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A Separate Peace: Betrayal A Separate Peace has many themes represented through the duration of the book. One of John Knowles most expressed themes is betrayal. Knowles does so through various literary devices and techniques. Knowles’ setting is a tremendous contributor to the betrayal between Gene and Phineas (Finny). While Gene Forrester is at Devon there is a numerous amount of foreshadowing being used. The war, the steps, and even the tree are examples of foreshadowing being…

Huffman 1 Mikayla Huffman Klass English 9 Honors 9 June 2015 Interpretation of the Symbolism of Alchemy in The Alchemist Everyone has the ability to become something more in life than what they start out as, much like the transition from lead to gold. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho contains an example of this, in how the protagonist, Santiago (a shepherd boy from a region of Spain called Andalusia) attempts to accomplish his personal legend. The leading symbol behind this book is alchemy, which…

with small use of literary devices author Louise Erdrich has made the story very intriguing. To clarify, some of the literary devices used in The Leap are simile, flashback, and analogy. In the story, the literacy device simile is used to compare one element to another. An example of simile used in The Leap is when the story reads “they loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds” (2). Without doubt the author has used simile in a delightful way to compare Anna & Harry Avalon…

In the beginning, the brothers were inseparable from each other and the car, they went places together in that car throughout that one whole summer. But after at least three years, Henry comes back from the army, everything about their relationship, their brotherly bond changes dramatically. Lyman tries to recover their brotherly bond by beating up their car and “[making] it look just…

Unfair Balance of Power One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from India, Persia, and Arabia and have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of different stories, they are all centered on the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates different stories for a thousand and one night in hopes that the King would stop killing innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The…

Whether one enjoys it, life can be altered from one point to another. Even though Carver does not directly tell the audience that his wife (the girl) has left him, a reader can infer that something negative has occurred to the family. By spilling his breakfast on his lap, the boy…

and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as anaphora. One example of O’Brien using anaphora in his novel is “Forty three years ago, and the war occurred a half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will sometimes lead to a story, which makes it forever… Stories…

forms and shapes. In the book, Paulo Coelho stated, "Whenever he could, he sought out a new road"(The Alchemist 13). The book is about a boy named Santiago who travels around the world. Finding new ideas and adventures. Just like this, one should not limit themselves to one road. Finding new Ideas and ways around your problems will greatly expand your wisdom and tools available for flexibility. Wishing to discover thing ideas about myself and the world around it, I have been plunged into the…

The mentors are crucial characters in any story, they serve great purpose in guiding the heroes throughout their adventure to “greatness.” Both mentors from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Star Wars: A New Hope directed by George Lucas provide insightful knowledges and lessons to the heroes, also encouraging perseverance at challenging times. To begin, the mentors encourage perseverance and warn the heroes of the failure of giving up during the times when confronting challenges and struggles.…

In part one, chapter six of The Stranger, Camus utilizes a multitude of literary devices in hopes of describing and explaining Meursault’s killing of the Arab. Although Camus employs the use of a plethora of literary techniques, some of the most conspicuous include those of foreshadowing, imagery, and intricate diction. In the final chapter of part one, Camus makes use of various literary devices to present the notion that Meursault’s needless murder of the Arab lacks a rational explanation,…