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    Thriller analysis Common storylines Thriller is a movie genre that is largely dependent on anticipation and suspense, normally the aim of a good thriller is to keep the audience in suspense and on their toes. In thriller films the protagonist will always face a highly dangerous situation or villain this lead to a extremely intense and stressful climax. Thrillers often follow the structure of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action then resolution. The exposition is the part of the story

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    women into constricting and ultimately ineffective and defenseless roles. Fantomina: or love in a maze, is fittingly labelled “A masquerade Novel.” It is very true that the centralized plot of the piece circles arounf the masquerade as the protagonist constructs her herself several different personas

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    characteristics of the characters in a story is something that makes them who they are and what you start to learn about them. In The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty, the protagonist shoots and kills the antagonist. The two characters in the story where, the protagonist which was the narrator (main sniper) and the antagonist (enemy sniper). The protagonist saves the lives of other because of his his intelligence, his determination, and his risk-taking. The narrator’s intelligence is one of his most important and

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    that I have chosen is Queenie Hennesy. Queenie Hennesy is the main protagonists ex-coworker a decade ago who treated the main protagonist very kindly, they also had a love interest even though the main protagonist is already married and has a son when they met, but then she suddenly disappeared from work not saying a word to the main protagonist, and they never reached out to each other since. Years later she sent the main protagonist a letter thanking him, remembering him, and telling him that she

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    The Sniper Short Story

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    characters, they also share similar themes and subjects. The following reasons explain why. In “The Sniper”, the main character is thrown into a revolutionary civil war. He’s pressed to make quick decisions off of his training and human instinct. The protagonist in “Ambush” is faced with the same issue, he’s in a bunker on watch waiting for something to happen. He’s trained to react when something does, but his humanly instinct tells him otherwise. Both characters soon make decisions they regret, but can’t

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    a specific desire , enthusiasm and motivation . In any short story there is a protagonist and an antagonist , round and static characters . Round characters never change . In the short story “ the tell tale heart “ by Edgar

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    over twenty years apart, these two narratives explore how an individual deals with the notion of loneliness through the use of the colour red, the symbolism in animals, and the condition of blindness. However, Carter illustrates the refusal of the protagonist to simply accept any circumstances; but the interference in any situation. On the other hand, Smith demonstrates the acceptance and balance of the existing situation at hand through hope. Writers and poets use colors to represent concrete images

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    turning back. In Sherman Alexie's novel flight, and in “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler, coming of age and the struggle to know that you have control of your life is an important theme. Throughout different circumstances depicted in both books, the protagonists realized

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    Walker and reel him in and hold him captive and unable to escape. Similar to this literal entrapment, in Richard Matheson's’ “Prey” the reader is able to sort through the ambiguity of the story to see how the antagonist weaved its spirit into the protagonist. Sure enough “the screaming filled her mind again and suddenly she knew it was the

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    Fantomina Analysis

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    These observations spark a curiosity within the protagonist. “This excited a curiosity in her to know in what manner these creatures were addressed-She was young, a stranger to the world, and consequently to the dangers of it...Therefore thought it not in the least a fault to put in practice a little whim

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