How and why does "1984" use language as a method of influence? I need some help my essay is due this friday (22.05.09)

You'll want to
read this essay: ( ).  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm.  Orwell believed
(quite correctly, I think) that language not only reflects reality, but creates reality.   The
language that we use to describe something bears no intrinsic realtionship to the thing we think
it represents.  This may not be all that important when we talk about...

I have to write a 10-12 page report on Albert Speer. Any suggestions on what to write about or good sources?

Albert Speer
is known as the only man high up in the Nazi hierarchy who seemed to have admitted and
apologized for the wrongs he had done.  I would suggest that you base your report on that
idea.

Speer is perhaps best known for his book Inside the Third
Reich .  I would start with that as a source.  In it, he talks about all of the work
he did for Hitler and...

I'm doing a debate on whether racism still exists in the US today and I am arguing that it does. So, what would be some good points/examples that...

This is
an important topic. I agree with you that racism exists today, but it would be important to say
that we have made some great strides in this area. To make this statement shows that you are a
balanced person in your opinions. Now, here are some examples that racism exists
today. 

First, the Trevon Martin case might be a...

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Is it important to differentiate between "author" and "speaker" when reading poetry? why or why not?

The
difference between author and speaker in poetry is, in fact, essential to the creative writing
process authors use. Authors don't generally create poems as themselves--even highly personal,
lyric poems.  Authors naturally create a persona and write from a persona's point of view.  The
persona may be similar or different from the writer, but either way it is a persona. 

Most of the time, the creation of a persona is a necessity, and natural to the writing
process.  Poems are highly artificial, even though spontaneity in appearance may be the goal. 
Endless decisions go into the writing of a poem.  The writer starts with the countless material
that could go into a poem, narrows it down and rearranges the raw material into a work of art. 
This must be done from an extremely narrow point of view, or the poem will never end.  This
narrow, limited point of view is the persona.  The persona may be one, narrow part of the
writer's personality, but it is still only one part.  Of course, the persona may not reflect the
writer at all, either, but instead be an exploration unrelated to the writer's own
personality.

Often, this is obvious, and you probably differentiate between
the author and writer more than you think.  You wouldn't read the anonymous
Beowulf  and assume the writer really witnessed the story, would you?  The
poem is a creation, a work of art. 

No one assumes T. S. Eliot is the speaker
of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."  Prufrock is the speaker of his love song. 
The narrative is fictional, not autobiographical (though, of course, it may contain
autobiographical elements). 

One can't read poetry and assume everything in
it is actual or real, autobiographical.  Most isn't.  Poems are highly artificial artistic
creations. 

Perhaps, the intensely lyrical (personal) romantic poets might
provide you with a starting place if you want to study poetry in which little separation exists
between the author and speaker.  Perhaps.  Certainly Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
purports to be autobiographical, and may come as close to being so as any poem.  Yet, it is a
highly polished work of art fully "arranged" by the artist.  Strictly speaking, one
would say Wordsworth is the speaker of his poem.  Yet, as a critic, you should possess a healthy
skepticism regarding the poem.  The order of events, the interpretation of events, the slant the
events are given, etc., should not necessarily be accepted as anything other than a work of
art.  In other words, the acceptance of an author as the speaker doesn't mean everything in the
poem is real or actual.   

Finally, the failure to recognize that a writer is
not necessarily the speaker in a poem can lead to misinterpretation.  You ask if it's important
to differentiate.  Yes.  If there is no difference, the freedom to explore an idea a writer
doesn't agree with is taken away from that writer.   Sophisticated literature reveals human
existence, but it can't do that if every idea that appears in a work of art is attributed to the
writer by readers.   

How does "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte demonstrate the use of local color?

 

The local color writer paints a picture of a particular area or period by using
picturesque characteristics or peculiarities. Its purpose is to capture a feeling and evoke that
feeling in the reader.  The subject of the stories usually conveyed a theme of universality
through their characters and plot lines.

was a California local colorist.
His stories came from his firsthand knowledge of living around the mining camps while working on
newspaper articles.  He saw the life styles of the miners and the women that were on the fringes
of their lives.

