ENGLISH ESSAY When going through a rough patch in life‚ someone may notice and come to terms with things about themselves that they didn’t come to grips with before. In other words‚ “In times of adversity or hardship‚ one’s true character is revealed.” In Ellen Foster‚ a book about a young foster child by Kaye Gibbons‚ Ellen faces many challenges. These challenges include the suicide of her mother‚ the abuse and unavoidable death of her father‚ and rejection from family members which led her to
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"It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams‚ for the purpose of improvement." This quote suggests that writers must face their failures and confront their dangerous desires for purpose of learning from their own mistakes‚ people who don’t learn from past mistakes are bound to repeat them. This quote holds true in a lot of literature‚ for example two examples are Macbeth by William Shakespeare and
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School for Human Rights Shyann Holder (11A) Ms. Cummings September 25th‚ 2013
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Feminist Lens on Hamlet The critical school our group will be discussing is feminism. The core ideas of this school is the equality of gender. When defined in the dictionary‚ it states that feminism is “The theory of the political‚ economic‚ and social equality of the sexes”. A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women. Malala Yousafzai‚ a young social justice leader‚ sums up the general passion felt by those who are members of this school when she said “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back”
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Critical Lens – Cheat sheet! Your task: to write a Critical Lens essay using TWO of the characters from The Crucible. First‚ let’s review the task of the critical lens: Write a critical essay in which you discuss two works of literature you have read from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided for you in the Critical Lens. In your essay‚ provide a valid interpretation of the statement‚ agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it‚ and support your opinion
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J.F. Clarke said‚ "Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through." This quote means good books give the reader a chance to experience something which we may not have experience before. Two texts that will support this quote are The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this literature The Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ Ralph who struggle to survive on an inhabited island from a plane accident. Ralph was elected
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Critical Lens Book Report Fiction is an attempt to tell the truth about things we generally lie about. I agree because authors write books that tell every thing like it is and that it seems right but is very wrong‚ and they tell it with out censorship and make readers think is that the way friends‚ family ‚ and strangers think too because I can’t read their minds? The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was about named Tille it showed all the hard
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Critical Lens Essay Nicholas Cage once said that‚ “I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I see more of the truth.” This quotes means that characters are much more unrealistic when they are perfect. Characters with flaws give the reader a more accurate view of humanity because all people have flaws. The short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and “The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe are two works of literature that support this quote. In both of these works‚ it is
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Critical Lens Essay According to Ernest Hemingway‚ “...all things truly wicked start from innocence.” This quotation means that everything that is evil was once pure. I agree with the quotation because when your are pure of anything contaminated‚ the environment can create evilness in a person. Through the use of symbolism in Lord of the Flies‚ and irony in Oedipus the King‚ William Golding and Sophocles shows the readers that corruption stems from innocence. William Golding uses symbolism in
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The Outsiders Critical Lens Essay The quote in question is “All good is destined to be defeated.” The quote means‚ for every good guy‚ there is a bad guy. For every hero‚ there is a villain. Everyone who has ever tried to do something good has been destined to be stopped. The quote not only speaks for literature‚ but for everything. If you look from now‚ all the way back to ancient times‚ you will see examples of this in many works of literature. The book The Outsiders is a good representation
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