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  • Nightfall

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    Nightfall is a short story set on a planet in which it is never fully dark. A group of scientists has discovered an irregularity in the orbit of the planet around its six suns; it is determined that soon, the planet will be plunged into the first true darkness it has known for centuries. As another scientist discovers evidence of past societal collapses, the consensus is that full darkness will drive people insane. This story contains themes of solitude, the vastness of the universe, and existentialism.

  • Coming of Age in The Yearling

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    The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is a story about self discovery and the rite of passage for young Jody Baxter The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings She wrote the novel about what she knew best she lived in north central Florida where the novel is set The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939 The story outlines the life of the Baxter family The story is told over the course of a year in the Baxters life The story is based on young Jody growing

  • Analysis of To Kill A Mocking Bird

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    Jean Louise Finch is the protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee narrates the story describing her life between the ages of six and eight She is tomboyish and therefore nicknamed Scout Scout is well educated mainly due to her father and has a positive view of the world around her She stays with her widowed father Atticus her older brother Jeremy Atticus Finch and their black cook Calpurnia in Maycomb Alabama The narrative technique used in this novel is the first person narrator stance

  • Analysis of The Things They Carried

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    The Things They Carried Tim OBrien was an infantryman in during Vietnam War He used those experiences to write many short stories including The Things They Carried The story portrays how the things they carried were weightless in comparison to their feelings of love and loss fear and shame and the torturous memories of death They all carried emotional baggage of men who might die Grief terror love longing these were intangibles but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity they ha

  • Culture in Everyday Use

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    The Anthology of the American Short Story has many American short fiction stories When having to go through and choose one for my essay I had a hard time because all the authors I wanted to read we are already reading for class So I studied a lot of different authors and finally found one that caught my eye Alice Walker is best known for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple This novel made her the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as winning the

  • Analysis of Three Pieces of Literature

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    3 Pieces of Literature Art During this course I have read many great poems plays and short stories My favorite poem was My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke Even more intriguing about that particular poem was what I found out after researching it I had never read Everyday Use by Alice Walker but I found it very interesting It reminded me a lot of my own family A Theme for English B by Langston Hughes was a eye opener for me on racism during that time frame As far as being able to compare these li

  • Good and Evil in Beowulf

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    Beowulf is an Anglo Saxon epic poem that portrays a story of an epic hero who seems destined to destroy all monsters in order to save a kingdom from death and destruction The major theme in this epic surrounds the concept of good versus evil Good versus evil has existed throughout time in that heroes have defended the righteous and villains were bent on destruction In this case Beowulf and Grendel represent the ultimate struggle of good and evil Beowulf represents the ability to do good and per

  • Blackness of Death (Genocide) - based off the book Night)

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    Around the time of World War II Nazi Germany used their propaganda to portray Jewish people as non human animals For example drawings were published that characterized Jews as having horns Jews were viewed as objects of derision The Nazis used dehumanization as a way to sway public opinion toward their evil goals They used tactics like separating them from society by putting them in ghettos Secondly they used a cloth yellow star so it is visible to the public what they are An instant judgment w

  • Critical Analysis: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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    Critical Essay An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge has received more critical attention than any other single work by Ambrose Bierce This is probably because it combines into one text the best ingredients distributed among much of Bierces fictionsatire irony manipulation of the reader the exposure of human self deception a surprise ending and a stylistic compression and tautness It may also be because something of the story still eludes its commentators leaving a

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