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  • Commentary on Picnic

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    At the end of Picnic Madge packs her bags and leaves town to follow Hal Inges desire to portray young love as sexually charged and rebellious revealed an America hidden behind the perfect world so often depicted in 1950s entertainment a world that would further reveal itself in the films music and plays of the coming decades While ignoring the realities of the Cold War the Korean Conflict and other prevalent threats of the era television and film generally tried to convey American life as roman

  • Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Have you ever wondered who you were supposed to be Like a rose bush that starts out weak and vulnerable so too do we begin our journeys incomplete and unprepared for the world With care and attention a rosebush will grow and develop into a larger thornier bush flushed with blossoms We too will grow into stronger tougher more mature people who have a light or blossom that shines through in our every action In Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie Crawford is a young African Amer

  • Commentary on The Lottery

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    The words the lottery immediately bring to mind the conventional idea of a lucky jackpot winner but writer Shirley Jackson had a different image in mind when using these words to title her haunting short story By manipulating this deceptive image Jackson creates an abrupt and shocking ending and sheds light on humanitys tendency to cling to meaningless rituals In the story the warm summer day the childrens play the casual chatter and the air of suppressed anticipation of the village on the day

  • Commentary on Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

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    SET like Roddy Doyles previous novels in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Barrytown this new one is a boys own account of his doings there in 1968 when he was 10 told not with hindsight but as if he were still 10 and until the last few pages as if he would always be 10 Roddy Doyle was himself that age in 1968 and his small heros name has the shape of his own But whether we have pure prodigious memory to thank or some even rarer gift this must be one of the truest and funniest presentations

  • The War Between Passion and Responsibility in Ethan Frome

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    The War Between Passion and Responsibility in Edith Whartons Ethan Frome One recurring theme in literature is the classic war between a passion and responsibility In Edith Whartons 1911 novel Ethan Frome set in 1881 Starkfield Massachusetts the protagonist Ethan Frome confronts the demands of a private passion with Mattie Silver that conflict with his responsibility to his wife Zeena Ethans anticipation of his night alone with Mattie his night in his study and his attempt to commit suicide reve

  • Analysis of Two Versions of Emma

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    Amy Heckerlings adaptation of Jane Austens Emma has transformed a 19th century classic English novel into a teen flick romcom film of the 20th century entitled Clueless Despite the vastly different historical settings and societal values of the two texts Amy Heckerlings Clueless still retains the essential values of the original text by adapting these values into a modern society of our time and a modern audience of our age Comparatively through the themes of class and social structure and the

  • Conflicting Cultures in A Passage To India

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    A passage to India The author of the novel A passage to India is E M Forster and the main character of the novel is Dr Aziz a Muslim doctor in Chandrapore and widower The novel is about the associations among the English and the native population of India during the colonial period when Britain ruled India The novel takes place primarily in Chandrapore a city along the Ganges River notable only for the nearby Marabar caves After he is summoned to the Civil Surgeons home only to be promptly igno

  • A Child Called It as a Means to Help and Inform

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    Typical childhoods consist of toy trucks lollipops piggyback rides and hide and seek It involves bedtime stories from mom and dad a day at the park with daddy giving underdogs and mommy sitting at the picnic table bearing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ice cold milk in a thermos All of these things grant a child a wonderful relationship with their parents and often lead to good decision making as they develop into young adults and further on But typical is not as common as it implies Ma

  • A Critical Analysis of Hamlet

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    A Critical Analysis of Hamlet Why is Shakespeare considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of his time Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era and had to write for an Elizabethan audience and theater By todays standards this was no picnic in the park Under those circumstances he wrote some of the greatest works in history These works still popular today prove him to be a consummate dramatist Shakespeare knew how to craft dramatic scenes full of external and internal conflict and emotion

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