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    questioned and analyzed. This principle is prevalent in both Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception and Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, but only through examination of the two. The main protagonist, for the sake of this essay they will be labeled that way, in each memoir is the father figure. For Geoffrey Wolff it is his biological father, The Duke, and for Tobias Wolff it is his step father, Dwight. Both Memoir’s focus…

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    This Boy’s Life Adolescence, it’s a time of change and development with many woes and hardships that can put a major toll on any kid in his or her life. Tobias Wolff portrays his difficult childhood through his immersive memoir, This Boy’s Life. He deals with many family issues like domestic violence and a mother that likes to move off to wherever her heart desires. This causes him to have a reckless childhood and end up in the wrong crowd of kids. His stepfather, Dwight always…

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    Have you ever been in a toxic environment? I’m not talking about the nuclear toxic either, but rather the one where you’re forced to be around people that are no good for you. Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life, was stuck in one as a young boy. His mother was known to pick out bad boyfriends and settled with one named Dwight, who is probably the worst one mentioned. He seems to have a strange aura around him and it shows through the way he treats Tobias. There are many more people in this…

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    Tobias Wolff is an American author who is known for his memoirs and short stories. Wolff wrote many short stories, notably "The Rich Brother." The Rich Brother is a story about two brothers with two completely different lifestyles. Pete, the oldest, is a financially successful business owner with a family and nice house. Donald, the youngest, is a free-flowing soul searching for the right religion, with not much in his name. The story is about how Pete goes to pick up Donald from a religious…

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    In search for one’s true self, the adversities that are faced are all dependent on the environment in which the person surrounds himself or herself with. Tobias Wolff demonstrates the struggle of finding a true identity when consumed by such harsh surroundings in his bildungsroman style memoir ‘This Boy’s Life”. Despite each personas dreams of transformation, the memoir depicts each character’s struggles to find their identity given the patriarchal society in which they are exposed to; where men…

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    For more than a decade, Titanic stood as a great mark of love, glory, disaster and sacrifice. It was popularly called as the "Unsinkable ship" with the tagline "Not even God can sink this ship". Unfortunately, this gigantic ship was engulfed by the ocean on her maiden voyage killing 1,517 people. With the movie Titanic, made in 1997, James Cameroon was extolled for his great depiction of the facts. Later investigations contradicted Cameroon in many aspects. What happened to this Unsinkable ship?…

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    Julius Lester’s poem, “Parents” reveals how quickly life can go wrong. A girl kills herself instead of her dog when forced to shoot it by her parents. This plot twist is similar to that in “That Room” by Tobias Wolff because people can’t plan everything and unexpected events will occur regardless of a person’s will. The article doesn’t hold this deeper meaning. However, Lester does and finds art in it. Art is perceived differently for every individual. Lester makes changes to the article to make…

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    RMS Titanic holds the dubious honor of being the most famous shipwreck of all time. Enhanced by the fact that “TITANIC was the largest ship ever built at the time, 46,328 tons, 883 by 93 by 104 feet,9 decks…” (Rasor 48) the ship's sinking has lived on in the imaginations of people for generations after the disaster. On Sunday, April 14th, 1912 at 11:40 pm (Lord 3) RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland carrying “a crew of about 892 hands all told, and about 1,316 passengers”…

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    First, will look at the sinking of the Titanic of 1912 and well this is not the first ever engineering disaster it is normally where most people start. “RMS Titanic was a British passenger ship that sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York City, in April 1912. Titanic was at the time the largest ship ever built and was considered to be unsinkable. The tragedy claimed the lives of over 1,500 people. Many factors contributed to the…

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    What does one think of when the name Titanic is said? That it was one of perhaps the most tragic events to have ever occurred on the sea? What is certain however is that it is one of the most remembered historical events to have ever occurred on the ocean and it is possible that the words “criminal negligence” come to one’s mind however, people look at it most have no idea of the true reasons the Titanic sank and that is why several people over the years have delved into the mystery of what sank…

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