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Aware Of The Fact End Of The Story
2,152 words... part, uses an allegory as the literary theme in The Masque of the Red Death. I do not see the story as one intended to scare or keep the reader in suspense, however, more to leave the reader with a message concerning death, and trying to prevent the inevitable. Very little description is used throughout the story, excluding the description the most important roles in the story; the seven rooms, and the Red Death. I believe this is written the way it is in order to keep the reader focused on ...
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Extremely Sensitive Animal Kingdom
706 wordsSmall, mainly carnivorous animal, Felis cards, member of the family Felidae. It is a popular household pet and is useful for killing mice and rats. A cat's body is extremely flexible; its skeleton contains more than 230 bones and its pelvis and shoulders are loosely attached to its spine. The cat's powerful musculature helps its great leaping ability and speed. The cat's sharp, hooked, retractile claws are sheathed in a soft, leathery pocket at the end of each toe and are extended for fighting, ...
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Ethan And Mattie Open The Door
2,194 words... y in his mind. Ethan hears movement inside the house. Again he thinks of the tramps, but it's Zeena who has come down to open the door. Now you catch your first glimpse of Zeena in the flesh. Until now you " ve only heard about her. Edith Wharton intends us to see Zeena as particularly ugly- sort of an old crone. Ethan notices, as though for the first time, her "flat breast, " her "puckered throat, " and the deep "hollows and prominences of her high-boned face. " What a difference to Mattie ...
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Lady Cat Gray
338 wordsOnce there was an old lady who had a cat. She was 83 years old and had found a beautiful gray and white cat. It had pretty silky fur and gold eyes. Its fur was long and soft. When she picked it up it would purr in her arms. After she cleaned it up and fed it she than named it. The old lady said I will name you "Mr. Gray" for you are gray. One night while the old lady was sleeping she saw a beautiful bright star, so she wished on it not knowing if it would come true. Oh pretty little star said th...
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Give The Reader Carl Sandburg
1,475 wordsIn this assignment I will gracefully compare and contrast two short poems. In my selection for the poems, I kept in mind that the two poems needed to have something in common metaphorically or thematically. After many hours of browsing (or about 30 minutes) I came upon two poems that contained an ultimately strange connection metaphorically and in content. Interestingly, the two also had numerous differences. The first poem I encountered was "The Sick Rose" (1794) written by William Blake. Soon ...
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Fake Id Emotional Response
1,250 wordsb) The subject The cat is a patient. I know this because fell is an intransitive verb so nothing is suffering the effect of the cat. It is not an experience because it is not attributed any emotional response. The cat is suffering an action. This sentence could be the response given by a child to the question 'What happened to the cat?' Knowing he would be in trouble if he admits he shot the cat with a bb gun the child tries to distance himself from the act by telling his parents 'The cat fell o...
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House Of Usher Shelleys Frankenstein
934 wordsRunning head: ELEMENTAL GOTHIC Elemental Gothic May 28, 2009 Elemental Gothic Gothic literature is rooted back to the Romantic movement of the 19 th century. Shortly after the first literature works has appeared, this movement has gained popularity and embraced a number of works in short story, novels, dramatic, artistic, poetic ad cinematic works. The essay examines the elements of gothic and compares and contrasts the use of gothic elements in Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Alan Poe's gothic...
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Stories He Illustrates Beauty No Longer Evil
603 wordsAbsence of Beauty Edgar Allan Poe sees evil as a living threat to man because he lives in its presence. Parallel with the tragedies in his own life relating to the deaths of his young mother, wife and others he loved in his life. It is no wonder that he sees the absence of beauty as evil, because he felt the terror and tragedy of the loss of his own life. In his stories he illustrates how the absence of beauty is the essence of evil. In The Tell Tale Heart when the old man s eyes is closed he wo...
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Edgar Allan Poe First Person Point
1,074 wordsEdgar Allan Poe: Crime and Punishment A certain group of short stories of Edgar Allan Poe can be described as the Tales of Gothic Horror, but I would like to group them as tales of crime and punishment. All them are surprisingly simple and the moral meaning easily understood: guilt causes pain; loss of human contact means spiritual death; and conscience must be carefully thought about. The two stories that I felt applied the greatest are The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. Each has a differen...
