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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour: Analysis of Style and Tone


STYLE  Paragraph The Story of an Hour has short paragraphs. Each paragraph only contains not more than five sentences. The longest paragraph is paragraph eleven which has five sentences: When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Flowers for Algernon


Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction novel written by Daniel Keyes. It was published in 1966 and won Nebula Award for Best Novel. Algernon is a laboratory mouse who had a surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told as a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled. Charlie Gordon is a 32 year old man...
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