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  • Analysis of Watchmen

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    Watchmen is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore Dave Gibbons and John Higgins The series was published by DC Comics in single issue during 1986 and 1987 and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form On Examining the Theme of the Watchmen the main Theme was to examine what superheroes would be like in a credible real world Characters of Watchmen were Moores admonition to those who trusted in heroes and leaders to guard the worlds fate To place faith in such icons was to give up per

  • White Noise

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    White Noise The fear of death is undoubtedly the most feared topic in human existence In White Noise that fear is so strong it becomes the controlling factor in the lives of Jack and Babette Gladney Both of them are in such a constant battle to overcome death and their fear of it they let life slip right by and never get the chance to live that life to its fullest Death and the Gladneys morbid fear and fascination with it are present throughout the entire book going so far as to lead Babette in

  • Structure in The Guide

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    THE GUIDE STRUCTURE The novel begins as a third person narrative but Narayan limits the narrative perspective or standpoint to Rajus consciousness almost entirely We never enter for example Rosies or Marcos consciousness which has the effect of keeping them ambiguous or mysterious especially Rosie Just once we seem to move away from Rajus perspective when Velans idiot brother relates his encounter with Raju to the villagers Otherwise Narayan sticks consistently to the Raju standpoint The third

  • Personal Conflict in Young Goodman Brown

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    Young Goodman Brown is the struggle between Goodman Browns faith power to resist his own evil impulses and his own doubts within him The story is a personal conflict over his internal desires and its greater meaning conflict between good and evil The characteristics of Young Goodman Brown are similar to the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne had his own doubts about his own Puritan life and beliefs The story of Young Goodman Brown is also a mystery story of evil In the story the au

  • Commentary on Woman Hollering Creek

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    Waiting for Freedom In the story Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleofilas a character who is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally Cisneros reveals the way the culture puts a difference between a male and a female men above women Cisneros has been famous about writing stories about the latino culture and how women are treated she explain what they go through as a child teen and when they ar

  • The Importance of Evidence in Trifles

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    Susan Glaspells play Trifles is a murder mystery drama that stresses the importance of evidence to solve a crime Two professionals sheriff Henry Peters and George Henderson a county attorney are searching for obvious evident incriminating evidence that they overlook trifles However wives of Mr Wrights close friends pick up on the small clues of the mystery In the end these two women solve the murder but do not tell anyone Two of the biggest pieces of evidences are Mrs Wrights bird and her past

  • The Importance of Little Things in Trifles

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    Little Things Mean a Lot in Trifles Susan Glaspells play Trifles explores the fact that women pay attention to the little things that may lead to the solving of a bigger problem Why are women so into the little things The attention to detail seems to be the starting point to solving the bigger problem Little things can be seen as pieces of a puzzle When the small pieces come together you see the bigger picture In the play Trifles the men seem to think the women only worry about the little thing

  • Commentary on To The Lighthouse

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    To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse is a so called stream of consciousness novel one of the particularities of this modern genre is that they have no real plot Plot always refers to action it indicates the special arrangement of its elements In the stream of consciousness novels however there very rarely is any action at all the few things that happen in the world around the characters are mostly only devices to influence the mental processes of the characters Written in a ful

  • Analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird

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    In the work To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee the symbol of a mocking bird is used to represent a person who is truly good at heart Throughout the novel there are many mockingbirds who are persecuted for various acts against the societys prejudices this is termed by Atticus in the novel as killing a mockingbird The act of killing a mocking bird is representative of sin because it is bringing down a person who thinks about the needs of others rather than worrying about themselves The character

  • Commentary on To Kill a Mocking Bird

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    To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Depression and is narrated by the main character a little girl named Jean Louise Scout Finch Her father Atticus Finch is a lawyer with high moral standards Scout her brother Jem and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors and he is made out to be a kind of monst

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