Hey Lady Face‚ Duck is sitting on the sofa with me‚ ripping up one of his new toys and keeping me company while I write this. First off I want to say sorry for taking so long to write back. I’ve been thinking about your letter almost everyday since I read it it’s just that a lot of things have happened which made it so that I didn’t feel ready to talk. A really dear friend of mine died during a climbing accident and it’s been really hard to cope. I loved him very much and just wasn’t prepared
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HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle
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Monologue analysis. The recreation of Irene Ruddock’s character in Lady of Letters relies hugely on maintaining the quality of her idiosyncratic ways. Her prejudices and her naivety amongst other things are all relevant traits‚ and in my recreative piece I found that keeping with Bennett’s structure‚ form and use of language ensured that Miss Ruddock’s character remained unhampered with. This artless narrator seems very unaware of her social situation in the sense that she doesn’t seem lonely
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The film I will be analyzing is an Alfred Hitchcock film: The Lady Vanishes. It’s about an old women Miss Froy‚ who befriends a wealthy young girl names Iris on the train‚ but later disappears on the way to their destination. The specific scene I will be talking about s where Iris and Gilbert‚ a person Iris seeks for help fight against the culprit‚ who kidnapped Miss Froy. In this 1938 film editing wasn’t the best because there wasn’t much technology and equipment to work with. But there are techniques
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LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times
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‘MY FAIR LADY’ Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical
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The story the Jaunt is written by Stephen King. Stephen King is a well-known writer‚ who has written a lot of famous stories. The story the jaunt is written in 1981. There are two parallel storylines in the story. In the first storyline there is a father who is trying to calm down his two children. In the parallel story‚ there is a storyteller‚ and he is talking about how this teleport machine is made. The man who made the teleport machine is named Victor Carune‚ he is an eccentric guy‚ who has
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manipulate the reader from seeing the actual truth. The author talks to the audience in a way that connects with them through the words and stories told in these essays. The use of diction has the power to persuade the audience to a specific side of believability. In How to Tell A True War Story Tim O’Brien goes on about all the indications of what a true war story is. “Its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.” When Lemon got blown up it seemed that he was lifted up by the
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English 331 19 July 2010 Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story The short story‚ “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story” by Russell Banks is raved as one of his most famous. A story told most in the first person‚ describes the sudden beginning and end of the relationship between Ron and Sarah. Ron‚ the main character‚ narrates the story from his memory of ten years earlier. Ron provides the reader with a very vivid image of how different he and Sarah truly are. So vivid in fact‚ the reader can
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