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religion based off her connection with god demonstrates Satrapi’s use of frame size. She recalls that she was “Justice, Love, and the wrath of god.” (9/6) This frame is a splash…

Clothing helps define people. What people wear can help express their characteristics. When a government takes away people's right to express themselves by requiring them to wear fundamentalist clothing, like in the graphic novel, Persepolis, it forces people into conformity and tears away individuality as a standard in people's mind. Once civilians are forced to wear specific clothing, the government can force citizens to do anything because people will often assimilate to society’s standards,…

techniques to help the reader understand the book, with better knowledge of the events. In the story ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY the author uses symbolism on pages 206 and page 207. ‘Papa looked down at me and pointed to the fig tree. You see that fig tree over yonder and those oak tree’s around the tree. Their a lot bigger…

Lemomcella Cocktail is an intriguing story full of family and mystery, with a dash of romance. It is a short read of only 192 pages. It began with a broke down bartender named Patrick, as he pondered his next move. He just got laid off, he has no home to return to and now his truck is broke down. As he walked along, he heard a girl screaming and a splash in the river. He ran to the river and rescued a 14 year old girl named Samantha, that almost drowned. As he took her home, he realized things…

his poem “Musee des Beaux Arts”, which are suffering, passivity, and choices. The first message in W. H. Auden’s poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” is suffering. From the start, Auden lets you know what this poem is about, suffering. Auden states on page 1177, “About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters: how well they understood its human position; how it takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.” Suffering is a natural part of life.…

the chapter heading is a sub-heading for the first several paragraphs, titled “The Boy Who Would be Tsar” (Fleming, 17); so now, the reader can assume that they will be introduced specifically to a boy, most likely the current Tsar’s son. Each page, packed full of interesting and accurate dialogue and historical information, is set up in that type of format. In Sylvia Vardell’s article addressing the criteria behind the Orbis Pictus award, the following is said about organization within a…

didn’t need a map on his adventure in the vast forests of Alaska. If he had had a map with him he would have noticed, “That half a mile downstream, in the throat of the canyon, is a gauging station that was built by the U.S. Geographical Survey.” (Page 173) Near this gauging station, there was a cable carrying a metal basket large enough to carry men across the Teklanika River. He could have save himself, if only he weren’t such an arrogant boy. Chris McCandless may have been stupid,…

Identity within Experiences “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”- Chuck Palahniuk. This quote states that we do not create our own identities, that nothing we do is original. This news shouldn't be anything new, as children we learn from our parents and those around us, how to act and in the end who we are. Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints follows the Boxer uprising of 1898 in China. It was a time when the Chinese people were forced to chose who…

introduced William Marston, a psychologist, best known for creating an early lie-detecting machine. Lepore explains how Marston put his character together based on the previous literature. "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" has the introductory "The Splash Page,"…

resolutions, but they also have some differences. Greg’s experiences changed his sense of what is important after meeting Lemon Brown. In the beginning of the story Greg didn’t listen to his father’s lectures and thought nothing of what it meant. On page 17 it stated “Greg had sat in the small, pale-green kitchen listening, knowing the lecture would end with his father saying he couldn’t play ball with the Scorpions.” This shows that Greg doesn’t really care about what his dad is explaining…