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    Station Eleven is a science fiction novel written by Emily St. John Mandel. The book is about a society that crumbles to pieces after being struck with the Georgian Flu. The book has a non linear timeline as it jumps from the past, present, and future. The reader follows many individual characters in their walks of life. In Station Eleven the characters undergo traumatic events, some of the characters find themselves clinging on to the past and some characters try to forget the past. In the book

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    The plot development in The Taming of The Shrew was vastly assisted by the use of various comedic devices. Throughout, it has shown that if a shrew is given the same treatment as they give, they can be changed. You are kept invested in the story, because it makes you wonder how Katherine is going to eventually be tamed by Petruchio, by the use of these comedic devices. Events such as clever witty language, unexpected plot twists, and drama within a family help develop the plot. A story is formed

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    Dubus Plot is defined as, "the authors arrangement of incidents in a story it is the organizing principle that controls the controls the order of events (Meyer,64)." The element of plot is heavily relied on in the short story, "The Killings" by Andre Dubus. The plot which is completely made inside the imagination of an author (Meyer,64), gives the audience important insight to people, places, and events in the story (Meyer,64) . "The Killings" provides a somewhat conventional plot pattern, where

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    The first story is Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant and the second story is The Girl Who Can by Ama Ata Aidoo. In the first story the main characters are the girl and the boy, and in the second story the main character is Adjoa. Both these stories have a lot of similarities and also a lot of differences. In the story the checkouts the narrator tells the story in third person, and I was able to identify this because of some key words the author used such as; they, her, and he. While the story The Girl

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    Avatar

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    amazing new animals and vegetation, each one was unique and vivid with how they seemed to glow in the dark. The second thing I love about this film is how they implemented enough action to satisfy me, but it wasn’t the whole movie. It had story and plot and action when needed. The third thing I loved about

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    A surprise ending is a plot twist which occurs near or at the end of a story. It is an unexpected conclusion to a work of fiction which causes the audience to reevaluate the narrative or characters. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_twist) In Descartes' Discourse on the Method (Part IV), Descartes offers evidence of the presence of the spirit and of God. He considers the nature of dreams and the untrustworthiness of the senses and dives into the cognizance of his own reasoning; acknowledging that

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    However in the story “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty- there is one very unfortunate yet important to the plot, death. This story is based in Dublin, Ireland where a IRA sniper and a Free Stater are fighting on the rooftops. The protagonist successfully shoots down his opponent, which at the time is thought to be good. “Then the sniper turned over the dead

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    misunderstanding different events or conversations. The disconnect between what actually happens and what the characters think is happening causes several conflicts throughout the plot. However not all of the overheard information in the play causes strife, and it is sometimes done intentionally by other characters to advance the plot and theme. The examples of overhearing and misunderstanding are significant to the storyline because the main events are developed as a result of them, and it adds to the overall

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    In the text “Finding Her Way” and in the text “Kylie's Project”. Both girl's Kylie and Angela face challenges throughout the text because of there differences. Also the girl's both cope with there challenges different ways. It's both hard for them too overcome there challenges because they are different than everybody else which makes it harder for them too cope with there problems and solve them. In the story “Finding Her Way” it talks about a girl who moved too America from Korea when she was two

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    The Interlopers Conflict

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    The outcome of conflicts between characters vary due to the drive each character has. Each character’s drive is shown in how passionate they are about how they want something to end up. The more you are driven to do something, the more likely that what you want will happen. However, if two people have the same drive, the conflict will resolve itself in a different way. Conflicts arise in different ways in each individual story, but most conflicts are introduced during the rising action in the literary

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