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Edgar Allan Poe Modern Critical Views
1,244 wordsThe short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. (7) For me, this is done through his use of setting and narrative...
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Edgar Allan Poe House Of Usher
4,280 wordsBest known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809, deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from tale to art. He for the most part created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced some of the most influential literary criticism of his time. Poe died Oct. 7, 1849. Poe's parents were touring actors; both died before he was three years old, and he was taken into the home of J...
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Ethan And Mattie Open The Door
4,452 wordsEthan Frome Chapter summary PROLOGUE One thing that sets Ethan Frome apart from other novels is the way the story is told. Edith Wharton doesn t just start at the beginning and tell you what happens. Rather, she uses a narrator who knows no more about Ethan Frome than you do. The narrator, who remains nameless, is a young engineer. He tells you how he uncovered Ethan s story bit by bit. He recounts what people said to him and what he observed during the months he spent in Ethan s hometown one wi...
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William Jennings Bryan Spanish American War
4,335 wordsAscension To The White House As Governor of New York, Roosevelt would once again stand on his own and distance himself from the political bosses and machines that got him elected. The head of the Republican machine, Thomas Platt, had misgivings about making Roosevelt governor of New York because of Roosevelt's total independence and his reform nature. But in the gubernatorial race of 1898, with the bad press the Republican Party was receiving, there seemed to be no one else who had a chance. Roo...
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Clean Well Lighted Place Hills Like White Elephants
1,053 wordsJan-Erik Same English 352, Short Stories TTH 12: 15 Final paper ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899 - 1961) You really ought to read more books you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1927 This is a paper about Ernest Hemingway's short stories The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1938? ), Hills like White Elephants (1927), Cat in the Rain (1923? ), The Killers (1927) and A Clean Well-Lighted Place (1933). However, to understand Hemingway and his short stories I find...
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Ernest Miller Hemingway Clean Well Lighted Place
2,297 wordsErnest Hemingway: His life and his stories Ernest Hemingway was man of many words. He wrote many novels and short stories. Ernest Hemingway also led a hard life. He often incorporated his life into his stories. His life and work was a direct result of his life. Some of his stories show a direct relationship between his life and his work. Looking at three of Hemingway's short stories, Soldiers Home, A Cat in the Rain and A Clean Well-Lighted Place, in terms of their relationship to events and exp...
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Made Me Feel Rave Scene
4,550 wordsMethamphetamine: Built for Speed? Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of party drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive nightmare? by Brian Otto Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting a whirl of minutes, hours and days. In dealing with the changes, humans have equipped themselves with the tools to move faster, more efficiently. At the same time a dependence for the marketin...
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Alice Adventures In Wonderland Hallucinogenic Drugs
782 wordsThe Dreams of Alice Many people have argued that hallucinogenic drugs influenced Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. However, upon closer observation, the story more closely resembles the experiences people have while dreaming, rather than while under the influence of drugs. There are numerous examples throughout the novel which support the idea that it is based on dreamlike experiences. The first example of how the story relates to dreams is in the beginning as Alice finds h...
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Poe Edgar Allan Cask Of Amontillado
2,637 wordsPoe is a very complicated author. His literary works are perplexed, disturbing, and even grotesque. His frequent illnesses may have provoked his engrossment in such things. In 1842 Dr. John W. Francis diagnosed Poe with sympathetic heart trouble as well as brain congestion. He also noted Poe's inability to withstand stimulants such as drugs and alcohol (Phillips 1508). These factors may have motivated him to write The Tell-Tale-Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Black Cat. All of these stor...
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Edgar Allan Poe Poe Short Stories
1,154 wordsPoe's Writing Styles The short story writer, which I have chosen to write about, is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. For me, this is done through his use of...
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1,433 wordsKurt Vonnegut has written more then twenty books in the years he has been writing. Many of his books share characters, settings, or situations. Using the same characters and such creates a unity throughout his books. Likewise, Vonnegut seems to repeat themes throughout many of his books. A number of Vonnegut s books deal with themes that include structure and order in society. Kurt Vonnegut discusses mankind s need for structure and order by the creation of meaningless associations in his novels...
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