This passage from the book exemplifies the importance of a role that a teacher plays in a child's life. ... The reader sees Miss Zajac walk in the classroom and set goals for each of her students to achieve. ... One sees in the beginning how the children hated her, they called her a witch, cursed at her or wrote negative comments about her in their journals. ... Another flaw, is that Kidder offers a whole chapter on Miss Zajac's trip to Puerto Rico. ... This chapter was a little unrealistic and unnecessary. ...

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Ambiguity in meaning is clearly found in each of these. ... In the first chapters of the novel, the children do not trust their younger sister and dismisses her when she tells them of this other world called Narnia. ... During a number of consecutive chapters, the passion is expressed symbolically and extremely accurately. These chapters parallel the events leading to Christ's crucifixion and Aslan's sacrifice. It starts when the reader finds that through something called deep magic, Edmund, the oldest child, by law belongs to the White Witch. ...

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Maguire gives the "wicked" witch a good bit of substance in his book, starting by giving her a name; Elphaba. ... Indeed, as Nanny profoundly notes when Elphaba was just a child, "little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents". ... Analysis Upon reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, I began to try and go back and analyze the story piece by piece and all in all, I interpreted the book as a progressive narrative that treats witchcraft and the stereotypical beliefs of witches with an irony, not se...

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Although a work of fiction, Lewis incorporates aspects of his Christian beliefs into his children's book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. ... In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Mr. ... Initially, the event of introducing Aslan into the book was huge. ... There is no greater theme than that of mightiness and sacrifice found in the pages of this book. ... The book is built on the imagination and enchantment of Lewis, through the children. ...

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SUPPLEMENTARY READING: BOOK ANALYSIS In "The Crucible", a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692, by Arthur Miller, the author showed how a reverend, Rev. ... The cause of her symptoms may have been some combination of stress, asthma, guilt, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis, but there were other theories. ... The magistrates, in the common practice of the time, asked the same questions of each suspect over and over: Were they witches? ... Each generation must learn the lessons of history or risk repeating its mistakes. ... Overall the book w...

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Each individual, even a child, has a will to become more powerful in his nature but a trigger will make this ambition come out. ... He went through a change in the book: in the beginning we know him as the Thane of Glamis who is a strong, brave soldier and a virtuous young man; however his actions change a lot through chapter 4 where he becomes a tyrant who has lost his virtue and would stop at nothing to maintain his power. ... These witches represent the evil inside mankind and dark thoughts waiting to come out. ... In their second encounter with Macbeth, one of the witches told him to '...

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For example, even the title of chapter one suggests that Rhoda has been miserable. ?... 'my husband says it is as if some witch, or the devil himself, had taken hold of me there?? ... As we know, when the book is set, people accused of witchcraft were very severely punished. ... Gertrude can also not have a child, and Lodge's son has moved away, so he cannot have the inheritance. ??... As we discover at the end of the book, this is an ironic thing for Gertrude to say. ...

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The Scarlet Letter is a book revealing lives of sin, social identity, and humanity. ... The book opens with a chapter called "The Custom House," in which the narrator of the book writes a long description recalling his days as the chief executive officer of the Customs House in Salem, Massachusetts. ... In the third chapter, a small, deformed man accompanied by an Indian is identified in the crowd. ... As the book describes it, " his look became keen and penetrative. ... The minister felt for the child's other hand, and took it. ...

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The woman's husband had left the country years before, so the villagers knew that the child was illegitimate. ... Kingston believes that her aunt decides to kill herself and her baby together in order to spare the child a life without family or purpose. ... In such a world, Kingston's aunt represents the worst kind of transgressor, one whose private lusts "made public by her illegitimate child "disrupted the social order and threatened the very existence of the village. ... The ambiguous nature of "talk-story," a blend of the real and fantastic, surfaces again and again thr...

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There seemed to be no pictures, but at the beginning of every chapter, there were beautiful capital letters. On the front cover of the book there were two snakes biting each other's tails, one was light and the other was dark. ... The amulet was the form of two snakes a dark and a light one they were biting each other's tails. ... Only a human child could give names; could give a new name to the Childlike Empress. ... They were brothers but always fought each other. ...

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Shelley's novel was inspired while she was visiting Byron in Switzerland with her husband, Percy, in which they challenged each other to create a horror story. ... The use of the witch idea played upon the fears of people at that time as some individuals still suspected those who worked in the field of alchemy. Shelley also refers to "Cornelius Agrippa" throughout the book who himself wrote many volumes on the philosophy of the occult. ... The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. ... Dur...

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Jane, as a child, reflects that, 'It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group'. Although there is conflict between them it is almost as if Jane understands to some extent why her Aunt behaves this way because it is difficult to lose your husband and then raise a child that is not yours and who does not match your mannerisms. ... Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography&quo...

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East of Eden In John Steinbeck's Book, East of Eden, he succeeds in recreating the Fall of Man. ... The Fall of Man starts in Chapter Three of Genesis, but East of Eden recreates the Fall of Man by incorporating Genesis Four. ... Cathy is a person who looks for the evil in each person and tries to draw it out and exploit it. ... Adam was Cyrus" first born child and he showed his favoritism towards Adam because of the way he treated the two boys. ... As a child, Cal is aware that his light-haired brother is favored over him by nearly everyone. ...

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During their time, each gave a most solemn message to God's people, and specifically of Jones and Waggoner, it is said, "The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders Waggoner and Jones.... It should, furthermore, be noted that Paul begins this chapter by saying, "Therefore, being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.... (Grudem) Robert Culver, too, speaks about the nature of sin in own book, and time and time again he returns one basic understanding of sin being: "Lack of conformity to divine law, ...

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Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. ... In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. ... God created light (so he created the sun) so says the book of Genesis. ... In the book of Genesis God created the flora and fauna and men, namely humans, Adam and Eve. ... During the early contacts between the Europeans and the Native Americans, the Europeans found the Indians either a brutal uncivilized savage or as a naive child. ...

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He was the second child of Joseph Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy, who would eventually have nine children--JFK's older brother Joe Jr., and his younger siblings Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert and Edward. ... In 1949, he established trust funds for his children, guaranteeing each ten million dollars. ... In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. ... He encouraged them to be ambitious, emphasizing political discussions...

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Our research paper is composed of two chapters. ... In the second chapter, we have selected an author-oriented approach, referring to the author's biography. ... In brief, both chapters deal with symbols found in characters, settings, objects and some proper nouns. ... On the other hand, the second chapter deals with symbols in relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's life. ... This may signify that each civilisation and culture is de...

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This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender violence became a human rights violation articulated in formal documents of international law, this chapter discusses one of the most important new issues in the gender violence and human rights field, that of the trafficking of sex workers. ... It built on the work of activists around the world who set up shelters, counseling centers, and batterer treatment programs, often borrowing from each other...

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Henry James finished the work on the story in 1897 and published the text which consisted of twelve chapters plus a prologue between January and April of 1898. James agreement to publish his story in Colliers Weekly was connected to the precondition that he would publish it also as a book. ... Ambiguous communication Already in the first chapter we find a recurring pattern of equivocal communication and assumptions. ... But it could also be argued that the governess is delusional, that she invents these instances because of her inmost fear that she might end as Miss Jessel - in misery with...

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