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When Anne of Green Gables begins Anne is a free spirited, adventuress, young lady, who goes against gender norms since she would rather go outside and play then stay inside and make sure the house is taken care of. As the novel continues, Anne becomes a responsible, and educated young adult. When Anne first goes to live in Green Gables, she was not what Matthew Cuthbert and Marilla Cuthbert expected, since they had wanted a boy to help them with the farm. Although Anne was not what they…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the three crimes that Sir Gawain is guilty of is: cowardice, covetousness and treachery. The events that lead him to commit those crimes is when he accepts the green girdle that Lady Bertilak gives him as “lover’s token” and also mentions to him that it will protect and make the wearer invincible. For Sir Gawain, the green girdle represents his survival but also failure. The reason it also represents failure is because he fails to exchange the green girdle with…

Green Bay Packers Intro The Green Bay Packers are from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Green Bay is one of the longest living football teams. This was kind of recent, but Jayrone Elliott helped out at schools and was very kind to the children of that school, in doing so he was nominated for the Walter Payton award. The Walter Payton award is, an award that honors both your field work, and your involvement in the community. History One thing incredible about the Packers, is that the trophy for the super…

“Looking for Alaska” written by John Green is about Miles Halter, who moves to Birmingham Alabama. Miles joins a boarding school when he gets caught up in the intriguing, sexy, intelligent, and confusing world of Alaska Young. When Miles meets Alaska his whole world was turned upside down. Alaska makes him question everything, from birth, to death. The main question in Miles’ head at the end is “how will I ever escape this labyrinth?” Labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or…

“I go to see a great perhaps.” This quote is from Looking for Alaska, a book written by John Green. In this novel, the main character, Miles, is fascinated with his dad’s collection of biographies and finding the last words of these people. When Miles is going off to boarding school, he uses Rabelais’ dying words to show that he is looking for something greater than he already has. I think that Rabelais used these words to explain that he was to use his afterlife to find ways to better himself…

The 14th century Arthurian romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” opens with a description of the fall of Troy and subsequent founding of Rome and Britain, introducing an idea the author revisits numerous times: the necessity of destruction to growth, death to life. The poem could, itself, be said to follow an overarching life cycle; it begins and ends in matching references to Brutus and is propelled by stanzas that feel cyclic in their rhyming five line closes. To be less abstract, however…

In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is Middle English romance short story by an anonymous author in the 14th century. The story is about Sir Gawain from King’s Arthur court who plays a beheading game. When Sir Gawain finishes the game, he learns a lesson about honesty and self-integrity. Many different literary devices are seen throughout the story. One of the more common literary devices used is symbolism. The author uses different things to in order to show the significance of many other things.…

and the Green Knight” the Green Knight challenges Sir Gawain by presenting him with trials that test his ability to follow the code of chivalry. Sir Gawain ultimately fails to abide by the code because humans cannot achieve perfection. However, Sir Gawain grows as character because of his failure. In the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” the author uses supernatural elements to test Sir Gawain’s strengths and weaknesses, illuminating the hero’s progression towards maturity. The Green…

The Green Knight is a strange kind of monster compared to the other monsters in these stories. The Green Knight does not necessarily come after anyone or attack a large population of people, but he does choose one person to battle. His wrath is not necessarily unexpected or quite as life threatening like the other monsters in stories of this time. The Green Knight simply approached King Arthur’s people during their New Years’ festivities and for one of them to simply play a game with him.…