Self-educated, Harte drew from literary sources including the
Bible and the great English writers to serve as a guide and influence on his writing. His
writing brought the Gold Rush to the other half of the United States and possible enticed more
than his share of men searching for Eldorado.

performs as a perfect example
of local color.  The men are caricatures of stereotypical men.  The one woman in...

How did World War I change Western governments and societies (particularly in politics, economies, and the way people lived)?

had a
massive impact on Western society. It drastically impacted the economies and lifestyles of many
people throughout Europe and the Americas. One of the biggest results was a sense of nihilistic
existentialism, which led many young peoplethose who had served in the war and those who had
lost friends in the warto act more impulsively, leading to the Flapper lifestyles and the
Roaring 20s.

Additionally, the Industrial complex that had been built up to
provide resources during the war continued along during this time period, promoting wealth and
spending, but without much regulation. This led to two major developmentsone of which was the
eventual Great Depression. The second development, however, was a wealth of monopolies
developing in various industries. Both of these things prompted the government to step in and
become more involved in industry and business, which was uncommon prior to that time. Anti-trust
and anti-monopoly laws were created, and Roosevelt...

What are some different passages that reveal what the villagers fear and most want in "The Scarlet Letter"?

The first
two chapters of " " have the longest
passages describing the villagers of Boston. In
the first chapter, Hawthorne
paints a picture of a town that sincerely wants to be is a utopia,
but it has
found it must built both a prison and a cemetery.Thus, both sin, which the
Puritans
feared and death, which was inevitable, were active in the village.
In the second chapter, the
reason for the Puritans fear of sin is revealed
during the...

In "A Christmas Carol", explain carefully how Bob Cratchit refers to Scrooge. What does he say?

Bob Cratchit
has every reason to hate and despise Scrooge. Scrooge is rich but the poor clerk has to warm his
frozen fingers over a candle, which doesn't work well. Scrooge begrudges having to pay Bob for
one day off a year. He also doesn't pay Cratchit enough to even begin to imagine affording
medical treatments for his poor disabled son, Tiny Tim, who will die without help.

All the same, Bob speaks of Scrooge with a generosity of spirit that is a marked
contrast to Scrooge's hard, withered personality. He refuses to speak poorly of his employer,
preferring to toast Scrooge for providing the wages that paid for the family's modest Christmas
feast. When he can't find anything good to say and can't contradict his wife's hard words, he
says nothing at all, focusing instead on it being Christmas Day. He says, twice, in response to
her critique of Scrooge, "Christmas Day."

Bob's refusal to be
unkind reflects the Christmas spirit that the Ghost of Christmas Present has sprinkled liberally
on his poor home. 

 

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, one of the party slogans is, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the...

It's not
enough that the Party controls the
lives of its citizens; it has to control what they think. And
one way in
which the Party does this is by rewriting the past. In Oceania, history is what
the
Party says it is. 's job in the Ministry of Truth involves doctoring
historical photos and texts
to fit in with the Party's propaganda narrative.
This is just a small, but significant part of
the regime's ceaseless efforts
to legitimize its continuing rule. On a daily basis, the Party
hammers home
the message that life's so much better now than it used to be and that there can
be
no going back.

In controlling the past in this way, the
Party also controls
the future, or to be more precise, the future
expectations of Oceania's citizens. For most
people in Oceania, the rule of
the Party is all they know. Among other things, this means that
they lack the
imagination to envisage a future without the Party in control, without Big

Brother's stern portrait staring down at them from everywhere. All aspects of a
citizen's
beingtheir past, present, and futureare thus controlled by the
Party, the better to consolidate
its iron grip on power.

