... the unfamiliar text will become familiar to the reader. This is an informative paper discussing the language and poetic form of the text, the author's background, and the social/historical context of the work. Further information will be conversed about the plot, setting, characters and other important information pertaining to the text as a whole. Autobiography of Margery Kempe: Struggles, Trials, Perseverance ... person, Margery often refers to herself as "this creature," which can be seen as simple humility. Her recollections detail her spiritual journey through a life that was anyth...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... period. Chapter one, The Observers, begins by demonstrating the accuracy of the local historian; Feng K'o-ts'an, who compiled The Local History of T'an-ch'eng in 1673. The descriptive context of the Local History encapsulates the reader's attention to understand and literally project themselves into people's lives of the period. The records of the earthquake of 1668, the White Lotus ... sound like "hell on earth" at many points in the book. Many of the factors presented by Mr. Spence give the reader a closer look on the financial struggle of an ordinary seventeenth century farmer. In pa...

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• Grade Level: High School