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    know about character: 1. Characterization is the means by which a writer reveals a character to a reader‚ including appearance‚ speech and behavior‚ thoughts and feelings‚ and other characters’ reactions and opinions. 2. There are four main elements of characterization. These include: a. How a character looks b. How a character acts c. How other characters react to this character d. What the

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    Do you use technology everyday? I believe that technology is fast growing and that we need it everyday to get by. Technology helps us get information that we need fast‚ provides us with different ways to communicate‚ and shows us that the use of apps help. Technology helps a lot of people around the world to communicate with everyone else. If there wasn’t technology then we wouldn’t be able to facetime family in different areas of the world. The resources we have told are better than the ones we

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    John Lubbock once wrote “Your character will be what you yourself chooses to make it”‚ do you believe your character is determined solely by you or if it is influenced by others? I believe that you are influenced by what you see‚ and that helps determine your character. Because of the media‚ parents ‚ and your peers‚ your character is influenced. Beginning with‚ the media influences you in ways you don’t even know. Nowadays people are always on their phone on some sort of social media‚ this makes

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    Melissa Martin Martin 1 Pressley ENG 102 April 27‚ 2014 How Shakespeare Uses Madness Madness is one of the main themes in Hamlet. There are many themes presented in the play but madness is the greatest of them all. Hamlet‚ Claudius‚ and Laertes all represent madness in the play. Characterization is representation of a character or characters on the stage or in writing‚ especially by imitating or describing actions‚ gestures‚ or speeches. Madness is the state of being mentally ill‚ esp

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    example‚ A vice figure like Iago would use exaggerated words and gestures to stress his strong feeling of antagonism towards Othello. Likewise‚ a melancholic Hamlet would experiment with words in an overstated manner (to show his conflicted state of mind). The Tragedy of Othello‚ the Moor of Venice (Act I‚ Scene I) and Hamlet (Act III‚ Scene IIII) directs the plays to there catastrophic endings. However‚ the language portrays the relationship between characters in different ways. In Othello‚ Iago exploits

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    he trusts Iago entirely‚ not showing any signs of wanting to further investigate on the case. Thirdly‚ when Iago reveals to Othello of his suspicion that Desdemona is cheating on him‚ it leads Othello to question the reason for his race‚ “And yet how

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    We first hear of the character of Assef‚ when he throws a rock at Hassan’s back‚ instantly showing us what the character of Assef is like. ‘We whirled round and my heart dropped’ shows us the fear and intimidation Assef carries around with him. The verb ‘dropped’ is very fitting to how Amir fears Assef. Straight away it makes the reader understand what Assef is like and foreshadows the trouble Amir is about to get himself in. When Assef approaches Amir and Hassan‚ Hosseini writes ‘Flanked by his

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    Compapare "Everyday Use"� and the "Prodical Son"� The stories‚ Everyday Use and The Prodigal Son‚ comparatively illustrate themes of jealousy and ungratefulness between siblings. From Biblical to present day times siblings have been fighting over material possessions. It is easy for people to get material possessions confused with love. They confuse these possessions that come from their elders with material worth. Jealousy is illustrated in both stories. In Everyday Use‚ the climax of the story

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    The Color Purple The story The Color Purple is about a fourteen-year-old girl name Celie who was raped repeatedly by a man whom she was lead to believe as her father majority of her life later only to find out later after her mother’s death he was not. At the time she believed that her father was her father so finding out that her father‚ Alphonso was not her father made her relieved being that she had gave birth to two children whom she believed was her brother and sister. Celie experienced rape

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    And being tall. And skinny. And ugly. I’m ashamed that I look like a bag of zits tied to a broomstick” (4). In a point of his life‚ Zits became so ashamed by his appearance that he even names himself from it. However‚ he does not make effort to change his appearance because he does not feel valued in society. His mother’s absence and father’s betrayal made Zits become lonely and more ashamed of his life. It hurts him to see kids with their

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