School
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( An assignment for school. Taking a passage from a book and making a prose poem based on it. ) Passage: “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be…
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His father was in New York; “stopping at some joint or other,” he told himself. Just like that New York was dampened in all its glory and splendor. It was as if there was no escaping Cordelia Street. Evidently it was following him. Paul racked his brain while both hands ruffled through his hair in…
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When comparing the main character of Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” to Aristotle’s “Theory of Tragedy” the points of Okonkwo’s character were very defined. While the narrator told the four characteristics of a tragic hero instantly I found I could pick up a scene from the book that fit it perfectly. The first was that the…
