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SPIRITED MISADVDENTURES is a character driven story of self-discovery and healing. The story’s tone is dramatic, but nicely blended with wit and humor. The script explores solid themes about grieving, communication, reconnecting, and healing. It’s an introspective story told with subtext. One of the strengths of this script is the character of Dani. She’s well crafted as a very complex woman. She presents with a very tough exterior that’s abrasive. In fact, initially it’s challenging to like or…

The female malady. This term has been used to describe the affliction of being a woman. According to Elaine Showalter’s aptly named The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980, “Women, within our dualistic systems of language and representation, are typically situated on the side of irrationality, silence, nature, and body, while men are situated on the side of reason, discourse, culture, and mind” (Showalter 3-4). Henry James’s governess in The Turn of the Screw…

Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres presents the dimensional characterization of Larry, Ginny, and Rose Cook (Brauner 664; Schiff 13 of 16), the contentious themes involving feminism and the deceptive appearance of the idealized “American Dream” (Carden 193); and the symbolically significant setting of a rural Iowa county during the presidency of Jimmy Carter ( Smiley 174 ; Holman “Setting” 120)—all of which serves to relate the impact of industry upon families living in America during such time…

Never Give Up Have you ever read Henry’s Freedom Box and Wilma Unlimited? There are similarities and differences in how the author approaches the theme “Never Give Up” in the two texts. I hope you can see how the authors’ approaches to the theme is similar, but also very different. The authors of both texts approach the theme “Never give up” similarly. For example, Henry and Wilma ended up happy because they never gave up. The author stated that Henry never gave up so he got out of slavery.…

The relationship between brothers is significant in the spectrum of life. As the first born in my family; I feel the effects of the responsibilities attributed to the duties of an older brother. In James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues”, I see many of these duties and responsibilities. The narrator echoes my own experiences as he struggles to deal with his younger brother Sonny. The narrator and I are both the eldest brothers in our own respect, and the approaches he uses when dealing with Sonny are…

Summative ‎‎‎Style Analysis Essay In life, there are a lot of unexpected events that take place every single day. In the article, “Eleven” By Sandra Cisneros, the author uses attitude, similes, imagery and more stylistic techniques to convey one of those unexpected events through the perspective of an eleven year old girl named Rachel. The article is about an eleven year old girl who feels that becoming an age doesn’t makes you any older than your previous ages. The author uses similes to…

Ever heard of melodramatic stereotypical song of the classic Romeo and Juliet play. Well the song is "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley (Featuring Alison Krauss) paints a story perfectly in a sweet, sappy country manner. The southern charm of Paisley's voice to this song is the icing on the cake so to speak. Many things about this song make it worth listening to such as, the message as well as the smooth rhythm of the soft melodies. Love is a strong and wonderful thing that cannot just be…

The Big Sleep is an interesting novel by Raymond Chandler with many twists and turns throughout the entire plot, with an abrupt plot twist at the very end. The story is set in the in Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, from the point of view of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist. The basic plot of the entire story starts when a private detective, Philip Marlowe, gets hired by a wealthy man, General Sternwood, for a job, which involves the blackmailing of one of his two daughters, Vivian Regan.…

The book is so seamlessly written that it is not merely lifelike but also, in the best sense, novel like. It narrates a story in a skillful manner, with much attention to character. DeLillo makes us familiar with some peculiar habits of the characters. Like Everett cannot make himself go to bed at night without checking that the oven is off, and then sometimes double-checking, and reminding himself as he climbs the stairs that he has in fact completed his check. No doubt DeLillo has chosen such…

The novel The Englishman’s Boy was a novel written by Guy Vanderhaeghe. It has a very dry beginning however the once the reader gets past that it begins to become a very interesting novel. The author has a very strong ending and that makes it effective but it also has other ineffective parts. The author whose style is interesting it is hard to follow at the beginning but once the reader understands. The author has been both effective and ineffective in the way that the novel has been written. A…