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Thousand Acres Patriarchal Society
613 wordsBooks that are chosen to be read in English class are not always what I would consider to be my favorite books. However, as I have progressed in years, I have begun to learn that, although a book my not appeal to me, that does not mean that the novel lacks greatness. There are all different kinds of books and naturally, different reading levels. There are the Mary Higgins Clark books, that while entertaining, may not have the depth to be considered a masterpiece. On the other end of the spectrum...
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Thousand Acres King Lear
468 wordsKing Lear is a most unusual play in that it only deals with the present and neglects the past and the future. The reader is not informed about an earlier time period in the play. The play opens up with Lear immediately choosing to, express our darker purpose (I, i, 35). There is no mention of any of the three daughters childhood. In contrast, Smiley makes a point of adding description to her novel. She constantly describes the three girls childhood, their ancestors, and other memories from the p...
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Thousand Acres King Lear
436 wordsIt is amazing to me the extraordinary job that Jane Smiley has done with her book A Thousand Acres. The parallels that she draws with Shakespeare's classic story of King Lear are unsurpassed by any book to which I have had the pleasure of reading. These two works represent an excellent example of literature that is able to engage readers young and old. In A Thousand Acres, I read Ginny as being the reserved quiet daughter who, up until the very end, bends to her fathers tyranny. As a result of h...
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Play King Lear Point Of View
2,014 wordsKing Lear is one of William Shakespeare s greatest tragedies which involves a common story of three daughters vying for the love of their father. Jane Smiley parallels the story of King Lear in her novel A Thousand Acres. Though this novel is derived from the roots of King Lear and the basic plot is similar, the reader s reaction to each work of literature varies greatly. One may wonder why the reader s perspective on the play King Lear changes so drastically after reading the novel A Thousand A...
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Goneril And Regan Thousand Acres
1,031 wordsIn William Shakespeare s King Lear and Jane Smiley s A Thousand Acres, the reader will find that both works use similar character types that mirror each other to increase further the similarities and meaning of the works. Perhaps no similarity is as striking as that of the fathers. They share three characteristics which bind them and make their parallels unmistakable. The first, and most obvious, is that they are both proprietors of a large estate. King Lear s property consists of England and La...
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Acres Of Land Thousand Acres
245 words1234 N. Array Vista Dr. E Enterprises, After extensive research of ten possible mining sites, Turn? Co. purchased thirty-six hundred acres of mineral rights. At every site we ran several tests determining the copper content. We generally purchased land from every site that had some copper in the ground. After surveying the land for a general description, we obtained mineral rights and took samples of the rocks. We checked the ions found for traces of copper. When copper was found we obtained ass...
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