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…career. In his book A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens causes the reader to ask what the novel is really about, just what the driving theme is. Although each reader will come up with a different answer to this question, most of the answers fall into one of three…

…13). Another group of readers will believe that this book is about the French Revolution. Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities starts out in 1775 while the Revolution was still in its underground preliminary stages. The book covers eighteen years ending with one…

…! Charles Dickens also wrote many other books throughout his creative writing career. In his book A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens causes the reader to ask what the novel is really about, just what the driving theme is. Although each reader will come up…

…The audience of any story generally functions as the recipient of the narration of the story-teller or of a character in the story. This relationship consists of two roles: the passive role of the audience as the recipient of knowledge or ideas…

…Obsession and Deviance Poe presents the narrators of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" as devious, obsessed characters. Both are overpowered by the need to consume the life of their victim. Though they use different strategies…

…not see his mother again until he was twenty-two years old. Victoria Glendinning doubts that he was 'stolen away' on the grounds that autobiography can be deliberately deceptive and in Swift's case, over dramatized. He was sent to boarding school in Kilkenny…

…of 1982, with some of the most detailed pictures I personally have ever seen done by a free hand illustrator. The book Jumanji is about two children, Peter and Judy, whose parents go out to the opera one night. Peter and Judy decide that they are bored and go…

…Edgar Allan Poe is the author of many well-known stories such as The Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Black Cat. He has also composed many famous poems such as The Raven and Annabel Lee. These works are representative of what…

…Jay Gatsby represents the fairy tale lifestyle. Fitzgerald connects the two “worlds” by weaving the characters back and forth throughout the story. In the course of this novel, Fitzgerald’s usege of symbolism makes the fairy tale life…

…. Norma tries to find Leroy a job in the classifieds but he shrugs that off. All the while he doesn't see Norma getting stronger and smarter, improving her life. All he sees is a fairy tale future, his dream to build a cabin in the city and live happily ever…