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The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers is a Western/Adventure story. A Western is a story that revolves primarily in the late 19th century in the American Old West. An adventure novel is an exciting story involving risk and physical danger as a part of the main storyline. Charlie and Eli Sisters, were brothers that were hired to kill. The job that the story follows is for the brothers to ?find and kill a prospector in California named Hermann Kermit Warm.?(8) The story takes place in 1851 on the American West Coast. The stories about the brothers adventures are told in the first person by Eli, who is very descriptive in his explanations. They meet a lot of ...
The lady with the pet dog is a romantic story that was written by Anton Chekhov in 1899. Anton gave up his medical degree to persue his dream to become a writer. The story The Lady with the Pet Dog is placed in Russia at a resort town called Yalta. Dmitry, one of the main characters, goes through three stages of love. They are lust, passion, and lo...
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane traces the effects of war on a Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his actual enlistment, and through several battles of the Civil War. Henry Fleming was not happy with his boring life on the farm. He wanted to become a hero in war and have girls loving him for his glorious...
Huck is very responsive to the beauty of the natural world about him. He uses vivid imagery to describe nature in a peculiar way, which one can even consider out of character for him. His word choice, general attitude, use of literary devices, and the use of words which describe the sounds as they happened, all add to his vivid description of the...
The Color Purple: Real Outcome of Economic Achievement and Alternative The main theme this essay will be focusing on is the distinction between the "real" outcome of economic achievement as described in The Color Purple by the lynching of Celie's father, and its "alternative" economic view presented at the end of the novel depicting Celie's happin...
"I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declar...
