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  • The Chairs

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    Described as a tragic farce by its author, Eugene Ionesco, The Chairs is a play that shows an elderly couple, called Man and Woman, setting up chairs for guests who are arriving to hear a important speech. Although the couple continue to set up chairs throughout the play, the guests who arrive are not visible to the audience. The strange behavior of the couple, and the fact that the person who arrives to finally give the speech is both deaf and mute, points to the futility of life.

  • Commentary on Waiting for lefty

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    Clifford Odets had a vision of what the great depression was doing to families and businesss around the U S He wanted to portray that in a play where he could do a first of its kind and have the audience as a part in the play In 1935 Clifford Odets first play to be produced was Waiting for lefty It was a controversial play about the depression in the mid 1930s that was all one act with seven different scenes It was something that every person in the audience could relate to in each scene becaus

  • Commentary on The Great Gatsby

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    The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is a novel of Jay Gatsby a wealthy man from Long Island who had an extreme love for Daisy Buchanan Daisy Buchanan was married to Tom Buchanan at the time but Gatsby and her had a relationship before her marriage and it unexpectedly ended when Gatsby went to fight in the war Tom Buchanan had been having an affair with Myrtle Wilson who was married to Mr Wilson and lived between the East and West Eggs and New York City Gatsby was trying to get Daisy back at

  • Commentary on The Chocolate War

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    The Chocolate War The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a novel about a young teenage boy who refuses to sell chocolates for a school fundraiser It is this idea that sets the stage for this story The setting of the book is Trinity High School an all boys Catholic high school in New England during modern times Jerry Renault is one of the main characters in this story The author describes him as a skinny freshman who wants to join the football team He is 59 tall and weighs 145 pounds He is an at

  • Commentary on Our Town

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    The play Our Town by Thorton Wilder is a simplistic piece of literature with an outlook and overview on the larger and less prevelent topic of the need to look at what is infront of you the need to treasure the small pleasures that life has to offer Thorton accomplishes this modesty most acutly with three topics the first being the scenes following the friendship courtship and relationship between Emily and George The second is emilys untimly and dauting passing The third is the justly shown th

  • Hedda's Character in Hedda Gabler

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    Discuss the character of Hedda in Hedda Gabler The drama opens as Hedda Gabler and her new husband George Tesman return from their six month honeymoon to their new home Although Hedda has not yet appeared we are given vital clues about the coldness of her nature from the other characters conversations Firstly we learn that Berthe the maid is scared she wont give satisfaction to the young mistress because shes ever so particular Miss Julie Tesmans Aunt in agreement replies of course she is Gener

  • The Importance of Chapter Five in Frankenstein

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    This essay analyses the importance of chapter 5 and the ways Shelley author of Frankenstein builds up the atmosphere describes the night the monster and Victors attitude There are three editions of this book The first published in 1818 the second in 1823 and the third and final one in 1931 Shelley was born in 1797 this being a critical time in Europe Some central developments were the French revolution and Rise of industrialism This fictional story is about the creation of a monster made out of

  • Heritage in Everyday Use

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    Each of us is raised within a culture a set of traditions handed down by those before us As individuals we view and experience common heritage in completely different ways Within smaller communities and families deeply felt traditions serve to enrich this common heritage Alice Walker uses three different personalities in Everyday Use to portray multiple perspectives on character and heritage that in turn affect and reflect back on themselves In this short story the word heritage has two meaning

  • An Analytical Essay on The Chocolate War

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    An Analytical Essay on The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier This essay will analyze the emotions of courage hatred and senselessness from the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier By evaluating these emotions displayed by the main character Jerry Renault we can learn if they benefited him during his high school years Courage was reflected in The Chocolate War when Jerry opted not to participate in Trinity Schools annual chocolate fundraiser Courage would prove to be one of his fundamental em

  • Character Analysis Of The Narrator of The Tell Tale

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    Character Analysis of the narrator The Tell Tale Heart The narrator is the protagonist in the The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe This short story is about a man that wants to prove his sanity even though he has plans to compete murder upon the old man that lives with him He has a deep passionate fear of this mans blue eye which he feels is wicked and vulture like He speaks of love for the old man however the old mans vulture like blue eye is something that the narrator wants gone So he rati

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