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    beautiful daughters. Since Estella had stopped studying when she was still a child‚ she always had an argue with her mother-in-law named Matilda. Matilda loves her grandchildren very much that she didn’t want them to become like their mother – an illiterate person. Matilda taught everything she knew to Estella’s children. She tried to be a mother to them. Matilda wanted to raise them the way she raised her children‚ Daniel and Jojo. Because of this‚ Estella felt that she doesn’t have a place in them

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    novel published in 1796. His novel follows the dark descent of the monastery’s abbot‚ Ambrosio‚ and his fall from grace and virtue‚ as he engages in immoral acts. Enticed by the temptations of the devil’s agent‚ the cross-dressing hermaphroditic Matilda‚ he succumbs to debauchery and witchcraft leading to the murder of his own mother‚ Elvira and incest with his sister‚ Antonia. After succumbing to sin and having his plans found out‚ he finally sells his soul to the Devil‚ in exchange for freedom

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    Lloyd Jones Mister Pip

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    the theme of the power of literature through the construction of the characters‚ Matilda‚ Dolores and several more. Through these characters‚ literature (or story-telling) is an extremely powerful theme in Mister Pip as it not only provides an escape for the community‚ but also as a tool to bring them together and shape their views of the world. Matilda‚ a teenage girl‚ is the main protagonist of the novel. Matilda is constructed

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    What techniques does the director Danny DeVito use in the film ‘Matilda’ to illustrate the character Jennifer Honey as benevolent? The film ‘Matilda’ directed by Danny DeVito‚ was released in 1996. This movie promotes people to speak up for their rights and what they believe in. the movie is about a child called Matilda whom lives a very unfair life where adults control her‚ her thoughts and all of her actions. Matilda starts school at Crunchem Hall Elementary school where she meets many different

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    My Papa's Waltz

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    Interpretation of “My Papa’s Wallet” “My Papa’s Waltz” was written by Theodore Roethke‚ which is a stanza poem with 16 lines. The narrator of the poem seems to be a young child speaking about an experience with his drunken father. In this poem the father came home after a night of drinking. As the father enters the house he grabs the child by the wrist with his battered knuckles‚ which indicates that he works with his hands. Playfully knocking down the pans‚ the mother irritated gives them an

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    portray the relationships between the main characters and a parental role differently in relation to the other despite them both being from opposite sides of the world‚ as well as the story being set in different time periods. In Mister Pip‚ its Matilda a young black girl from the island of Papua New Guinea with her mother Dolores and in The Curious Incident.. its Christopher‚ a young boy with Aspergers Syndrome from Swindon along with father Ed Boone. The children on the island in Mister Pip

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    My Papas Waltz Analysis

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    father and the son waltzing in the kitchen symbolize the powerful relationship between each other‚ and the abusive themes Roethke use to express the boys childhood and his as well. In the first stanza‚ there is a strong image the reader visions as the young boy smells his father’s whiskey breath and how the boy becomes faint. There is closeness between the father and the son‚ and there is a loving relationship that they share. The line “But I hung on like death‚ such waltzing was not easy” shows

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    Mister Pip

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    portray the relationships between the main characters and a parental role differently in relation to the other despite them both being from opposite sides of the world‚ as well as the story being set in different time periods. In Mister Pip‚ its Matilda a young black girl from the island of Papua New Guinea with her mother Dolores and in The Curious Incident.. its Christopher‚ a young boy with Aspergers Syndrome from Swindon along with father Ed Boone. The children on the island in Mister Pip are

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    Roald Dahl Research Paper

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    The Art of Books and Chocolate: The Sweet Life of Roald Dahl There once lived a little pink bunny named Hersh. Hersh was not your average carrot-loving bunny. In fact‚ he was quite allergic to carrots. Hersh’s favorite food was actually chocolate. To be honest‚ chocolate wasn’t just his favorite food. It was his life. Hersh ate chocolate with anything‚ day and night‚ through sickness and health‚ through good times and bad. His parents tried many ways to distract him. Eventually‚ they finally came

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    him about his connection with Isabella. During this interrogation‚ Matilda and Bianca are on their way toHippolita’s apartment. They overdear the men’s

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