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Research Paper on Fences by August Wilson Literature Research Paper

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As Robert Brustein writes, "August Wilson larger purpose depends on his conviction that Troy's potential was stunted by centuries of racist oppression. "Fences" takes place during a period of time when the fights against segregation are barely blossoming results" (Brustein, 1986, p.205).

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The Speckled Band Literature Book Report/Review

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Further, Doyle employs tension and develops suspense to move the story forward and keep the pages turning. Through the use of literary devices like setting, misdirection and visual imagery, Doyle propels his reader through Watson's and Holmes' world with brilliant effect.

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Portrayal of the Divided Self in The Kite Runner Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that oppression leads to the warped personality of the oppressor and the divided personality of the oppressed. Author Khaled Hosseini in his novel, “The Kite Runner”, portrays the divided self of Hassan, the oppressed Hazara boy. The Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos also gives us a glimpse of the divided self of the protagonist.

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Frances Sherwoods Vindication Literature Essay

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The author should be commended for her efficiency in narrating and describing Mary’s struggle for independence and continuous quest for love. Through the use of imagery and metaphors, Vindication invites the readers in the world of a woman who is not constrained by the social norms around her but instead pursued her dreams.

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Faulkner on the Basis of the Characters in A Rose for Emily Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that this widely acclaimed story which takes place in Jefferson, Faulkner’s fictional city, is noted for its characterization, and it is possible to diagnose Faulkner on the basis of the characters in “A Rose for Emily.” The short story has special meanings, William Faulkner, with regard to the behavior of the men versus the women.

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Father-Child Relationship through the Use of Literary Devices Literature Essay

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The theme of father and child is often explored in literature and more expressively in poetry. The complex nature of familial relationships offers intense emotion, volatile situations, and common experiences. These common experiences allow poetry and its authors to be easily accessible and understood by their audiences.

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Modern Critical Interpretations of Catch 22 Literature Essay

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Catch 22 revolves around a kind of complex sense of déjà vu that many of the characters express. Thus the chaplain has an “impression of a prior meeting was of some occasion far more momentous and occult that, of a significant encounter with Yossarian in some remote, submerged, and perhaps even entirely spiritual epoch".

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A Little Cloud by James Joyce Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that while it may seem that Little Chandler has a perfect life, the narrator expresses feelings and frustrations that the reader would be otherwise unaware of. This inner struggle seems to describe what all everyday men must go through at some time during their life. Little Chandler is still young and has his entire life before him.

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Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Literature Essay

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What underlies the plot of this book is the fact that Michael Ondaatje is an emigrant who after the divorce of his parents left Sri Lanka at the age of 11, and moved to Britain and then to Canada. In his book Ondaatje describes his return to Sri Lanka in twenty-five years, when arriving there with his family he is striving to comprehend the world of Sri Lanka in the opening decades of the century in which his parents had lived, and which he himself remembered mostly on the basis of stories he had been told when a child.

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The American Dream Explored in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Literature Book Report/Review

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Fitzgerald attempts to extract both a sense of imprisonment and preservation as a direct result of prosperity. Nevertheless, through evoking the historical sense of the roaring twenties, which included organized crime as a channel to disobey the laws and a rapid economic growth generating widespread wealth, Fitzgerald reveals various themes that stem from the decay of morals and values in a period of corruption.

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Huckleberry Finn, Emma and Asher Lev Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the protagonists in these novels are spirited youngsters who are put in larger than life events and situations. Sometimes they are equal to the tasks and other times they are not! The unfolding of the plots in these stories also reveals the true characteristics of these distinct protagonists and these novels have happy endings.

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Amy Tans Two Kinds Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that it has been said that life often imitates art. It is possible to see the influence of our favorite actors and characters in all facets of our lives. Haircuts, clothing, and patterns of speech are just a few of the examples of life imitating art. Some people would argue that the exact opposite is true – art imitates life.

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The Whole Earth One Stain of Guilt: Four Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Literature Assignment

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The author states that “The Birthmark” tells the tale of a man of science, who pursues his vocation at a time when the practice of natural philosophy was still in the process of adapting to some of the methods of modern science. The journal of his scientific experiments was the continual exemplification of the shortcomings of the composite man.

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Literature Book Report/Review

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"Septimus Warren Smith, aged about thirty, pale-faced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes and a shabby overcoat, with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too"(14). This is our lingering impression of Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway.

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Vernon God Little by D.B.C Pierre Literature Book Report/Review

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Vernon's language is full of vulgar language and a distorted outlook of life; also he frequently shares learning's with the readers. In addition to his garbled words, a few were done on purpose, several from a lack of schooling which cannot bind the tongue along with the mind around particular words

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The Confinement of Women in Desirees Baby Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Louise, the heroine of “The Story of an Hour,” is first met after hearing news that her husband has been killed in an accident. Yet, it is not sadness that the reader sees, instead. There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself.

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American Literature Literature Literature review

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Sojourner Truth advocated for gender equality. Frederick Douglass had the view that women were not the gender equals of men but were subordinates of men. He advocated that relations were responsible for the well-being of women. Sojourner was uneducated so she used her rhetorical skills to speak up on the abolition of slaves and emancipation of women.

