B: Reconciliation The short story is named “Reconciliation” and is written by Polly Clark. The story takes place in an office and the main character is the narrator and Vernon and Janny are two other important characters. ”I’m wearing the clothes I slept in. It saved me 20 minutes this morning and meant I could sleep a little longer. My outfit is a skirt and lycra top so there’s no creasing‚ so who would know?” The narrator in the text is a woman‚ who probably is in her midlife or a bit younger
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Anna Chevez 3/21/13 AP Language Spanier Pd. 1 In “The Speech of Polly Baker‚” a sardonically aggressive tone reflects the speaker’s attitude towards the charges being made for having a fifth “bastard child.” The tone feeds her persuasive appeals. By appealing to pathos and ethics‚ she convinces the Court to not punish her for her actions. Baker’s use of diction furthers her appeal to pathos. Being an “unhappy” woman‚ she pleads the “Honourable Bench” to
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assignment. But when the situation is the same way in your life and you are permanently stuck with a writer’s blockage in your way of living you get in a state of disillusion where all your thoughts are passing. This state of disillusion is exactly what Polly Clark accentuates in the main character in the short story “Elephant”. The short story starts in medias res as we meet the main character‚ William‚ in the middle of his writer’s blockage. It is written in third person narrative from William’s point
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Polly Clarks “Elephant” essay Polly Clarks ”Elephant” is about a author named William who deals with his problems every day. William is a writer. His work consists of young female pop-singers biographies. The story starts in media res‚ we just jump straight into the story without further information. The story takes place in William’s dark his house and it is set in a normal afternoon in William’s life. The curtains are closed‚ so William cannot watch his garden‚ which is overcrowded with weed
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Literacy Response: The Speech of Miss Polly Baker Benjamin Franklin creates this powerful and intelligent character in the fiction story‚ The Speech of Miss Polly Baker. At the beginning‚ Polly Baker starts out humbly in response to being accused of giving birth to a bastard child for the fifth time. She asks the jury to listen to what she has to say. As she continues to talk‚ Baker starts to make strong arguments against harsh punishments that women are to bear from having an illegitimate child
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Antigone‚ As Described By Aristotle The tragic play Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ is a story of mixed emotions and drastic reactions. At the beginning of the play‚ the current ruler of Thebes‚ Creon‚ orders that no one is to touch the deceased Polynecies. However‚ Antigone has a very different plan for his body. Antigone tries to convince her sister‚ Ismene‚ to help her bury her brother‚ but she is too afraid to break the law. After sprinkling dirt on the body‚ Creon sentences Antigone to death
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In the book Frozen in Time Polly Emerson is taken from the past‚ she faces challenges with trusting herself and others. Along with her brother Freddy‚ they are discovered by their great‚ great niece and nephew; Ben and Rachel. After being in chronic suspension from 1956 to 2010. Polly is bewildered as to why her father would leave her and Freddy. At first when Polly steps out of the lab‚ she doesn’t believe she really is in the 21st century‚ until Rachel is able to convince her. As anyone would
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more authentic and believable in which people could receive a strong opinion towards a social or political issue. One of Franklin’s essays‚ “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker‚” effectively accomplishes this idea of expressing a strong opinion towards a social issue‚ in this case about a woman who gives birth to five bastard children. Polly Baker’s ultimate goal in the essay is to justify her actions towards the court in order to opt out of punishment for her sins. Franklin captures this woman’s opinion
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Negligence Disguised As Ignorance ‘A child suffering the consequences for a crime he/she willfully committed? Oh no!’ This is what I hear whenever someone speaks against trying children as adults for the extremely terrible crimes they commit. It is illogical and immoral to allow young murderers to have an advantage over the justice system simply because of their age. If a child can learn right from wrong and take freedom into their own hands by willfully committing heinous crimes‚ then
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primarily showed up in daily newspapers and appealed more to a male audience‚ rather than a wider female audience that Fern had obtained in her writings as a social critic. In the readings “Tom Pax’s Conjugal Soliloquy‚” Fanny Fern and “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker‚” by Benjamin Franklin‚ they both demonstrate opposite gender roles‚ illustrate situations in which women are not being paid attention to‚ and their audiences appeal to the gender role opposite to the
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