sadly‚ vestiges of old social norms still have a toehold in some parts of the country and the unilluminated parts of many people’s psyches. In this story‚ Dubus reminds us of what it might have been like for a young female in what is likely the 1950’s to 1960’s era (not that long ago)‚ where the high standards of female
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (1864) and Andre Dubus’ “Killings” (1979) share similar story developments such as theme‚ plot‚ and character types that come together to create the perfect vengeance. In “The Cask of Amontillado‚” Montresor is after revenge after being insulted by Fortunato‚ which ironically means “fortunate.” Montresor pettily plans his revenge according to his knowledge of Fortunato’s love of wine‚ lures him (Fortunato) into a wine cellar and then into a small crypt
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COM 1102: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Fall 2013 class time: M W F 10:00 am office hours: M W 11:00-11:45 am; M 5:00-6:00 pm and by appointment office: 626 Crawford phone: 321-674-8370 email: lperdiga@fit.edu website: my.fit.edu/~lperdiga turnitin.com course number: 7023849 turnitin.com password: Hangman Class Schedule 9/11 E. Annie Proulx‚ “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” (87; 578-579) 9/13 Mark Twain‚ “The Story of the Good Little Boy” (615-619) Due: Peer
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Midterm- Females of Today Do you think that Louise accurately represents a woman of our times? Why or why not? “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus is about a girl named Louise. Louise is an overweight girl. When she was nine years old her mother tells her that being fat or overweight is not pretty‚ when she gets to high school if she’s still overweight that boys will not pay any attention to her. Her mother would make her eat “bare” meals‚ if she at a potato during dinner she would have to skip dessert
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Killings Revenge‚ loss and consequences are explored in Andre Dubus’s‚ "Killings". A jealous husband‚ angered by the fact that his estranged wife is involved in a new relationship‚ acts out in a presumable crime of passion and murders the man she was seeing. As a result of this crime‚ a father suffers the loss of his son and plots retaliation‚ which results in the killing of his son’s murderer. Both men experience a loss and subsequently act out in revenge. The difference in the moral character
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considerate like the one who transmits the traditions of their ancestors in order to carry them on. “Fiesta‚ 1980” is a short story written by Junot Dìaz taken from his short story collection‚ Drown‚ (1996). “Killings” is also a short story taken from‚ Finding a Girl in America (1980)‚ written by Andre Dubus. Both of these stories are dealing with the family’s subject and provide us different perspectives of it. In Dìaz’s story we can see the relationship among a foreigner family‚ while in Andre Dubus’s story
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story “Killings” by Andre Dubus and watching the movie “In the Bedroom‚” there are several noticeable differences and a few similarities. Since the movie was derived from the short story‚ the plot is practically the same throughout. “Killings" is portrayed as a revenge story‚ whereas “In the Bedroom” it appears to be a love story. As the plot progresses we find out this is not the case at all. One of the biggest differences I saw between the two was the arrangement of the story. Dubus’ written
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The Fat Girl Her name was Louise. Once when she was sixteen a boy kissed her at a barbacue; he was drunk and he jammed his tongue into her mouth and ran his hands up and down her hips. Her father kissed her often. He was thin and kind and she could see in his eyes when he looked at her the lights of love and pity. It started when Louise was nine. You must start watching what you eat‚ her mother would say. I can see you have my metabolism. Louise also had her mother’s pale blond hair
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Mercy killing is defined as a kind of killing of one person by another. It can separate into willing and unwilling. Willing mercy killing means that patient agree doctor to stop healing them; Unwilling mercy killing means that to stop healing patient who couldn’t express their own idea such as babies and patients in a coma. Supporters think that mercy killing can help patients’ family members to get rid of stress and reduce waste of social resources. Healing is a process which takes time and money
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Norway Killings 1.Introduction a)Title: Norway killings reveal politics of hate b)Author: Lets Breakthrough c) Type of the text: informative-opinion text d)Topic or the purpose: inform people about norway killings and it’s influences e)Main idea‚ thesisi statement: Killing someone for his/her race and religion is unacceptable 2.Summary 3.Evaluation a)Organization: reactions‚information about incident‚reasons behing accident‚author’s opinion b)Style: plain‚easy to understand c) Effectiveness:
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