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Alice MunroIn a PhD interview, examiners are normally concerned with the issue of whether you are prepared for postgraduate level work on your specific subject. In particular, you want to give the impression...
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Alice MunroIn “Red Dress” by Alice Munro and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, both mothers live vicariously through their daughters and want them to be happy; one wants an ordinary life for her daughter, and...
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Alice MunroThe town and the era in which "An Ounce of Cure" occurs contributes to the narrator's grievances in that she's never really able to forget two youthful mistakes, which were all centered around a...
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Alice MunroI'll stick with the short story "Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro. The story is narrated from the perspective of an 11 year old girl. She lives on a ranch that breeds and raises foxes. The narrator...
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Alice Munro“The Peace of Utrecht” by Alice Munro portrays two sisters who took different paths in facing their individual futures. The older sister stayed at home and took care of their mentally ill...
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Alice MunroAlice Munro portrays two sisters who struggle with the death of their mother in “The Peace of Utrecht.” The setting is Jubilee, in Canada. The point of view is first person with Helen, one of...
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How I Met My HusbandI tend to think that Chris' function in the work is more as an ideal. He represents the ideal notion of love, partnership, and a sense of devotion. Chris is not someone that is of the real world....
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How I Met My HusbandI think that Edie escapes a condition of waiting and paralysis that seems to impact others in the narrative. Edie might not have discovered her long lost love in the story. Yet, she marries a...
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How I Met My HusbandI think that one of the strongest and most unifying themes that comes out of the novel is the idea of taking action. Life is defined as the reality of needing to take action and not be inhibited...
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Alice MunroYou haven't told us which short story this quote comes from, so I will have to respond as best I can just from the quote. However, please remember that whenever you are trying to establish the...
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Alice Munrosubliminal messages
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Alice MunroThe first love is hard to get over especially when the love is not reciprocated. Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure” describes a teenager’s reaction to being dumped by her first boyfriend....
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Alice MunroThere are many details of setting in "The Found Boat." The lifestyle and artifacts of the people of Jubilee suggest a poor or working-class environment in the years before electronic entertainment....
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Alice MunroThe last paragraph emphasizes the actions of the girls in getting out of the water and in bursting out in giggles. The action verbs and participles are giggle, slapping, splashing, set about...
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Alice MunroParagraph 10 suggests that Eva’s imagination is strong, and that she yearns for magic worlds of romance. When she becomes the point-of-view character, the style is elevated to complement her...
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Alice MunroThe level of diction among the boys is generally low, with contractions and interjections (paragraph 4), profanity (paragraphs 7, 8), and grammatical mistakes (paragraph 22). Eva’s language is...
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Alice MunroThe descriptive passages of "The Found Boat" are specific and accurate, but most of them introduce an element of human response and involvement. Paragraph 10, for example, demonstrates this...
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Alice MunroLike many of Munro’s stories, "The Found Boat" is set in her imaginary small town of Jubilee, which is visualized as being in western Ontario, near her own home town of Wingham. The story’s...
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Alice Munro“An Ounce of Cure” by Alice Munro explores the theme of growing up in 1960s America as a teenage girl. Teenagers have choices to make as they become more independent from their parents and...
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Alice MunroWhat happens when a girl gets dumped? This is the problem faced by the main character in Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure.” The narration is first person point of view with the protagonist,...
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Alice MunroYour best chance to contact her is to write to her literary agent. The second best bet is to write to her publisher, Random House. I've pasted links to web sites where you can find contact...