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Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II Hamlet and The Stranger Dialectical Portfolio Part 1: Use of the death of a parent Hamlet : Father is dead Learn much about the character because of it Spurs him into action The Stranger : Mother is dead Learn much about the character because of it Forces him into action     In both Hamlet  and The Stranger , the main characters experience the death of a parent early in the novel to introduce the readers to their characters and spur them into action.     Hamlet opens around two months after the titular character's father has died. Hamlet's first introduction illustrates that the event still heavily plagues Hamlet. Reflecting on what has happened, he laments " Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, t haw, and resolve itself into a dew,  or that the Everlasting had not fixed h is canon 'gainst self-slaughter!"(Shakespeare 129-132). Hamlet feels useless due to his inability to fix his sadness or s...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II November 3, 2021 How our relationships with others can help us Danticat uses the characters' relationships in The Dew Breaker in order to illustrate how people can be changed by their relationships with others. The main example of this comes from the relationship of the titular character (known as Papa) and his family. Through the first and last chapters, "The Book of the Dead" and "The Dew Breaker", we learn about Papa's past. He was a horrible man who took pleasure in carrying out terrible missions for a terrifying government. He used his power and influence to get what he wanted and killed any who got in his way. Danticat uses his actions and his physical appearance to characterize him as a monster. By the time we see him in "The Book of the Dead", he is a completely changed man. He is soft-spoken, and visually disturbed by violence. After he explains the truth of his past to his daughter, she is conf...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II   Poetic Notes Poem #1: "The War Photographer" by Carol Anne Duffy Thesis + Outline: Duffy juxtaposes gruesome imagery with the photographer's perspective to illustrate how one is able to become desensitized to violence through constant witnessing of it. Duffy uses violent imagery to convey the horrors witnessed by the photographer. "fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat"(11-12) "blood stained into foreign dust"(18) These lines show the reader what the photographer sees everyday The strong visuals help to align the reader's perspective with that of the photographer. The photographer's mannerisms are shown in contrast to the horrid events he sees. "Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now"(7-8). In the moment of witnessing the violence, the photographer had no distinct reaction to it, shown by hi...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II October 7 2021   "The Dew Breaker" Important Character Web

   Senior Year Assignment 3      Trauma, Innocence, Characters, Communication, In, Theme Works Cited   House, Random. Dew Breaker . Alfred A Knopf, 2004.

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II September 28 2021 Assignment 3: Paper 1 Add-on

  Daniel Arcega Mr. Emerick IB English HL I Year I (None of the below links work) Junior Year MP 4 Index May 20 | Daniel Arcega The House On Mango Street Chp. 1 (In) Esperanza's House Sandra Cisneros,Coming-of-Age,In,The House on Mango Street,Identity, The House on Mango Street Three Core Concepts Sandra Cisneros,Connections & Relationships,Coming-of-Age,In,Global Issues,Authorial Choice,Characters,Thematic Topics,The House on Mango Street,Identity,Creativity,Power, The Assault Episode 2 (In) Creative Writing Transformation,Symbolism,In,Authorial Choice,Characters,Youth,Thematic Topics,Trauma,Creativity,Perspective,The Assault,Education,Theme,Henry Mulisch,Identity,Memories,Word Choice, The Assault Episode 1(In) Darkness VS Light Perspective,The Assault,Symbolism,In,Characters,Authorial Choice,Theme,Youth,Trauma,Harry Mulisch,Creativity, The Assault Entire Novel (In) Three Core Concepts & Connections Authorial Choice,Beliefs & Values,Cha...