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    "Click" by John Barth

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    Barth insight on the worlds technological advancement with computers gave him a good start on an interesting story. By incorporating today’s living with literature he turn out Click. "Click" some hated it‚ but some liked it. I think the lack of understanding of this story is what caused those people to dislike the story; the fact that the story was very long also had something to do with it. I will present the in-depth thought that made me understand and really like the story. Also I will put some

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    Night Journey Analysis

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    Martha Graham’s production of Night Journey is a unique and symbolic contemporary dance work. Graham bases many of her dance pieces on Greek myths and this is seen in her work Night Journey. Graham has manipulated elements of contemporary dance to communicate the emotion of the main character‚ Jocasta. Graham’s previous work focuses on depicting both the power and struggle of female idols in history. Graham has choreographed Night Journey to explore the perspective of Queen Jocasta‚ the main protagonist

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    Night Journey Analysis

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    The video‚ “Night Journey” by Martha Graham is is one of the best-choreographed videos I have come to appreciate for its fluid movements‚ dramatic music and tragic storyline. Graham’s modern dance style is beautiful and unique which contemplates her strong interpretation of the Greek myth‚ “Oedipus Rex.” In her 1947 rendition‚ “Night Journey”‚ she develops her own language of movement by expressing passion and dedication throughout the act. The video is in black and white‚ which adds to the overall

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    because their experiences are too lurid to express in words or even comprehend. One of Wiesel’s main objectives in writing Night is to remind readers that the Holocaust occurred‚ and hopes that it will never happen again. Night themes include the inhumanity of humans toward others and how death can cause potent harm to one’s psyche. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses many literary devices such as Tone‚ Imagery‚ and Repetition to portray the acts of death and inhumanity as well as their traumatizing effects

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    Theme Analysis of Salt to the Sea In Ruta Sepetys historical fiction novel Salt to the Sea the four protagonists‚ Joana‚ Florian‚ Emilia‚ and Alfred‚ make the perilous journey to the Wilhelm Gustloff where they hope to travel to a different part of Germany to escape The Soviet Union. Once they get on the ship‚ they think they are safe from death‚ but the ship sinks and takes many under with it. Each of the protagonists sacrifices greatly throughout the novel. One lesson this novel teaches is that

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    Night Literary Analysis

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    “I learned after the war the fate of those who stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation.” This quote was from the book Night by Elie Wiesel illustrates the uncertainty of Jews during World War II. The book memoirs Wiesel’s unforgettably experiences when he was taken from his home in Sighet‚ Hungary to Auschwitz concentration camp‚ and then to Buchenwald concentration camp. Throughout the book‚ Wiesel learns many things. A more important

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    “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin. A journey‚ in essence‚ is a travelling from one place to another‚ or‚ more broadly‚ a passage or progress from one stage to another. Whether it is the journey or the arrival that is more difficult is irrelevant. It is how the journeyer reacts to his or her travels; how he or she chooses deal with the journey; and what the traveller achieves from his or her passage or progress that

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    “Never shall I forget that night‚ the first night in the camp‚ that turned my life into one long night‚ seven times sealed” (34). Elie thinks this to himself in reflection of what happened on his first night at the Auschwitz concentration camp‚ which changed his life forever. The above quote is portrayed as a metaphor to make it clear that Elie’s life has completely changed from what it used to be. His life has become a single‚ long night‚ which means that Elie is calling his current situation a

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    Night John

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    In the novel Night John it uses descriptive details and shows visual pictures in your mind. Night John’s plot stays on topic with all the characters and events. In the film Night John they added subplots which made the story a lot different. The novel Night John was better than the film. Here are the reasons why the novel was better. Descriptive details in this novel help tremendously by‚ showing us the pain the slaves have been through. The adjectives they used elaborated the suffering times and

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    Freedom of speech is found in literature and in the real world in varying degrees. In the novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie‚ an important theme of freedom of speech is explored‚ which is linked to Salman’s real life experience with having his freedom of speech violated. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories‚ there are two characters named Haroun and Rashid who lived in a depressed city that forgot its name. Rashid is Haroun’s father and his profession was telling stories‚ but he lost

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