What is Tom Robinson guilty of in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In
, Tom Robinson is not guilty of anything. He is accused, by Bob and Mayella
Ewell, of raping Mayella. But it seems abundantly clear that Mayella and Bob are lying and that
Tom is completely innocent of any crime. Whenquestions Bob Ewell on the stand, he makes it clear
to note that Mayella had a wound on her right eye and had wounds all around her neck. Therefore,
it would be more likely that someone with two good working hands who is also left-handed was
likely to be the attacker. Bob Ewell is left-handed with two good working hands. Tom has only
one good working hand, his right, and his left hand is basically useless due to an accident with
a cotton gin. Given the testimony and this evidence and the fact that it was well known that Bob
beat his children, including Mayella, it is fairly clear that Bob was probably Mayella's
attacker and that she conspired with Bob to blame Tom for everything, knowing that a black man
in 1930s Maycomb was likely to get convicted in spite of any evidence that might suggest his
innocence. 

Tom gives his side of the story. He notes that he was trying to
help Mayella because he felt sorry for her. The all white jury, with their racist conditioning,
could not believe or accept that a black man could or should feel sorry for a white girl. Tom
added that Mayella tried to kiss him. When he resisted, Bob Ewell happened to walk in and
threatened Mayella, calling her a whore. In the end, the jury had Atticus' compelling logic
(which pointed to Bob as the attacker) and beyond that it was Tom's word against Mayella's and
Bob's. The jury let themselves be blinded by their prejudices and convicted Tom. 

Discussing the guilty verdict, Atticus tries to explain towhy the jury convicted an
innocent man: 

If you had been on that jury, son, and
eleven other boys like you, Tom would be a free man, said Atticus. So far nothing in your life
has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life,
Toms jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night
in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didnt go as reasonable men, they went
because we were there. Theres something in our world that makes men lose their headsthey couldnt
be fair if they tried. In our courts, when its a white mans word against a black mans, the white
man always wins. Theyre ugly, but those are the facts of life. 

Determine what are the most important issues/events of the period from 1945 to 1961 pertaining to the conflict in Southeast Asia/Vietnam War.

During the
period of turmoil from 1945 to 1961
in Vietnam, many key events transpired that ultimately led
to the involvement
of the United States and a full scale war in the region. We will summarize

these below, and then you can select what you feel are the most important of these for
the
purpose of answering the question.

In early 1945,
World War II was still
going on, and the Japanese military occupied
Indochina. The Japanese overthrew the French
authorities and granted
independence to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. However, in August, the
Allies
defeated Japan, and France began to move back in to reassert control. In September,
Ho
Chi Ming, the leader of the Indochinese Communist Party, imitating the
American Declaration of
Independence, proclaimed that North Vietnam was an
independent country.

France rejected Vietnam's claim to
independence, offering only limited self-rule. As a
result, in 1946, the Viet
Ming began to wage guerilla warfare against the French.

In
1947, US President Harry Truman announced the Truman Doctrine. According to
this
policy, the United States would come to the aid of any
communist-threatened country. This
doctrine would become important in the
years ahead as the United States became more involved in
Vietnam.

In 1950, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was formally recognized

by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. These countries began to send
military
and economic assistance to the communist North Vietnamese. In
response, the United States sent
more aid to the French.

In 1954, the French were decisively defeated at the
Battle of Dien
Bien Phu. This weeks-long battle resulted in the capture of 8,000 French

prisoners by the Viet Ming. Over half the prisoners died as they were marched to prison
camps.
This marked the end of French control in Vietnam and the French soon
withdrew their forces. At
the Geneva Conference in July, the country was
divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam at
the 17th parallel. US
President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed his domino theory, which posited

that the fall of Indochina to communism would cause other countries in the region to
fall as
well. United States policy would be guided by this during the war to
come.

In
1959, the Ho Chi Ming Trail was built through
Laos and Cambodia as a supply route for North
Vietnamese soldiers. In the
same year, the first US soldiers were killed during a North
Vietnamese raid
in Saigon.

