ELA-Author-Motif-OR

Author's Craft - Motif - Nonfiction - Online Resources
[|"The Sunless Sea"] by Rachel Carson from her book //The Sea Around Us// (1951)//.// DISCUS//, Encyclopedia Britannica Online Reference Center.// Biographical note and //Encyclopedia Britannica// Note adjacent available. The motif that our collective knowledge of ocean depths, where light does not penetrate, undergoes constant discovery that there is life and much more to learn, usually to mankind's shock and awe of such knowledge. Amazingly perceptive for the era of its printing.
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****[|"The Discovery of Radium"]** ** by Eve Curie from her title //Madame Curie.// DISCUS, //Encyclopedia Britannica Online Reference Center//. Biographical note on Eve who is daughter of Marie and Pierre. The motifs of optimism in the face of failure, of the misunderstanding of the capabilities of women in the field of science, and of complexities of the curious mind dominate this essay. **