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    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Response The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank is an inspirational coming of age diary written to teach the reader that difficult situations lead to maturity. Anne’s diary shows the evolution and maturity of Anne’s character over a few years. Anne had to face many challenges in her difficult situation. She was hiding in a confined Annexe because she was a targeted victim of genocide during the Holocaust. These situations led her to an entire new level

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    Deliberate authorial choices become crucial in getting the readers attention in a said literary work. Authors spend their whole career developing these techniques to create a style that is their own. Shirley Jackson displays her talent to the reader in her writing of a pessimistic short story that she is most famous for. Her famous short story “The Lottery” is one to keep the reader interested not only in the content but in the way she presents it and the emotional toll that it has on the readers

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    In a short story that was written by Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, is a short literature that discussed an annual lottery draw that took place in a small New England town. In the literature, Jackson presented the event that took place in the small town very summer time of the year, in which one random villager get chosen and to be stoned to death by the people in the village. As Jackson stated in her short literature, the lottery has been practiced in the small village for over seventy years by its

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    Correlations Between Anne Bradstreet’s Poems and Society Today The name Anne Bradstreet may not be as infamous to some ears as the name Virginia Woolf or Mary Shelley, but her influence on the inclusion of women in a predominantly “male society” prevails nonetheless and reigns just as prominent as other women of her time. Anne Bradstreet was a devoted wife and mother, who was also bound by the impediments of being a Puritan woman. In fact, she summited herself to her husband and demonstrates her

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    Anne of the Island, by L. M. Montgomery is a story about Anne Shirley going off to college, and deciding who she was going to marry. The story is primarily set in Kingsport, the town around her college, and Green Gables, her childhood home, during a time frame when it was very important for girls to get married. Anne is the main character, but there are several additional key characters in the story including: Marilla, her mother figure, who adopted Anne when she was eleven years old; Charlie Sloane

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    book, Anne of Green Gables. This will be accomplished by looking back at the early life of the author, her childhood, and the hardships that she had overcame. Also, several works that had interpreted and analyzed Montgomery’s life had a substantial contribution to this research paper. The novel Anne of the Green Gables was written by Lucy Maud Montgomery in the year 1908. In particular, the Anne of the Green Gables was held as a children’s novel. The story followed the life and journey of Anne Shirley

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    It was in the year 1908 when the world first effortlessly fell in love with the tale of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. Since then, the story has been re-discovered, imitated, and adapted hundreds of times. In doing so, not only is the story of Anne Shirley kept alive but also generations of fandoms are connected through ever evolving forms of media representation and relevant interpretations of the story. Although the fandom has no official name or recognition in the eyes of scholars, it

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    The Journey of an Orphan to a Young Woman

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    Montgomery demonstrates this skilfully in her work; Anne of Green Gables. The novel is about a lonely orphaned girl whose only friend is her imagination. Due to her imagination and the support of her new loving family, she grows into a bright and intelligent young woman who realizes the potential that life has for her and her tremendously creative mind. The experiences and expectations that are placed on the

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    seen as a threat. In addition, it can be seen as nuanced and viewed in a more positive structure, where it is celebrated. In the coming of age story, Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery represents nature in an optimistic standpoint and therefore, establishes that nature is emphasized through the genre of romanticism. It can be argued that in the novel, Anne of Green Gables by

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    Anne of Green Gables Research Essay Anne of Green Gables is an enchanting tale of a young orphan named Anne Shirley. Anne, who happens to be an eleven year old orphan at the beginning of the story, eventually gets adopted mistakenly by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Matthew and Marilla were simply looking for a young male orphan who would be able to assist them with physical work around the house because Matthew was getting older, and would need an extra hand. Despite having a little girl, who was

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