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    Most writers of the Caribbean have been preoccupied by particular themes and have adhered to mutual tracks‚ while often contrasted in approach and writing. The possibility or impossibility of the account of one’s story‚ when the very concept of the individual has been crushed by slavery and colonisation‚ the circumstances of advent of a new Caribbean identity‚ the analysis of the past‚ writing in exile and lastly‚ landscape and nature: where the environment or surrounding tells the story‚ is an essential

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    jumping in the time. There are a lot of flashbacks and even flash forwards too. The first flashback‚ the main character meets her dad for the first time after his death. She is in the bathroom when he appears‚ and he is small talking with her. The daughter knows everything about her father‚ and we know that by the detailed and specified description of the dead father. That tells us that she was very close to him. After this we immediately jump over to another flashback‚ where he appears on a train on it’s

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    actually felt the ghosts emotions. Mel Gibson’s film portrayed Shakespeare’s play Hamlet better than Kenneth Branagh’s version. The setting in Mel Gibson’s version was more of what I had imagined. The flashbacks of the ghosts life looked like something that may have happened in that time. While the flashbacks in Kenneth Branagh’s version were confusing to me. I did not understand why they were there and just did not fit. The emotions

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    at the hands of the Socs -which not only linger upon his skin‚ but also penetrate his heart. In chapter two of this engaging and teen-centered novel‚ we dig deeper into the past of Johnny Cade’s life‚ thanks in part to a captivating first-person flashback from Johnny’s fellow Greaser‚ Ponyboy Curtis. While Ponyboy and his fresh friend Cherry Valance‚ a Soc

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    does an excellent job showing the parallel rise to power for both Michael and his father‚ Vito. Techniques used in the film to show this parallel include the director’s use of flashback and lighting. The film continues the main story line‚ which centers on Michael Corleone‚ the new Don of the Corleone and a series of flashbacks following his father‚ Vito Corleone from his childhood in Sicily to 1901 and the founding of the Corleone family. The narrative juxtaposition between Vito’s rise to power

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    Citizen Kane was a film released in 1941 and it it was voted #1 in history of American film. It was written by‚ directed by and acted by Orson Welles. The story was set in Xanada in Florida and started with an introduction about that place. Citizen Kane has a strange opening as it opened with the camera panning a spooky haunted mansion and then the camera lingered and zoomed in closely to the sign saying ¡§No Trepassing‚ ¡¨ then the camera took us to the room in the house‚ we saw a person was lying

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    in the narrative and also support these concepts. Overall‚ Silko structures her exposition effectively in order to captivate and engage readers. One example of Silko’s choice of structure that adds to the character of her writing is her use of flashbacks in the text. By use of engaging personal memories within the text‚

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    INT. ATTIC-DAY The screen is black. After a pause of a few seconds‚ the a sliver of light appears in the distance. The ray of light grows and it turns out to be a attic door opening. A person’s head is seen silhouetted against the house behind them. A light is turned on and the attic is partially illuminated by a dim light bulb hanging from the ceiling. The person pulls himself completely into the attic. He carries a FLASHLIGHT and uses it to probe into the dark corners of the low‚ wooden room.

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    story “Bullet in the Brain” is written by Tobias Wolff. The story takes place in a bank‚ where we meet the main character Anders. We see the incident from an omniscient narrator’s point of view. The short story is told in chronological order with flashback. We meet Anders in the beginning of the text as a rude and sarcastic man‚ who has the need to be sarcastic towards a strange woman. When Anders gets shot in the head‚ the first thing the narrator tells the reader is the things‚ which did not pass

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    ------------------------------------------------- Critical Reading of Literature in English Critical Analysis of the short story ‘Hills like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway. Word Count: 1367 Hills like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway “Will Jig have the abortion and stay with the man; will Jig have the abortion and leave the man; or will Jig not have the abortion and win the man over to her point of view?” (Hashmi‚ N‚ 2003). These are the three different scenarios that have been

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