The major characters in The Optimist’s Daughter are Judge McKelva‚ Becky Mckelva‚ Laurel Mckelva‚ Wanda Fay‚ Dr. Courtland‚ Miss Adele Courtland‚ Tish Bullock‚ Major Bullock‚ Miss Tennyson‚ and Miss Missouri. Becky Mckelva was Judge Mckelva’s wife before she died and had Laurel Mckelva with him. Wanda Fay remarried Judge Mckelva after his wife’s death. Dr. Courtland did surgery on Becky Mckelva and the final operation on Judge Mckelva. Miss Adele Courtland is the sister of Dr. Courtland and is a
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Bride To D..? The day of John and Cathy wedding was intended to be the best day of their life. The bride had on a beautiful white strapless mermaid dress‚ with diamonds spaced out on the top and lace that goes throughout the dress‚ and she had 6 inch pump heels with diamonds encrusted all over the shoe to match ; and the Groom had on a slim fit all white calvin klein tuxedo. They said their I-Dos and were on their way to go party. The family along with the bride and groom were mingling and dancing
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A Dill Pickle Explication The short story A Dill Pickle was written by Katherine Mansfield. It takes place sometimes in the early 1900s in some kind of Japanese themed restaurant. There is one main object throughout the story that is important to the plot‚ and that is‚ like the title suggests‚ a dill pickle. The story is about a woman named Vera‚ and a man she has met there that she has not seen in years‚ and one of the stories he tells her is about how one time during lunch while he was in Russia
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Heroine’s Journey A Short report on: “Where is the Mango Princess?” Cathy Crimmins “Where is the Mango Princess” In my search for an intellectual hero that could relate to a Speech Language Pathology[1] (SLP) major‚ I came across several drawbacks. I found that many people that could be held in such regard‚ produced books that read more like instructional manuals rather than a personal journey. I realized that not all “intellectual heroes” in my field of study
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English has always been one of my favorite subjects. Writing is a stress reliever for me and it helps me vent. I was glad when I found out I was in a writing class and my expectations were very much met. The class itself was easy yet informative; the teacher has a good way of getting the material across. The work was partnered up well with our books and it helped out a lot for our research papers. The class had three books used for help and we mostly used two of them. The two books were very helpful
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A Rose for Emily Explication “It was a big‚ squarish frame house that had once been white‚ decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies‚ set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left‚ lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores.
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Explication for “A Diamond Guitar” The final scene of Truman Capote’s “A Diamond Guitar” helps the reader develop a perfect view of how the characters in the story truly are. Mr. Schaeffer‚ a man of 50‚ is in prison because he killed a man‚ and Tico Feo‚ a boy of only 18‚ is there because he cut a sailor’s ear off. From details throughout the story you can tell that each man has done this for a different reason‚ but I would not say that either are bad men. Mr. Schaeffer is claimed to have
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Poem Explication: Marginalia The poem‚ “Marginalia” is written by Billy Collins‚ American poet. In his poem “Marginalia” Collins expressed how notes in the margins share reading experiences with others. He addressed every reader that they must contribute by expressing their views in Margins. He used different expressions‚ to relate the meaning of Marginalia and its importance for every reader. “Marginalia is defined as‚ “marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book) or “nonessential items”
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Only Daughter assignment 1 Comprehension 1.) When she states that she is the only girl in a family of six sons‚ Means she was a lonely‚ her brothers never wanted to play with her because she was a female. This made her think and image and become a writer. 2.) Being the only daughter she means that she is the only girl out of six boys. Being “only the daughter” she wasn’t allowed to do a lot with her brothers and was singled out‚ creating her to image and write. 3.) Advantages of being
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Critical Analysis: The Chief’s Daughter In The Chief’s Daughter‚ Chief Onyeka had planned out a life for his daughter‚ Adaeze‚ while she was away in London gaining her education. She was never to be married and was to stay home to take care of her father and take over his businesses. The Chief thought her to be most suitable for the position as it was a tradition in their tribe to have the chief’s favorite daughter stay home never to be married‚ but sending children abroad to learn in the
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