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    Plot twist: a plot twist is a technique used by authors who try to convey a sudden turn of events. This element is popular in novels, poems, television shows and movies. It can happen in any type of literature since all the literary technique needs to occur is a plot. Here, the plot consists of a man going to a funeral, but in the last sentences, the audience learns he is at his own funeral, which is unexpected. The whole story is built up to be something that the reader thinks it should be,…

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    the world. Kids Can Make A Difference provides international support for finding solutions to inequality and poverty, effectively provides assistance for children and low income families, and could greatly impact Oliver and Nancy in the novel Oliver Twist(By Charles Dickens), if the organization were around in their day. The organization grew larger than…

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    one of the most memorable times in an individual’s life. Screenwriters (or whoever else) creates stories that attract adolescents... Teenage love has been a classic story for movies from generation to generation. In this era, Twilight puts a sci-fi twist in the traditional teenage love story which makes it one of the first of its kind to shift the popular teenage movie culture. Twilight has inspired many movies and shows including, “The Vampire Diaries”, “Teen Wolf”, “Warm Bodies”, etc. This…

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    plot twists that can be interesting but also very suspicious? Well if you have, you need to read Took it’s so amazing yet very skeptical. The book Took is a Mark Twain Award Nominee book and is a horror story book by Mary Downing Hahn. This is a book about and old lady named Auntie that can sniff fear. The girl Erica is scared of the dark and the old house well their new house, but a special persons old house. The story all makes sense at the beginning, but then there is a huge plot twist that…

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    expectations for someone else it can cause someone to do things that they might not normally do, both good and bad. These effects from expectations can be compared and contrasted in A Doll House, Oliver Twist, and The Joy Luck Club. They can be seen through Nora in A Doll House, through Nancy in Oliver Twist, through Waverly in The Joy Luck Club, and can overall be compared between all three stories. First, Nora is a prime example of how expectations can shape and form the actions of people.…

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    Oliver Twist, one is able to see how Oliver views certain things that he disagrees with in life. One can see how he views poverty while working at a workhouse at a young age. Oliver Twist hates that in order to survive in England he has to be accustomed to this way of life. By living in poverty Oliver came to view life as cruel and selfish in Victorian England due to the workhouse he was forced to live in and the people he was forced to be acquainted with. In Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist,…

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    have certainly tasted the purest form of fiction’s beauty, which is the “plot twist”. Plot twists are those sudden unexpected turns in the stories that reveal significant details beyond them; some of the plot twists can be foreshadowed by several hints throughout the story, while others are totally unexpectable. Among numerous fiction stories, there are three particular stories that have their unique and remarkable plot twists; the stories are “The Blue Cross” by G.K. Chesterton, “The…

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    Kelley Winters , a writer from Modern Critical Views:Dickens’ Oliver Twist states “ The controversial area of this novel is where Oliver’s death penalty is inherent due to the social attitude towards the unfortunate, Oliver’s innocence as a child labeled evil because he is poor.” But this indeed, was a goal for Dickens’…

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    When I first read, “Up in the Air, and Down, With a Twist” I was instantly brought back to the ten days that I spent in Springhill, Colorado where freestyle skiing was the norm. The lodge where I stayed was one of the lesser popular resort for skiing because my mother refused to let myself or my father ski in fear of injury. On the contrast, I felt immersed in the winter culture, and this article brings back those fond memories of my vacation. The author, Henry Fountain is able to catch the…

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    In the novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, Kenny wonders why his brother Byron is so mean to people. Kenny treats people better than Byron does because Byron was beating up Larry Dunn, Kenny shares his lunch and his gloves with Rufus and Byron had his lips stuck to a mirror and Kenny was trying to help him but if it was Kenny said “If he was stuck Byron would have done some cruel stuff to him”. Kenny tricked his mom into getting him another pair of leather…

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