In 1961, using the domino theory as a
guideline,
US President John F. Kennedy increased United States involvement
in the region by sending 400
Green Berets and some helicopters.

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Who is the narrator of the story? Use textual evidence to support the answer.

The narrator of the story is the one from
whose perspective or point of view the story is told. A literary description of point of view
usually also includes identifying from which person's perspective the author wrote the story.
The story "," is told from the first person point of view in the mother's voice. We
know this because of the use of first person indicative words such as my and I.

The narrator of the story "Charles" is his mother. The story is told from
this perspective. The reader experiences all the events of the story as seen or understood by
the mother. The use of words such as "my son" when she refers to Laurie, are evidence
of this. Further text evidence includes the following quotes:

"The day my son Laurie started kindergarten, he renounced corduroy
overalls..."

"I asked again, but Laurie slid off his chair, took a
cookie, and left..."

"My husband came to the door with me as I set
out for the P.T.A. meeting."

What is the role of women in Oedipus Rex?

As well
as , we also have the ordinary women of Thebes. At the start of the play, they go to the palace
to plead withto end their suffering. The terrible plague afflicting the city has wiped out
entire families, and the women are desperate for Oedipus to do something, anything, to lift this
abominable curse. What this episode illustrates is that women in Ancient Greece were confined to
a limited role in life, as mothers, daughters, and sisters. It's in such capacities that the
Theban women approach Oedipus for help.

Oedipus's adopted mother, Merope,
shows herself to be as unwilling to face up to the truth as Jocasta. She had an opportunity to
tell Oedipus about his real parentage when he asked her but declined to do so, as she was
reluctant to defy fate....

In Kindred by Octavia Butler, why does Rufus want to kill himself in "The Fire"?

Rufus wanted to kill himself because his father beat him.

Rufuss father can sometimes be uncaring and cruel.  Rufus
respects some things about him, such as his apparent honesty, but
is afraid of him and hates him.  His father beats him harshly, and does not seem to care whether
he lives or dies. 

The boy had his back to me and hadnt
noticed me yet.  He held a stick of wood in one hand and the end of the stick was charred and
smoking. (p. 19)

In anger, Rufus uses a stick to set
fire to the drapes in his bedroom in the middle of the night.  This action puts his
life...

How does Blanche's desperation to be the dominant figure eventually result in the tragedy that befalls her in A Streetcar Named Desire?

Blanche DuBois
represents a desire to cling to a romanticized pasther own and that of the aristocratic South.
She was raised on a plantation called Belle Reve, but she has come down in the world so much
that she needs to rely on her sister, Stella, who lives in a run-down apartment in New Orleans.
When Blanche first arrives at Stella's apartment, Blanche says the following:

Oh, I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly
critical about it! Never, never, never in my worst dreams could I pictureOnly Poe! Only Mr.
Edgar Allan Poe!could do it justice!

Blanche finds her
straightened circumstances as horrific as living in a Poe story. Later, she finds Stella's
husband, Stanley, repellent for his crude, working-class ways. Instead of adjusting herself to
reality, she continues to look for a romantic ideal. She searches for these ideals in part by
trying to seduce men, and she also lives in a world of pretense and daydreams.

By trying to dominate her situation this way and by trying to ineffectively control
reality, she finds herself helpless. In the end, she is reduced to mental illness after Stanley
rapes her. In part from failing to deal effectively with the reality in which she finds herself,
she loses her mind.

Compare the love that Romeo feels for Juliet to the love that he felt for Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet.

To compare
means noting similarity and difference. In the case of 's different loves forand Rosaline, I
find some surprising similarities.

Romeo may have indeed been driven by two
things for both ladies when all was said and done: physical appearance and attainability.
Rosaline had beauty beyond measure (until Romeo met Juliet), yet she had this feature that made
her unattainable, she wanted to be a nun. Thus, dating and sex were not an option for her. This
usually makes a girl less attractive. I almost wonder...

