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Sir Robert 25 Percent
863 wordsPeter was never a smart boy. At 12 he was still struggling with the basics of arithmetic and trying to understand the differences between a verb and a noun. The boys at Scot lee High called him slow mo. Life couldnt be crueler and ironic because his last name, Sparks, was the cause for many unkind jokes. Once in the fifth grade his Math teacher said, For someone called Sparks, you are not very bright are you? He remembered how that class of nine year olds had laughed and started chanting Sparky,...
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Miss Jean Social Conformity
1,960 wordsMuriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie depicts the coming of age of six adolescent girls in Edinburgh, Scotland during the 1930 s. The story brings us into the classroom of Miss Jean Brodie, a fascist school teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, and gives close encounter with the social and political climate in Europe during the era surrounding the second World War. Sparks novel is a narrative relating to us the complexities of politics and of social conformity, as well as of non- ...
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