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Experiments with Female Characters in Howard Barker's The Castle Literature Book Report/Review

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In this, he shares in common with European theatre practitioners, such as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht. He is not typical of the British theatre establishment and has often alienated himself from them. He is not the type of artist to leave the script at the rehearsal door and not engage with the process beyond that. He is detailed, descriptive, and respectful of the discipline of dramaturgy.

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Talking Back by Bell Hooks Literature Book Report/Review

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Essays discuss homophobia, everyday feminism, the portrayal of women in films, autobiography, and Black women writers. ‘Talking Back’ renders the readers with an intellectually appealing view of the world through the eyes of a mature black woman. According to her, in the ‘old school’, children were meant to be seen and not heard.

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Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan Literature Essay

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Fish Cheeks is a simple chronologically arranged anecdote of a short period in Amy Tan's youth. She speaks of the kitchen, which “was littered with appalling mounds of raw food...” and then proceeds to describe exactly what these were. We are made to “feel” the atmosphere of the setting by Amy Tan's strong descriptions of what is happening and what she feels about what is happening.

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War and society in the American Revolution by J.Resch Literature Essay

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Due to its relevance to United States history, there is a wealth of literature on the subject which is typified by a chronological discussion of political and military upheavals, military strategies and tactics, personalities and capped off with a conclusion of the importance of this war to the way the United States is now today

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Herland Story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: the Social Infrastructure of Herland Literature Essay

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The women cannot speak English or a language the boys can understand. They used their quantities to hem the boys in and forced them to walk to a destination. The narration says; ‘Again they motioned us to advance, standing so packed about the door that there remained but the one straight path open.

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Hispanic Literature Book Report/Review Literature Book Report/Review

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The themes that run through in the veins of her works are usually feminism, masochism, government idiosyncrasies, morality and reflections on the history of her country as a US state. Her works are classified as belonging to the postmodern type and are characterized by the uses of parody and humor, interest in language and its implications, and interest in feminism.

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Poetry analysis College Essay Literature Essay

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In the poem, we are shown a day in a woman's life in a studio, a place she had assumed will remain the same day after day, and all the artistic artefacts of her lover will remain intact, requiring no upkeep. But she finds that each morning at five the milkman comes up the creaking stairs, and daylight reveals the remnants of last night's meal, also a bug in the kitchen,where she knows there are many more.

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Psychology Annotated Bibliography Literature Essay

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This author also developed the Children of Divorce and Intervention Program which has been praised for its work. Conclusions reflected by the author as to the imbalance between the challenges and promoted strategies present extensive evidence and thorough research.

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Dangerous Minds by Louanne Johnson Literature Book Report/Review

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Dangerous Minds book by Louanne Johnson describes the classroom atmosphere and individual lives of students, which make this more than just a story of her teaching years. As you read through the book, you can glean a similar sense of Love, openness, attention, and hope that LouAnne shared with these students.

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Analysis of Reviews of Animal Farm by Orwell, Jane Austen's Emma, and Pride and Prejudice Novels Literature Assignment

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The conclusion of the review left me with the same desire to see the film that it started with. There were a few technical errors, very minor, such as an improper pronoun in the last paragraph. (Should have been they instead of it) Also, switching between character names and the use of pronouns sometimes got confusing to follow.

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The victim: an analysis of the man's character in to build a fire by Jack London Literature Book Report/Review

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It's easier to conclude that the man has suicidal tendencies to start with since he decided to go on in a journey that would put him in harm's way. Also, the end of the story which shows that he decided to stop fighting and suddenly had the desire to die

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Russia During Chekhovs Lifetime Literature Book Report/Review

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Nadya felt that everything in her house had become useless: everything in aristocracy and imperialism is no longer fit for a new social revolution. Sasha being representative of Chekhov in the story knew that the moment he dies Russia will experience a better future due to the revolution, as Nadya left her house in high spirits.

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Irony in the Necklace and the Lottery Literature Book Report/Review

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As we approach these stories from this standpoint, we attempt to tease out the more esoteric lessons they communicate. In both The Necklace and The Lottery, there is situational irony. In The Necklace, there is situational irony when Madame Loisel thought that the event would be uplifting to her boring life and it ended in being a catastrophe.

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The Story of Medea Literature Book Report/Review

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The majority of our societies today are democratic and capitalist and our moral standard. This generation may find it rather hard to imagine where the king’s word was the law and to claim that women were inferior to men would not raise a single eyebrow. This however was a reality in the past. The legend of Medea discussed in this paper reflected the struggle against the abuse of power and the formation of our concept of justice.

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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Literature Book Report/Review

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Pitting the world of the sane and the insane side by side, and assessing the futility of conventionality in addressing life’s choices in a world that has no meaning, Woolf’s “modernist” novel imaginatively examines the superficial conventionality of post-War English society, exploring the ordinary mind on an ordinary day.

