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    At the beginning of “Winter Dreams” Fitzgerald paints a mood in the story that matches Derek Greenes outlook on life, hopeful. Derek believes that he can one day become wealthy. He hopes and believes this message to such an extent that he is willing to risk his job and stability to go out on his own and start a new life, one where he can become the success he has always wanted to be (Fitzgerald 661-662). Dereks actions give the story a mood and a sense of hope. The reader believes that Derek can…

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    Wow, this story is putting me on the edge of my seat! Of course I'm talking about the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tell-tale heart, poe demonstrates mastery of suspense and tension, Biden live he provides a dark mood to the story. In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe use great suspense to put the readers of the story on the edge of their seats. Poe uses Three types of suspense in this poem “ The Tell Tale Heart” they are such as describing the character's anxiety or fears, describing…

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    specific mood of the story. One similarity between “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle” is the conflict. Both stories conflict is character vs. environment. In “The seabird chronicle”, the penguins are struggling because of they were trying to preen their feathers to get rid…

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    This shows that his type of character trait is a very conceiving conception, due to the fact how his only satisfaction is his love for his family. His type of tone throughout the play is more likely demonstrated as emotional, angriness, and aggressive. The way Laertes is enacted in the play is how he starts off by showing to the coronation of King Claudius, and demonstrating…

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    Romeo and Juliet, who are in love, though caught in the confusion of their families feud. The lovers conceal their relationship, but that doesn’t keep either families from concealing their ‘swords’. Several die in the conquest of feuding families, but this feud only pushes the lovers away from their true desires. In the end, both of the lovers end up dead from the confusion and turmoil provided by both families. I thought the movie did a wonderful job conveying the mood and the setting, but I…

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    happiness and burden- free. In the story “The House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe uses the setting to help convey the suicidal thoughts of the main character. He uses phrases like the “sunless day” and “upon a few white trunks of decaying trees” to set the mood for his reader so that said person is, on some level, able to feel the same emotions as the main character. The gloomy atmosphere Poe creates…

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    unfavorable and impoverished, Alexie is able to artfully articulate the discrimination of his people through various shifts of mood. His manipulation of mood is largely evident through the third person perspectives of Victor, his father, and the Indian reservation community. Victor’s narrative in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” depicts the impoverished mood to develop the perspective of a teenager. Alexie…

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    themes in relation to love, nature, and experiences in his past. In Cummings’s poems, structure and theme go hand in hand. He uses different structures such as the use of lowercase letters, unusual punctuation, misspelled words and letters, and he also shapes his poems to fit the theme. He writes his poems in structures that exemplify his emotions and feelings when writing the poem. E. E. Cummings displays different and unique structures that exemplify his common themes of love, nature…

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    flow smoothly. The lyrics fit the romantic mood rather well, seeing as most of the lines deal with destiny and love; two things that resonate very well with the story of Romeo and Juliet. In the scene itself, when Juliet is making Romeo promise he loves her (Line 85-106, Act Two Scene Two, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare) her dialogue fits the line “Who can say if your love grows as your heart chose?” seeing as the text’s both question one’s everlasting love. Juliet’s line once again shares a…

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    they are polytheistic. The Greek gods are mainly based on the world and culture / moods and personalities of mortals. For example, Ares, god of war and Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, love, and lust. Ares is an example of a god based off of culture because war was a part of the Grecian culture. Whereas Aphrodite was a goddess based from mood and personalities because beauty, love, and lust was apart of the mortals mood and personality. Greek gods don’t have much distinction from mortals, except…

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