The Use of Force Questions: How did you interpret the patient and her motivations in the story? I interpreted the patient as being very neglectful. She was motivated by the idea of keeping her secret hidden so that she could escape having to bear the experience of getting diagnosed with this disease and going through the torture. How did you interpret the doctor and his motivations in the story? I interpreted the doctor as not only doing his job‚ but doing it with a purpose. He was very caring‚
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critical role throughout a variety of stories. It not only creates suspense but surprises the reader as well. This can be shown through the three short stories entitled‚ “The Possibility of Evil”‚ “Just Lather‚ That’s All” and “The Skating Party”. It is critical that situational irony be used for effect in Shirley Jacksons’‚ “The Possibility of Evil”. The short story‚ “The Possibility of Evil” is an excellent example of situational irony. During the story‚ the reader expects Miss Strangeworths’
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A short story is a brief work of literature‚ usually written in narrative prose.[1] Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century‚ the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters‚ and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.[2] In so doing‚ short stories make use of plot‚ resonance‚ and other
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am Kobe F.‚ and I am happy to read and comment on your work today. I like your choice of Jimmy Cross for your discussion because he suffers the most important conflict between desire and duty in O’Brien’s story. Below I suggest some improvements to your thesis statement‚ conclusion‚ and comma use to help you enhance your paper. The ERF and embedded comments include the draft being on topic and grammatically correct as in “Help Requested.” So here we go! *Strengths of the essay: The strongest point
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triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap of fools Or watch the things you gave your life to broken And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss And lose‚ and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To
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of “Little Red Riding Hood” This short story is the classic tale of a little girl in a red cloak going to take her ill grandmother some baked goods. This is the first known publication of Charles Perrault’s story. Little Red Riding Hood was loved by her mother and even more so by her grandmother‚ who made her a red hooded cloak to wear out and about. The little girl was on her way to her grandmother’s house when she encountered a wolf. The wolf offered to visit her grandmother as well. They took
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Kevin Yuan 2014年10月16日 “What the hell you looking at mate? Have we ever met before? You started this! ” An outrageous yell from the liquor store passed all the way across the street. Jimmy is trying to pick up a fight with a boy half the size of his and not even one fourth the age of his. Jimmy lacks patience and gets mad very easily. He is turning 69 next Saturday and he is still a mad man as he had always been. Jimmy lives in a shack by himself an hour away from the town. No one knows how long
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Level One The Use of Force is about a girl who may have Diphtheria‚ but refuses to open her mouth to let the doctor look at her throat. After much struggle‚ emotional and physical‚ the doctor forces her to open her mouth and it turns out she does indeed have the disease. Level Two Setting It’s not actually mentioned‚ but it is implied that it at the Olson’s house‚ a doctor is called to look at the daughter as she is not feeling well. The Characters o The parents are pretty static characters
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In the two short stories‚ "The Free Radio" and "Everything Rises Must Converge‚" the main characters of each story have to make many important decisions/choices. The choices that are made change how other characters see the main character as well as how they react to them. In the short story‚ "The Free Radio‚" by Salman Rushdie‚ Ram has many choices to make throughout the story. Ram who could have had anything in the world he wanted made many poor choices. Ram was the cutest
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III honors 14 October 2011 The Short Stories Quiet‚ But Aggressive Approach Novels are superfluous while short stories strive for flawlessness‚ ensuring meticulously picked details and succinct plots. The short story utilizes the complex and vivid words the English language has to offer‚ painting pictures in the minds of the reader‚ while the novel overwhelms the reader with redundant and arbitrarily picked language. Steven Millhauser says that Short stories illustrate the message or meaning
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