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“Red Dress” is a short story written by Alice Munro, which revolves around a young girl’s initial high school dance experience. The dance was heavily influenced by the narrator’s home and school environment. In her unfortunate home life, she endured constant mental abuse from her mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie. This led…

My favorite British writer and his famous book ‘Treasure Island’ My favorite famous British writer is Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. Robert went to Edinburgh University to study law. Later on he decided that he wanted to be a writer, not a lawyer. In his early 20s…

RexPolybus and Merope, but Jocasta is his real mother. Oedipus was born in Thebes, but he spent most of his adult life in Corinth. Due to some mistakes that Oedipus makes prior to the start of the play, trouble seems to surround him later. Oedipus was very patriotic. Once he even made generals that had…

The Great Gatsby ? Chapter 1 ?Worksheet 1. How does Nick see himself? Nick sees himself as both highly moral and highly tolerant. 2. What does the Buchanan house look like? It’s elaborate, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. There is a lawn started at the beach and ran toward…

The Fault in Civilization Civilization is a crucial aspect of the way society functions today. It is the system that sustains an orderly environment in which its citizens can prosper. In the Lord of the Miss, Gilding suggests that civilization is not as stable as it seems. Through character actions and symbols, he comments on…

In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the Youngers, an African-American family struggling financially in Chicago’s south side, are central. Each family member has their own dreams and aspirations; some dreams are so intense they threaten to overflow, while others remain suppressed. Regardless, every family member holds onto a dream. Walter,…

Revenge, it was a common theme among the plays, and works of literature published during Shakespeare’s time. It is only natural that it would be a topic that the writer himself would touch on. While not his most well-known play dealing with revenge the Tragedy of Titus Andronicus was likely Shakespeare’s earliest delve into the…

Malcolm Gladwell has a good representation of this throughout the entire book. He helps support his idea by using literary terms such as logos, tone, imagery, and allusion. In the first part of this book Gladwell introduces the concept of “priming” and there are certain stimuli (images, words, and etc.) that can influence people to…

rque. Little, Brown and Company. (U.S.A., 1990) 248pp. On page 1 of the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front”, we are introduced to a group of soldiers who transition from regular human beings to instinct-driven animals as they enter the front line of the war (53). These soldiers, including Paul Baumer and his childhood…

Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz are both memoirs of the authors’ experiences in Nazi concentration camps, but they depict vastly different experiences and have different approaches. Where Wiesel’s is more humanistic, showing how his protagonist finds the spirit to survive, Levi’s account is more scientific, showing an almost Darwinistic milieu where…