Unit: Short Stories “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Creative Writing Assignment Writing Situation: In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” the protagonist leads an unfulfilling‚ unsatisfying‚ and mundane existence. His only solace seems to come from the many daydreams that transport him to another place where his altered Ego dominates the landscape. By observing Walter Mitty’s exciting and lively daydreams‚ we get a distinct sense of what is sorely lacking in his real life. Directions for Writing:
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heartedness; goodness; benevolence‚ man-to-man-ness; what makes man distinctively human (that which gives human beings their humanity). 1. The virtue of virtues; Confucius said he never really saw it full expressed. The other virtues follow from it. He never gives and defends a definition of it although he does characterize it. 2. It is dearer than life itself--the man of jen will sacrifice his life to preserve jen‚ and conversely it is what makes life worth living. 3. Jen is a sense
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Othello: The Tragedy of a Black Man in a White World When William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello around 1603‚ he was writing from the perspective of an individual living during the historical Elizabethan era. The play was set in Venice‚ Italy as was a good number of Shakespeare ’s other works‚ and later Cyprus became the play ’s final setting. The characters themselves attested to a Greek system of language‚ dress‚ and behavior. However‚ Othello ’s several themes and the attitudes
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Emma “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” used an unconventional plot which a plot doesn’t have an exposition‚ a rising action‚ a climax‚ a falling action and a denouement in that order‚ however‚ an unconventional plot makes the story of Walter Mitty’s theme more stronger and leave a lot of imagination to the reader. The story developed the story by using smalls things‚ randomly appeared‚ as clues to connect the stories‚ so the story
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accepted by most people during the colonisation of Australia. Kate Grenville’s story The Secret River is set during the time in which Australia was colonised. An understanding of the historical context in which The Secret River is set‚ shapes your reading of the text because it helps you to understand issues in the text such as class‚ race and gender. Firstly‚ knowing about the class structure of the period that The Secret River is based on‚ gives the reader a greater understanding of the text. They believed
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Stephen King’s "The Man in the Black Suit" is a short story that makes us think. Who are we in this world? Is our destiny in our hands or is it already written? Can we avoid being in contact with evil? "The Man in the Black Suit" proves that evil is omnipresent in our world and that there is no way to avoid it. It does not matter who you are‚ where you are and when you are there‚ if evil wants to meet you‚ it will wind a way to do so. We would not be shocked so much if an adult has met the Devil
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a brook. Just then footsteps are heard on the path‚ and Hester sends Pearl away‚ but not before the girl asks whether it is the Black Man approaching and whether Dimmesdale holds his hand over his heart to cover the Black Man’s sign. Pearl asks her mother to tell her a story about the Black Man‚ who is said to haunt the forest. Hester explains to Pearl that the Black Man is a myth about the devil. He haunts this forest‚ carries a book with him a big‚ heavy book‚ and offers his book and an iron pen
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GOALS OF MY LIFE There are many goals that I would love to achieve. I am 30 and had dreamt of achieving a number of goals at 30 when I was 20‚ some I could but some alas! I couldn’t. ‘Goal achieving is something that you absolutely must do if you wish to fulfill your potential as human being. Goals enable you to do the work you want to do‚ to live where you want to live‚ to be with the people you enjoy‚ and to become the kind of person you want to be.’ I have grown up learning something alike
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It has been a problem about whether same sex couples should be able to marry since 1971. It was later considered it was not legal for same sex marriage and tradition for marriage in the United States has been designed as legal commitment between a man and a woman. However‚ homosexual relationships are increasingly gaining the interest of acceptance in our country. Vermont was the first state to introduce civil unions in July of 2002‚ and the first state to legalize same sex marriage without being
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“My Inspiration in Life” Somewhere in life‚ we sometimes fail and we sometimes get hurt but there’s always someone behind who would aspire us to out shine ourselves in doing enormous things. They are the reason why we stand up again and learn to mend our wounds. They are our inspiration in life‚ our motivator and our strength to reach success. It has always been a part of our life’s voyage to encounter different challenges in life. In every achievement‚ frustrations and happiness in my life‚ my
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