it allows readers to visualize the setting of his home and symbolizes how summer is slow and steady. In addition, the author…

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    Dandelion Wine and The Time Machine are two very famous classics, and continue to work their way into everyone’s hearts to this day. The author’s purpose is also known as a theme, or symbol of the book. Both Dandelion Wine and The Time Machine have many themes, and symbols. These books are used in many programs that my foreign friends go to and use their English skills for good things. For example, my friend in India uses these books in his school. These books are great, and have many things to…

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    The book, The Guns of August, is a story of the first days of World War 1. It was written by Barbara W. Tuchman; it is also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The book The Guns of August starts out at the funeral procession of King Edward VII of England in 1910. Kings and Nobles from around the world attended the funeral procession. The funeral had many mourners but not everyone there was sad to see the king go. There was one man that was happy to say good bye to the king that man was none other…

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    Ernest Hemingway was a great author of many short stories about war and how they affect people. The story that I read was soldiers home this story is based right after World War I. The author live thru and volunteered in this war as an ambulance driver before he was injured. This is important to realize when reading this story because he has a felt the pain and suffering that most of the characters in his story's go thru. This story is centered around the struggles that soldiers have trying to…

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    For some a book composed almost entirely of letters written home from Vietnam may not seem like a desirable read. However, Dear America entices one from the first letter and makes the reader not want to put it down- unless they are reaching for a tissue. The tear provoking collection of letters at first seems like a window into the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs of a soldier suffering the hardships of war, but as it progresses the letters bite at the reader’s soul and makes one feel as though…

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    Soldier's Home

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    Ernest Hemingway’s deeper meaning to “Soldiers Home Ernest Hemingway has a deeper meaning to his story “Soldiers Home. Using Biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze his short story, “Soldiers Home” it can be argued that Hemingway wanted to highlight the struggles returning soldiers faced when coming home from military service and to help others realize that the isolation is an ongoing issue that has yet to be solved. A young man named Krebs is the main character in…

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    Farewell My Concubine

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    People within western cultures view many Asian countries, especially China and Japan, as having a much more strict way of educating their children than you would see in the west and many other places in the world. This view mainly comes from the increased amount of time in class and time where you’re expected to or need to study to be able to continue on to the next level of school, and things like the incredibly stressed importance of some kind of big test that influences the rest of your life.…

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