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DR. Heibegger' Experiment

                                  DR. Heibegger' Experiment

                                                              

                                 Nathaniel Hawthorne biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He starded writing shorts, and then began to write novels. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's bets-know novel. It made hom famous around the world. Hawthorne is one America's greatest writers.

Novels

• Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)
• The Scarlet Letter (1850)
• The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
• The Blithedale Romance (1852)
• The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, UK publication, same year)
• The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfinished)
• Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life (Published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1872)
• Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance (unfinished), with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne (1882)

Synopsis

The story began when Dr. Heidegger invited their fourth friends to come to his place. Later when  they arrived the doctor guided them to the laboratory. Then, in the laboratory  Dr Heidegger showed a vase with water and he told to them that liquid it was for making a person younger. After that talk, they drank the liquid and they become a younger people. Meanwhile, the doctor was telling to them don't  make the same mistakes that you do when you were young. Unfortunately, they did not listen to him and they spill all the water in the floor , nobody listened to Dr Heidegger and they did the same mistake and they became to be old again.

Characterization

Dr Heiderger   Strange old man, with white hair and bear, melancholy and wise.

Mr Medbourne  is a sad person, he was a rich and is greedy

Mr Gascon   is a sad person, he was famous politician and he is dishonest

Colonel Killigrew is a sad person, was once great soldier, he is alcoholic and he has a bad health

Widow Wycherly  is a sad person, she was once quite beautiful and is very conceited

 

My opinion

 From my point of view the story was totally interesting from the beginning to the end. In this story the characters have diferents personalitys ,but they have certain similarities. This story try to give an important message: even when we have another chance to do the the right things, we make the same mistake that we try to avoid in the past.

ANALYSIS 

Conflict present in the story:   

The conflict in this story was the liquid that made the person more and more younger

Rising action or most important events in the story sequence  

When they arrived  at the house.

When get into the laboratory.

When they drink the special liquid.

When Dr Heidegger talked to their friends about their mistakes.

When they were younger again and stared to fight. 

When they spill the liquid and when they were planning to go to that place who have that wonderful liquid.

Identification of the story’s climax  

When they were in the laboratory and Dr, Heidegger give to their firends the liquid for making they younger. 

Statement of the resolution

When they stopped to fight and looked to DR Heidegger and the doctor was holding the rose and later the rose star to shrink. They know that they became old again. After that  they stared to planning a travel to Florida to get that liquid

MORAL

The moral of this story was that even when a person have another chance for not doing the same mistake ,they do it.

Something Funny: Story Analysis

 Something Funny: Story Analysis

                              
Ms. van Steenwyk biography
Elizabeth Van Steenwyk was born in 1928. She grew up in illinois. She has written many books and more than 200 short stories. Some of he books have been made into movies and TV programs. One og her books, The Best Horse, became an award-winning film. Vsn Steenwyk now lives in California. She loves to write, and she also teaches writing. She tells her students If you want to be a writer.

 

A Traitor Among Us by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk (Jun 1999)

Mathew Brady: Civil War Photographer (First Books - Biographies) by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk (Sep 1997)

First Dog Fala by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk and Michael Montgomery (Sep 1, 2008)

Three Dog Winter by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk (Jan 12, 1999)

The California Gold Rush: West With the Forty-Niners (First Book) by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk (Jun 1991)

Frontier Fever: The Silly, Superstitious-And Sometimes Sensible-Medicine of the Pioneers by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk (Jun 1995)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Synopsis

 In the story were two characters, their names are Janey’s and Bill. They were dating for a few weeks but Janey’s was so bored to be with him, so she wanted to finish the relationship that they have between them. When he arrived and picked up Janey’s and then he told to her about dream that he had. Unfortunately for Bill, he did not know the real Janey’s have a third eye in his forehead.
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Analysis  
  Conflict present in the story: 

When Janey’s was tired of Bill

   Rising action or most important events in the story sequence

 

When Janey’s was tired of Bill

When Janey’s was talking with herself about Bill about her relationship

When Bill talked about his dream

   Identification of the story’s climax

 when Janey was tired of going out with Bill

   Statement of the resolution  
When Bill was surprised of janey because she had third eye 
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Characterization: 

BILL  he is bored and he likes movies like star wars

JANEY   she is impacient, she had a third eye in her forehade

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My opinion

In the beginning the story was bored, but then I thought that story wouldn’t have a good ending. Then the story became more interesting when Bill stared to tell the dream that he had. And finally when almost the story end Janey showed their third eye in his forehade.

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The Irony

When Bill was talking about his dream about aliens and result that Janey was one of them who had a third eye in his forehead