What are the characterestics of poetry?

What a broad question!
There are many different characteristics of poetry. The characteristics change based upon the
period from which the poet comes from, the form the poet chooses to write in, the
poetic/literary devices the poet chooses to use, and the rhyme or meter the poet chooses to
depict.

Depending upon what genre you are looking at, one poet within a
movement can differ greatly from another. Not only do poets within a movement differ, poets in
different genres differ greatly as well.

That being said, there are some
characteristics that are typical to many poems.

Poetic devices- Many poets use poetic devices within...

How long have Faith and Goodman Brown been married?

Faith
and Goodman Brown have not been married long.  The text says three months.  

What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but
three months married?"

Even without that direct
textual evidence, the reader could probably figure out that Faith and Goodman Brown have not
been married for very long.  First, the title of the story specifically tells readers that
Goodman Brown is young.  The text also says that Faith is "his young wife." I assume
that somebody who is young and married could not have been married for more
than a few years.  

The opening paragraphs and dialogue between Goodman Brown
and Faith give even further evidence that they are quite recent newlyweds.  

"Dearest heart," whispered she, softly and rather sadly,
when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep
in your own bed to-night.

That's a "come
hither" line and the body language speaks volumes about her desire to be physically near
her husband.  It's not that older married couples can't or don't feel this way about each other;
it's just that part screams newlywed to me.  There are usually jokes surrounding newlyweds,
because they can't keep their hands off of each other.  The above line hints at that kind of
relationship.  

What of the writer's life can we see in "Araby" by James Joyce?

The
overarching theme in "" is stagnation, and this theme is a particularly important one
for. As a boy, Joyce watched as his family disintegrated, brought down by his father's love of
rowdiness, drink, and generally not working. Like so many other Irishmen suffering the
oppression of English rule, Joyce's father seemed to have little motivation to...

What does the old man mean when he says that treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents, and...

The
quote is meant to emphasize the duality of everything.  It's reminiscent of a Yin and Yang style
of thought.  The flowing water is neither bad nor good.  It simply is, but it has the power or
ability to affect the world in ways that could be interpreted as positive or negative.  The
water has the ability to uncover the treasure and cover the treasure.  

The
story of the miner is the exact same illustration except the old man uses stones instead of
water.  In the story, a miner has been looking for a beautiful emerald for five years.  He is
ready to give up.  Out of frustration he throws a rock at another rock.  The second rock splits
open to reveal the emerald.  

But he had thrown it with
such force that it broke the stone it fell upon, and there, embedded in the broken stone, was
the most beautiful emerald in the world.

The story shows
how the emerald was hidden by rocks, and how it was revealed with rocks.  It shows a duality of
rocks. 

The point of both stories is the same.  The old man is emphasizing to
Santiago the importance of staying vigilant and watching out for the omens that will show him to
his treasure.  

In order to find the treasure, you will
have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read
the omens that he left for you.

What is the central conflict of "Good Country People"? What is the resolution?

Two
kinds of conflict could be considered central, and they play out in different ways.

The first type is an internal conflict within Joy or Hulga. The conflict is represented
by her having two names. The young woman does not know who she is. She has tried to become her
authentic self by moving away, going to school, and changing her name. The conflict is also
symbolized by her physical disability: losing a part of her body is another aspect of losing
part of herself. As she loses the artificial leg as well, this conflict is not
resolved.

The other conflict is external and social. Hulga's conflict with
her mother represents her desire to function as an adult person: her mother stands for all of
society, the "good" people of the title who reject the woman's efforts to grow up and
be an independent, sexually active adult.

Although Hulga chooses to have a
sexual encounter with the appropriately named Manley, and thus temporarily wins over her
repressive mother, she ultimately fails when he...

What is the point of view of the the poem "Annabel Lee"?

