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    Nohely Sanchez Mr. Rochester English Honors 1 10 December 2015 Fahrenheit 451 Symbolism Essay Fahrenheit is a book about a man who’s job is to start fires. Fahrenheit provides an idea of knowledge to the reader. Montag proves that there is more to books than what people think there is. In Fahrenheit 451, the author uses fire as a symbol to make the things that don’t fit into the society disappear In the first part of the book Montag realizes that the firemen didn’t prevent any fires, they…

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    Sexism In Jane Eyre

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    Charlotte Bronte’s literary piece Jane Eyre has established its name as one of the most skillfully written Gothic romance works in the Victorian era and now in present time. Delving deeper into the world within the novel, Bronte reveals a tale where love is perpetuated as the last step to self accomplishment along with thematic elements of gender criticism, feminism and love vs. autonomy. The contrast between Bronte’s novel and Franco Zeffirelli’s cinematic piece Jane Eyre (1996) is clearly…

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    Mythbusters Case Study

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    “Mythbusters”: Dispelling the Culture of Poverty Myth in the Urban Classroom, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221340903344953 , is the academic article I chose to take apart to address Jason A. Kaufman’s seven questions. When considering the requirements of Kaufman’s first question, the article qualifies as an academic article. Retrieved from the Journal of Geography and considering the structure of the article suffices the requirements of an academic article. The article structure consists of an…

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    A Long Walk to Water Theme: Perseverance Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water. The first example of perseverance is when Nya had to persevere on her walk to the pond to collect water. On her trip that she took twice a day, she had to face a lot of thorns and extreme heat. If Nya did not persevere, she would not be able to collect water for her family. Without water, Nya’s family and herself would die within days. But because Nya had persevered on her daily journeys, she…

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    According to Dylan Prvozell’s presentation “Shirley Jackson”, Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916, but she was raised in Burlingame, California. When she was seventeen she attended the University of Rochester in New York, and while there she figured out that the classes she took did not fit her capabilities so transferred to Syracuse. An interesting fact that Provozell mentioned in his presentation about Jackson is that she wrote over a thousand words a…

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    Sargasso Sea”. She was depicted as a crazy Creole woman whom was married to a man named Rochester. She was locked up in an attic by Rochester, but she eventually escapes to her own death. In “Wide Sargasso Sea” we learn about the life of Antoinette Cosway, from her youth all the way to her assumed end. Rhys was able to tell Antoinette’s side of the story, which made her the victim. Her madness and was assumed by Rochester whom was misguided by people around…

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    She firmly decides, after long debate, that she “must leave Adele and Thornfield.” The imperative “must” connotes her firm conviction – in fact, the fight with Mr Rochester may be the peak of her journey of self-realisation. Early Victorian morality placed much emphasis on chastity; as Jane keeps her integrity, the reader would be more likely to sympathise with her, a reason perhaps why the novel became so popular compared…

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    The Invisible Hand A man walks closer to Jane and “What a face he had, now that it was almost on a level with mine! what a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth! ” (49; ch.4). This is a story about the struggles of Jane Eyre, in a biography called Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Appearances and names are only skin deep, but in Jane Eyre it symbolizes the quality of the people from Jane’s perspective. The description of the man is an allusion to Little Red Riding Hood…

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    In contrast to Jane Fairfax, Jane Eyre still wants to work as a governess when she marries Mr Rochester to show that her intention is not money but the love for Mr Rochester because she also wants freedom in marriage and cannot bear a life she cannot control. “I don’t think, sir, you have the right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of…

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    Carter is able to warp traditional fairy tales to explore the emergence of second-wave feminism. Charlotte Brontë uses Bertha Mason as a foil to Jane Eyre, showing the reader and Jane what could happen should she chose to remain in Thornfield with Rochester. Similarly, Angela Carter uses the dead…

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