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I currently teach high school English--Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature, English 10 Honors, English 9, Essay Writing--at a rural school district in southeastern Wisconsin. I also am head of the Theatre Club and director of the winter and spring plays. I live with my cats, James Franklin Capote and Simon Xavier Lee, and have lived in southeastern Wisconsin my whole life.
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Answered a Question in Literature
This is a difficult question to answer for you specifically because it's about who you are as a person, and I'm not sure who that is. :) I can give you some examples to get you started in the... -
Answered a Question in Literature
There are a variety of different ways you can tackle this project. However, it depends on what your topic is--are you doing this project about a certain book, a certain author, a certain type... -
Answered a Question in The Open Window
Saki's "The Open Window" has a variety of great examples of foreshadowing. Framton Nuttel in himself is an example of foreshadowing. His name--NUT-tel--gives us an indication that he may be nuts or... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The differences of these three types of writing are easier to understand than perhaps their similarities. Drama is often written in the form of a play. It is divided into acts, which... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
Sir Toby Belch is a character created to be merry opposition to Malvolio (mal meaning "bad.") As we can see from the play, Sir Toby's primary goal of life is to enjoy it--he eats, drinks,... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
There's a lot to cover in this topic. In regards to family structure, family is the first place we all begin our education--both academically and socially. This is as true today as it was in... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Act I, scene ii, lines 56-80: Cassius is telling Brutus that everyone loves him and thinks he's great. Cassius is offering to show Brutus how favorably everyone looks upon him, if... -
Answered a Question in The Open Window
One example of irony comes right at the end of the story. Framton Nuttel has run out of the house, terrified by what he thinks are ghost people and a ghost dog. The audience may expect... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The main adavantage Harper Lee gains from using Scout, a 6-8 year old girl, as a narrator, is that her perspective reamins untainted by society's prejudices. Many other people in Maycomb,... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Romeo's sadness is first noticed by his parents and his best friend, Benvolio. They have noticed Romeo likes to keep himself locked in his room, in the dark, and often goes out walking by... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The men come to the jail one evening because Tom Robinson has been moved there. He was kept in a neighboring jail, and is moved to the Maycomb jail to await the start of his trial. Heck Tate, the... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Dill was originally excited to be staying home for the summer with his new father. However, Dill runs away and tells Jem and Scout that his parents didn't need him. They bought him all... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus' lesson about standing in someone else's shoes or skin has the biggest impact on Scout. It helps her to understand some of the major decisions made in the book. Scout can... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Jem and Scout grow up in a variety of ways during this novel. The first one takes place when Nathan Radley cements the knothole, preventing Boo from leaving anymore gifts for the... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Jem and Scout grow up in a variety of ways during this novel. The first one takes place when Nathan Radley cements the knothole, preventing Boo from leaving anymore gifts for the... -
Answered a Question in In Cold Blood
Capote portrays their idea of "nature vs. nurture" in Dick and Perry. Capote shows sympathy for one of the men, based on his upbringing, and shows the other to be a "natural born killer."... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout has a feeling that she knows the verdict before she hears it. Right before the jury returns with the verdict, she feels the same way that she did the morning Atticus shot the mad... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
One of the main reasons people support the death penalty is that the criminal did something so horrendous that s/he deserves nothing better than death. This is commonly referred to as the... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In one sense, you could argue that the feud is responsible for Romeo's and Juliet's death. If the families had not being fighting and has not had bitter hatred toward each other, Romeo and... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Mrs. Merriweather refers to the people who live up north (the Northerners) as hypocrites. Remember, hypocrites are people who say one thing and do the opposite. Mrs. Merriweather calls the... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
It depends on how far you've gotten into the book as to what you know about the narrator of the story. The narrator of the story is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch as an adult, looking back upon... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Assonance is repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words. There is an example of assonance in the first line of the novel: "When he was nearly thirteen..." The vowel sounds in "he", in... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
After the parley with Antony and Octavius, Cassius reveals two bits of irony. First, he reveals that it's his birthday. Later, in scene three, he says, "This day I breathed first: time is... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Shakespeare uses thunder and lightening to not only to complement his theme of fate vs. free will as well as to enhance the mood of the play. Most of the storming occurs while Cassius is... -
