What’s In A Name? Yan Martel’s award winning novel‚ “Life of Pi”‚ is about the life of Piscine Molitor Patel‚ narrating many of the experiences he encounters that give light to many philosophies and ideologies about life. The protagonist in the story‚ Piscine Molitor‚ was named after a Parisian swimming pool‚ which was described in the story as a breathtaking area to take a good swim. However‚ Piscine having been fed up with the negative attention his name attracted in school‚ comes
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Patricia Grace’s short story It Used to Be Green Once and in Nino Ricci’s short story Going to the Moon‚ the mother figures to the protagonists are caring and outgoing‚ but differ on their ability to comprehend specific situations. First and foremost‚ the characters that act as the mother figures in the short stories both care for the protagonists. The mother of the protagonist in It used to Be Green Once cares for all of her children. This is seen when the main character states that her‚ "mum would dig
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points.) #1 Exposition (introduction) Introduces the main characters‚ setting‚ and conflict. #2 Rising Action (conflict complicated) Secondary conflicts arise. Secondary adversaries hold protagonist back from his goal. #3 Climax (turning point) The turning point‚ for better or worse‚ in the protagonists affairs. When we first realize the conflict will be resolved. #4 Falling Action (loose ends tied up) Headed towards resolution‚ maybe with a final moment of suspense. #5 Denouement (conclusion)
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of the Gaze in the Loss of Autonomy and Creation of Suspense In Poe’s the Tell-Tale Heart‚ the gaze is the generator of suspense in the protagonist’s mind. The effects of the gaze can be analyzed by means of three characters in the story: the protagonist‚ the Old Man‚ and the police officers. The gaze’s effect of the three characters helps to destabilize the autonomy of the main character. According to Lacan‚ the identity is a fictional construction in which the “Other” plays an important role.
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all hope and accepts his fate right from the beginning‚ while the protagonists in the second one makes an‚ albeit‚ small attempt to fight against the antagonist of the story. The way I figured out that the song would would fall under the genre of a country rock song is from reading Robert Fontenot‚ an oldies music expert‚ who defines the genre as
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cultural and social issues. Cultural issues explored by this movie are the existence of subcultures and countercultures in city life. The movie takes place in Los Angeles‚ California that is largely populated by Mexicans and Oriental migrants. The protagonist‚ played by Michael Douglas‚ encounters and oriental man that owns a local mini mart and two Mexican gang members. The oriental man represents the subculture and the gang members represent the counterculture. The social issues are reflected through
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Kirsty Logan the protagonist deals with heartbreaks in a different way than we would see in our current world. The story ”The Rental Heart” is about a binge dating person. The story is told by a first person narrator who also is the main character of the story. The story unfolds unchronologically. It starts briefly in the presence‚ but leaps back in time in a major flashback of the narrator’s life‚ before it again briefly returns to the presence where it ends. The protagonist of the story is
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control over the things that happen to us‚ which result in different emotions and feelings. People must understand that everybody goes through experiences‚ good or bad‚ and in the end it changes the person that they once were. In this story the protagonist went from innocence to experience. He felt safe in his small town he lived in. “I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night‚ feminine‚ enormous.” The air is fresh and the sky is clear. From
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Chowdhury English 101 Class #0120 Greasy Lake Thomas John Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake” is about a troubled‚ rebellious‚ out of control teen that learns that being “bad” is not at all what it cuts out to be. Through the gloomy narrative the protagonist goes from having a pleasurable worry free time into a horrific night that will be forever haunting to him and his juvenile friends Digby and Jeff. In this complicated story these “bad” characters nearly took a man’s life away‚ all from an easy joke
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THE VIRGIN 1. Discuss the characteristics of the protagonist using feminism. * Our main character is Miss Mijares‚ she is most likely in the age of 30s and she is still a virgin. She realized that love and marriage have eluded her because she is taking so much of her mother‚ but the mother died lately. * Using the feminism approach in describing the characteristics of the protagonist in the story‚ Miss Mijares is an educated woman and also holding a high position in her job. Asides
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