... reactions, and audiences" reactions are influenced by the performance on stage. An individual's point of view to a story can reveal certain themes that may be totally different to the other person reading or watching the same play, short story, novel or movie. In the works of art that we were exposed to in this class there were many ... kids. He thinks that all he does is put a Band-Aid on their problems or pain. In act two he says, "I need more desperately than my children need me- a way of seeing in the dark." At the end of the play he compares himself to a horse making a notation to t...

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... fear that goes hand in hand with all of these, into his novel. In All the Pretty Horses, these themes help create a personal connection for the reader, one that is easily related to. For me, the theme in this novel that I could closely relate with was fear: that insane impulse that drives you to ... . Because of this, he fled. He ran from the fear of losing himself and what he wanted to be: a cowboy. "He never give up. He was the one told me not to. He said let's not have a funeral till we get somethin to bury, if it ain't nothin but his dogtags." John Grady ... , however only temporaril...

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The novel Mary by Vladimir Nabokov did not "wow" me. In fact, it came off as a bit mundane. I did however enjoy the subtle and sometimes obvious themes played with in the work regarding banishment. The love story, told through day dreams and love letters, came off as overdone and a bit lacking ... his relationship with Klara, who Genin never dignifies with an explanation after she catches him snooping through Alfyorov drawers. At the end of the story he nearly remembers to do so, but the thought slips his mind leaving Klara to believe that she had caught Genin in the process ... Could it alter...

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... literature so contemporary and new that we would have to buy the books ourselves. Stuyvesant High School just could not afford to provide their over-achieving students (excluding me) with up-to-date novels. At first, this seemed like a rotten compromise. I certainly did not want to pay to read for English class, even ... to engage the reader because it lacks the action and language that we are so use to witnessing. However, the concerns of the characters and the themes within White Noise are unquestionably contemporary. The fear of death and the subject of disasters on a grand scale are ...

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... the character of Flora she seems like any other little girl her age. Miles isn't as believable as the other ones because he always doubts things about the horror. VI. Themes of the novel: Well I think the authors message is that we might hear things that might make us believe in something that isn't true. It was a kind of a difficult theme ... find out whom it could be so they were blaming each other. That was a bit conflict in the story. VIII. Significant quotes from novel: "I appreciate" I said "the great decency of your not having hitherto spoken; but the time has certainly come to g...

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