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    You know how sleeping schedules are for teenagers in the summer, staying up until the crack of dawn and waking up sometime in the afternoon. It was three in the morning on a Saturday in July, everyone in my house was asleep, while I scurried around in my room packing the last of the essentials for our family trip to New Orleans, Louisiana. We were leaving early, 5:00 a.m. to be exact, and I hadn’t gotten any sleep. I had a plan, stay up all night and sleep the whole car ride. I was ashamed to say

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    Bloody Mary Short Story

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    Bloody Mary I was having some friends over on Friday night. Friday the thirteenth of october to be exact. Me and my four best friends. It was Erick, Jeff, Brady, and Trevor. We made food and watched movies and talked where we were going hunting tomorrow. By midnight, we’d run out of things to do. We were so bored. “Let’s try that Bloody Mary thing,” Trevor said. Erick, was sitting crossed-legged on his sleeping bag, said, “What’s the Bloody Mary thing?” Brady, who was laying on top of

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    Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” depicts a woman as the heroic figure who represents persistence, vigor, and passion as she continually encourages and inevitably saves her daughter from the grips of death. Carter’s attempt to effectively portray a woman as an animal like hero is done so by the mother as seen progressively throughout the story. At the same age as her daughter now, the heroine already accomplished so much and created an identity illustrating her beastliness, power, womanhood, and

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    Checkouts Short Story

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    Checkouts is written by Cynthia Rylant. The girl who can is written by Ama Ata Aidoo. In these stories there are problems and solutions that's what I will be covering. Adjoa is very confused in the girl who can. She has problems with her legs. In Checkouts, her name isn’t clear because it's in first person point of view. In each story there is a point of view. In the story checkouts it’s told in first person and in The Girl Who Can it’s in the view of Adjoa, which she shows that her family is more

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    killers researched today are generally single people who murder for many different psychological reasons, still not fully understood. What happens when you get a group of four psychopaths in the same house, all with the same drive for murder, leads to a bloody trail of death. In the 1800’s, on a remote trail in Kansas, a so called ‘family’ started killing travelers. Working as a unit to execute their murders, these four ‘family’ members would continue their rampage from the same location, killing approximately

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    The Bloody Chamber

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    However, in The Bloody Chamber, this is not necessarily the case. Although there are several feminist messages in the stories’ resolutions, these messages are not always presented in the way one would expect, and not every female protagonist is presented as a feminist character. By taking the roles of typically Gothic women and toying with the presentation of female characters, many of Carter’s feminist messages are not as one would expect. The eponymous story The Bloody Chamber ends with

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    Essay on The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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    There is plenty of opportunity for interpretation in Carter’s writing, particularly in her book ‘The Bloody Chamber’ which is commonly considered to be her masterwork, brimming with intertextualities and ambiguities. Some may find her work to be excessively violent or savage, perhaps even alienating. Yet others may have found this no-holds-barred approach to be exhilarating and refreshing in comparison to other authors of her time. In her re-writing of Perrault and Beaumont’s classic tales, Carter

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    A CRITIQUE OF THE SNOW CHILD, TAKEN FROM ANGELA CARTER’S THE BLOODY CHAMBER. Throughout ’The Bloody Chamber’, Angela Carter takes the highly successful conventions that belong to once innocent fairy tales, and rips them unremorsefully from their seemingly sound foundations to create a variety of dark, seductive, sensual stories, altering the landscapes beyond all recognition and rewarding the heroines with the freedom of speech thus giving them license to grab hold of the reigns of the story

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    Most of Angela Carter’s work revolves around democratic feminism and her representation of the patriarchal roles subjugated to women. (Evangelou, 2013) ‘The Bloody Chamber’ by Angela Carter suggests many substitutions to infamous depictions of femininity. Angela Carter manipulates old-fashioned fairy tales in order to subvert conformist gender roles like submissive wives and male dominance. (Makinen, 1992) While Carter receives commendation for her work, Patricia Duncker critiques her as well, for

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    Urban Legend Bloody Mary

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    Even though some aspects of the original story have changed the story is still being told in countless versions. Bloody Mary has played on people’s desire for excitement and it is also a way to release anxiety and experience some safe fear.With so much talk about the “Bloody Mary” legend over the many decades and versions, it's a challenge to really analyze its cultural symbolism, because it's different from culture to culture. However, it is

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