One of an impactful, historical tragedy in U.S history is the Boston Bombing. On April 15, 2013, at about 2:50 p.m., two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs explode within 8-12 seconds of each other, and they were about 50-100 yards apart. 3 people got killed and more than 260 people got injured. The window of the store near the explosion were broken and a window on the third floor of the Boston Public Library was damaged.
The Great Gatsby Have you ever wondered why Gatsby decided to come back and find Daisy? In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby pursues to find his ex-lover Daisy by buying a house and throwing massive parties across the bay hoping she would wander into his party sometime. Gatsby has a true love for Daisy and he is very eager to find her so he uses Nick as a way to reel her into his hands. The main character Nick is seen throughout the novel as a bystander and Gatsby’s new good friend.
The Enlightenment was a time of where people concentrated more on logical reasoning and individuality rather than tradition and religion. There were plenty of people with brilliant ideas and concepts which helped spread the Enlightenment to great heights. These people were writers, feminists, aristocrats, and more. One example of these amazing people would be Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was an English aristocrat, letter writer, and a feminist.
In the play, “Antigone” involves a young girl named Antigone who, was trying to achieve something that was against all odds. While in the play “She Stoops to Conquer” Miss Castle would try to achieve her goal by trickery and her wits to get what she wants. But the way Antigone did it, she would try everything to prove her point, even by standing up to the authority to risk her life. But Miss Castle would do this by deceiving her crush Young Marlow to fall in love with her.
Many stories in literature are not complete without an Antagonist. The Antagonist can be the embodiment of evil or just a roadblock for the main character to overcome. In the short story Sweat, written by Zora Neale Hurston, features an abusive husband, Sykes, as the Antagonist. Sykes dominates and abuses his hard-working wife, Delia. Whereas, Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Cask of Amontillado, uses an ambiguous relationship between Fortunato, a man full of ego and arrogance, who wrongs protagonist Montresor.
The Character Clara from “Confessions of an ugly stepsister” by Gregory Maguire is a flat, static, indirectly characterized character. Iris is flat because she always cares about Clara. “‘Mama,” says Iris, “you’re not minding your tongue’” (Maguire 113). In this quote we can now about Iris that she is caring about Clara so much.
Villains are a huge part of movies, stories and books. Without a villain in a plot, the story isn 't the same. Villains provide a problem in the story of the movie or book. The rudest, meanest, dirtiest villain that I know, is Gothel: Rapunzel 's evil step mom.
Nonetheless, there are examples of contemporary literary works that reinforce the negative stereotype of the witch. Witches (1983) written by the British writer Roald Dahl is a story about a young orphaned boy and his Norwegian grandmother who find themselves in a hotel full of witches; it turns out that the evil creatures hate children and plan to destroy them. Unsurprisingly, the book has been targeted by feminists who claimed that it is misogynistic, sexist and shows “how boys learn to become men who hate women.” 2.3 Witches on the silver screen Perhaps the most prevalent image of a witch is that of an evil old woman stirring a mixture in a large kettle.
A.J. Verdelle’s The Good Negress written by the story surrounds the protagonist Denise Palms as she grows and develops into a young, intellectually bright, African-American woman. A protagonist is a primary character in any form of literature work per the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. While an antagonist is one that contends with or opposes another. Now the antagonist in a piece of literature is usually depicted as malice and wicked, however, they do not have to be villainous. The antagonist can just obtain a different viewpoint when compared to the protagonist.
In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a mysterious character that catches the attention of all his readers. The bootlegger? The WW1 hero? Second cousin to the devil? Jay Gatsby.
Over the summer Tim went to London for pursuing his career as a lawyer and find a girlfriend. He lives with a family friend named harry. He is a playwright Tim go to the restaurant where has a blind date. This is the first time that Tim met Mary and He falls in love with her. Tim is able to get Mary's phone number.
Thomas D’Invilliers once said, “then wear the gold hat if that will move her.” The lengths some would go to for love are vast and incomprehensible. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story focuses on love and wealth combined in the 1920’s in West Egg, Long Island. The narrator Nick Carraway observes the romance the blooms between his cousin Daisy Buchanan and the inclusive Jay Gatsby and the tension between trying to choose a true love, all in the summer of 1922. Daisy Buchanan is Nick Carraway’s distant cousin from the Midwest, when she first meets Nick when he visits her in Long Island, she comes off as a simple minded, ditzy woman.
Character Sketch Featuring Marguerite Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel In the novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, Marguerite Blakeney, is a highly respected and popular woman in English society. She is caught between her past life in France, and her present life of prestige in England. However these worlds collide and Marguerite is faced with a horrifying predicament. The life of her brother, Armand, is given in exchange for the heroic, Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Authors will often use these characters to add conflict, and an antagonist to the book. The can cause some controversy but
