a) Chapters 1-3 1. Why does Mr. Lockwood go to Wuthering Heights? What kind of welcome does he receive? 2. Why does Lockwood return to Wuthering Heights uninvited‚ and how do the results of his visit affect the remainder of the novel? 3. When Lockwood first enters Wuthering Heights‚ who lives there? 4. What feeling do we get from Wuthering Heights and its occupants in these first few chapters? 5. Describe Heathcliff. 6. What glimpses from the past does Lockwood get when
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“Period Piece” by Joyce Cary Summary “Period Piece” by an outstanding Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary is a humorous short story. It is basically about a respectable middle-aged man‚ Frank Tutin‚ who has fallen in love with his young secretary Phyllis. As a result Tutin wants to divorce his wife Clare‚ but the mother-in-law Mrs. Beer protests against it. The story begins with the fact that Tutin wants to leave his wife and three children after sixteen years of married life. Clare does not object
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------------------------------------------------- A Brief History of Philippine Literature in English I. Pre-Colonial Period - Consisted of early Filipino literature passed down orally; oral pieces have a communal authorship – it was difficult to trace the original author of the piece since oral literature did not focus on ownership or copyright‚ rather on the act of storytelling itself; - Many oral pieces became lost in the wave of the new literary influence brought about
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Midterm Study Main Character List * Purple Hibiscus * Kambili : love and respect Papa; always hope Papa proud of her. Against her Papa at the end but still love him very much. Healing from trauma and can easily laugh‚ run‚ and looking for the future. Love equal pain to kambaili. (zip of love‚ tongue burn) * JaJa: Listen to his Papa but first against him; help sister Kambili and Mama all the time and sacrifices himself for the family. * Papa Eugene: (The representative
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leaves it up to the reader to make an impression on the characters. This lets him seem to be a neutral writer‚ while his expressive writing style gives the reader the impression that he intends for them to have. "The flowers were unnecessary‚ for two o’clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s‚ with innumerable receptacles to contain it. An hour later the front door opened nervously‚ and Gatsby‚ in a white flannel suit‚ silver shirt‚ and gold-colored tie‚ hurried in. He was pale‚ and there were dark
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capture the innate hardship of the Australian outback within its striking beauty. Wright and Lawson are two of Australia’s most noted poets and continue to resonate with audiences by engaging their audience through strong imagery and powerful use of figurative language to create an emotive tale. Lawson’s “Ballad of the Drover” and Wright’s “South Of My Days” are both narrative poems that tell contrasting stories of outback workers working differently on the land. Lawson employs the 3rd person and utilizes
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Introduction To Literature Essay Is it Literature? What is Literature? What is literature? To some there may not be a difference between these two questions posed‚ but in reality these two questions have totally different answers. One somewhat consistent difference between the two words Literature and literature is that Literature refers to a much more exclusive group of writing pieces than literature. The focus of this essay is to identify a couple pieces of Literature‚ not literature. Because of this fact I must give the
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African literature is highly diversified‚ even though it shows some similarities. In fact‚ the common denominator of the cultures of the African continent is undoubtedly the oral tradition. Writing on black Africa started in the middle Ages with the introduction of the Arabic language and later‚ in the nineteenth century with introduction of the Latin alphabet. Since 1934‚ with the birth of the "Negritude‚" African authors began to write in French or in English. Since the 1960’s quantitative and
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Mike Dolan‚ his partner in crime; detective Ben Price‚ Jimmy’s nemesis; and Annabel Adams‚ the girl with whom Jimmy falls in love. Minor characters are the prison warden; Cronin‚ a prison guard; Mr. Adams‚ Annabel’s father; Annabel’s sister; Annabel’s two young nieces‚ May and Agatha; a hotel clerk; and a young boy who lives in Elmore. As the story begins‚ Jimmy is called to the warden’s office. The warden hands Jimmy his pardon from the governor and advises him to stay out of trouble: “You’re not a
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