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People are like snakes Like snakes some people go behind your back and bite you. Shirley Jackson’s story “The possibibility of Evil’ is a very weird but good story. The story’s about an older women who’s leaved in the town basically all her life but she is very judgemental person that writes mean letters to people.
New country, new town, new people, new rules, and new values. After her grandfather’s death in Barbados, Katherine sells his possessions and makes the decision to leave her home. She enters America as an outsider, unable to fit in with her extravagant clothes, seven trunks of valuables, and possesses unwomanly characteristics, like swimming and reading. In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Katherine arrives at her uncle’s doorsteps, surprising them by her unplanned visit, but shocking the family with her intention to begin living with them. Her extravagant and prestigious life she led in Barbados was no longer existent in her uncle’s hard-working family.
Evaluating artwork, I am discovering, is an art in itself. Properly applied appraisal includes objective as well as subjective criteria. Francis Schaeffer (1973) offers Four Standards of Judgement, “(1) technical excellence, (2) validity, (3) intellectual content, the world view which comes through and (4) the integration of content and vehicle” (p. 62). Additionally, great art may evoke intuitive and emotional responses. By all measures, the writings of C. S. Lewis are masterpieces of literature.
Goblins are little creepy evil mini monsters who originate from the european lands. They are mentioned in many stories and folktales. A famous book they are introduced in is called “The Princess and the Goblin” published in 1920, Authored by George Macdonald. The one most hated thing by goblins is horses, goblins hate horses with a passion, also dogs they prefer wolves and worgs. Burning , a pleasure of the goblins.
The Wicked Witches of Oz correspond to the major corporations during the election of 1896. The Wicked Witch of the East is the ruler of the eastern land of Oz. She is the equivalent to the real worlds banks. Because of her wickedness a house was dropped on her leaving “her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.” (Baum).
In the Wizard of Oz the Wicked Witch of the West, Miss Gulch, has a last name that can be translated as a deep, precipitous cleft or abyss often occupied by a torrent. This is a metaphor for the land of Oz, being the deep abyss, and the witch is the extreme threat that resides within. At first glance, Oz is an unimaginably beautiful peaceful place, as the protagonist Dorothy ventures through the world and encounters the troubles she must overcome, it reveals that the land of Oz may not have been as innocent as it seemed. When Dorothy first makes her appearance in Oz, the Wicked Witch becomes obsessed with Dorothy when she found out she obtained her sister’s ruby slippers. From then on, the witch does everything in her power to stop Dorothy
Miss Havisham has another symptom of PTSD, where she shows signs of “Persistent and exaggerated negative beliefs”(Hammam). “Well? You can break his heart. ”(Dickens 46). Miss Havisham’s view of the world is very different, she thinks that all men need their hearts broken.
“‘Then in the name of Aslan,’ said Queen Susan, ‘if ye will all have it so, let us go on and take the adventure that shall fall to us’” (Lewis 187). The act of embarking on adventures serves as one of the foundational elements of all fairy stories. The Pevensie children - Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy - set off on many adventures in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. Throughout their adventures they journey to magical lands, some in which animals can talk.
Dickens’ best creation of symbolism in the novel is the scene where he describes Miss Havisham’s wedding cake, which symbolizes Miss Havisham’s inner
I am currently reading the second novel of thebook Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The peculiars are now in a different island in search for a headmistress. They are searching for a headmistress so that she can help them cure their ymbryne, their headmistress, who was stuck in her bird form and couldn't revert to her human form. The ymbrynes were being captured and were being turned into their bird forms. The peculiars entered the island, and encountered a hollow.
In the beginning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling, Harry lived with the Durselys. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley treated Harry very poorly compared to their son, Dudley. But before Harry moved in, his parents were killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort. Harry was the only one who survived and Hagrid, who was a gamekeeper at Hogwarts, took him to the Dursley’s front door step when he was a baby. Ever since that day, Harry believed that his life was miserable.
There are many differences in the plots related to the White Witch between the book “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and the movie edition “The Chronicle of Narnia. However, the core of this role remains consistent. The most obvious difference the description of white witch. In the book, this witch is descripted as having black hair and wearing a crown made of gold.
Through her attempts she replaces her daughter’s heart with ice and breaks young men’s hearts. In Dickens’ bildungsroman Great Expectations, Pip and Miss Havisham’s morally ambiguous characterization helps develop the theme, that one needs to learn to be resilient. The internal struggles that Pip experiences through the novel, reveal his displeasure to his settings and
In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, an orphan raised by his cruel sister, Mrs. Joe, and her kindly husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith, becomes very ashamed of his background after a sudden chain of events which drives him to a different social class. Pip's motive to change begins when he meets a beautiful girl named Estella who is in the upper class. As the novel progresses, Pip attempts to achieve the greater things for himself. Overtime, Pip realizes the dangers of being driven by a desire of wealth and social status. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to experience.
