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    “I got a code 2 i repeat code 2 Public enemy no. 1 pretty boy floyd is in sight, engage in cousion.”..... Charles Arthur “pretty boy” Floyd was a criminal who was always on the run. Charles Floyd and Antigone are alike because they both disobeyed laws for a cause they believed in. Antigone buried her brother because she thought it was the right thing to do, and Pretty boy stole from banks and gave back to the poor because the banks were stealing from the poor from the start. (Pretty Boy Floyd)…

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    doors and stayed at home, afraid of the evil the dark brought. Amongst this, I was born. I was born on 31st of December 1984 at exactly 11:59 pm, my mother died immediately after my birth. I was named after the notorious ‘ Baby Face Nelson’- Papa said, “even though Nelson was part of “the Crackers”, he had done enough crime to be considered part of us, the “Niggers”. After Mama died, there were only three of us left: me, Daniel and Papa. Papa was the wingman to the infamous “ Kevin “,…

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    Walter Mitty is representative of the modern man “Mitty [Mit-ee] (noun) (informal) a person who imagines that their life is full of excitement and adventures when it is in fact just ordinary.” The Juxtaposition of real life events to daydreams are important features in the text in which we are led to question Walter’s sanity. The text both starts and ends in Walter’s fantasies, and he only comes back into the real world when someone pulls him out of them. Walter’s daydreams play such a vital…

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    of these stories is called “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. “ The story and the movie have many similarities and differences. One of the similarities both the story have and the movie is Walter daydreams. Walter daydreams of being a pilot . Walter daydreams as he is fighting while he is the pilot of the ship. Another similarity that the story and the movie have in common is that their is a little black book. The little black book is where Walter Mitty writes important things that he needs…

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    People respond differently to situations, depending on their morals. In The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, the town's people's morals are shown through their reactions to hearing about Kinkaid’s murder. A messenger tells the men about Kinkaid being shot and his cattle taken. They form a posse and kill the men they think are responsible. The sheriff tells them they killed the wrong people. Stricken by grief, two men responsible for hanging the other men kill themselves as well. The…

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    Walter Mitty is the protagonist character from the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller. Mitty is a kind of person who daydreams a lot. He spends quite a lot of time imagining that he is someone else. He creates an imaginary world where he is happy and brave. But in real, he is an average ordinary person, living a normal, boring life. He works as a Negative Asset manager at a Life magazine. He is attracted towards his co-worker Cheryl Melhoff, but is quite afraid and…

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    Walter Mitty

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    In the short story “The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, it talks about a man by the name Walter Mitty. Walter seems to have many daydreams between the real life things he is doing. It starts with Walter being the commander of a Navy Hydroplane in the middle of a storm, while in reality he was driving his car and the engine reminded him of a Navy Hydroplane. There are many themes for Walter, and what triggers his daydreams along with many conflicts, three of these things being; the…

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    Walter Mitty Themes

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    “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”, a film directed by Ben Stiller (2013) is a film that explores the theme of courage in many ways. The theme of courage is explored through sub-themes, cauterization and cinematic techniques. The most prominent way courage is shown throughout this movie is Walter’s fantasies, Walters trip to Greenland and the cinematic techniques. During the course of the film Walter had many ‘fantasies’. He often dreamed up fictional situations with real people. This is…

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    In James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the author’s convulsive focus on the dynamic impacts of the abrupt settings, unreasonably complexes the fluidity of the story by misleading the reader on the current plot of Mitty’s life verses the settings conjured by his imagination in the story. Furthermore his use and examples of location, metaphors and imagery also leaves the description and development of the character to the reader’s imagination which while might make it easier to digest…

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    be necessary, whether it is a part of reality or a part of a fantasy. It does not have to be much, but it could make a significant change on your lifestyle. Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” argues for the presence significance as a basic human need, through Walter Mitty’s escapism fueled daydreams. Walter Mitty’s sense of insignificance causes him to exert his authority onto his individualized fictional scenarios. As Mitty ponders about the “cockiness” of his peers, the narrator…

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