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  • Poor Communication in A Perfect Day for Bananafish

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    Throughout the book A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J D Salinger the inability to communicate is seen during the entire novel between Muriel Glass and her mother as well as between Muriel Glass and Seymour Glass This is supported by the random and sporadic dialogue between the two groups leaving readers confused The inability to communicate between Muriel and her mother is seen in the dialogue when it seems that they dont acknowledge what the other person says half heartedly trying to comfort t

  • Because Of Winn Dixie Book Review

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    This story was about a girl called India and she moved away from her home in Watley to a trailer park in the small town of Naomi Florida and she doesnt know anyone at all Her Dad is a preacher of the church and he is always busy But one day her dad sends her to the supermarket to get some macaroni cheese rice and tomatoes and she ends up coming back with a dog This dog she calls Winn Dixie helps her make friends throughout the story and ends up liking the people she used to hate She becomes wel

  • Commentary on Nickel and Dimed

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    The book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is a book about a woman in poverty looking for a way to get by in her daily life She lives in Florida and begins her long journey there When she leaves Florida she then heads up to Maine where everyone speaks English Then her third and final stop is too Minnesota where she becomes a Wal Mart employee Overall I was impressed with the book It offered a lot more information than I thought I would about living life in poverty In Florida Ehrenreich lea

  • Cause and Effect in A Good Man is Hard to Find

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    Cause and Effect Everything has a cause and an effect rather we like it or not When we make decision in life about anything there is always an outcome even if it is good or bad or even right or wrong We cannot control these outcomes rather we agree or disagree with our decisions we make During the short story of A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery OConnor has written that Much of my fiction takes its character from a reasonable use of the unreasonable The two main characters are behind the reas

  • Comparative Analysis of This Boys Life and Women's Right to Vote

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    Comparative analysis of A Boys Life and Womens Right to Vote The speech Womens Right to Vote by Susan B Anthony and the memoir This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff are two very different works in both style and context Anthony wrote the speech in 1872 to appeal to the American public for taking away womens suffrage and treating women unfairly Wolffs memoir is written to depict his early life as a teenager in 1950s and the people around him Wolff does not explicitly indicate womens social roles in the

  • Dystopia in The Handmaid's Tale

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    Dystopia Utopia and Handmaids Tale are significant stories that strive and link to together The two societies endure the reader in an epic way of living highly different than the ways we interact and inhabit our homes we call Earth Utopia is a place of remarkable way of peace and the great virtues of living but uniformly the dystopian society in Handmaids Tale becomes extremely fascist and totalitarian way of living The two sequestered civilizations Utopia and Gilead both have distinct chemistr

  • Epiphanies In The Dead

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    Many people in society feel alienated from the world and separated from their fellow man while others try to find meaning which escapes them In James Joyces The Dead Gabriel Conroy faces both these problems and questions his own identity due to a series of encounters that lead him to an epiphany about his relationship to the world This epiphany grants him a new beginning Gabriels progression from one who feels disconnected to one who has hope parallels Joyces changing view of Ireland from findi

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