"" is
written in the first person. Poe refers to himself, and to himself as part of the couple.
"We loved with a love..." etc. When the author refers to himself or herself in writing
as "me", "I", "we" etc., the work is in first person. If he had
talked about Annabel Lee and her lover as "they", that would be third person--the
author would have removed himself from participation in the poem.

What role did Rosaline play in Romeo and Juliet?

Rosaline
performs a similar function in the play forasdoes for : a second love interest. At the
beginning, we see Romeo in love with Rosaline, idealizing her and lamenting that she will not
accept his love. These feelings, which he claims to be so sincere at the beginning, are
contrasted to the way that he falls in love with Juliet later in the play.

One could argue that Rosaline's role is to show that he did not feel true love until he
met Juliet, and that anything that came before was merely infatuation. It could also be
interpreted to suggest that Romeo's love is easily changed, as he meets Juliet so soon after
declaring his love for another woman.

In answer to someone who thought the plays ending was a happy one, Lorraine Hansberry retorted: "I invite him to come live in one of the...

In
rejecting the idea of a happy ending,was both encouraging readers and viewers to understand her
play within the broader context of social changes in the 1950s and emphasizing that she did not
intend the play as a conventionalin which the loose ends are neatly tied up. The play is within
the realm ofin that many of the questions that arise in the play remain unanswered, and many of
the conflicts remain unresolved. The single act of moving to a safer neighborhood would not
answer or resolve all those things.

Regarding the specific issue of African
American families living in white neighborhoods, Hansberry drew on her own and her familys
experience in Chicagos Washington Park neighborhood. She wrote of this part of their lives in
her autobiography, . In addition, attacks on black families in such
situations were...

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What obstacles do Romeo and Juliet face?

The most
obvious and significant obstacle faced byis the feud between their two families. This feud means
that their respective parents will never agree to a marriage between them, and it also means
that if the families find out about their relationship, more "civil blood" might be
spilled in anger. Accordingly,andhave to conduct their relationship in secret.

Another significant obstacle that Romeo and Juliet face is fate, or destiny. We are
told immediately, in thewhich opens the play, that their love is "death-marked" and
"fatal." There are also reminders...

Identity a major event where Elies father demonstrates resistance in order to save his and Elies life?Was this resistance successful? Why or why...

In
his book href="">Night,
author href="">Elie
Wiesel writes about the horrors of the World War II death camps. On the trip to the
camp, Elies father saves his life:

I felt two hands on my
throat, trying to strangle me. I barely had time to call out: "Father!" Just that one
word. I was suffocating. But my father had awakened and grabbed my aggressor. Too weak to
overwhelm him, he thought of calling Meir Katz: "Come, come quickly! Someone is strangling
my son!" In a few moments, I was freed.

Although
perhaps not as heroic, there are many other instances when the father protects Elie or
sacrifices for him or even tries to be brave for Elies sake. All these actions contribute to
Elie's ability to survive the camps. For instance, when another prisoner strikes Wiesels father,
Elie writes:

All I could think was: I shall never forgive
them for this. My father must have guessed my thoughts, because he whispered in my ear: "It
doesn't hurt." His cheek still bore the red mark of the hand.

The father does not want to scare Elie and so he tells him that his cheek does not hurt
even though it is clear that the blow was hard. On other occasions when Elie wants to rest, his
father intercedes and rallies all of his strength to help his son:

My father shook me. "Not here€¦Get up €¦ A little farther down. He also tells
Elie, "Don't let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It's dangerous to fall asleep in
snow. One falls asleep forever. Come, my son, come€¦Get up."€¦I got up, with clenched
teeth. Holding on to me with one arm, he led me outside. It was not easy.

Elies father also gives his son his food to help him keep his
strength. When Elie gulps his pitiful dinner down, his father says, "You mustn't eat all at
once. Tomorrow is another day €¦ " But seeing that his advice had come too late, and that
there was nothing left of my ration, he didn't even start his own. "Me, I'm not
hungry," he said. On another occasion, "My father had a present for me: a half ration
of bread, bartered for something he had found at the depot..."

