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    McBirney, separate central ideas are presented, yet they both revolve around the same historical event. In the text, “The Watsons Go To Birmingham,” the central idea mainly focuses on a boy named Kenny who hears a loud noise while sitting in the backyard, and discovers it was an explosion where his little sister, Joetta, was at church. He thought she had died but found out that Joey was still alive after he got home. In the text, “16th Street Baptist Church Bombing,” the central idea demonstrates

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    reinforce the central ideas of each text Georgia Blain and Ray Lawrence both use structural elements and symbolism to reinforce central themes in their texts. Blain’s 1999 Australian novel Candelo establishes Ursula as an adult who is forced to come to terms with her past and the effect this has had on her in the present. Blain places this as the central theme of her text and reinforces the concept of long lasting formative experiences. Alternatively, director Ray Lawrence corroborates his central theme

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    Introduction: In the film Dead Man the central character “Nobody” represents strength, spirituality, insight, wisdom, and acceptance for the main character William Blake as the central function throughout their journey during the film. Character Description: This character who is well educated with European culture dressed in full native American Indian attire, describes himself as a foreigner among his own people and a savage to the white man. His name “Nobody” marries one of the reasons his lives

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    Types of Characters in From Russia with Love From Russia with Love, from the James Bond series written by Ian Fleming incorporates many different types of characters. Some main characters are James Bond, who is the main or central character, Rosa Kelbb, who is displayed as the flat character and Kerim Bey who is exhibited as the static character. The dissimilar characters build different aspects of the novel, such as the plot, conflict, resolution and more. To begin with, James Bond is the main

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    Dubious Battle exemplifies this. John Steinbeck ensures that every character, every conflict, and every theme incorporates some form of ambiguity. Not only does this provoke the reader to think beyond the socio-economic problems directly expressed within the text, but it also sparks questions regarding the main purpose of writing the novel. Steinbeck achieves this by giving insight regarding the ambiguous nature of the characters themselves. For example, it is never clear who the protagonist is due

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    The protagonist of any text is the central most character, and is the character through which we understand and interpret the plot. In many ways the plot, or theme of these two books is interlaced, all formed around a series of questions posed by students in The Wave – how could a small minority of people (Nazi’s) rule the majority (the German public)? The Chocolate War merely substitutes Nazi’s for The Vigils, and the German public for the boys at a Catholic School. The Wave is the early phase

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    Comedy Central's web cite is very colorful, hysterical, informational, and basically provides its viewers the opportunity to step inside the world of Comedy Central, without having to turn on the television set. Similar to the television channel, viewers probably have in mind an idea of what to expect. All of Comedy Central's television programming, which includes shows like the Monty Python, South Park,

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    Sin Nombre

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    gangsters, the graffiti masking the walls of the cities and trains, and the reenactments of the brutal rituals and initiations of MS-13, along with the dialogue and hand signals, create both a shocking but authentic representation of the gang’s impact on Central America and Mexico. The tattoos were so authentic, in fact, that they put the actors from the film at risk. In an interview with Neal Conan of National Public Radio, Fukunaga explained the danger of sporting such tattoos: “We had to make sure that

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    The story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin, shows the central thematic tension of one's guilt being the lesser to one’s responsibility, and this is resolved by the responsibility of the main characters overcoming his guilt and ending the life of a girl. The story starts off in an EDS spacecraft, and the main character is all alone doing his job, flying the ship. Soon the main character realizes there was someone in the supplies closet, but sadly the narrator would have to send that person out into

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    situation changes his reality and maturity. In his story, Updike uses a round/dynamic character and an external conflict to brew a central idea that suggests stupid choices may lead to maturity. In the short story, the protagonist is round and dynamic character type. Updike though his story hits on key factors on why the protagonist is immature until the end. Example, “Darling. I said. Hold me tight.”(229) Round character is used because the author describes everything about the protagonist making him

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