A Story Beneath A Story

... Eleanor Cross In the novel, Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross, by Kathy Lynn Emerson, the story evolves around a woman by the name of Susanna Appleton. Her husband Sir Robert Appleton had many enemies. There was a rumor that the queen of England herself wanted him in order ... husband deeply but she was a strong women and she overcame all her fears. She defended herself until the end. Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross by Kathy Lynn Emerson is powerful, and a novel full of suspense. The title, Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross, is significant because it shows the place of the murd...

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... task I shall explore Lord of the Flies' at three levels. Firstly I shall consider Lord of the Flies' at its narrative level, as a fictional story, with the aim to entertain a reader. Following from this I shall consider Lord of the Flies' in its literal capacity, as a piece of literature. ... level, where Golding applies a set of characters, setting and actions to be symbolic of a set of meanings giving Lord of the Flies' an underlying significance beneath the surface of its narrative and literal levels. Lord of the Flies' can certainly be interpreted as a tale about the "vile nature of ...

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My eyes burst open much quicker than expected when I heard the crusty swoosh sound of our tent door being thrust open and secured to one side. I then heard the raspy voice of a man say something about an early bird getting the worm. It was 5:00 am and as the cobwebs began to clear from my head, I realized that the voice I had heard was from the mouth of our elk hunting guide, Jim Evans. Jim told us that it was time for breakfast and that we'd be packing up the horses and heading up the mountain before the sun had a chance to arouse the forest. The last thing he said before leaving our tent was...

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The discordant symphony of battle cries between low-riding beasts-honking and screeching-faded into a dull lull in the back of my consciousness as the car peeled away from the towering metal creatures and its prowling counterparts with glaring white orbs and incessant growls-a peculiar lullaby which dragged the curtains lower over my eyes. The further I traversed away from the heart of the war, the shorter those metallic creatures became. What amazed me was the existence of other types of said creatures. There were some whose scales were translucent to the point where its dinner, poor human vi...

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... published in 1890, followed by two collections of short stories, "Bayou Folk- in 1894 and "A Night in Acadia- in 1897. "The Awakening-, another popular story written by her, was published in 1899, and by then she was well known as a writer, and had published over one hundred stories, essays, and sketches ... she suffered a stroke while visiting the St. Louis World's Fair. In life, fate can be very unpredictable and sometimes ironic. In Kate Chopin's short story, The Story of an Hour, many ironic elements are used to help the reader understand the fate of the main character, Mrs. Mallard. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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... over what I had just said. "Yeah," he replied eventually, "But I know ghosts are real. I've met one." Upon hearing this statement I had to know the story. You see, my dad is like me, he likes to tell stories. I could retell most of his stories from memory, just because he would tell them so frequently ... , to anyone who would listen...yet here was a story I had never heard, of an event that changed my dad's life. To this day, I don't know if I believe it or not, but when someone who ... nearby home for the elderly, and couldn't fit much of her belongings in her room. The rocking chair w...

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If it were not for the title of the novel, we might well start to assume that the story has very little or nothing to do with Captain Corelli. Moreover, de Bernieres introduces the reader to so much material, that very soon we have probably forgotten about him long, ... Circle of Nether Hell, in the improbable company of usurers- for Dante. Carlo's "truth weighs more than the universe- he refers to Atlas because like him "he's bound down forever beneath a burden that cracks the bones and solidifies the blood."" His style and his words consistently carry out emotional strength, force, and a f...

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... I couldn't tell what it was. Then I thought it was my dear mother visiting me again. Finally, I saw it was a skeleton partly sticking out of the water, and partly just visible beneath the ripple of the water. It was almost buried in the sand and rocks of the stream bed. I hadn't expected it. For all I know, the skeleton could be my mother ... around me like you might expect. I'd see them instead of thinking normal thoughts. I mean, that's all my mind wanted to do was to see that image. And, just like the story of the donkey that let the man out of the house too soon, I was seeing danger...

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... in the ocean for us to find." The island, now in full view, was scattered with old worn-down cottages, but directly in the center was the ominous four-story Oceanic Hotel. The narrow wooden dock was so weathered that it almost blended into the towering walls of wet rock and seaweed. Lindsey leapt onto the creaking dock and tied ... . "Give it up! There's nowhere to run!" he shouted. "I was born and raised on this island, Detective Turner, I know its secrets." The killer turned and disappeared beneath the cliff's edge. Turner bolted to the edge of the cliff just in time to see the killer ...

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• Grade Level: High School