used to live in so they must get used to it and make due. The author also uses characterization to help the story. The main characters are Violet‚ Klaus‚ and Sunny Baudelaire‚ three recently orphaned children. The author uses direct characterization to tell us about them. On pages 2-4 the author describes the children “Violet Baudelaire‚ the eldest‚ liked to skip rocks. Like most fourteen-year-olds‚ she was right-handed‚ so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right
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July 13‚ 2014 Miss Florence B. Glashan Attorney at Law 2932 Point Street Providence‚ RI 02903 Dear Miss Glashan: It was a pleasure to meet you at the convention for trial attorneys in New York last week. In addition to the interesting program highlights of the regular sessions‚ the informal discussions with people like you are an added plus at these meetings. Your contribution to the program was very beneficial and highly informative. You may recall that I had just been appointed
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning By: Lemony Snicket This book by Lemony Snicket is about three Baudelaire children who have bad luck. Their names are Violet ( the oldest)‚ Klaus ( the middle aged child)‚ and Sunny ( the youngest). Their bad luck starts off when their house gets burnt down while their parents were inside. Then after they found out that they no longer had a house and their parents were dead they became orphans. They first lived with Mr. Poe for a few days.
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Monty’s house‚ which is very nice. There is a large room dedicated to the study of snakes. The children are staying there. The Situation The situation is that the Baudelaire orphans have now moved to live with their uncle. Count Olaf is pretending to be Stephano‚ the uncle’s new assistant so he can get to the Baudelaire fortune. The Problem The problem is no one believes the orphans that Stephano is Count Olaf. They know he is up to no good and worry about their safety.
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Pierre Citron asserts that‚ of all great French poets‚ Charles Baudelaire was “the one whose life was most permanently riveted to Paris.” Furthermore‚ Louis Thomas wrote in Curiosités sur Baudelaire‚ “Baudelaire thought of himself as being at home everywhere [in Paris]. Whether on the streets or on the quays‚ he was as comfortable as if he had been in his own room. Wherever he walked on the island‚ it was as if he was still on his own property‚ so that one might run into him in slippers‚ hatless
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The older and more comfortable with myself that I become‚ the more I realize that a lot of my favorite things about myself are the result of the books that I’ve read. For example‚ I feel like a good portion of me is made up of Violet and Klaus Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” not even so much their personalities‚ but in how they handled they’re terribly unfortunate lives with such hope and cleverness.
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Room T he title of the book I am reading is The Reptile Room. The author is Lemony Snicket. The point of view is first person. The main idea of The Reptile Room is that the Baudelaire parents die in a house fire and the orphans are sent to live with a distant relative named Count Olaf‚ a terrible and greedy man. The Baudelaire parents had left behind an enormous fortune which will go to Violet‚ the oldest of the orphans when she turns eighteen. Count Olaf is so obsessed with getting his hands on the
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Write a critical analysis‚ focusing particularly on what makes your chosen passage a piece of Modernist writing. Unreal City‚ Under the brown fog of a winter dawn‚ A crowd flowed over London Bridge‚ so many‚ I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs‚ short and infrequent‚ were exhaled‚ And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street‚ To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw
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RR Journal Brittany Clevenger C.Lewis T Th Heinrich Heine There are many poets out there that I enjoy reading. Heinrich Heine would have to be one of them. All of him poems are considered among the best in German literature. Not only do I consider his writings remarkable‚ he is thought this way by many. You can tell by his writings that his career is in the later Romantic Movement and the era of the socially and politically conscious movement. His writings as well as his exile from Germany
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Charles Baudelaire.. Born in Paris in 1821‚ Charles Baudelaire has long been recognized as not only one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century but also a forefather of modern art. Baudelaire lived during a tumultuous time in French history and his work was impacted by a number of political events. However‚ his personal life was also turbulent: One of the most scarring episodes of his life was the death of his father in 1827 and his mother’s hasty remarriage to a general in the French
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