Throughout the novel “Of Mice and Men,” Steinbeck uses the character, Crooks to mirror the racial discrimination in the 1930s in America. During this time Black Americans went through a horrible time. Despite Steinbeck’s beliefs, he does not write for or against racism but rather writes about the harsh reality that they had to live through. As a reader we...
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The American Dream is the hope that anyone can earn success if they work hard enough. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, the main character James Gatz believes that achieving the American Dream requires making money. Fitzgerald illustrates for the reader an image of Gatsby's struggle to obtain the approval and acceptance of high society and to earn the same...
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The Marxist way of reading looks at texts from the political perspective of struggles between those who have power and those who don't. These theories are based on Karl Marx's as he believed that the Western capitalist system was designed to increase the wealth of the rich and subsequently oppress the poor. Maya Angelou's poems can be seen to follow...
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The 1960s was an intense time, practically intolerable for individuals of various social foundations, additionally, what made these circumstances difficult and the going gets unpleasant was the Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Black people groups and people that endeavored to resist Jim Crow laws were frequently met...
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All stories have multiple elements. In Telltale Heart, literary learners not only have a deeper understanding of the essence of the story through the five elements but also a deeper understanding of the reason why Edgar Allan Poe created this story. By spending time and energy digging into details, background, relevant historical background, and author biographies, people begin to see...
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A key theme of the short story is mental health. The narrator struggles with his sanity. He begins by asking the reader directly, 'How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.' this then leads into a paragraph that essentially says that he is going to kill an old man...
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Although it is a fictional story written over half a century ago, many of the ideas and aspects of George Orwell’s 1984 exist in real life today, including in the War on Terrorism. 1984 is a novel about a world in which a totalitarian government controls the thoughts and actions of citizens and uses brainwashing techniques to keep them in...
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In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, He shares his experiences that we can learn more about and understand and he guides us through his daily life. For Beah, his childhood is not very pleasant and he encountered the horrors of war, loss of innocence, and how humans can change given the circumstances they endure. Throughout the...
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel written in late 1890s, explains about Edna Pontellier as she sheds the parts of herself that are dictated by societal expectations and uncovers her true self and defines freedom in sexual passion and artistic expression but she also finds that refusing to conform to accepted women's roles has a downside at Madame...
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First of all, it should be noted that despite many differences, the 1956 film adaptation remained true, faithful to the main ideas and themes of the original story. In the 1956 film adaptation, we have a dark scene with cold colors. Thus, black, grey, and white are the dominant colors. (There is a monochromatic scheme). Moreover, the lighting of the...
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When comparing two books written by the same author, it is expected that you will be able to pick up on the authors' special technique to make each of their books as intriguing as possible. This cannot be said about Truman Capote and his books “In Cold Blood,” and “Breakfast at Tiffanys.” When writing these books Capote was not just...
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Mr Charrington placed his battered old wig and spectacles on the bench in front of him. He sighed inaudibly as he jerked the seat towards him and sat down directly in front of the telescreen. It was quite obvious that he was no longer the same person. He then roused himself and sat up straighter as he turned the telescreen...
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Moreover, it explains that Santiago still needs the community, the individual who shares and supports the same idea, in his decision-making process. Santiago’s choice to be a shepherd illustrates that Santiago has the freedom to choose. The freedom is entailed by his responsibility, to enjoy his days as a shepherd. However, this decision sets him apart from his family. This...
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Does a man who brutally murdered four humans-for the sole reason that he had the power to-deserve any ounce of sympathy? “In Cold Blood”, Truman Capote uses “pathos” to appeal to the emotions of the readers about the two murderers, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Capote certainly sympathizes with and portrays one of the cold-blooded murderers in a positive light...
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Christine de Pizan, a prominent moralist and political thinker, defends the excellence and good virtue of women in her book City of Ladies. It is through this book that she wants to underline the critical roles women play within society which are commonly forgotten or not acknowledged with the help of the three virtues: Reason, Rectitude, and Justice. Christine tackles...
