truly are. For example ‚ politicians wear masks to get the majority of votes to win. Not only in real life but in literature‚ characters wear masks as shown in "Hopfrog" by Edgar Allen Poe and "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving. The King and the Seven ministers and Tom walker wear masks in these two stories. Regardless of how hard one tries to conceal his/her darker traits and/or motives‚ the truth always comes out in the end. In the story "Hopfrog" the King and the Seven ministers hide
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The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father
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In “Everyday Use”‚ Alice Walker’s intention of the story is to show the social conflict between Dee‚ a representation of capitalism‚ and Mama and Maggie‚ representing traditional values. The story is narrated through Mama‚ whom best represents the importance of preserving heritage. Mama is uneducated due to the school closing down in 1927; supposedly‚ the African-Americans were getting too smart to continually be oppressed by the whites. Maggie‚ the youngest child of Mama‚ is an extreme introvert
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“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving are two very similar yet different stories. Both of these stories talk about the American Dream and how one can want it but be disappointed when one gets it. Tom and Rip both have wives that are turning points in the stories. They both nag so much that it drives them to crazy things. The imagery in these stories gives a real feel for the scenery and how it interacts with the stories. Van Winkle and Tom both get what they wanted
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savoring but it has to come to a end at some point or another. In “The Flowers” by Alice Walker‚ there are a series of symbols and there is a significant change of imagery. The theme also conflicts with the meaning of this story. The last line is the most important line of this story because it’s like a rope‚ it has different strands but they all tie together at the end to make sense. The last line in Walkers story‚ “And the summer was over” indicates the young girl‚ Myops‚ childhood was indeed over
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Luther King Jr.: An Innovator of Change Martin Luther King Jr. was a peaceful and courageous man who used a non-violent manner to stand up for all that he believed in. King Jr. sought for equal rights for African Americans during his life. He not only participated but led many of the acts to push equal rights such as the bus boycott‚ antisegregation campaigns‚ the March on Washington‚ and civil rights rallies throughout the United States. Due to his strenuous work for equal rights‚ King Jr. was one
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The Devil Both Tom walker and daniel webster had devil type figures in there stories Guarded the treasure of the pirate named kid and the other one was a devil named scratched Jabez stone was just the same as tom walker they both sold there soul to the devil also known as scratch they both hated there life so they decided to change it for the better King philip and governor dale were sorta the same they were both chiefs governor dale was chief at a naval station and king philip was wampanoag chief
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written by Alice Walker. Walker is an essayist and poet who played a part in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She had written two novels before The Color Purple‚ but most of her success came from the publishing of this book. Walker had suffered a terrible eye injury in her youth and her self-confidence decreased‚ which led her to find comfort in writing poetry. Her first experience with writing a story took place in 1965 when she graduated from college. From then on‚ Walker began to develop
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After intuitively analyzing the text‚ one can conclude that Walker was very profound in asserting her desired theme and message in the story through her use of narrative conventions. Specifically‚ Walker accentuated the theme that “strong female relationships between women enable them to combat male oppression and domination‚” through the internal and external development of the protagonist Celie‚ the influential role of the secondary characters and through one of the central conflicts in the story
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Martin Luther King Jr Martin Luther King jr. was known to be a civil rights leader and activist who has an influence on America and American society in the 50’s and 60’s. Born on January 15‚ 1929. He was born Michael Luther King but later changed his name to Martin Luther King Jr. He spoke over 25‚000 times whenever injustice took place. He wrote 5 books and lead a massive boycott. “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist‚ who led the Civil Rights Movement in the
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