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    1.) Who is the protagonist-the main character-in the novel? The protagonist in the novel was a sixteen-year-old female named Katniss Everdeen. 2.) What kind of person is the protagonist? Be sure to focus on the personality of the character. 3.) What evidence in the text leads you to this opinion of the protagonist? Be specific-include direct quotes from the text. Katniss Everdeen was a slim and pale figure that possessed lengthy black hair and mysterious blue eyes. The female was a clever,…

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    Frank Gonsalves Gonsalves 1 Magnani, Grace English IV CP 5 December 2017 ROOM Motif Essay ROOM is a novel that follows two protagonists by the name of Jack and “Ma” and their daily routine while being in captivity at the hands of Old Nick. Jack is a five year old boy who is the son of Ma and the only company she’s got in Room so Ma tries has much has possible to give Jack a productive life in Room by strengthening his motor skills in hopes that when the day comes that they do get…

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    “Train to Pakistan” “Train to Pakistan” is written by “Khushwant Singh”. It was published in 1956. This novel based on partition. The novel began with the description of weather. It was the summer of 1947 and was hotter and longer than usual. People started thinking that it was the punishment of their sins. Bloodshed and riots were at peak due to the air of partition of India. The settings of this novel based on a small imaginary village near the north southern part of India on the bank of river…

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    Twentieth century novel Modern novelist can be divided into those who continue within a broad tradition of realism and those who experiment far more with the form of novel. Writers such as john Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Graham Green, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike and Saul Bellow are essentially realist. They are less interactive then the nineteenth century realists. They present a credible picture in which we are not particularly aware of the novelist presence.…

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    This novel is well written for a young adult audience. I think Ellis and Walters did a great job showing the opposite perspectives of Haroon and Jay presented in the novel. Although Haroon and Jay experience the same school environment and witness the same events, Ellis and Walters still convey different experiences. Although the events affect each character differently, the authors also did an excellent job combining the perspectives. As you read though the book, there is an appropriate tone…

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    COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY The Frankenstein and Grendel novels both contain the stories of some of literature’s most famous monsters. These monsters exist to remind the world of the pains of being an outsider and of the consequences of that pain. Grendel and the “Monster” from Frankenstein explored the realms of men in search for acceptance from the world only to be met with cruel rejection. Grendel in the novel and the “Monster” from Frankenstein although their stories written during different…

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    Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, gets into a lot of details after the first set of chapters read. During the time period coloured people were not aloud in the library, therefore could not read a lot. Aibileen one of the main characters loves to read so she asks Miss Skeeter if she could bring her books to read on certain topics. Miss Skeeter picks a book out for Aibileen, but soon realizes someone has ripped a page out and wrote downs “nigger book”. She also finds a book that has rules…

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    The novel “Tuck Everlasting” is about the Tuck family who drinks a special spring water that gives them immortality. A young girl Winnie finds out about the spring water. The Tucks take the girl wit them, and then she falls in love with them. Winnie’s parents. and grandmother are overly protective of winnie and stifle her from growth and change. her parents realize that winnie changes after her experiences with the Tucks and support and love her even more. The Tucks give her the freedom to…

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    Title The original French title of this novel is “L’Etranger”, which led to several english translations that all accurately reflected a part of what the protagonist embodied in the novel. “The Foreigner” being one of the literal translations, appoints to Meursault being a foreigner to the land of Algeria as a Frenchman; “The Stranger” describes his mental isolation from fellow human beings and “The Outsider” is his ultimate detachment from the conventions of a humanistic society. Consequently,…

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    Epistolary Novel Analysis

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    This paper seeks to investigate the complex ways the epistolary novel informs notions of the self, specifically in regard to Samuel Richardson’s Pamela. To do so, it is imperative to evaluate the forms’ impact on the story it tells. The notions of immediacy and intimacy inherent in the letter form are emphasized here. Locke’s theory of the blank self can be used to explain the creation of Pamela. Finally, Rousseau’s ideas about the creation of the self through reading explore the novel’s…

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