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  • Culture and Relationships in The Kite Runner

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    The Kite Runner Nobody would ever imagine the tranquil pastime of kite flying to deviate into a guilt driven tale of malfeasance and redemption Overlooking mistakes leads to a domino effect of problems that eventually transform ones life into a delusion In The Kite Runner a single unfortunate event triggers an extensive journey for each of the main characters who struggle to obtain salvation in a country that doesnt tolerate mistakes In the novel The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini portrays the sig

  • Self-Interest in The Kite Runner

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    The Kite Runner demonstrates that people are motivated more by self interest than by honour Discuss The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini is a novel written about a boys life It shows many characteristics of people and how they behave The Kite Runner has many examples of people being motivated by their own self interest rather than honour This is shown in many circumstances and for many different reasons it defines the characters as real people making choices that are made by people in eve

  • Portrayal of Life in India in Malgudi Days

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    Portrayal of Life in India in Malgudi Days by R K Narayan In Malgudi Days although R K Narayan seems to present us with a bleak portrayal of India where life is very hard and there is very little human happiness he means to reflect the triumph of the human spirit over the cruel circumstances of life In India poverty and the lack of education are prejudiced against and people are discriminated against because they are poor In A Willing Slave Ayah is discriminated against and treated badly merely

  • Commentary on The Ring

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    The story begins with a recently young married couple named Lovisa and Sigismund Lovisa and Sigismund are ages nineteen and twenty four and they are incredibly in love despite the efforts of her family attempting to keep them apart since they were more wealthy than his family Lovisa feels that she is more free by having gotten married and is delighted that she has never kept a secret from her husband Sigismund was afraid that he could not provide an ideal life for his wife which she thought was

  • Shylock in Merchant Of Venice

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    The treatment of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice has long been a controversial issue In the context of the play Shylock hates Antonio and seeks his revenge in an unusual and even garish way by demanding a pound of flesh Any villain would be seen as extremely villainous for that sort of behavior but the villainy of Shylock has been tied to the idea that the play is saying his villainy derives from his being Jewish In fact such a view ignores the comic nature of the play itself and also the way

  • Commentary on The Masque Of The Red Death

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    In an unknown country a ruler named Prince Prospero has quarantined himself and one thousand of his closest friends within his castle to escape from the widespread Red Death which is plaguing the land In describing the unique nature of this illness Blood was its Avatar and its seal the redness and the horror of blood There were sharp pains and sudden dizziness and then profuse bleeding at the pores with dissolution And the whole seizure progress and termination of the disease were the incidents

  • Morality in The Lottery

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    In The Lottery Chris Abani shows how religion was a big part of his village First people have different views on whats just and not just This is way crimes such as murders are committed by some and not by others One day in Chris village a man was accused of stealing and he wasnt given a trial Chris religious aunt slapped the man on his way out the store which showed that she thought the man was a disgrace During this time Chris has been reading about mob crimes In the 70s mob lynching were beco

  • The American Dream in On The Road

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    The novel serves as a forceful and complex rejection of the white middle class American Dream On the Road exemplifies how the Beat generation was a multi levelled and powerful rejection of the traditional American Dream The fundamental messages of the American Dream are stability and that to be an accomplished person one must own a house in the suburbs On the Road contradicts this point as all enjoyment and progression of the characters comes through a nomadic and unstable lifestyle This impuls

  • Commentary on Oliver Twist

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    Oliver Twist Essay Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens was an instant classic winning the hearts of thousands with its heart wrenching story about a lost boy trying to find his way back to life The storys beloved characters such as Oliver not only do his actions portray his personalities his actions seem to be destined as if fate has a role in the story As the story begins its life and reaches its death Oliver tends to have a change in fate when hes with Mr Bumble Fagin and Miss Maylie Ever

  • Analysis of Macbeth

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    Evil Immoral Good These are words which with we use to define people define their actions their purpose and inevitably decide how we react to them As we view Shakespeares tragedy Macbeth the principal character Macbeth is witnessed as a hero an extraordinary soldier someone who is honourable valorous and someone who we might define and picture as good As the nature of this portrayal changes relative to his ambition one sees the notion that corrupting power is the result A result that leads to a

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