The language of 13 year old Matilda‚ is captured in the simplicity of sentences and descriptions. In the opening description of Pop eye she uses short‚ simple sentences and repetition to capture a girl’s curiosity at an eccentric and unusual white man who becomes her teacher. "Some days he wore a clown’s nose. His nose was already big." "His large eyes in his large head stuck out further than anyone else’s. " The effect of this simple style is to get the reader to trust that Matilda is an honest
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imagery. The poem "An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin was written in 1955 and was included in his 1964 anthology ‘The Whitsun Weddings’. It tells the story of a man (arguably Larkin himself) who rents a room and discovers by looking at the apartment the monotonous life of the person who used to live there‚ Mr Bleaney. As the poem progresses‚ the man starts identifying himself to Bleaney and it is here where Larkin presents a central theme of the poem being interchange ability of lives and what constitutes
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Mr. Dees has undoubtedly had enough leadership experience to last him a lifetime. When reading the case study on Mr. Dees‚ it is easy to be swayed into seeing only the pitfalls of leadership when in fact it is just as easy to see the experienced gained and losses it took to get there. This is to say that within his failures Mr. Dees gained all his triumphs. By dissecting the paragraphs in Mr. Dees story‚ I will reveal the significant learning to be gained from a leadership stand point. 1. As Mr
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over American values. However‚ when Mr. Chin Yuen states “The old order is passing away and the new order is taking its place‚” (Far 528) it becomes clear that‚ although he doesn’t agree with some American values‚ he is willing to accept that some things are going to change. Though the people of America differ often in opinions‚ dreams‚ and even what “America” means to them‚ they are still able to prosper as they share the common bond of America‚ just as Mr. and Mrs. Spring Fragrance’s differences still
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to make the ladies fall in line‚ are we right? As soon as the people at the Meryton ball hear that he has 10‚000 pounds a year (meaning that he’s really‚ really rich)‚ "the gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man‚ the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley‚ and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening" (3.5). Not to mention that he’s tall‚ good looking‚ and has a lot of swag—we mean‚ "a noble mien" (3.5). No wonder he thinks highly of himself
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POEM MR BLEANEY BY PHILP LARKIN ‘Mr Bleaney’ by Phillip Larkin is essentially a poem about a circumstantial situation that is given as dramatic monologue‚ and rather like a drama‚ tells a story that is full of lucid mystery. There are two distinct scenes in the poem‚ in the first‚ which occupies the first three stanzas‚ of this seven-stanza poem. The reader is presented with a landlady showing a perspective lodger a room that has been vacated by her previous tenant‚ the mysterious Mr Bleaney
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Akshit Bhatnagar Student Computer Science and Engineering April 19‚ 2013 Role of Mrs. Dalloway in “Mrs. Dalloway” and effect of social structure on the role Mrs. Dalloway‚ a novel written by Virginia Woolf‚ details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway who is a high-society woman in post-World War I England. Clarissa Dalloway is fifty one year old protagonist of the novel. She is wife of Richard Dalloway and mother of Elizabeth. The novel has described a single day bringing in different characters
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Mr. Darcy is an intelligent‚ tall‚ fine‚ handsome‚ wealthy and reserved gentleman‚ who often appears haughty or proud to strangers. Mr. Darcy has a strong moral fibre and a natural and somewhat embarrassed kindness. Mr. Darcy is the owner of the fictional estate of Pemberley‚ he is described as the perfect landlord‚ a sensible and honourable manager of the estate. He has a great responsibility to keep the estate running - and the locals who depend on it for a livelihood are lucky to have such a good
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Hassan Chughtai Mrs. Walsh Language & Literature II A‚ Period 9 11 June‚ 2014 WELL SO after Phoebe got off the carousel‚ she came right up to me and hugged me. That killed me. Kids always
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While writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway‚ Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E.M. Forster‚ who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921‚ she records in her diary: ``A letter from Morgan [Forster] this morning. He seems as critical of the East as of Bloomsbury‚ & sits dressed in a turban watching his Prince dance ’ ’ (Diary 2.138). His novel came out well before she finished hers; she read it and noted‚ ``Morgan is too restrained in his new book perhaps ’ ’ (Diary 2.304). A note
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