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//** Many of these thesis statements are still being adjusted.**// In “The Ferryer” by Sharon Olds and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson both poets focus on death however they portray death differently through the encounter the speakers have with death. ||  In Heat and Dust, Ruth Jhabvala uses the contrast between the lives of two parallel characters, Anne and Olivia, to show India's strong influence to them, eventually causing them to distance from their original culture and people, and even to stay in India for good.   ||
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 * **Students** || **Thesis Statement (create link with appropriate title)** //Be sure not to entitle the page with the same name of another already created page.// ||
 * Andrew || 
 * Angus ||  Although they seem distant and somewhat separated from the events on stage, minor characters such as Alberta, Gabriel, and Raynell prove to be external representations of parts of Troy's character, and more importantly, unbeknownst to them, act as catalysts for the destruction of his relationships. ||
 * Henry ||  Henry Fagg - 83833221 ||
 * Jacky || In August Wilson's Fences, baseball was a prominent component of Troy's life and gave him hope and strength in his youth, but failure in the sport later became a stubborn barrier that blinded Troy from the signs of a better life for African Americans and ultimately, baseball turned into an escape for Troy's disappointing and stagnant life. ||
 * Jerome ||  In Ruth Jhabvala's Heat and Dust, both Harry and Chid, foreigners of India are both destroyed by its culture, either by religion or other values and norms.Although they are both "destroyed" in the end, both characters both fall due to different aspects of culture and how they cannot adapt fully to the environment. ||
 * Jimmy ||  In the Poem "Church Going" by Philip Larkin, Larkin expresses his distaste for the present church as well as the trivialization of religion in modern society. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">John || In August Wilson’s Fences, the general function of dreams and how the dreams of characters reflect their personality traits and explains the reasoning behind their prejudice and their many actions that drive the plot forward with a focus on Troy. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Linda || <span style="font-size: 50%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="wiki_link">  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Neville || In the novel Heat and Dust, Ruth Jhabvala uses the presence of heat and dust to represent the stress and effects India has on characters and the relationships between characters. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Niu Niu || In the novel Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, characters are often unable to accept the reality in which they find themselves in. Thus characters deliberately create illusion to escape such brutal truths. Jhabvala then is able to emphasize the contrast between the characters that are able to accept reality and those that cannot. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Roy || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> In August Wilson’s Fences, storytelling functions in the play as a catharsis for Troy and his only way of expressing his emotions while maintaining his tough and manly image. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Vickie || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The parallelism of actions, events, and tension among each of the son and father relationshipsintroduced in the play suggest that the father has an everlasting and empowering affect on their sons regardless of the son's actions; the fathers' actions are reflected from their own fathers and upon their sons, creating a cycle of similar actions that the father and son both undergo.