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Introduction Writers often explore hard topics for society to understand, these texts use poetic language to explain ideas in the text. This is apparent in all four texts I have chosen. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, the poems Schizophrenic by PK Page, Ringing the Bells by Anne Sexton and the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. All of these pieces help the reader understand mental suffering through creating empathy. Each text shows the reader how to understand how…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jean Louise (Scout) Finch as the narrator. Scout is now an adult and reflects on three very crucial summers during her childhood days. When Scout is first described in the novel, she is prone to violence, labels people based on class, denigrates people, uses racist language, and is prejudice (Seidel 1). All of these things show that she is childish at the beginning of the novel. A mature character would not pick a fight or label people based on their…

The movie Her directed by Spike Jones follows the life of Theodore while he is in a dark point in his life. At the beginning of the movie Theodore is a very lonely adult working as a letter writer for others.Throughout the movie he is going through a divorce that hits him very hard. He buys the world's first artificially intelligent operating system self named Samantha. Throughout the movie Theodore and Samantha grow closer and closer and starts to make certain doubts and problems as they fall…

eventually drowns herself, further angering Laertes. En route to England, Hamlet is kidnapped by pirates, but is surprised by how nicely the pirates are treating him. The pirates return Hamlet to Denmark. Once Claudius finds out about Hamlet, he begins to plan the elimination of Hamlet: he arranges a fencing duel between Hamlet and Laertes. The trick is that the tip of Laertes sword is poisoned, and once he strike Hamlet; Hamlet will die due to the poison. If the first plan fails, Claudius…

crying when Huck is gone, and he is crying when he finds out Huck is safe. Jim is the reason Huck learns when to draw the line, and when not to cross it. Huck learns his less on from Jim when he realizes he needs to apologize. “I didn’t do him no more tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.” (Twain, 115). Huck’s epiphany makes him realize that he should put other people 's feelings into consideration. Jim made Huck feel guilty about his actions.…

Achilles knows that Hector death would lead up to his death. The decision between living a long easy life verse living a short glorified life weighed in after Agamemnon took his prize given to him for his hard work. Agamemnon knows he was wrong for treating the high priest with disrespect. His disrespect made one of the own warriors question his leadership role as general of his army. Agamemnon was fighting or helping with the wins so why should he receive gifts. Achilles had a point in his…

In many eyes of America, what keeps the Country strong is faith, strength and guns. Faith to keep us mentally sane, strength to keep us strong, and guns to keep our military safe. What in between the lines of those three major things, keep everything glued together? Police, the comfort we feel from the Police Force, and Security. How would we feel as a country without that comfort level from the Police Force? The same way the Police would feel without being able to have Surveillance Cameras,…

Women in Literature in the Middle Ages During the Middle ages, Women, were closely portrayed in the works of Geoffroy Chaucer wrote Specifically to the world in which he lived in. So, he showed views of women thru the middle ages thru Both “The Millers Tale “As well as “The Wife of Bath” In his famous work The Canterbury Tales. One will see that the Women’s roles portrayed in life and more in debt of the marriages. Women were given no choice of their chosen husband During this time, Women were…

of his natural innocence, kindness, and artistic ability, while she acted as if she loathed Jude. Jude really only acted out because of her jealousy of Noah and her mother’s relationship, but her rebellion only exasperated her mother further. By treating them this way, she drove the siblings apart for each other as well, causing them to sabotage one another and begin to despise the other twin. As for her adultery, her affair affects her lover, Guillermo Garcia, because…

All of my life I have lived in Norwell. Norwell is a sheltered town. There is a very little diversity and I could go my whole life without dealing with a real world problem. In this town I don’t get to see many people 's personal problems. Everyone wants to appear to have the perfect life even though, deep down, they are actually dealing with a lot. I have fallen to this trend of covering up true emotions. Since Norwell is sheltered from many real world situations, we may not always say or act…