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    novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the settings introduced by the author throughout the book, are reflective of the emotions and virtues of the characters. In the beginning of the book the prison door is the setting, which is being used to symbolize darkness, and gloominess. Opposed to when Hester takes off the “A”, and the sun shines through the forest, symbolizing relief and happiness. The author gives the setting these characteristics to help the reader understand the characters’

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    mood of the streets and makes ordinary items beautiful. In She Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms, the author talks about the sun as if it were a housewife sweeping, leaving behind shreds of color that form the sunset. Although, these poems have the same subject, their approach and technique are very different from each other. The two poems, share the same tone and mood, the settings are different in each poem, and they both use imagery effectively. Tone and mood are crucial components to

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    moon that is illuminated and shade the shadowed region. b) Draw a line (perpendicular to the Earth-moon line) that shows the half of the moon visible for an observer on earth. c) Mark the region that is both visible from earth and illuminated by the sun. That region will be the phase of the moon we on earth see. Moon sunlight We normally draw the phases of the moon with the terminator (the dividing line between light and shadow) from the north pole to the south pole of the moon. This is how the

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    named Margot, is different than the people around her. She is different because she remembers the sun, unlike the other characters living on Venus. Furthermore, there are similarities between the settings, the the, and the way the authors express their writing in “All Summer in a Day” and “Examination Day”. Although both “All Summer in a Day” and “Examination Day” have similar moods and settings, their themes are different. The theme of “Examination Day” is that if you try to make a utopia, you

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    Additionally, he alludes to the landscape contributing to the appearance and acceptance of mortality with Keats’ line “touches the stubble-plains with rosy hue” (639) in which the sunset is merging with the landscape to create a picture of a dying sun (setting sun) setting on a landscape that is now more barren and darker since the harvesting from the summer

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    The setting creates challenges and opportunities for characters. For example when Ellie was left vulnerable and when the climber in the poem “Ascent” has finger pain. In all different genres, setting affects the text whether it’s physical challenges or emotional challenges. In the novel Blood Red Horse, the author, K.M Grant, uses the setting to add conflict, challenges, and opportunities to the story. In Blood Red Horse the setting, which is in the time of the crusades, affects the character Ellie

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    comes to prize freedom. The setting of the sun captured his loneliness. There is a memorable, artistic scene where Jim and some other girls from the town Black Hawk spending an afternoon by the river, spot a curious black figure of a plow that has been left standing in the field against the setting sun. "There is was, heroic in size, a picture writing on he sun". May vivid memorable symbols such as this one gives power to Cather's artistic achievement. The plow against the sun is a romanticizing of the

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    that is illuminated and shade the shadowed region. b) Draw a line (perpendicular to the Earth-moon line) that shows the half of the moon visible for an observer on earth. c) Mark the region that is both visible from earth and illuminated by the sun. That region will be the phase of the moon we on earth see. We normally draw the phases of the moon with the terminator (the dividing line between light and shadow) from the north pole to the south pole of the moon. This is how the moon would be

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    the lake itself. You got here a while ago, and have been sitting here, waiting for the moment that has just now arrived. The sun is low in the sky, setting the clouds ablaze with a haze of red and orange, with dark gathering at the edges of the sky, waiting for the sun to set and night to take hold. The lake has turned a deep crimson in the reflected light of the setting sun. While the water may be the color of blood, the lake's motion displays none of the violence of its color, gently breaking against

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    named Margot, is different than the people around her. She is different because she remembers the sun, unlike the other characters living on Venus. Furthermore, there are similarities between the settings, the themes, and the way the authors express their writing in “All Summer in a Day” and “Examination Day”. Although both “All Summer in a Day” and “Examination Day” have similar moods and settings, their themes are different. The theme of “Examination Day” is that if you try to make a utopia,

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