Answered a Question in As You Like It
Orlando and Rosalind demonstrate what is known as courtly love. Bother were born into some class of nobility, and there is an order and process to the way in which they court each... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
The character who comes to the forefront in Act Three is Marc Antony. After the conspirators leave the scene of the crime, Marc Antony plots his revenge and then carries it out through the... -
Answered a Question in The Comedy of Errors
There is some information about the characters in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors at the link listed below. However, I can provide some more in-depth information about a few of the... -
Answered a Question in Literature
There are a variety of different things a reader or audience member can infer about the characters based on whether they meet at a bus stop or at a cafe. Cafes attract a certain type of customer,... -
Answered a Question in The Masque of the Red Death
Poe's word choice is his first paragraph paints a gruesome picture of a horrible, painful, deadly experience known as the "Red Death." Words like devastated, fatal, horror, hideous and victim... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Antony achieves success but Shakespeare hints that this success may be short lived (as it was in real life--Octavius and Antony only joined forces to defeat Cassius and Brutus; when that was over,... -
Answered a Question in Dead Men's Path
There is one main conflict, and a variety of other, smaller conflicts that contribute to the main one. The obvious conflict is the external conflict that results when the Michael Obi's wife plants... -
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Montressor needs to make sure that his plan goes off without a hitch. If Montressor were to act indifferent to Fortunato's health, Fortunato may suspect that Montressor was up to no... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
Here are my top 10: 1. Publish a novel. 2. Have a family. 3. Visit Australia. 4. Learn Italian and visit Italy and Greece. 5. Donate a significant amount of money to... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
While I don't wish to speak in generality, I have found most modernist poetry inaccessible--that doesn't mean someone else wouldn't find it brilliant and amazing. There are several pieces of... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
This is one of Shakespeare's more famous sonnets and is thought to be part of the "Fair Youth" set of sonnet. It is believed Shakespeare was addressing a young man of whom he was... -
Answered a Question in Emily Dickinson
Dickinson continues her obsession with death in this poem, though she is not the narrator. In line 12 she says, "I used to when a boy." Here, she a boy who is merely an observer of a death that has... -
Answered a Question in Essays
You have a rather broad topic for a paper. You need to narrow it down to a specific focus within Early Childhood Education. There have been books written about Early Childhood... -
Answered a Question in Antigone
The sentry brings news to Creon that Creon's newest (and probably first) order as King of Thebes has been defied: someone has tried to bury the traitor Polynieces. Creon demands that... -
Answered a Question in Essays
Every thesis statement has three parts: a topic, a focus and an opinion. Your thesis is also dependent on what the assignment is and how long it is. I'm going to assume it's for a... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Cassius has had a complete character shift since the beginning of the play. Previously, he was bold, defiant of the gods and omens, and confident he knew what was right for Rome. In Act Four,... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Chapter One of To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill, a newcomer to Maycomb, is introduced to the people in Scout's world--Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia, and most importantly, the Radelys. Dill takes a... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Good question! There is one major conflict in Act Five, and that is the conflict between Cassius, Brutus and their army against Antony, Octavius and their army. Another conflict exists... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
If you're looking for a thesis statement for an essay, I would definitely check out the post above mine for some great answers. However, if you're looking for a main idea of the novel, or a theme,... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
You're asking a lot in this question, and I'm not sure if I'm clear what you're asking. I'll do my best to get your started with your answer. I'm not sure which characters you need to compare... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Brutus is a noble, well-respected senator in Rome. Even though Brutus sided against Caesar when Caesar fought with Pompey, Caesar gave Brutus a seat in the Senate. Caesar did this for... -
Answered a Question in In Cold Blood
Perry, 3 physical traits: 1. Perry has small, deformed legs and a muscular upper body as a result of a motorcycle accident. 2. He is bi-racial, half Irish and half Cherokee Indian.... -
Answered a Question in Slaughterhouse-Five
One of the main points of irony is that the men stay safe in a slaughterhouse, which is usually seen as a place of violent death. The usual place of death is like a womb or a tomb... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
This quote comes from Act III, scene ii of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. This is the beginning of Marc Antony's funeral speech. Brutus has just delivered his short, logical... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
There are a variety of answers to your question. When Cassius is persuasding Brutus to join his cause against Caesar, Cassius tells Brutus that Caesar is no better than any other man--so why... -
Answered a Question in Reference
A series of one-acts might be your answer. I'm a fan of David Ives--either All in the Timing or Time Flies (some would need to be edited for language, but certainly do-able.) The sets...
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