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Response Journal - The lady or the tiger?

This story is a good representation of the way we can blindly trust someone when we're in love. The Young man in this story faced a situation where his life was in the hand of the girl he loved. His love for her was unconditional but in the case of the princess, lots of feelings came in the way of her love for the man and they might have made her do the irreparable. The author wrote this story in a way that the we were in controle of the denouement of the story so the faith of the Young man is up to our imagination. I personnally think that the way he chose to write the story is really original and it made me appreciate the story even more. The way he portrait the character also played a big role in the story. As i began to read the story, i felt like the narrator was insisting too much on the king's personnality but as the story unfolded, we see that his personnality has a big role in the way that the princess thinks. If i had to choose the ending of the story, i would say tha...
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Response Journal - The nightingale and the rose

This story wasn't one of my favorite. When I usually read short stories, i expect suspense and tension but The Nightingale didn't meet my expectations. Im not trying to say that it's a bad story, it just wasn't my type. In my opinion, the plot was basic and it was kind of easy to tell what was going to happen. It was more of a fairy tale then a short story to me. A Young man chasing an impossible love but his dear friend is going to make everything in order to make this love story happen. He dies in the process but everything should go well right? Nop, that ''beautiful girl'' that the student was chasing turned him down. I understand the plot twist a the end makes it a short story but it was way to predictable unlike Tell tale heart or The lady or the tiger where i was bitting my nails throughout the story and where the end made my jaw drop. However, one thing that surprised was how ungrateful was the Young student. The Nightingale gave his life away to ...
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Introduction to Academic Writing   Film Review: ( ​ IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, other) Article title    Death, Taxes, and Dystopia: ‘Divergent’ Is Anything But Special Description   A general review of te movie Divergent. Describes the plot and the major elements that made it a regular or almost bad movie Website name   Grantland.com Publisher   Grantland.com URL   http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/death-taxes-and-dystopia-divergent-is-anything-but-special/ Author/s   Wesley Morris D ate website accessed   10/10/18 Keyword/ques- tions Notes (key ideas and facts) 1.   There’s really no hook and therefore no excitement 2.     But even then, the climactic chases, shootouts, and fistfigh...
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