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    makes of a story has to be made so as to grasp its audience in its claws in order for the actual audience not to get away. In the story of The Aspern Papers‚ Henry James creates an interesting main protagonist (whose name we are never given). The latter is a post-diegetic narrator as well as a protagonist belonging to the diegesis. This duplicity accounts for the ambiguity of the “I’s” found in the story. But let us first concentrate on the post-diegetic narrator. As we have said earlier on

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    "Her First Ball" is a short story written by Katherine Mansfield in 1921. A young girl‚ about 18 years of age called Leila is the protagonist of the story. The story expresses the Excitement and Anxiety of Leila‚ who is extremely self conscious at the prospect of attending her first formal ball. The prose is written in Third person Omniscient‚ where the narrator is not a character in the story nor Leila‚ but tells the story strictly through her eyes only and we read the thoughts going on in her mind

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    periods of time‚ and only changes when other outside elements interact with it. In this way‚ the dream in Harlem - the American Dream - can not be pure‚ as it changes - both physically and chemically - as time passes‚ and the Dream held by the protagonists of our literature is not pure either‚ motivated by sinful desire rather than purity and

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    No Angel Grief is individual because everyone handles his or her sorrows differently. No one wants to be alone and therefore to loose someone you love can be tremendously painful and difficult to overcome. On the one hand you want to get liberated from the pain and loss. You try to compensate from it by forgetting. Others want to keep the memory of the ones they have lost‚ because they fear the loneliness‚ and thereby find it challenging letting them go because death is so hard to accept. That is

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    The main character of Robin Reul’s My Kind Of Crazy is Hank Kirby. Hank is the narrator and the cause of all conflicts. Hank is an awkward senior in high school‚ and __EXPLAIN HANK_____. Hank is the protagonist in the novel. Hank is the central character‚ and he has a goal. His goal is to get a date to Prom. Hank fails‚ but changes his goal throughout the book. Hank is a static and flat character; his personality does not drastically change. Peyton Breedlove is a mysterious senior who blackmails

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    was returned to the place‚ each of those characters was different and also the buildings inside were round compared to the human’s ’world’. There is also a sense of belonging but in what way? I can’t seem to find the right word for it. - The protagonist is also seen as belonging when in the end‚ the frame zooms out showing that his tram is identical to the many others around it. IMG_20121113_185738.jpg - This picture shows how the society is identical and therefore they belong together IMG_20121113_185818

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    The Lesson In “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara‚ the author writes about Sylvia’s childhood experience as a student. She is a young-immature‚ uneducated‚ and naive kid who doesn’t know much about life‚ but her teacher tries to help her by giving her a lesson of reality as well to the rest of her students. She describes her teacher as a lady‚ Miss Moore‚ with “nappy hair‚” “proper speech‚” and “no makeup.” Sylvia explains how she feels when she goes to toy store in Fifth Avenue. For example‚

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    Death of Salesman Analysis

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    1. Title of Work: Death of a Salesman 2. Author and Date Written: Arthur Miller‚ 1948 3. Country of Author: United States 4. Major Characters: a. Willy‚ the protagonist in the play‚ is a self conscious‚ insecure‚ and prideful‚ habitual liar. Through the play‚ Willy lies both to himself and those around him‚ saying things like‚ “Business is bad‚ it’s murderous. But not for me‚ of course.” Here he says that his business is going well‚ when it is clear that it is the complete opposite situation

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    historical or literary figure‚ event‚ or object to create a resonance in the reader or to apply a symbolic meaning to the character or object of which the allusion consists. For example‚ in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men‚ the surname of the protagonist‚ George Milton‚ is an allusion to John Milton‚ author of Paradise Lost‚ since by the end of the novel‚ George has lost the dream of having a little ranch of his own to share with his friend Lennie. Syllogism A form of deduction. An extremely

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    possesses qualities normally not ascribed to the conventional good-guy‚ such as hypocrisy and selfishness‚ but also displays more human and identifiable traits like protectiveness and forgiveness. Blurring the line between the classic antagonist and protagonist‚ Prospero arouses both distaste and empathy in the audience through his vengeful actions. Usurped by his brother and stranded on an island with his infant daughter‚ Prospero evokes compassion in his campaign for retribution‚ yet the actions taken

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