Young Louie enjoyed playing cowboys and Indians, and roughhoused in the family barn. ... Henty, an Englishman who wrote of wars through the nineteenth century. ... L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... He also wrote boxing articles for a newspaper, without payment. ... He wrote more million-copy bestsellers than any other American fiction writer. ...

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He also, wrote a number of children's stories, and probably was the first to write a science fiction book. ... One such eastern writer, if I may quote, also used a plot in the same fashion, he wrote a play called, "Anarkali". ... The character sketches, of the characters in this play are not very different in nature compared, to the characters, in "The Lady, or The Tiger". ...

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Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. ... Faulkner usually played with different perspectives in different stories, using children narrators to describe a situation. ... Faulkner seems to capture the moment in a boy's life when he is just starting to understand the events going on around him, unlike his brother and sister who just naively play. ... This story is interesting because not only does Faulkner play with the perspectives of people very di...

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Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer of the19th century. His writing style is absolutely different from others. He always creates mysterious characters in his writings. In the beginning he was introduced as a poet then he became a famous short story writer of the uncanny, but he kept writing poems....

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"According to Boyd, although Baldwin rarely spoke or wrote about his relationship with Cullen, the poet was one of the early influences in Baldwin life, preparing him to move beyond the boundaries of Harlem" (236). ... He finds peace and comfort by playing jazz music on the piano. ... Boyd focuses on the powerful role Harlem played in Baldwin's life and work. ... "Baldwin plays an important role in a canon of gay literature" (Thorsson 617). ...

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"Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little things. ... As stated above, women had a place, a role they were supposed to play. ... The County Attorney wrote them off saying "Oh, I guess they're not very dangerous things the ladies have picked out" (Ronson 224). ...

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An example from John Oakhurst, who is a professional gambler, is when he says, "throwin up their hand before the game was played out" (Harte 2). ... Also many of the characters that he wrote about are probably personality traits of people he had met during his stay in California. ...

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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" has been interpreted in many different ways. Most of these rely solely on hints found within the story. I believe that his life can also help one analyze this story. By knowing that Faulkner's strongest influence was his independent mother, one can guess that Mi...

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Regardless of her illness, she wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories while acquiring success and praise. ... (Galloway) O"Connor's deep acknowledgment of her family's Southern legacy plays a strong role in the attitudes of her short stories. ...

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On October 11 2014 (at) 8:00 pm my fiancée, my daughter, and I went to The Roxy Regional Theater in Clarksville, Tennessee to see a performance of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This adaptation, directed by Roxy Artistic Director John McDonald, is based on the original book. "The Legend of Sleepy H...

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The presences of he narrator and the townspeople have played an importance role in Miss Emily's funeral, courtship, and death. ... Littler wrote that "A Rose for Emily- has been read variously as " a Gothic horror tale, a study in abnormal psychology, an allegory of the relations between North and South, a meditation on the nature of time, and a tragedy with Emily as a sort of tragic heroine- (Akers 2). ...

• Word Count: 1893
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• Grade Level: High School

Henry James's - The Turn of the Screw From the moment of its publication, The Turn of the Screw has continuously been a challenge both for the common reading and for criticism. We, the readers, when being unaware of its complexity, may be very easily carried away and fall into all the traps pr...

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Young Goodman Brown vs. The Cask of Amontillado. All people have problems with the community in which they live. Their conflicts are either with the people or the ideas of the community. In the story "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne shows his main character, the innocent, pure, and love...

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His generosity comes into play when he gives out aniseed-peas to children that were joining in to laugh at him. ... The feeling that is given to the reader is the brother isn't taking his diary entries seriously as he doesn't think it would hurt to give this to anyone, because he believes nothing makes sense in the diary entries since an ill person wrote it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School