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Stories usually start with an event that sparks the whole chain of events, but to be honest my life is pretty boring. Nothing really event-sparky happens. My name is Kylee and I’d like to say I’m just a normal 13 year old girl. I have wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes, almost like chocolate….

Redaing this story it had left me without of thinking in wondering what could be so true. The author used many different styles of foreshowing to show us as the readers Within “A Rose for Emily” the character experiences conflicts regarding death, within her marriage, and issues internally. There is no doubt that Emily committed…

Nowadays, technology has been a crucial part of everyday life. It has consumed people’s lives and we hardly have any time for each other. Relationships have been affected by this, and this has become evident in the past decade. With the rapid, constant advancement of technology, this has sped up the process and has made…

Welcome to the next edition of ‘thoughts on Ian Johnston’s thoughts’ and this time the focus is not on “Hamlet” but the Hamlet spin off created by Tom Stoppard known as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.” From the remarks Ian Johnston made on the play “Hamlet” as a whole with such unusual but elaborate opinions,…

At the heart of the human condition is the reality that we would rather be destroyed by praise than saved by criticism. It takes nerve to wake up and become who you truly are. There is no better tale about self-identity than Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The peculiar mind of Huck Finn is…

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” by Flannery O’Connor, presents many topics that can be discussed and debated. Christianity is one of the main topics that influence this paper and its meaning. The exploration for the meaning of the Christian faith is continuous throughout O’Connor’s paper. Christianity is filled with sin and punishment, good…

The purpose of Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” is the capture of love true love, something that is worldwide. Courtship is important today as it was in the 1600’s. The character in the poem, possibly Andrew Marvell himself, wants sexual relations, perhaps as an act of love, with the woman in the title,…

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa is a regular guy, he goes to work, he supports his family, and he doesn’t complain. That is until he wakes up one morning and finds himself turned into a human sized cockroach. His whole life gets flipped around and his family doesn’t want much to do…

In Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story “The lady with the pet dog”, married man Dmitriy Dmitrievich Gurov and married woman Anna Sergeevna meet in Yalta, getaway town by the Black sea. Chekhov greatly portrays true beauty and sadness of life through their romance. Gurov was able to connect with himself and transform from loveless, cynic…

When Mark Twain first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885, the nation was still recovering from the aftermath of the civil war. Although equality had been codified into law, it general there was still sharp contrasts between the way whites and blacks lived, especially in the south. Naturally, the novel reflected this idea,…