Summary Of Twelve By Alexander Blok

Thirteen is a portrayal of a teenage girl growing up in an impoverished home, with no true parental figures, searching for acceptance and love. While the world around her seems steady, Tracy Freeland feels alienated from this stability. Raised by her alcoholic mother and her mother's drug addicted boyfriend, Tracy feels lost and angry. For a time, Tracy finds solace in school, excelling academically and habitually hiding behind naive innocence and a modest form of dress. However, the dawning of puberty and the start of seventh grade leave Tracy with a wavering self worth and a desire to leave childish ways behind. Determined to gain the attention of the popular, Evie Zamora, Tracy convinces her mom to buy her a new, sexier wardrobe and begins her slow descent into a life of theft, drugs, alcohol, and sex. Throughout her journey, Tracy finds herself lost and alone, wondering who she is apart from her dysfunctional lifestyle. There are pivotal moments when Tracy reaches out to both her mother and father, only to be met with disinterest and disregard. More often than not, Tracy's mom, Melanie is too busy with her own recovery efforts, her job, and her boyfriend to give Tracy the attention she is desperately seeking. Though Melanie is a constant in Tracy's life, scenes regularly depict her as being a pushover, allowing Tracy too much freedom and not enough discipline. On the other hand, Tracy's father is absent from all areas of Tracy's life, constantly cancelling plans at the last minute. In one central scene, Melanie reaches out to him for help and when he finally shows up he merely dismisses Tracy's needs in favor of his own career.

The play "Twelve Angry Men", By Reginald Rose, is a play about 12 jurors that in an

The last Tsar Nicholas II ascended the throne in 1894 and was faced with a country that was trying to free itself from its autocratic regime. The serfs had recently been emancipated, the industry and economy was just starting to develop and opposition to the Tsar was building up. Russia was still behind Europe in terms of the political regime, the social conditions and the economy. Nicholas II who was a weak and very influenced by his mother and his wife had to deal with Russia’s troubles during his reign. In order to ascertain how successfully Russia dealt with its problems by 1914, this essay will examine the October Manifesto and the split of the opposition, how the Tsar became more reactionary after the 1905 revolution, Stolypin’s

1) After viewing the 13th documentary, I felt helpless, inspired, and stirred to action. Throughout the film, it shows the crucial way white people mistreated black people and how blacks had little to no freedom in America.The message of the film is hopeful and inspiring because it shows that if you want change, you have to fight for it and stand up for yourself. The blacks started to fight for themselves and their rights.

An example of juxtaposition during the opening paragraphs the author wrote is, ¨a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust¨ (19) which shows in this paragraph shows how bright and stunning

Imagine living life normally inside of your moderately-sized home and your wealth continuing to soar higher and higher. All of a sudden, that wealth, your home, and your life all come crashing down in one big event-- this event being the Russian Revolution. In the story Anthem by Ayn Rand, the narrator is depicted in first person major.

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In the play, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, Juror Eight convinces the jury with his opinion by being confident and standing up for his opinion. He also has good facts to show that the witnesses were not right. Some good reasons were that the witness evidence was not sold, the murder weapon ended up not being rare, and the way the boy stabbed his father does not match the way he would have done it. After all those allegations, I still believe the boy is not guilty due to the evidence not adding up.

The story settings of Chopin and Poe help to show how repression alters the mind. In Chopin’s, “The Story of an Hour,” setting is used to show how Mrs. Mallard’s repressed state of mind begins to flower and grow after she learns of her husband’s death. It is not upon first reading, but second reading, that most start to interpret the settings around Mrs. Mallard while she sits in her bedroom. Chopin writes, “She could see [……] tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.” It is, as she sits at the window, that she becomes aware that she is free of her husband. Spring is the season of new growth and awakening of animal life. Chopin also writes about how patches of blue sky appear out of the “clouds that had met and piled one above the other.” These two descriptions help the reader see what is, perhaps, going on in her mind. The setting in which Chopin put Ms. Mallard in helps speak

The text proceeds from analyzing each poem individually, and later draws parallels between the two. It tries to answer the questions whether the poems are a call to social irresponsibility, and if the object of the poem, the common man should be scorned or pitied. That the common man who is busy conforming to the norms of the state and the society has lost connection with his natural surroundings evokes sympathy for him. Materialism has subsumed his capacity to think to an extent that he cannot even decide whether he is free to do as he wishes – can he say no to enlisting for war? Or can he hold an opinion that did not coincide with the larger public?

Teens in this generation tend to only view one side of any type of argument. Rumors are a huge impact during this generation, us, teenagers hear so many rumors that are spread within the school that we spread them ourselves without listening to discover if it's true or not. For example, some High Schoolers may hear that a girl in their grade is pregnant, they believe it, eventually telling everyone else instead of asking her for the truth. Although, this example and the act read in class, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, are different but they are also alike. The author tells us that just because you have one side of an argument doesn't mean you can't gather more information to see whether or not something can be right or wrong. In which some cases, people are too lazy to identify details in any situation.

The first paragraph vividly describes the harsh conditions and builds up the ominous tone. The fact that it was a bright cold day creates confusion, as usually cold days are accompanied by cloudiness, and bright days are usually accompanied by heat. When the clocks strike thirteen, it is obvious that this place is not similar to our present world, building ambiguity. The vile wind and gritty dust create even more description on the setting; a bright cold windy dusty day in April. The extreme conditions of the setting causes the reader to infer that the current setting is not fit for human life, although that is exactly what it turns out to be. This adds on to the already increasing ominous tone of the

The novel explores what life might be like outside of camp on one occasion, when Ivan Denisovich’s wife sent him a letter about carpet dyeing. Despite having an opportunity outside of camp, Denisovich was indifferent because “he lost the habit of scheming how he was going to feed his family” (44). The guards give prisoners work to do, and that is the prisoner’s only purpose in life once they are incarcerated. How the sun represents incarceration despite the sun’s lively connotations, it transcends the confusion that the labour camp and the Soviet government were stirring in the prisoner’s head. Using the moon’s symbolism, it leads prisoners and the readers to contemplate on this underlying turmoil.

At a time this strictly controlled by the government, Akhmatova knew she was in for life or death if anyone found her poems. “As innocent Russia squirmed/ Under the blood-spattered boots and tires/ Of the black maria/s” (10-12). She talks about how the citizens suffer under the corrupt government.

(Conrad 235). Theses statement support how Russian people felt during this period and helps illustrate emotions upon readers. In addition to how typical Russians feel, these statements also show reasons behind the ways Revolutionaries felt. “No one is born an active revolutionist. The Change comes disturbingly,