... can describe events in a simplistic style, without any figurative language or writing devices, or one can choose to fill their work with fancy words that catch the reader's attention. This poem is just right. "Oranges" is about a young boy's first walk with a girl. This poem shows how the simplest things in life may have the most tremendous impact on a person. This poem opens with a delicate ... flourish of description and detail and ends the same. Soto not only uses detail to describe the occasion, but also ... got lucky. Through much detail, this one little event was decorated and co...

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... than the unrealistic and boring movie. The book portrays Connie as a much more believable character. Connie is about as rebellious as a teenager comes. She never listens to her parents and is in need of constant attention from boys. Usually girls like this suffer from not having a strong support group at home. This stands true in the book, but not the movie. In the ... horrible and sinister looking person. "He looked at her. He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around his eyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chips of b...

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... in the late 1800's told to us in a first-person narrative point of view. It examines how a boy's infatuation with a girl is shattered when he sees what she is really like. The boy in "Araby", like Joyce as a youth, must begin to free himself from his dreams and see reality (Stone 375-410). This story uses many different devices to catch the reader's attention and interest. In order ... for this to work, Joyce uses many methods of fiction to get ... his point across. From the very first paragraph the tone of the story is set. The way the boys are set free sounds like a prison even thoug...

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Indulging the reader with his masterful literary techniques, Ernest Hemingway produces the story of a young couple in his short story, "Hills Like White Elephants." Waiting to catch a train the young couple stops for a short rest in the shade of the station building. Everything seems normal, they order drinks a have normal conversation until the man brings up the topic of the girls operation; things quickly become uneasy. It ... really an operation at all .The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on" (515). Her reaction to his statement repelled her attention away from him and towa...

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• Grade Level: High School