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    shape the meaning and theme of short story “Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush. These literary devices presented in this short story showed us that not everything is what it looks like. The first literary device is imagery. Imagery helped shaped the thesis not everything is what it looks like. The wife had surprised the husband with something she thought was pleasant and he’d like. In the text it say, “The wife beamed with shy pride over her little surprise.” This shows how poorly the wife predicted

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    “Birthday Party” by Katherine Brush uses literary devices such as tone, point of view, diction, and sensory details to achieve her purpose. The title of this short story is very deceiving the tone is different from the tone of the story. The tone changes from happy to sad as soon as the cake is brought out. The women tried to show affection and love towards her husband by the cake but it was basically turned down. The point of view is through a random person who doesn’t know the couple at all.

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    paragraph of Katharine Brush’s “Birthday Party” misleadingly creates an image of a couple that is in love and happy to be together. However, Brush’s use of various literary devices reveals the true nature of the couple’s relationship. Soon it becomes evident that while the husband is outwardly hostile towards his wife, she is very fixated on pleasing him and keeping up the appearance of a happy marriage. It is revealed to be the husband’s birthday when the wife’s “little surprise” is brought out. Through

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    name Alaysia and her family got into a bad truck accident. It was her, her mom, her daddy, her brother, her grandma, and her auntie in the truck. And they were trying to go to a birthday party.It was there Auntie/Sister/Great auntie 60th birthday party. And they had bought her cake for her and it was a surprise birthday party for her. So her and the family was riding down the road and there was another road that you could go on, and a white man in a big white truck was trying to turn down that road

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    In the passage from the short story, “Birthday Party,” by Katharine Brush, the narrator describes a couple who are out on a date for a surprise birthday celebration for the husband. Once the night takes a turn, the wife is left in tears as the narrator tries to handle the vicarious embarrassment in the husband's response. Through the usage of shift, from delight to sorrow within the wife, and diction; Brush illustrates how the reaction one makes to a surprise can change any mood. For example, Brush’s

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    Katharine Brush’s short story “Birthday party” depicts a man treating his wife rudely after his wife surprised him for his birthday. Brush tries to show the readers that people shouldn’t be rude or ungrateful when a loved one tries to impress them. Brush used imagery and assonance to achieve her purpose. Brush first shows ho the surprise cake looks by depicting it as “a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center.” This image reveals how simple the cake was but it

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    and it was my wife’s birthday. She had never had a surprise birthday party, so I planned this great surprise party for after work that day. I went to work at the car dealership at six in the morning as the sun was rising. It was several hours before my normal start time, so I could leave work and go home early. I was anticipating that my boss would let me leave work prematurely to get ready for the shocking surprise party. He was also invited to this outrageous surprise party and knew how important

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    My Family Genogram

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    This image above, is a genogram of my family. It includes both my dad’s side of the family, the Zwanzigers, and part of my mom’s side of the family, the Pechotas. The communication patterns on the Zwanziger side of the family and the Pechota side of the family are different from one another. Both of my dad’s parents are deceased and his only sister lives in South Carolina so we do not get to see each other very much. When my grandpa and grandma were alive, they also lived in Iowa and my dad’s sister

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    go see Magic in Crystal Cliff. A couple hours later Carl wakes up Fuzzy and Lola. They are at Magic’s cloud castle to surprise her! When they go inside Magic get really excited. They are really bewildered when Magic says, “It’s my birthday tomorrow.” They feel so bad that they forgot about their best friend birthday. So, Carl and Lola scurry to the store to get Magic a birthday present. Magic helps Fuzzy take all of their stuff up to their room and they put it all away. “ I’m super happy to see

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    The fiction book, “Full House, Stephanie: Hello Birthday, Good-bye Friend”, was written by Laura O’Neil in 1999. The story is placed mostly at John Muir Middle School and Stephanie’s house. All Stephanie wants to do is throw the perfect surprise party for her best friend, Darcy, but a situation falls on Stephanie that she hadn’t counted on happening. Stephanie, a blue-eyed blonde, has a little cluster of three best friends, Darcy Powell, Maura Potter, and Allie Taylor. Darcy, a gorgeous black-haired

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