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The Time Traveler started his story at the time when he finished his time machine. “I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.” (Wells 15). He is very nervous since he is the test subject of his creation, here as observed that human...
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It is often said that certain literary works and characters within such works represent real-world issues. In the work The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Gatsby is shrouded in ambiguity to the reader, providing them with a possibility for personal interpretation. In the work, Gatsby’s character develops from a character representing materialism and a fixation on...
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The Tell-Tale Heart is a story that indicates that one man’s fear and guilt can drive him insane. This is a story about a caretaker who has had enough of an old man’s eye. His diseased mind thinks that the old man’s eye, which he likens to that of a “vulture eye; it was pale blue with a thick film...
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Ishiguro's psychologically complicated works draw on the subculture of the realist novel. He counts such authors as Charlotte Bronte, Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky among his literary influences. Ishiguro identifies as a worldwide writer. He does not see his work as a section of a Japanese literary tradition and has referred to the that he is more influenced...
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Lord of the Flies is set during a war; Golding may have got this idea as he was in a war himself. The boys are being evacuated, when the plane crashes on the island. After the boys get out it is washed out to sea. 'He glanced around the scar ', this is the first thing that Ralph sees when...
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Dark places by Gillian Flynn and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, similarly use symbolism to discuss major themes within the novel such as the American dream, memory and true crime through the use of narrative of crime events. Symbolism and figurative imagery is used within both texts as a voice to express the writer's inner thoughts, commenting on themes...
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Mindstyle refers to the term coined by Roger Fowler, in 1977, which referred to any distinctive linguistic representation of an individual mental self, whether of a character, narrator, or implied author. The impression of a mindstyle is usually cumulatively conveyed through consistent linguistic choices which together cut the narrated world to a distinctive cognitive pattern. To first discuss the particular...
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Stylistic analysis has a great role in understanding the importance of the literary elements as well as the linguistic contents in literary text. An attempt is made in the current paper to stylistically analyze the literary elements used in the concerned short story. Introduction Stylistic analysis is of great importance to know how language functions in a text. It provides...
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The book begins with an introduction by the author. While it is not part of the actual story, it is worth looking into because it describes the author’s thoughts and comments on his success and the true meaning of the book and its application to his life. The Prologue introduces the alchemist and tells a new version of the Greek...
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In the 1872 novella Carmilla and the 1897 novel Dracula, both Le Fanu and Stoker bestow the treatment of women as a catalyst for exposing the dangers of gender stereotypes, to illuminate social concerns and injustices for the reader that were occurring at the time in Victorian. These injustices are mirrored in the above statement. Both authors allude to the...
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Never Let Me Go is set in a dystopian world of late 1990s England, in which human clones are created, so they can donate their organs as young adults. It gives a thought to the issue of organ donation. The organ donors are obtained from human clones. Never Let Me Go - tells about the lives of cloned children, who...
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Concerning your wider reading explore and comment on how identity is presented in George Orwell's 1984 and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Identity is how you see yourself; it also refers to your own perceived idea of how you view yourself which is ultimately affected by how others see you. This highlights that an individual does not have a...
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A Bildungsroman is considered a novel in which “regular development is observed in the life of the individual, with each of the stages having its intrinsic value and is at the same time the basis for a higher stage” (Boes, 2006). The Bildungsroman genre became popular and was spread during the Victorian era, when writers forged protagonists, such as Jane...
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All stories have various elements. At TellTale Heart, literary learners not only have a deeper understanding of the essence of the story through the five elements but also a deeper understanding of why Edgar Allan Poe created the story. By spending time and energy digging into the details, setting, relevant historical background, and author biography, people begin to see the...
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Herbert Clutter inspects his ranch on the morning of November 14, 1959. That identical morning, on the other side of Kansas, Perry Smith meets up with Dick Hickock. While the Clutters go about their every day business, walking errands and baking cherry pies, Hickock and Smith are tuning their car. After a lengthy drive, they pull up to the Clutter...
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