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Devil's Highway Literature Book Report/Review

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A man needs minimum of two gallons of water to survive here for a day. Luis Alberto Urrea tells a real story of 26 people who get lost in this track while attempting to cross over to the United States illegally in May 2001. Only twelve of them survived. The story is painful and raises issues of life in poverty and human rights.

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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Tolstoy vividly portrays that an individual lives under social pressure which dictates him certain norms and standards. The pressure of existence is that pulse of mundane, day-to-day life which throbs in the body of each human being but which is not noticed or remarked on until one's “pulse” is taken in an examination of some kind.

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The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literature Essay

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Being a student, the author himself has experienced depression quite similar to the woman in The Yellow Wallpaper. But he said that he tried to seek distraction from friends, music, and available entertainment from the internet. And these activities take him off the unhealthy state of his mind and psyche.

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Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie Literature Essay

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This intense drama ventures into familial relationships, societal situations, and the nature of memory. “The Glass Menagerie” opened in the mid-1940s in Chicago, and instantly became a mainstay in modern short fiction and continues to influence playwrights and authors of all genres.

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Waiting for Godot by Samual Beckett Literature Book Report/Review

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They meet two rather odd characters, a master, and his slave. Oddly enough, the tramps are unsure as to why they are waiting only mentioning in passing that they were expecting " the kind of prayer." And yet, they wait, both not leaving the spot by the tree - even after news that Godot is not coming

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Alice in Wonderland and Literary Devices for Latent Communication Literature Essay

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At a casual reading, Alice in Wonderland seems to be a novel about literary nonsense. This essay questions the controversial use of literary nonsense as literary devices. Are they deliberately written to communicate greater truths or are they are actually mere literary devices incorporated to include humor and make the story more interesting?

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The Many Sides of Tom Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the dominance of the mother, Amanda, has attempted to maintain family life through rule and obedience while the crippled child, Laura, takes her place as the silent thread in the family fabric. In the middle was Tom. Tom, more astute than his father, is caught in his footsteps and unable to escape his mother.

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Shakespeare and Much Ado About Nothing Literature Essay

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Roman drama tended to be grandiose, sentimental and was diversionary - intended to divert its audience from every day cares. Performers in Roman drama were called histriones probably because of their aggressive, attention getting, and exaggerated gestures and speech.

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Alienation in Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis Literature Essay

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We read that Gregor was not surprised to see his own transformation. Kafka’s purpose was to include absurdity as a normal way of life, to open our eyes to the responses of Gregor’s predicament.

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Literature Book Report/Review

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Many modern and leftist critics, including the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe find the novel to be upholding imperialism and racism in a very subtle and hidden way. Heart of Darkness, a story the reader presumes to be have happened in the Congo as depicted by Marlow from a barge on the Thames.

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Turners Come and Gone by August Wilson Literature Essay

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The play “Joy Turner’s Come and Gone” was written by August Wilson. The detailed analyses of the play and Loomis’s character makes it possible to say that the play reflects all those changes faced by American society at the beginning of the XX century: migration, industrialization, and national and racial identity.

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The Three Musketeers and the Effect This had on Modern Art Literature Essay

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This paper analyzes "The Three Musketeers", the novel of Alexandre Dumas. Basically it tells the story of a young man named d’Artagan’s adventures once he leaves home to become a musketeer, and although he is not actually considered as being one of the main musketeers, as the actual musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

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Renaissance Literature Analysis Literature Book Report/Review

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In addition, when the war is over and he must now bargain with France for Katherine’s hand (and land), he is quite gracious to the French, even though there is a considerable amount of threat in his tone to suggest his perceived superiority as the conquering king: “If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace, / […] you must buy that peace/ With full accord to all our just demands” (5.2.68-72).

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On the Negro Question by Cyril Lionel Robert James Literature Essay

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The Workers Party discarded James’s declaration on Black Nationalism. Both the Socialist Workers Party and the Workers Party, the two mainly imperative Trotskyist assemblies in the United States, sustained to look upon the black resist as impressive to be included within the lower-class fight back as a whole.

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True Justice in 1916 Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that when that same childless, unkempt woman is on trial for the strangling death of her husband, no male judge and the all-male jury is going to have any sympathy for her difficult living situation or her troubled marriage. As far as they would be concerned she was not living up to her end of the marriage agreement anyway.

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Toni Morrison's novels Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon Literature Book Report/Review

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Throughout Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon, trauma, memory and narrative are interwoven to produce common strands on non-linear meaning and inter-textual cross-referencing.

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Strategic Management of the Eden Project Literature Essay

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Research has shown, that 70% of people who have already visited Eden are willing to come back, and statistically the number of returning visitors is actually increasing from 14% in 2002 to 17% in 2003. The Eden management has to find its way to the returning customers and sustain their interest, and hopefully, their active returning.

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Pauls Family Tragedies Literature Essay

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For Paul, it was that old man’s fault that he had all these tragedies befalling him. He stopped walking and talked to the officer that was in the forestation of the reformatory premises.Paul’s heart beat faster while sitting in the waiting area after the officer had escorted him to the place. It was a commingle of emotions he had inside him.

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