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  • Trust in The Tell Tale Heart

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    Who can you trust In the short story The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe this theory proves to be true The narrator opens the story by telling the reader that he doesnt know why but that he wants to kill the old man that he takes care of The old man didnt have gold that pleased the narrator it was just something deep down that every time he looked at the old man he wanted to kill him Maybe was it because of that eye Yes the narrator describes the old mans eye as being the eye of a vulture a

  • Commentary on The Rocking Horse Winner

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    The Rocking Horse Winner To begin with The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story written by D H Lawrence This short story is about a young boy named Paul who feels the need to have luck due to his mother always saying that his father has no luck and is always in the need for having more and more money According to the mother if you have luck you have money that is why its better to be born lucky than rich P 268 Para 5 Due to this constant saying Paul and the rest of the family hear voices in th

  • Gods and Humans Influence in The Pearl

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    Topic Its believed that both gods and human shape the life of Kino To what extent do you agree or disagree with this perspective The Pearl novella which is a simple echoes a moral parable written by John Steinbeck display the petty life of an Indian pearl diver Kino who is found the magnificent pearl After discover the pearl Kino wants to fulfill his desires to change his difficult life for a favor of social reputation Kino struggle hard to complete his dream nevertheless his life suffering a l

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    Topic Its believed that both gods and human shape the life of Kino To what extent do you agree or disagree with this perspective The Pearl novella which is a simple echoes a moral parable written by John Steinbeck display the petty life of an Indian pearl diver Kino who is found the magnificent pearl After discover the pearl Kino wants to fulfill his desires to change his difficult life for a favor of social reputation Kino struggle hard to complete his dream nevertheless his life suffering a l

  • Shylock in Merchant Of Venice

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    In the thought provoking comedy The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare we are introduced to a Jewish money lender Shylock Shylock helps build the main them of the play Prejudice and All is not what it seems In this essay I will be analysing and observing Shylock to understand whether he is a victim of prejudice or villain who deserves his misfortune Antonio a rich merchant is without any reason depressed His friends suggest he worried about his cargo ships or he is in love He dismisses b

  • Commentary on The Lottery

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    Things Are Not Always What They Seem The underpinnings of Shirley Jacksons famous post World War II story The Lottery demonstrate that the work is far greater than the sum of its parts The date of the lottery its location and the symbolic or ironic names of its characters all work to convey a meaning that is even more disturbing than the shock created by its well known ending namely that despite assurances during the late 1940s that it couldnt happen here a microsomal holocaust occurs in this s

  • Commentary on The Lottery

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    In The Lottery Shirley Jackson describe June 27 the day the lottery is held as a normal everyday life for the towns people in a small town called Anytown USA in the story Jackson addresses the day of the lottery as a normal quite and pleasant day In my opinion the lottery is a cruel bizarre tradition that note of the towns people thought to question the ritual on why an individual get stoned to death their very own towns people Jackson uses simple objects to symbolize cruelty and unfairness to

  • Commentary on The Last King Of Scotland

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    The Last King of Scotland opens with Nicholas Garrigan describing how he happened to become the personal physician to Idi Amin president of Uganda in the 1970s While Garrigan is serving as a physician at a bush surgery in the western Ugandan provinces he is called to the scene of an automobile accident Lying on the ground next to his wrecked Maserati is President Amin who needs his wrist bandaged A few months later Garrigan is asked to come to the capital as Amins personal physician He complies

  • Choices in The Lady Or The Tiger

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    Emotion Within You Which door did the princess choose The Lady or the Tiger Inside of all of us there is an analogy between love and hate What is the stronger emotion love or hate That questions answer could lead to which door that of the Lady or the Tiger The Lady or the Tiger causes humans to think deeply and decipher between two choices in a heart wrenching dilemma The princesss decision lies within her emotions is she a lover or hater and what will be the mans fate and who really decides th

  • Commentary on The Jungle

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    THE JUNGLE By Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair starts the book off by introducing the setting of two immigrants of America from Lithuania the country north east to Poland The two are about to get married and Sinclair gives examples of the traditional Lithuanian customs of marriages He also shows how it is difficult for Jurgis and Ona to keep alive the traditions being immigrants in America living in Chicago The couple relying on gifts of money from the guest as a tradition doesnt hold their end of

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