When the
father is too sick to continue and has given up hope, he gives Elie whatever he has on
him:

"Here, take this knife," he said. "I
won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go
ahead, take what I'm giving you!"

While he probably
does not view his father as a hero, Elie both loves and pities him. Elies father deluded himself
initially. When it was still possible to escape Hungary, Elies father had refused. Yet, Elie
loves his father throughout. Unlike Rabbi Eliahu's son, who turned his back on his father, Elie
writes:

"And in spite of myself, a prayer formed
inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. "Oh God, Master of the
Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done."

I need activities for high school students involving connotation and denotation of words. I need activities for high school students involving...

Looking at slang terms
can also be helpful in teachingand . "Cool", "hot", "awesome",
"sucks", or even "bees knees" can each be used to show how phrases take on
multiple meanings.

i want a new ,different and appropriate ending for the poem frog and the nightingale in which nightingale is justified as a gullible creature.

This
is the original ending to the
poem:

"Said the frog:
"I tried to teach
her,
But she was a stupid creature

-
Far too nervous, far too tense.
Far too prone
to
influence.
Well, poor bird - she
should have
known
That your song must
be your
own.
That's why I sing with panache: />"Koo-oh-ah! ko-ash!
ko-ash! "
And the foghorn of the
frog
Blared unrivalled through the
bog."

I cannot understand why you wish for an ending

in which the "nightingale is justified as a gullible creature", since the ending
above
more than supports that idea. The frog states that "she was a stupid
creature ..." and
"Far too prone to influence".

These
statements prove that the
nightingale was gullible. She trusted the frog too
easily and took him at his word, believing
everything he said and even
feeling flattered that he, such an 'iconic' figure, should take an
interest
in her and agree to help her improve her skill.

The frog
suggests
that she should have had more confidence in her abilities and should
not have allowed herself to
be so easily misled: '... she should have known
that your song must be your own."

Maybe you could replace
the word "stupid" in the original version with
"gullible" - which would
obviously make it clear that she was naive.

As a
suggestion, the poem could end as follows, which would, I hope, clarify the

matter:

"Said the frog, "In
my
attempts to teach her,

I
found her a most
gullible creature.

She believed everything I

said, 

and because of that, she now
is
dead.

The sad truth is,
she should have
known

that
everything you believe must be your
own."

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the inequality of the sexes.

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knows it! This may be an example of the thousand injuries Montresor has suffered at Fortunato's
hands. Fortunato is being disingenuous. Montresor reacts by inventing just the kind of coat of
arms and motto he would like to have. The coat of arms is bizarre. Fortunato should understand
that, if he were not drunk. He probably doesn't understand the motto either, because it is in
Latin and Montresor knows Fortunato is not well educated.

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questions in the cunning expectation of hurting Montresor's feelings by forcing him to admit
that he doesn't have a coat of arms or a family motto because he is not upper class but a
commoner and a johnny-come-lately to Italy. Montresor describes his coat of arms as:

A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a
serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.

And the motto?

Nemo me impune lacessit.

Good! he
said.

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too appropriate. The idea of a "huge human foot in gold" on a shield is comical, like
something that might have been created by Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali. Fortunato thinks he is
kidding Montresor. But he is too drunk to understand that Montresor is kidding him. He probably
doesn't understand the implicit threat in the motto because he doesn't know Latin, but he
pretends to understand when he says "Good!" and quickly drops the subject. 

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relationship between these two men. Fortunato is socially superior and treats Montresor with
veiled discourtesy. Montresor puts up with Fortunato's little "digs" and snubs because
he benefits financially from their "friendship." Fortunato is rich and Montresor is
poor. Montresor is retaliating on Fortunato in this underground scene because he is through with
the man and knows he is as good as dead.

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whole cargo for himself. That is, assuming the wine really existed and were really genuine
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