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    choice parallels contemporary artistic ideas in cubism and surrealism. Cubism is a form of artistry that prizes the uniqueness of different perspectives, often using geometric shapes or aesthetic balance. For instance, the novel begins in Darl’s narrative where he says “Jewel and I come up from a field, following the path single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cotton house can see Jewel’s frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own” (Faulkner 1)

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    Some of the problems I noticed were the interviews and speeches that Thucydides discusses. The interviews that Thucydides conducted were a product of the person motives at the time. When conducting the interviews, was there bias? Could Thucydides questioning produced questions the interviewees thought that he wanted to hear? As seen in The View from the Bottom Rail, the interviews conducted “discovered that all the clues so carefully pieced together were hopelessly biased, leading the investigation

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    The lost of innocence can totally change the way people view the world. A person who illustrates this can be found in J.D. Salinger’s novel, the Catcher in the Rye. The story happened during the 1950s, in a small town in Pennsylvania called Agerstown. A teenage boy named Holden, who witnesses the death of his older brother Allie when he was only 13 years old. Then consequently, he blames himself all his life for the death of Allie. As time went by he starts to search for a sense of innocence that

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    The description Lee utilizes of the Radleys gives off an eerie and mysterious, almost kind of creepy feel. Within this chapter, the Radley house is described as “low, once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it.” What’s also described in this passage is the shingles and the vegetation growing in abundance around house, revealing indications that the Radleys hardly ever came out of their house. This portrayal of the

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    Edgar Allen Poe's narrators are unreliable such as in the stories, ¨A Tell-Tale Heart¨ and ¨The Black Cat¨ because the narrators are alcoholics and have mental disabilities. A unreliable narrator is someone who can not be trusted to tell a story in the correct way because there is something wrong with them that makes them incapable of telling a story. For example, in the stories listed above the narrators are either always intoxicated or they have mental disabilities which make them illegible to

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    The Use of Cassie as the Narrator in Taylor's Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Cassie is an intelligent, outspoken, self-confident, and independent young girl who is also the narrator of the novel. Roll of thunder, hear my cry, is a coming of the age story for Cassie as she awakens to the true extent of racism in the south over the course of her tenth year. As she narrates the events, this leads her to mature and grow up. There are quite a few factors, which need to be examined

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    Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and Holden from J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye Holden from "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger and Christopher from "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon are both two very interesting first person narrators in many different ways. Holden is a 17years old boy having difficulty staying in schools more than 6 months because he doesn't work enough and Christopher

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    The novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, presents moral issues, and daily dehumanization of men living in a camp in Russia in 1951. Ivan Denisovich, the protagonist in the novel spoke out against Stalin, and was then put in a prison camp because of it. The novel presents a terrible situation in which Ivan must overcome daily circumstances, which only a person living in a prison camp would know how to survive. The tone and mood of the novel are able to work together to show the theme of

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    In literature, the relationships between characters are crucial to fully understanding the tone and meaning as a whole. It is through the the contrast of healthy relationships and those which seem to be toxic that a story can explore characterization. In the short stories “Ballet” by Pete Fromm and “A Wanderer” by Josip Novakovich, the relationship between characters were on the brink of destruction, which adds immense amounts of conflict to the plot and leads to their characterization and development

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    Throughout The Odyssey, the audience often feels sympathy for Odysseus and his men: our idealistic minds want to root for the long lost king to make it home to his true love and his kingdom. His return home takes priority in our minds, causing us to root for the fall of anyone and anything that may come in between him and his happy ending. At a closer glance, however, it seems that Homer does not want us to blindly root for the human adventurers. It may be his intention to reveal the humanity and

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