Guy de Maupassant

Some people is brilliant, elegant, beautiful from their appearance. However, every once in a while we find someone different, someone who has a beautiful soul. Juli, a character in the novel “Flipped” by Wendelin van Draanen, she isn’t brilliant and rich, but she has a beautiful soul. Through Juli’s bravery, determination and care, she becomes special in the novel and has an inner beauty. Juli is a brave girl. She is totally different from other girls, she always do something that others won’t…

“The Hungry Stone” is a short story written by Rabindranath Tagore Which is a translation of the Bengali version “Khudhito Pashan” that was published in his book of short stories “Galpoguchcha”. Rabinndranath(1867-1941) and his many-sided achievements are incredible. He is a writer, a great thinker,an artist,a great musician and an orator of extraordinary power. With his god-gifted genius his leviathan bulk of writing and his universal appeal make him global. He got Nobel Prize for his book…

In the story, “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry the characters Della and Jim, the protagonists, do many things out of their love for each other and many times make careless decisions because of it. Jim and Della sacrifice their most prized possessions for each other, Della grows her hair long so Jim will ‘love her more’, and Jim works in an undesirable job for little pay for Della. The most obvious example of Jim and Della doing things out of love is they sacrifice their most prized…

In the stories "The Scholarship Jacket" and "The Stolen Party" the author shows us how social class impacts the characters. In the story "The Scholarship Jacket" a girl named Martha is discriminated when she is close to getting the scholarship jacket from her school, but even though she deserves it, a girl named Joann could get it too because her family is of a higher class while Martha is from a lower class. In the story "The Stolen Party" a maid's daughter goes her mothers master's birthday,…

a kiss and she replied, “I don’t want to kiss you” (223). She has given multiple cues about her disinterest in Bobinot, but he continues to pursue her despite the constant rejection she gives him. In a way, Calixta feels as if she is settling for a guy that is considered less than and she is hurting because her heart yearns for another man. Alcee, a “wealthy and fiery young planter” that has Calixta’s heart, also weds a woman in his class and her name is Clarisse. He is considered to be…

Introduction Have you ever sacrificed something in order to achieve your goal or dream? Well the book “The Raisin in the Sun”, by; Lorraine Hansberry is where a family, of five all living in a small apartment where waiting for a ten thousand dollar insurance check from their father who died. Everyone had different ideas what to do with the money so Mama bought a house with ⅓ of it and gave Walter rest and lost it all. Which resulted calling the man who didn’t want them living in the…

George Perec was often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation. His best-selling novel Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante is centered around the lives of Jérôme and Sylvie, who are disillusioned students that dropped out and acquired positions in the field of opinion polling and market research. Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, essayist, and member of the Oulipo group, a loose gathering of French writers and mathematicians that used constrained…

In today’s society females are considered as nothing but beautiful creatures filled with mixed emotions who attention spans are off the charts. Females are always needy and cautious of what goes around their surroundings. In the book “The Man In The High Castle” by Philip K.Dick, Juliana Frink is the girl that every man has dreamed of, and is filled with mixed emotions. Men tend to find her attractive due to her Mona Lisa smile but her attitude and quick temper can sometimes find her difficult…

Bain’s reaction to the movie Educating Rita would have been positive because it demonstrates some of his points made in his book. One point Bain made was about stereotypes and how people can either believe that they are that stereotype or know that they are more than just a judgmental title put on them from others. In the beginning of the movie, Rita is already trying to change herself because her real name is Susan. Also, when she curses she says that educated people do not care, but when…

The game of Bingo has long been associated with Native American/Canadian culture. Thus, leading it to be the focal point of Tomson Highway’s play The Rez sisters. Highway’s play follows the story of seven sisters living on the Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, all of whom appear stuck in their own lives, dreaming of a brighter and richer future. When presented with the opportunity to attend the “BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD” in Toronto the women put aside their differences and band together,…