The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and his orphaned niece‚ Catherine. They live in an insular‚ self-ruled neighborhood known as a polis. As the play begins‚ Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine‚ although his feelings grow into something more than avuncular as the play develops. His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice’s two cousins‚ Marco and Rodolpho. They have
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Graceling takes place on a large land mass‚ dubbed "The Seven Kingdoms". It is split into 7 different sections each controlled by a king and/or queen. The kingdoms are (in order from tops to bottom) Nander‚ Wester‚ Middluns‚ Estill‚ Sunder‚ Monsea‚ and Lienid. Kasta‚ the main character‚ comes from Middluns‚ a kingdom ruled by one named Randa. Po‚ a character Katsa later meets‚ derives from Lienid. Katsa is a Graceling‚ one of the rare people in her lad born with an extreme skill in a certain "category"
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A plot twist is a change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a film‚ television series‚ video game‚ novel‚ comic or other fictional work. It is a common practice in narration used to keep the interest of an audience‚ usually surprising them with a revelation. Some "twists" are foreshadowed and can thus be predicted by many viewers/readers‚ whereas others are a complete shock. When a plot twist happens near the end of a story‚ especially if it changes one’s view of the preceding events
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In the middle chapters of the book‚ “Just Listen‚” the location stays the same in the city of Lakeview in her home and school. However‚ the time moves forward into the school year as well as backwards in the past to further explain future events. Moving forward‚ the mood changes to hesitant and tense. The author intensifies the mood by revealing the drama that began the feud between the main character‚ Annabel‚ and her ex-best friend‚ Sophie. For example‚ Sophie believes that Annabel had relations
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Plot summary “A Rose for Emily” is a short story divided into five sections: Section one opens with a description of the Grierson home and its setting in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the past 25 years Miss Emily’s home has fallen into despair and become “an eyesore among eyesores.” The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died‚ our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection
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A writer’s choice of words can be the fall or the rise of the author’s work. Using diction‚ writers are able to make words come alive and illustrate a particular scene that the author wants to portray. If diction is not used‚ the idea trying to be portrayed can become blasé. Readers are more captivated to read works if the story is more descriptive and influential. For example‚ compare the two following sentences: the old brown tree is dying‚ and the aged russet tree slowly decays into the earth
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PER REPORTER: Eric said Tyion was brought into Pine Grove Behavioral Health facility today by his mother (Kesha) due to the child’s behavior. Erica said the child’s mother disclosed to him today that she is concerned about the child due to his most recent behavior towards his nine year old sister (Tyniah). According to Kesha‚ Tyniah told her that Tyion walked into her room pulled his pants down and started masturbating right in front of her while looked at pictures of naked women on his phone. Kesha
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movie because of the plot suffered and production of the movie was poor. The plot was a very apparent problem; with the bad pacing and easily avoidable plot it made for a less interesting movie. For the first thirty minutes of the movie the characters are introduced and the story of how Scotty Smalls became friends with the kids at the sandlot was shown. The rest of the movie‚ until the last thirty minutes‚ consisted only of random fillers that provided little for the plot that made the movie much
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PLOT SUMMARY: Catch Me If You Can In 1963‚ teen-aged Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives New Rochelle‚ New York with his father Frank Abagnale‚ Sr. (Christopher Walken)‚ and French mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). When Frank Sr. is denied a business loan at Chase Manhattan Bank due to unspecified difficulties with the IRS‚ the family is forced to move from their large home to a small apartment. Paula carries on an affair with Jack (James Brolin)‚ a friend of her husband. Meanwhile‚ Frank poses
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Plot The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict‚ Climax‚ Denouement‚ andFlashback. Dialogue The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction‚ dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays‚ characters’ speech is preceded by their names. act n. 5. One of the major divisions of a play or opera. scene a. The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation mo·tif a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
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