The excerpt "Death of a Soldier‚" taken from Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott features various rhetorical strategies to create an appeal to emotion. She exhibits the compassion of the nurse for John‚ even in the face of inevitable death; she displays the altruistic mindset of John‚ and adds depth to her words by using analogies. She uses these tools in order to inflict a deep emotional feeling and an understanding of how awful the situation actually was. One of the rhetorical strategies of
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Gradgrind’s speech‚ the opening paragraph to Hard Times‚ is probably as famous as the novel itself. Published in 1854‚ Hard Times tells the story of a fictional Northern industrial town by the name of Coketown‚ and particularly of the Gradgrind family. Thomas Gradgrind brings up his children according to the strict precepts of
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vessels then and there arranged in order‚" not unlike the wisps of hair on the side of the Speaker’s head‚ humorously described as "a plantation of firs." Chapter 11 begins with the introduction of Thomas Gradgrind‚ "a man of realitiesfacts and calculations." He always introduces himself as Mr. Gradgrind and spends his time in constant cogitation. He is the Speaker‚ previously unnamed and he now takes it as his duty to educate the children. 3. The
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the Innocents Chapter Two begins with the introduction of Thomas Gradgrind‚ "a man of realitiesŠfacts and calculations." He always introduces himself as Mr. Gradgrind and spends his time in constant cogitation. He is the Speaker‚ previously unnamed and he now takes it as his duty to educate the children ("little pitchers before him"). He identifies a student‚ called Girl number twenty‚ who replies that her name is Sissy Jupe. Gradgrind corrects her that her name is Cecilia regardless of what her father
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Tessa P. English-Term Paper Louisa May Alcott-Term Paper “Writers write from and about their own experiences.” Many authors use experiences from their life as a guide to their writing. It’s a way to express their feelings and emotions‚ and it’s something in which they can be passionate. Writers and authors think on a different level than anyone else. They are constantly thinking of different ideas for novels‚ poems or stories. The best writing comes from those who use their own lives
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of reasons. In the short story‚ “Louisa‚ Please Come Home”‚by Shirley Jackson‚ the main character‚ Louisa‚ runs away from her home. After three years‚ Louisa was forced to return back home‚ but her family does did want her back because she was a fraud. In the short story‚ “Louisa‚ Please Come Home”‚by Shirley Jackson‚ the main character‚ Louisa‚ thinks only about herself‚ is friendless‚ and is immature. Louisa only thinks about herself. Thus so because Louisa ran away the day before of her sister’s
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Thomas Gradgrind is a man bereft of any imagination or fancy‚ and perhaps that is why he is a staunch believer in the practicality of the education system. He discards wonderment and regards facts and figures as the ultimate path to learning. In the novel Hard Times‚ the author Charles Dickens has shown Gradgrind as an educationist‚ and hence has portrayed him implementing his views on both his pupils in the school‚ as well as on his family. He expects his students to engage in nothing but factual
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Louisa Lawson was a newspaper proprietor‚ Australian poet‚ writer‚ publisher‚ suffragist‚ and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson. Louisa Lawson was an independent and sophisticated woman who fought for women’s rights during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Australia. In May 1889‚ Louisa launched the campaign for female suffrage and announced the Dawn Club where women met to discuss every question of life and work to gain experience in public speaking
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Louisa and Sissy: Fact against fancy in Hard Times. Two female characters in Hard Times‚ Louisa Gradgrind and Sissy Jupe could be considered contrastive by fate and there is moral fable in this contrast. It is significant that in last two paragraphs of the novel Dickens applies to motherhood as a sense of woman happiness. Daughter of main educator of Coketown‚ have got only the bitter questionnaire: “Herself again a wife - a mother - lovingly watchful of her children‚ ever careful that
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Characters: Most important characters in the book are Louisa Clark and Will Traynor. Louisa Clark is an average girl with a spunky fashion sense‚ and she was hired by Will’s mother to keep Will company. Will is an adventurous guy who later in his life gets hit by a motorcycle causing him to become a quadriplegic‚ basically he’s paralyzed from the top of his spinal cord all the way down. Events: The most important events to me are when Will jokes about Louisa giving him a bath‚ Will’s death‚ and the epilogue
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