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“re educated” in communist China. While away in the mountains Luo, the friend of the narrator, meets a young woman, known to us as the Little Seamstress. In the selected passage, pages 151-152, Luo is retelling his account of when him and the Seamstress were at their hidden pool, and the Seamstress got bit by a snake. In this passage, the relationship between Luo and the Seamstress reveals to us that Luo’s feelings for her are fueled by a selfish desire for her body instead of her mind. Even though

Analysis of William Frederick Witherington’s short story The Dancing Bear 1. The initial impression gathered from the passage is bizarre and very dreamlike, perhaps chiefly because it is an excerpt from a novel or a larger literary work. Upon further analysis, the passage develops an eerily violent tone. The events appear to take place in the home of Dieter Bethge, during a stormy night while he is sleeping. Immediately the rain is described as falling with “sodden fury”, introducing the negative

certain passages will have special significance to the plot progression of that novel. This key passage must provide insight upon the overall theme of that work through characterization, symbolism, and imagery. In Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the passage selected for commentary uses the literary techniques of archetype, foreshadow, and symbolism to inform characterization. The concept of consanguineous love affairs is also reinforced in this passage along

ten. Where it not that she was a widow who had struggled fiercely to feed and clothe and put him through school and who was supporting him still, “until he got on his feet,” she might have been a little girl that he had to take to town. This passage was taken from “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and describes Julian’s mother, who remains nameless in the story. It particularly describes her face and hair, which make her sound, ironically, like an

Exercise 1 The Things They Carried EXCERPT ① 1. How is the term common secret typical of the phrasing of this whole passage? How is run or freeze or hide also typical of the excerpt's phrasing? In which sentences does O'Brien's phrasing seem especially clear, direct, and simple, and why is such phrasing so effective? How would you describe the tone of this passage? How might the tone easily have been quite different? For instance, how could it have been highly emotional and melodramatic? Why

instance, the author describes the heron's legs and wings as "black as the river." This is to continue the smooth, even tone of the passage and establish that there is a continuous circle, spawning from nature and leading right back to nature. Relating the heron to another awe-inspiring aspect of nature simply elevates its divinity. Personification is also used in this passage to give the paragraphs an ironic tone. When Frazier describes the heron as "look[ing] high as a man in the slant light with its

applauding or criticizing the Wife of Bath, which remains one of the permeating uncertainties from his tale for the reader to contemplate. By examining multiple literary techniques used in the final passage before her tale, we can see that the ending prologue passage acts as a mirror to the final passage of the Wife of Bath’s Tale to illustrate the connections between the Wife of Bath and the old woman from her tale. Chaucer purposely leaves the audience contemplating the meaning of the colloquial

Group Observation You may ask yourself who is or what is an addict? Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. We know, our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another. The getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and use to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs (Narcotics Anonymous World Services Inc., 1986). This paper will discuss my experience from observing a Narcotic Anonymous

Hopewell regrets letting her daughter get her philosophy degree. I chose this passage because it demonstrates the fallacy in both of their viewpoints. Even from the beginning of the story there are signs that the Hopewells have a certain disdain for others that they believe are not as smart or as well off as they are. Hulga does this in a very blatant way with the use of the knowledge gained from her PhD in philosophy. In the passage Hulga references what seems to be a famous philosopher to respond to her

one can experience. The other feeling is fear. When a situation combines the both of them, which will prevail? The passage chosen comes from Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress where the Narrator experiences this struggle after being attacked and returning to an empty home. Only a fantasy about the Little Seamstress could remedy the gloom which hangs over him. The passage illustrates that the Narrator has a deep longing for the Little Seamstress but his respectful attitude towards her