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    A Summer Life

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    theme of angels and their movements. At first when the narrator introduces the story‚ he describes himself as pious “in every bone‚" this is then fortified by his recollection of angels flopping in his backyard. But as the story unfolds‚ and the regretful deed has been completed‚ the image of the angel reappears. Unlike last time‚ this shadow of an angel is one "fleeing bad deeds." This simple imagery helps emphasize the notion that the narrator is fully aware and is somewhat frightened by his actions

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    television‚ cathedral came on the screen and the narrator did not know how to explain it to the blind man so they decided to draw it together. The blind man put his hand over the narrator’s and drew. As the narrator eyes were closed‚ he began to see a big change. He did not want to open his eyes after what he had seen. I think it was a good idea for the blind man to show the narrator life from his perspective. During the drawing of the cathedral‚ the narrator experiences something he never experienced

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    questions below‚ which you will need to turn in to your teacher. You must complete both parts of the test by the due date to receive full credit on this test. (16 points) ScoreWhat roles do the adults or older figures play in the lives of the various narrators Select a figure from each of the four memoirs and write one sentence answering the question for each memoir. Answer (15 points) ScoreAll of the memoirs in this unit are told from the first-person point of view. Why is it important that they are told

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    all have a jacket as the central symbol. In each of these works‚ however‚ the jacket represents very different things. For Marta Salinas in "The Scholarship Jacket"‚ the jacket symbolizes eight years of hard work and expectation. Throughout the narrator ’s life‚ she had been working hard to achieve academic excellence in hopes of receiving the scholarship jacket. Marta hopes to follow her older sister ’s footsteps in earning this award. However‚ as graduation draws near she overhear a discussion

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    Understanding Film Shane Gladstone Analytical Essay on any Scorsese Film: (Goodfellas‚ 1990) In the year 1990 Warner Bros released a motion picture titled Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese‚ the narratives main strand dealt with the issue of a misguided youth enjoying his rites of passage from within the inner sanctum of the Italian gangland of the early sixties New York. The narrative continues in a narrated biographical form‚ following the protagonist through highs and lows before eventually

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    Anne Bradstreet: "The Flesh and the Spirit" Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northampton shire‚ England. Anne along with her husband and parents emigrated to America with a Puritan group. They settled in Massachusetts. She became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. However‚ the idea of the women writer was not popular at this time. It was quite rare and uncommon thing to find a woman writing poems or essays. She was also a daughter of a Puritan

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    people think that the narrator‚ who uses “we” as though speaking for the entire town‚ to be young‚ impressionable‚ and male; however‚ after re-reading the story several times‚ you realize that the narrator is not young and is never identified as being either male or female. The character of the narrator is better understood by examining the tone of the lines spoken by this “we” person‚ who changes his/her mind about Miss Emily at certain points in the story. In general‚ the narrator is sympathetic to

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    Bambara‚ the first person point of view shows how the narrator is dealing with the situations around her and maturing in the process. In "Cathedral"‚ by Raymond Carver‚ the reader can see the change in the narrator’s understanding of the blind man through different situations that happens throughout the story. Both authors have similar purposes in mind when they were writing the story‚ they both wanted to show the growth and transition of the narrators. The use of the first person point of view makes

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    Albert Camus The Guest

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    don’t really get to understand how Daru is feeling‚ you can only understand how he is feeling by his facial expressions and tone of voice. The point of view in this story is third person limited Omniscient which means it is told by a third person narrator but can accesses the thoughts and feelings of one character‚ in this case

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    Review Sheet for Wuthering Heights 1. What techniques are used in the characterization of Heathcliff? Effects? Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff’s garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost…the air made me shiver through every limb." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first brought into the Earnshaw household

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