Joyce Carol Oates’s “Four Summers” I found the following questions‚ taken from James H. Pickering’s 10th edition of Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories‚ to be very useful when thinking about the story “Four Summers” by Joyce Carol Oates: “What similarities and differences exist in each of the four episodes? What changes take place? What remains the same? How does the author organize each of the four sections? How old is Sissie in each? Is Oates’ narrative technique in each section appropriate
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Tusk By Joyce Carol Oates Abnormal and captivating. These would be some of the keywords of the essay Tusk by Joyce Carol Oates. It tells the story of a young boy named Roland Landrau‚ but he addresses himself as Tusk. Tusk is somewhat Roland’s alter-ego where he in his mind is the cool guy at school. Already in the first sentence of the story‚ it pulls the reader in and reeks of something wrong and something exciting. “As the knife fitted into Tusk’s hand‚ an idea fitted into his head”[1]
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Dickens shows the reader that the important things in life cannot be measured. Discuss. Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” paints a bleak world of 19th century industrial society with the stark division of classes. Despite this miserable‚ poverty stricken setting‚ Dickens portrays a range of characters that have been affected by this social cataclysm‚ illustrating each of their responses to it in order to illuminate what the important things in life are‚ and how they can be measured through
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As Mandy Hale once stated‚ “Sometimes when you lose your way‚ you find yourself.” This is certainly true for the traveler‚ the protagonist and only character from Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “The Journey”. The traveler‚ who is not identified as female or male‚ sets out on a journey on the highway towards a city that they have visited many times. Along the way‚ the traveler finds themself lost after turning on a different road that they usually follow towards the city; they suppose that the new
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Dickens presents Fred as a cheerful‚ humble and generous character within the novella as a contrast to Scrooge’s cold and stingy character. As shown in the extract‚ Fred is ‘Cheerful’ and ‘handsome’ whereas Scrooge is ‘self-contained’ and his features were ‘shrivelled’ by the ‘cold’ (Stave 1). Fred is the son of Scrooge’s beloved but deceased sister‚ he is the only living relative and person who wants to pull him out of isolation and back into the world. Dickens was focused on Scrooge’s complicated
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‘A Christmas Carol’ covers a period of 24 hours from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. It is a simple morality tale of the radical change in the character Ebenezer Scrooge from being bitter‚ ironfisted and miserable to becoming a new‚ openhearted and charitable man. The book was first published in 1843‚ a time when many of the wealthy people neglected the old Christmas spirit of charity. In addition‚ the Industrial Revolution had further done away with the simple pleasures of the season. Dickens’ intentions
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How does Scrooge’s character change in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is a tale on the subject of change. It is a quite simple story based on an intervallic narrative composition in which all of the major chapters have a clear‚ fixed symbolic connotation. Dickens’ much-loved short story A Christmas Carol was printed in 1843‚ along with the purpose of getting the attention of the reader to the dilemma of England’s underprivileged
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‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy Pupil Unit Includes Formative Assessment Strategies [pic] Critical Essay: Poetry ‘Valentine’ by Carol Anne Duffy [pic] By the end of this Unit you will be able to write Critical Essays on the poem ‘Valentine’. You will be able to write relevantly about the central concern(s)/theme(s) of the poem and be able to support your views by reference to appropriate poetic techniques. You will learn about/revise the following
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How does Scrooge change over the course of the book? At the beginning of the book‚ “A Christmas Carol”‚ Ebenezer Scrooge starts off as a bitter‚ greedy and unthankful old man without a Christmas spirit. He is lone and solitary‚ and his only friend is money. However‚ when he is visited by three Christmas spirits‚ to help him change his ways‚ towards the end of the book he becomes a different man. I think the author‚ Charles Dickens‚ wrote this book (in Victorian London) when he witnessed even poor
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ONE OF THE MAIN MESSAGES IN “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” IS THAT LOVE ELEVATES AND MONEY CORRUPTS. DISCUSS. The allegory of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” can be shaped by a variety of different outlooks. Dickens incites the reader by including a riddle of messages‚ some messages may be more imperative than others. One of the most outstanding messages within the novella is centred on money and love. The crux of Scrooge’s life is based on money‚ greed and gain twisted his ideals so to make him a wicked
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