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Younger Sister Ghost Story
642 wordsGr. 6 - 10. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Moore has always seen herself as living in the shadow of her popular younger sister, Sara. Then the girls spend the summer at their grandparents' midwestern farm with their cousins, quiet, dependable Elijah and renegade, dare-devil Rennie. The boys and Tory (as Rennie calls her) form a bond that revolves around the team spirit required to do the farm chores, the treacherous rim-walking that Rennie is so good at, and a mysterious ghost child. For the first t...
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Mary And Percy Mary Shelley
1,119 wordsThesis: Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein incorporating similarities of her life into the novel. B. When Frankenstein was first published B. Examples of Marys life portrayed in Frankenstein C. Similarities between Marys life and Frankenstein D. State that thesis statement is true Mary Shelley was a prominent, though over looked literary figure during the Romantic Era of English Literature. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein was first published in 1818. Mary started writing Frankenstein before she was nine...
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Turn Of The Screw Miss Jessel
1,861 wordsLiterary criticism on The Turn of the Screw has been divided into 3 groups, concerning the plot. The first is to take the novel at face value, and say that it is a ghost story, that the children are possessed by the ghosts. Others have said that it is a psychological drama that plays upon some of Freud's theses - the ghosts are hallucinations of a sexually repressed girl who has been given a sudden boost in responsibility, and her madness corrupts the beautiful. The third is to say that the nove...
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Ghost Story Main Character
737 wordsThis novel was, surprisingly, in a way that was not all too completely unaware to me for I could discern my own thoughts concerning the book interesting. The intensely complex and intricate (if not confusing! ) sentences, upon first thought, made me expect an experience of complete, utter, and total confusion; however, they served not only to keep my interest in the novel for I had to concentrate to grasp the full, rich meaning of his thoughts but also to create in me a sense of enjoyment, that ...
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Blair Witch Short Story
2,051 words... so 6 - Conclusion Culminating Activity Overview - Students will read "The Lottery" and respond to the themes of the story through small group discussion, and personal questions. Outcomes - -- Students will have practise in responding to themes in a short story. -- Students will be able to use prior knowledge of elements of short stories to discuss the use of suspense and drama in writing. Procedures - 1. As a class read Jackson's "The Lottery." 2. At the end of the story ask students to writ...
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Turn Of The Screw Cambridge Massachusetts
1,233 wordsIn 1860, with the outbreak of the Civil War, The James family moved back to the United States and settled in Newport. James was unable to enlist in the Union army with his two younger brothers due to a back injury he received when putting out a fire. In 1863, James and his older brother William attended Harvard. James did not complete his studies to pursue his writing career. William graduated from Harvard and became one of the most prominent American philosophers and psychologists of his time. ...
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1,230 words... rate a psychological thriller, and that the governess was insane, the apparitions being only figments of her imagination. Krishna Baldev Vaid is one of the critics who believe that James wrote The Turn of the Screw, as a great ghost story, and that the governess is a truthful and reliable narrator. Vaid notes that "James's narrators, as a rule, are endowed with a fine intuitive awareness" He also notes that "James repeatedly employs the intuitions of the governess to maintain suspense and to...
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Rose For Emily North And South
717 wordsWilliam Faulkner's A Rose for Emily is a ghost story expressing his interpretations of the legacy of the Old South. Faulkner was a very accomplished writer of his time, famous for writing stories based on his family and hometown. Through his background, his characters and setting, and his viewpoint on the Old South, he depicts a picture of Southern traditionalism for his audience. This short story by Faulkner is of an older, aristocratic lady by the name of Miss Emily Grierson. She goes on to li...
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Turn Of The Screw Point Of View
949 wordsA Freudian Turn of the Screw There is one question about The Turn of the Screw that has never and probably will never be answered to everyones total satisfaction. Is it a ghost story or is it a psychiatric case history? The story which for years was presumed by most to just be a mere ghost story has in later years, after being studied much more deeply has proven itself to some that it is a psychological thriller and an overall thought provoking topic. There are three major areas in which the sto...
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