Matilda Essay

Canto I ➢ Setting- • The Outside of Purgatory • Dante and Virgil are on a shoreline • Four Stars- Fortitude, Temperance, Prudence, Justice ➢ Sin Represented- • None ➢ Virtue Depicted- • None ➢ Punishment- • None ➢ Significant Characters- • The Muses • Calliope- head muse • Cato- old man who Dante and Virgil run into • Commited suicide Canto II ➢ Setting- • Dante and Virgil are on a shoreline ➢ Sin Represented- • None ➢ Virtue Depicted- • None ➢ Punishment and Correction- • None ➢ Significant

There are different literary elements working together in order to help readers to understand the text. Each element has its own functions, and it will affect the text specifically. In this essay, I will focus on the element of narration, narrative voice, and point of view for my critical analysis. Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and Dashiell Hammett are the authors that I will discuss. Different authors used different types of narration in their stories. However, no matter which types of narration

and George Washington. References to the Free African Society are correct too. The FAS was founded in Philadelphia and actually did help victims of the yellow fever. The last historical accuracy was the hospital at Bush Hill. Main Character: Matilda Cook is an adventurous and independence seeking 14-year old girl. Although she always being pestered by her mother, Mattie loves her mother dearly and worries when her mother does not return home after going the the Luddington’s farm. Mattie struggle

abstracting the same sensitivity of Radcliffe’s texts and evoking the horror expressed through excessive passion, veiled by the mask of purity. Ambrosio, the monk, allows his carnal instincts — instigated by the morally masked, but equally transgressive, Matilda — to guide him through various sins, such as lust, rape, and murder. In Radcliffe and Lewis we can visualize the dichotomy of the Gothic novel, which allowed women writers to express themselves independently and in the most horrific manners, but still

In three stories written by, Washington Irving, they all portray him into a man of misogyny. In the story, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, disappearing never to return a man’s wife takes all their belonging of worthiness. In the story, “Rip Van Winkle”, a man tired of his wife is nagging, wanders off into the woods, vanishing for twenty years. In the story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, a man that goes by the name Broom Bones, brainwashed by womanly charm receives a rude awakening when the woman's he

The Secret language of Sisters, written by Luanne Rice, starts off when Roo (Ruth Ann) gets into a very severe car accident. This was caused by her texting with her younger sister, Tilly (Matilda), after she had finished taking pictures for her portfolio. Roo was going to enter into the photography competition for the University of Yale. But, when Roo’s car stopped moving, after it had flipped over, she was awake and alert, but had hit her head. By the time she was at the hospital she was still fine

wonderful historical fiction by Laurie Halse Anderson. She has written many historical novels and Fever is one of her greatest works. This story took place in Philadelphia in 1793, when yellow fever just began to strike and kill thousands of people . Matilda Cook “little Mattie” is a daughter of a coffee shop owner. She’s a fourteen- year- old girl who works for her widowed mother. She works with a girl named Polly and a kitchen cook Eliza, a woman from the Free African Society. Mattie always tries to

“I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike (Maya Angelou).” This quote although wise is not revolutionary nor complex. Instead accomplished poet and writer, Maya Angelou, is simply trying to convey how differences don’t actually make us different. This statement became all the more accurate when I found myself relating to Scout, a six year old girl from Maycomb, Alabama, who I once perceived as my polar opposite. Instead, as

Group Members: Victoria Tronzo Before taking the implicit bias tests, I thought they would be relatively simple because it would be a lot of matching with what words or people are most similar in your opinion. There could be a spectrum and you would place those words based on the significance they have to you. I believe it will be straightforward and easy, but as I was actually going through the tests, I found out it was more difficult than I expected. Victoria and I come from similar backgrounds

Tawny Gutierrez English 12 Callen 8 March 2016 Mae West On August 17, 1893 a star was born. She was born to Matilda and Jack ("Battling Jack") West in Brooklyn, New York. Little did they think she would become Hollywood's sex symbol of the 1930s, and no it is not Marylin Monroe. Mae West was an American screen legend. She played a sultry and provocative woman in many films and play including her plays whom she wrote herself