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    hear, and I happened to be one of those children. Reading to me was a boring activity, and I never seemed to understand why everyone enjoyed it so much. People would always tell me to try to envision a story; only one that I could see. It seemed that no matter how hard I tried to envision a story, I could never see it. I assumed you had to be very dexterous to be able to imagine something so spectacular. With that being said, I always viewed reading as a detriment for myself. Recently I stumbled

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    "The Storm" by Kate Chopin melds the theme of romantic love with those of rebellion and conformity. In the story, Chopin gives readers an account of a meteorological disturbance that sweeps through a town, leaving a family to seek shelter until the storms passing. The wife of the story Calixta is at the family's home while her husband Bobint and child Bibi are seeking refuge at Friedheimer's store. Deeply concerned for his mother Bibi begins to question and seek reassurance for Calixta's safety from

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    Magical Realism is, by definition, a story composed of primarily realistic events which are enhanced by supernatural or magical events. Catch of a Death Foretold, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez, holds several occurrences that would classify the book as magical realism. The realistic points of the book are easy to point out of course, a small town, two angry brothers, a devastated fiancee etc… However, the magical realism lays in the details of the book. In the crevices of his storyline, Marquez

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    Paragraph 2 of page 9 fits well into The Joy Luck Club. During this passage, Jing-Mei Woo tells the story about why her mother, who passed away, moved to America. “So you can see how quickly Kweilin lost its beauty for me. I no longer climbed the peaks to say, How lovely are these hills! I only wondered which hills the Japanese had reached. I sat in the dark corners of my house with a baby under each arm, waiting with nervous feet and scurried to the deep caves to hide like wild animals. But you

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    Literary Essay: “Charles” Shirley Jackson’s story, “Charles,” is a story about a young boy telling his father stories about a boy who is doing really mean and bad things and is always getting in trouble. The father becomes worried about the influences of Charles to his son Laurie and he wants to talk to Laurie’s kindergarten teacher and parents about Charles. After the first parent teacher conference they can’t find Charles’s parents, so the next teacher conference they find the teacher and ask

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    The things they carried are a story written by Tim O’Brien about a group of US solders that are fighting in the Vietnam War. This story centers on First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross his band of brothers.  In this story we follow Lt Cross through the jungles, in the caves, and across the rice patties of Vietnam. We get the rare opportunity of looking into what a man thinks and does when he is stranded thousands of miles from his home, family, and friends. The name of this story suggests what it is about; the

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    hold a more superior meaning. Her use of symbols expresses the story boldly, and they make the characters who they really are. Without the use of such symbols, the story would be dull and lifeless. A writing should contain a sense of illustration, allowing the reader to connect to the words and what the author wants them to take from it. The words speak not only through the dialogue but within the descriptions used to build the story. The backbone of this selection relies on symbols such as: Hulga’s

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    serum which dulls the brain injected into them. Matteo, Matt for short, never had the injection. Everything about the character Matt drives the story from start to finish because of who he is, how his actions

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    “The Contents of a Deadman’s pocket,” “The Sniper,” the three stories all have similar but contrasting literary elements. Setting, Theme, Characters, and conflicts. As you read you will learn of the 4 literary elements. The setting in the 3 pieces of text had led all of the protagonists to conflicts. “Contents of a Deadman’s pocket.” “Now balance easily and firmly, stood on the ledge outside in the slight, chill, breeze, eleven stories above the street, staring into his own apartment, odd and different

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    The song “Sad story” also titled as out of luck written by an Italian duo Merk and Kurmont is a unique song created with a mixture of beautiful soundscape that brings a delicate beat combined with a smooth guitar lick, glorious baselines, and luscious vocals to convey a story of an unknown protagonist. His sad miserable life combined with repetition and rhyme gives the song an addictive element and delivers a theme of outcasts. The song is a life story of an unknown protagonist who shares his life

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