her father on her thirteenth birthday in 1942. She named the diary 'Kitty,' as if it was an entrusted friend. The family went into hiding from the Nazis soon afterward, and Anne took her diary along with her, recording her feelings about living in what she called the 'Secret Annex.' Anne took herself extremely seriously as a writer, and the version of her diary we now have is actually an edited version of Anne's original copy. Anne was consciously rewriting the original incidents she witnessed. "In
great and always full of humor and that came out especially in his writings. All growing up I read a lot of his books because they were books that were in the family for a long time and every one of my siblings read them growing up. They were books that we passed down because they were some of the best books for kids to read when they were old enough to understand what they were about. E.B White always had a sense of humor in his writings. It was something that could never be copied in the same way that
A Comparison of Two Versions of The Big Sleep The Production Code attempted to censor sex and violence in film of the 1930's and 40's. Instead of impairing, it encouraged directors to use artistic ideas and integrity to surpass the viewers' expectations -- actively involving them in the film despite Hollywood's censorship. Howard Hawks is one such director who used the restrictions of the Production Code to his advantage. His screen adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep
T a h r ’N t s eces oe W RITTEN BY SUSAN LA M ARCA Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah This book is the moving autobiography of a young Chinese girl, Adeline Yen Mah. Born the fifth child to an affluent Chinese family her life begins tragically. Adeline’s mother died shortly after her birth due to complications bought on by the delivery, and in Chinese culture this marks her as cursed or ‘bad luck’ (p.3). This situation is compounded by her father’s new marriage to a lady who has little
with the beauty the words, originally in French, must have been like. Instead, the book’s translation is anything but refined, and anything but what the whole book is about: beauty. We are in an affluent neighbourhood in France, sometimes in the 2000’s, surely. There lives several affluent families catered by a concierge named Renée. On the fifth floor lives Paloma Josse, inquisitive twelve year old extraordinaire. Life moves slowly. The Elegance of the Hedgehog starts off simply enough: you are immediately
she is under. She is living in the countryside, Richmond, wracked with depression and suffers of an isolation from the rush of London reccomended her by doctors as a therapy. She seems to be misunderstood by people around her: the servants, her sister contented with her domestic life and her husband Leonard who desperately wants to help his wife but in same way he dictates her life. The second story is enacted in a postwar Los Angeles suburb in 1949. It is a story of a day of a pregnant
understand the book, you first have to get an overview of the author. Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England, the third child of the Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte. Emily and her sisters—entertained themselves by reading Shakespeare, Milton, Virgil and the Bible. As well as playing on the Yorkshire moors were they dreamed up fanciful, fabled worlds, creating a constant stream of tales, such as the Young Men plays (1826) and Our Fellows
patterned labyrinth of her poetry with her life as a guide. Title piece to her first collection of poems, “The Colossus” is a daughter’s attempt to reconstruct her dead father in the fallen statue at Rhodes: “…his death nine days after her eighth birthday left an imprint upon her imagination that time did not erase or soften” (Butscher 3). Because Plath never really knew her father as a healthy man (Stevenson 12), she likens him to this decrepit stone which, as an archaeologist, she must piece together
that the socio – economic status of Rizal’s family is way beyond the average income level of the time. Jose Rizal came from a 13 – member family consisting of his parents, Don Francisco Mercado (Kikoy) and Dona Teodora Alonzo (Lolay) and nine (9) sisters and one (1) brother. 1. Saturnina Hidalgo Y Mercado (Neneng) is the eldest child of the Mercados. She was married to Manuel Timoteo Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas. She died in 1913. 2. Paciano Mercdo Y Alonzo is the only brother
Important things to look out for in narrative essay writing I am assuming that the student is able to construct basic sentence and grammar structure (past & present tense etc.). If the student is unable to do so, he/she is in no condition to attempt essay writing. Please sign the student for basic language/ grammar classes instead. There is a limit to how much advice I can offer via text. So I will just offer two key points. 1. ESSAY FLOW 2. CHARACTERS’ EMOTIONS / FEELINGS * 1. Essay