Papers 2541-2550 of total 7885 found.
…A Scullion's Diary was later changed to Down and Out. He also wrote Burmese Days, which was about his experiences in the service. In 1935 he wrote A Clergyman's Daughter, followed by Keep The Aspidistra Flying in 1936. That year, he received a commission from…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…, is to secure ivory, an item held to be white and pure. Perhaps the most telling symbolization of light within the story is Kurtz’s argument in his diary that whites “must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings…. By the simple…
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…-confidence and self-esteem crumbles, physically and mentally. Joan Brumberg’s study involved the readings of middle-class diaries, the writings of physicians, and other women directing mothers how to raise daughters. Out of this research cane a theory…
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Category: /Literature/English
…, and that she had just simply published her diary". It is unfair to lay all of the blame on Garner for the novels degree of fantasy, as stated earlier the complete meaning of the literary text lies between the transaction of the reader and the text, this meaning…
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Category: /Literature/English
…, a totalitarian organ that rules all of airstrip one, which used to be, called England. Winston as an official, is not allowed to record thoughts or exhibit certain types of behavior. He is compelled to buy a diary and an ink pen so that he may write in a secret alcove…
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Category: /Literature/English
…including setting, supernatural occurances, themes of isolation and ambiguousity helps to create a sense of uncanny and mystery and invokes fear in the reader. The diary form of narrative also adds to the suspense and tension of the scene. These basic ideas…
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Category: /History
…for? In these women’s cases, yes, because they were being labeled and killed as producers of Jews, not as human beings. Female survivor Isabella Leitner wrote a book called: Fragments of Isabella. The book explains in diary form the humiliating experiences women had…
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Category: /Literature/English
…to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my 'best friend'. At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read…
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Category: /Literature/English
…family, he is instantly disliked by Hindley Earnshaw. Hindley hates Heathcliff for intruding onto his family. He loses his fathers love and sets out to destroy Heathcliff. Within Catherine's diary was written: " I wish my father were back again. Hindley…
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Category: /Literature/English
…members. The 1984 society might be a totalitarian one, but some aspects resemble more of an anarchy, except in the following case, where everyone is obedient for fear of repercussions. Winston purchased a diary and, while he contemplated opening…
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