The lottery In the course of the narrative the lottery Tessie Hutchinson encounters tragic elements due to her unprovoked absence Furthermore the dangers that are embedded into the traditions of the village advocate how double crossing individuals can get as they pursue retribution for their loss ultimately leading to tragedy The lottery inhabited by the village has built itself recognition by displaying violent murders annually after the announcing of ones which carry the winning ticket Bobby
Lyra Belacqua SILVERTONGUE 11 year old a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford England It quickly becomes clear that Lyras Oxford is not precisely liked our own nor is her world In Lyras world everyone has a personal dmon a lifelong animal familiar This is a world in which science theology and magic are closely intertwined These ideas are of little concern to Lyra who at the outset of the story One day she and Pantalaimon pan an animal formed shape shifti
Who Was To Blame For The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare makes it obvious that although the story of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy they are in no way to blame for the fate that awaits them Instead the deaths of Romeo and Juliet could have been down to any of the people in the play as everyone contributed in one way or another Was it down to their families and their feud Or was it the nurse The person who is most to blame for their deaths is Friar Laurence In Romeo and Juliet Friar Lauren
Othello In the play Othello written by William Shakespeare Shakespeare shows the conflict of being a good lover and a good soldier that results in a union made in hell Shakespeare explains negligible detail of Othellos past life as a war hero Othellos love for war has forestalled him from living a normal life and having interaction with the ordinary people who live normal lives Othellos failure to make the transition from a good soldier to an ordinary human being as a lover leads to a tragedy l
Love Medicine Book Report Throughout the past couple of weeks Ive been reading the novel Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich I cant say that this book has been the easiest to read with Erdrichs unique writing style used from page to page I cant say that Ive ever read any other literature written exactly like Love Medicine Love Medicine doesnt follow the traditional plot line order of introduction exposition rising action climax falling action and resolution the book doesnt even follow a chronologic
The Key To Survival The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is divided up into three sections that at first seem fairly inconsequential to one another However shortly into the reading of the second part of the novel a reader will realize the importance and depth reached by bring these two separate pieces of work together One of the most obvious themes of the novel enhanced by strong metaphors and symbols is survival Martel is able to indirectly describe nearly every type of basic survival strategy
Shelleys view on Science Mary Shelleys novel Frankenstein is one neither typical nor stereotypical of the science fiction genre Below the ire plot of a grotesque creator lie a story deeply influenced by the discoveries during Mary Shelleys time of the early eighteen hundreds It represents a era of vast scientific discoveries and also a time of renewed social uncertainty and fear associated with such discoveries One of the most obvious is the discovery of electricity by Benjamin Franklin who per
How can a man of chivalry poetry and high education see himself as a coward and a failure Cyrano de Bergerac a character in the Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano is a popular man known for his big nose who is in love with a woman named Roxane his cousin who is loved by another man named Christian Putting his feelings aside Cyrano decides to help Christian win the heart of Roxane by reciting poems to her Roxane agrees to marry Christian before him and Cyrano head off to war were Cyrano wi
The Love of Family William Faulkners novel As I Lay Dying tells the story of the Bundren family a lower class family of Mississippi The mother Addie is on her death bed while the rest of her family is basically planning her funeral She is married to Anse Bundren and has five children Darl Cash Jewel Dewey Dell and Vardaman Two of the five are not Anses children yet Faulkner does not reveal this fact to the reader initially It seems like the family is tending to Addie by preparing her coffin and
The novel As I Lay Dying was written by the American author William Faulkner This story took place during the 1920s in a fictional town called Yoknapatowpha County in Mississippi It told the death of Addie Bundren and her familys quest to honor her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson While the family is transporting Addie to her burial place the Bundrens go through many obstacles Many forces of nature occur like the flooding of the river and bridges while crossing the river with the coff