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    the “Pomegranate tree” which stands for the vitality and growing lifelessness of Amir and Hassan’s friendship through their childhood and adulthood lives. In the novel‚ the author shows us how the Pomegranate tree is meet with twists and turns of Amir and Hassan‚ which could be a representation of their friendship. Amir and Hassan’s childhood and adult lives are symbolized in a strongly and a bonded lifelessness way by the pomegranate tree. “Blood is good for the tree.” (94) Blood for

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    Tree Plantation Tree plantation means planting trees and plants. The purpose of tree plantation is save the endangered environment and to beautify our life. Trees are valuable gifts of nature. They are known as the best friends of human beings. They benefit us in various ways. The lives of men and other animals and insects are inconceivable without the existence of trees in the world. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and give us oxygen without which no living being can live. Trees give us shade‚ medicine

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    ‘A Poison Tree’ by William Blake was written in 1794. It tells the story of a boy who gets really angry with his enemy‚ so he gets revenge. So a seed grows in him which turns into an apple. The enemy eats this poisonous apple and dies. In “A Poison Tree‚” by William Blake is a metaphor explains a truth of human nature. This poem teaches how anger can be maxed out by goodwill to become a deadly poison. The opening stanza sets up everything for the poem‚ from the ending of anger with the “friend‚”

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    provide Jesus’s family tree‚ however comparing the fragments one can notice a difference between the two given family trees. First‚ the first family tree appears (the first fragment) at the beginning of the first gospel. St. Matthew explains that Jesus is a descendent of David and Abraham‚ which may indicate Jesus’s Jewish and royal blood. In addition‚ St. Matthew’s use of the word “begat‚” which means “to procreate‚” can indicate a strong natural biological bond within the family tree (OED web). One may

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    Taliban is portrayed in the book Under the Persimmon Tree by‚ Susan Fisher Staples. One of the main characters‚ Najmah‚ is greatly impacted by the Taliban. These horrible people have destroyed her family by separating them and even killing some of them. The way the Taliban is portrayed in the book is similar to how it is in real life‚ the presentations showed that the Taliban is a group of people who are extremists. In under the persimmon tree the Taliban are horrifying people. In the book the Taliban

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    Summer was dead‚ but autumn had not yet been born when the ibis came to the bleeding tree. It’s strange that all this is so clear to me‚ now that time has had its way. But sometimes (like right now) I sit in the cool green parlor‚ and I remember Doodle. Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had. Doodle was born when I was seven and was‚ from the start‚ a disappointment. He seemed all head‚ with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man’s. Everybody thought he was going to

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    A Poison Tree The poison is about two people. One of them has a hatred that keeps building up inside of him‚ where it eventually takes control of him. Blake is trying show the readers though the poem that it’s a lesson so what ever it is that people do don’t let it take over no matter what happens. “And I watered it in fears‚ Night and morning with my tears.” The character also becomes two faced and he smiles at his foe he acts very nicely. His trying to draw him to the trap that he has set up

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    The Persimmon Tree‚ nonfiction usage of American Involvement leaves main characters with traumatic memories and anxiety. (BS-2) These symptoms become the root of internal character conflict and change. (BS-3) Since the characters were forced to deal with their conflicts‚ they were able to learn and grow from their experiences.(TS) It is clear that the author uses non fiction topics to create an environment of danger‚ which shapes character change. (MIP-1) In Under The Persimmon Tree the use of American

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    relate to today’s society in some way such as the value of life and the inequality between men and women. She also has some reoccurring themes she likes to use such as animals and the personification of objects and animals. In her poem‚ Fox in a Tree Stump‚ the central theme dictated is man’s cruelty to animals. She depicts this theme with harsh imagery surrounding the young girl and the fox. One example of this is when she is unwillingly forced by her uncle to lure out the fox and take the life

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    Betty Smith ’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn presents the problems of a child growing up‚ the coming of age when one meets challenges and overcomes obstacles. The protagonist‚ Francie Nolan‚ undergoes a self-discovery as she strives to mature living in the Brooklyn slum despite its poverty and privation. Thus‚ Smith ’s thematic treatment of the struggle of maturity has become for the reader an exploration of loneliness‚ family relationships‚ the loss of innocence‚ and death and disease. One of the

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