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    Lee applies the three speeches in her novel, for instance the direct speech is used, when Atticus gives his son Jem an advice, he says "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" (lee, Ch.10). The free indirect speech is employed, when describes the country "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first

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    to learn or think freely. Ray Bradbury believes censorship is suggesting that society can be extremely sensitive to attempts of free speech or creativity. We see this occur throughout Fahrenheit 451 when Bradbury uses indirect characterization, a dystopian setting, and the motif of fire. Bradbury develops each of the characters using indirect characterization. Indirect characterization provides the different character perspectives when it comes to censorship and how it negatively affects the people

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    The Truman Doctrine and Iron Curtain Speech After World War II, the USSR and United States engaged in an unprecedented conflict called the Cold War. Despite the armaments being produced, this war was not directly fought with thousands of soldiers or massive weapons. An enormous rise in tensions created a competition between the two countries for diplomatic, economic, cultural, and military dominance. Of course, nothing was official until President Harry Truman and Winston Churchill worked together

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    General Tilney changes his attitude once he learns that Catherine was not rich. The General treats Catherine differently after he learns that she does not possess a grand fortune. Catherine expresses her surprise at the change: “And now-what had she done, or omitted to do, to merit such change?” (Northanger Abbey 217). Her anxiety that she must have done something wrong or have forgotten to do something may have been caused by her economically inferior status. However, when General Tilney confronts

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    delusions of grandeur and beauty. The introduction of a perfect fantasy is critical to the story as this is juxtaposed when the reader is confronted with the later realisation of Miss Brill’s reality through the role of conversation. (add more) (Free indirect discourse needs to be

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    Eighty-Four in chronological order, dealing with six types of speech and thought presentations that Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short introduced. The six types shall be split into three speech presentations while the other three shall be thought presentations. The parts to be analysed are located in the appendix. Aim There are two main aims I want to present in this essay. Firstly, I shall analyse the novel parts to see how George Orwell utilizes the speech and thought presentation framework in order to create

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    Realism In Madame Bovary

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    with Madame Bovary, to provide an insight into the mundane affairs of the 19th century woman, and demonstrate the incompatibility of reality with unrealistic romantic ideals , were accomplished with the use of new literary concepts such as free indirect speech, internal monologue, and psychological realism. Previously portrayed as weak-willed, submissive characters serving only to contrast masculinity, Madame Bovary was one of the factors that was to change the way women were viewed in 19th century

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    insinuation of promise” of belonging in post-war America (221). Additionally, the racial slurs and violent attacks by other Japanese and non-Japanese Americans that befall him highlight the divisions within American society. A close reading for the free indirect discourse and allegory shows how John Okada uses these literary strategies to suggest the disturbance of American identity. Ichiro Yamada’s refusal to serve in the U.S. Army presents the parental and cultural aspects that are influenced by the

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    Rhetorical Analysis – I Have a Dream. A speech, that will be remembered by many and be passed down from generation to generation, had shaped the future of America by the time Martin Luther King had stepped off the stage on August 28th, as he called for an end to racism in the United States during the March on Washington in 1963. This was one of, if not, the most powerful speech America has seen to this day. A beautiful way to begin! Good job! Martin Luther King stood on that stage with confidence

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    It is through the element of structure that Virginia Woolf, firstly communicates her outlook in regards to consciousness, speech and speculative thought. Woolf represents consciousness in her structural employment of hyphens, which is used in order to show the mental process behind thought. Hyphens appear mainly in compound words and the joining of prefixes, however, in the paragraph’s inception Woolf uses the hyphen to convey the merging of detached thoughts through the character of Mrs Ramsey.

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