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Salinger’s use of the literary device of diction supports his message of craving maturity versus acting upon it. On pages 116 to 117, Salinger uses words such as “blood,”

Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of An Hour,” emotionally illustrates the hour in which a young woman with a heart condition finds out her husband has been killed in a mining accident. In the beginning, she grieves over the loss of her husband, but she soon becomes relieved and joyous when she realizes that she is now free. However, her husband returns after having been far from the mines for the day and her heart problems return and she dies. Kate Chopin was an early feminist author and was well acquainted with death after losing many siblings as a child, her husband (who left her a large amount of debt), and her mother with whom she was very close. As a means of therapy, Chopin took up writing and her ideas about feminism and death are very clear. In “The Story of An Hour,” Chopin uses multiple symbols and an allusion to a Greek god to illustrate and support the idea that male oppression harms the souls and lives of women.

In “The Power of a Story,” Nathan Alling Long had lost faith in everything when his dog, Gracie, ran away one afternoon. That day, he scoured the neighborhood for hours and put up signs, but she was gone. On day two, Nathan called his vet and the animal shelter to see if anyone had brought her in, but no luck. On day three, he checked the woods with his friend, Rhea, who said that maybe Gracie was on a great adventure. As a writer, it restored his faith in the power of a story as he remembered that he used to tell people Gracie was half wolf and half dog, which made it easier to believe she was out exploring her wolf side. On day four, he found a nickel which he believed to be a good omen for him and thought Gracie would be back the next day.

Jerome David Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, is a work of fiction and a

In the movie A Bronx Tale, young Calogero witnessed a shooting outside his house. The cops show up at his house later that day to question him. The police officer had Calogero go to where the police had a line of men who were suspects of the shooting. Calogero got to Sonny, who was pretty much the head gangster of the neighborhood. Calogero knew it was Sunny but chose to tell the police it wasn’t any of them. The lie that Calogero told to the police is morally wrong because according to Pollock, in the ethics book “Morals and morality refer to what is judged as good conduct. (Pollock, 8, 2012). I would say that the lie he told

In the inspirational true story Unbroken, a teenage girl named Lauren is battling her way through neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that generally originates in the spinal cord. Although she survived and is well, the cancer has drastically changed her life by how she views the world , even though, she dealt with her issues, by staying optimistic.

Race and social status in culture is not only shown in history, it is also depicted in several films such as the original 1968 Planet of the apes, and 1961 West side story. Both films are unique in their own ways but go hand in hand presenting specific perspectives on race and social status from the beginning of history through today.

In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger illustrates the power of isolation and loneliness. In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger demonstrates the power of isolation and loneliness throughout the context of the novel. A way this power is portrayed

J.D. Salinger drops the reader into the middle of his stories. Without any sense of characters, setting, or plot, the reader is thrown into the lives of others as they scramble to unearth the truth behind the scenes. Salinger provides complex stories of relatable characters; some are stories of happiness and others are of loss and dysfunction. Often times, the characters have difficulties dealing with the harsh realities of their lives and have to look towards alternate means of coping. Society fosters an overly structured environment with little room for atypical relationships, ideals, and behaviors. Anything that is outside of the normal is immediately written off and labeled as deviant behavior, something that is often frowned upon in this day and age. The characters in Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger use various coping mechanisms to escape the reality that societal norms and traditionalism present.

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Together the works of Ted Hughes, Christine Jeffs and J.D Salinger combine to enhance an understanding of the concept of conflicting perspectives. The audience can see that there is a great deal of ubiquity in relation to Conflicting Perspectives. Ted Hughes’ poetry gives his account of a tumultuous part of his life whilst Christine Jeff’s film portrays a different point of view than that given by Hughes’. It is through looking at Salinger’s novel, that the role of the authorial voice in contrast to the protagonists can create a conflicting perspective between the protagonist and the audience. All these texts explore the concept of one person’s ‘truth’ in relation to another’s.

One of the main things that contributed to Conor’s change within the novel, is the theme suffering. In chapter ‘The Fourth Tale’, Patrick Ness describes Conor’s nightmare to be the cause of his exhaustion, “this was where he usually sat up in his bed, covered in sweat, his heart beating so fast he thought he might die”, this emphasizes that Conor’s nightmare causes him a lot of pain, to the fact that he predicts the forthcoming event due to the fact that he expected to be woken up “when she fell, screaming, out of his grasp, into the abyss, taken by the nightmare”. But, instead of waking, the monster still trapped him within the nightmare. Patrick Ness emphasizes that the nightmare is the cause of his suffering, as Conor fears its, knowing

Our group decided down to earth mostly pertaining stereotyping in everyday life and exploiting what people think. Our lesson plan is going to start off by us reading the story “Down to Earth” by Sue and Allen Gallehugh. First, we are going to have each group roll a number dice, the group that rolls the highest number will determine which group will go first. The groups will then roll a color dice to conclude which balloon they will pop to receive their category fairly. Once each group receives their category we will introduce the game “Heads Up” as our group activity. Our categories consists of varieties of stereotypical situations such as stereotypes that occur in school, diverse cultures around and the different accents around the world,

Values are beliefs, priorities, and or activities that people find importance in. In the 1959 novel “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe, the concentration is on the nine Ibo-speaking villages of Umuofian, which means "People of the Forest”. Umuofian is the village in which Okonkwo, the protagonist, thrives in everything and is able to secure his manly position in the tribe. There are little similarities and many differences in the values of an American society and the values of a traditional Umuofian society such as marriage, religion, role of men and women, the way each handle wars and the political system.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina sets the philosophical tone of his novel and asks us to theorise on happiness and how we achieve it. The same question is posed in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour. Set in the late 19th Century, the story begins when Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband’s death. Upon hearing this news, she knows she should mourn his death and fear for her own future, but the joy of her newfound independence overwhelms every other emotion. Chopin, strong in her own feminist ideals, argues that happiness can only be achieved through the liberation of oppression and the discovery of self-identity.