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    How does Tim Butcher emphasise the problems and possible dangers faced on his journey during this passage? (P59-63) There are many ways in which Tim Butcher emphasises danger during this passage; he does this through his language and through using other techniques such as using triplets. One example of danger is at the very start of the passage (bottom of page 59) and this is where we see the first use of a triplet – using this technique emphasises just how dangerous the Congo can be: “Thoughts

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    A210 – Approaching Literature Assignment 1 Read the passage from Pride and Prejudice and‚ in a continuous essay of not more than 1‚000 words‚ analyse this passage‚ discussing how narrative voice and dialogue are important elements in the creation of meaning in the passage. The passage of Pride and Prejudice contains many narrative devices to help further the understanding of the reader. This includes the narrative devices of ‘telling’ the reader events using narrative voice‚ free indirect

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    are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages."(mark twain) Twain uses this passage to highlight the differences between social levels. Using the reactions of Jim and Huck towards each other’s actions‚ Twain effectively stretches the lines between white and black. The passage right away starts with Jim looking at trash and then looking at Huck‚ and then back again. Silently comparing Huck to trash. Jim then states that "dat

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    True Grit Favorite Passages My favorite passage from the beginning of True Grit is the very first passage of the book. “People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then‚ although I will say say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith‚ Arkansas‚ and robbed him of his life

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    This section of this passage is interesting literally. Paul uses pronouns that seem to be speaking directly to Titus. He urges the young pastor to set a good example with good works. To many of scholar is again is evidence of faulty authorship in the Pastoral Epistles. Paul’s

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    In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” the specific elected passage is heavily rich in details dealing with setting and imagery. The line that starts off the passage sends a clear message of a long enclosed space. “The violence of breaking down the door‚” shows that entering the aforementioned space was no easy feat and therefore had to be forced. The manner in which we can approach this precise detail is by stating that this was a room for used for solidarity or perhaps its purpose

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    thin‚ “in their white sick faces there glowed the dawn of a new future‚ a perfect resurrection into a new life. Love had raised them from the dead‚ and the heart of each held endless springs of life for the heart of the other” (526). I found this passage intriguing because I think it is amazing how Sonya and Raskolnikov came into each other lives and saved each other‚ whether it be directly or indirectly. For instance‚ Sonya serves as Raskolnikov’s link to humanity. She provides him contact with the

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    Together‚ they chanted One! Two! Three! and they crashed the log on to the great pile” (Golding 39). This quotation uses the repetition of the word “together” because the author is trying to express the positive relationship between the two boys. This passage also symbolises the beginning

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    The Middle Passage

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    The "Middle Passage" was the journey of slave trading ships from the west coast of Africa‚ where the slaves were obtained‚ across the Atlantic‚ where they were sold or‚ in some cases‚ traded for goods such as molasses‚ which was used in the making of rum. However‚ this voyage has come to be remembered for much more than simply the transport and sale of slaves. The Middle Passage was the longest‚ hardest‚ most dangerous‚ and also most horrific part of the journey of the slave ships. With extremely

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    The Middle Passage was seen as the most terrible version of the slave trade. It was the event during the slave trade that one can argue stripped African people of power and pride. The African body was taken and forced to endure this passage to eventually be sold. This was a ship that the African believe that will take them to their fate. Slaves were captured in Africa and then squashed into wooden crates where they were clamped in chains. They were then loaded onto the ships and there were two ways

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