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    the writer can be considered as a means of interpreting the text. In this deconstructive interpretation of D.H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”, a biographical context has been created in an attempt to analyse the text by outlining and matching up incidents and/or events, and characters in the novel which are projections of real life events and people in the life of the author himself. Indeed, there are so many things in “Sons and Lovers” that bear resemblances to

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    Although alike in their depiction of the racial injustice experienced by African Americans in United States society, The Street and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl differ in terms of the existential methods attached to the narratives of the protagonists, and the relationship between the employment of these methods and the experiences of these characters and their community. Lutie Johnson, the protagonist of The Street, employs "positive thinking" to escape challenging situations, and as she

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    The life was Edgar Allan Poe was misery and tragedy by itself. It was not because he mainly wrote Gothic stories but he experienced many unfortunate incidents throughout his life. As a youngster, Poe did not have a good start. He was born in 1809, Boston as a child of poor actor working at local theater. (Pruette, p 370) Since, his family was very poor, his birth was considered lowly. (Pruette, p370) However, more tragedies happened before he was three years old. When he was two years old, his

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    challenged autonomy and women's role, Bronte herself challenged the current views of female autonomy. After the people of the time saw the character Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte go against the standards for females, it caused the novel to become an example of female

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    field and no longer represents any danger to anyone. At that moment, it would be logical to watch the elephant for a while to make sure that the zeal has passed. "Shooting an Elephant" is a short essay of just three pages, which tells an autobiographical incident experienced by the English writer George Orwell, when he served as a soldier of the British empire in Burma. An imperial guard came, on orders from his superior, to a small hamlet where a domesticated elephant had sowed panic among the native

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    “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney and “Report to Wordsworth” by Boey Kim Cheng present a situation of crisis and both convey the significance of life and death to the reader through real-life examples. Heaney’s autobiographical “Mid-Term Break” highlights the childhood trauma in experiencing a death, whilst in “Report to Wordsworth” Cheng presents a pessimistic view on Nature’s future in response to 19th century environmentalist William Wordsworth’s work. Nature’s fast-paced progression towards death

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    works and is considered to be the book that launched his writing career. The novel is semi-autobiographical, meaning it contains several autobiographical aspects and reflects the events and people that occurred within his life, while using fictional characters and elements. Fitzgerald reflects many features of his life and his experiences throughout the novel. The story revolves around a young boy,

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    deeper. A mulatto is constantly faced with the difficult task of struggling between two races that in the past have been in conflict with each other. In addition, they are faced with mixed feelings from the fellow pure bread black members. For example, in Blacker the Berry, Emma character, a mulatto encounter constant resentment and possible envy by not only blacks because of her lighter skin tone, but also from white peers. Even in present society, this is a reality of which many non-blacks are

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    Here’s another example: As the “story” goes, I inserted one of Mom’s metal bobby pins into an electrical plug and blew the “whole building’s circuit.” At the time, we lived in a row of two-story apartments, maybe six or eight to a row. Sounds plausible but even I don’t

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    “Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible” sums up Douglass’s work titled My Bondage and My Freedom (Arthur Holmes). A writer cannot create any pieces without an addition of feeling. This feeling is present through the author’s wording. Every word an author decides to be included holds some emotional, added value. This emotional value is incredibly important because without emotion a text lacks significance to its audience. Without emotion, the reader cannot

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