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Adichie's Purple hibiscus is a novel based in post-colonial Nigeria where we are introduced to 15-year old Kambili who shares her narrative on the toxic family environment in which her father, an abusive catholic man oppresses and imposes his beliefs on his family. In the following essay, I will be discussing the key theme of defiance in Purple Hibiscus. To...
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Abstract:- The Africa is faced so many conflict like social, political and ethnic. For the main causes are weak government, state collapse, inter-ethnic clashes, economic decline, and unequal distribution of resources. African writer portrait the conflict of Africa through their fiction like Chinua Achebe, Adichie Etc. Adichie describes this history with fictionalized in her novels. This paper tried to analyze...
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The Road demonstrates diverse perspective in renewal be making readers question not only spiritual beliefs but the existence of god. Throughout The Road there is a conflict of spiritual belief that is demonstrated by the main characters own uncertainty. McCarthy’s novel could be seen as an agnostic novel with multiple characters believing in god and others completely rejecting the idea...
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The story starts off in dystopian future America, called Panem led by President Snow. There was a war many years ago, which resulted in the country being divided into twelve poor districts and one rich totalitarian capital. The twelve districts all represent different characteristics and beliefs based off the resources they have. District twelve, known for mining coal, is where...
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When MLK spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, he used a mountain top to represent and symbolize the civil rights movement's climb throughout American history. Ascending the mountain represented freedom from slavery and segregation. Similarly, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche uses the hibiscus flower to capture her idea of the cultural and religious 'civil war' in Nigeria during the 1990s. In...
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King and queens in the past have made the mistake of abusing their power. King George III Abused his power. He prevented the British government from making judicial decisions. He took complete control over Brittan. This resulted in the USA being founded. In the book ‘Purple Hibiscus’ Papa gets the opportunity many times and takes advantage of his power. He...
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Individualism describes the habit of being independent and self-reliant. In both The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Call of the Wild, the main characters display the habit of individualism. Christopher takes himself from his home in Swindon to London. Buck travels from Santa Clara Valley, California to Canada. Both characters take their trips alone. In...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel ‘Purple Hibiscus’ explores the tumultuous relationships between the members of the Achike family, inflicted by the father, Eugene. The novel is narrated in the first person, by the fifteen-year-old protagonist Kambili. This essay will portray the significance of ‘body writing’ which will be depicted through Eugene and Aunty Ifeoma. The entire family are subjects to domestic...
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Introduction Kingsolver addresses various issues in this best-selling novel. Using a young Kentucky woman as the main character, the writer explores several concerns facing middle-class Americans in their daily survivals. A brief overview of the writing points out Taylor Greer as a woman with strong intentions. She had made up her mind in life not to be impregnated during her...
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Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees is one of the most popular and urgent literary works nowadays. It touches upon burning issues of the modern society such as the conflict between ethical and legal, racism, adoption laws, homelessness, multiculturalism, kidnapping, depression suicide, the conflict of nature and nurture etc. We are going to analyze the importance of nature and nurture for...
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“Creativity is presented in assigning to do a task; creativity must meet be of a quality of a kind and be unique in its ‘novelty’.” Creativity has many features and techniques. Such features could be deducted in a text, such as writing in metaphor techniques, wordplay or word punning, writing a comedy, satirical or sarcasm text, stressing a rhythm, repeating...
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Introduction to the Novels and Their Similarities The novels, Water for Elephants and Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen, are both outstanding books and share some similarities. Not only are these novels similar, but they also withhold their own differences. Some similarities and differences to compare Water for Elephants to Riding Lessons include the characters, theme, and last but not least,...
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In both lost and the lord of the flies they ran into some issues. They are all stranded on an island ,and they have multiple problems including survival how would they survive and how did they survive? Society and organization,how did the rules and having a good organization helped keep them alive? Leaders, who stepped up on being the leader...
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Buck, who is a very big and pretty Saint Bernard, has changed through the book due to his new owners, and friends, and his new journey’s. Buck throughout this story has to be able to adapt to his new changes and has to overcome all his new challenges. Weather it’s be taken from his home, beaten with a club, just...
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In the novel 'The Call of the Wild' by Jack London, the protagonist Buck, a dog from South-land is kidnapped and sold to hostile people in the North. He has to adapt to becoming a dog of the North. Within this novel, Buck undergoes a very significant change of character and emotional state. He transitions from being the self-illustrated King...
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In contemporary literature, novels such as The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas or The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander depict the cycle of oppression among African Americans. A book from the perspective of a Caucasian police officer advocating white privilege or racism is rarely seen on the shelves of bookstores, much...
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Abstract Misuse of power and authority is a very dangerous dilemma of mankind. The class system is the main reason behind this uneven distribution of power among upper and lower class. As Karl Marx divides it into two classes, first one is upper class which is called the Bourgeoisie and second class Is The proletariat. This paper is an attempt...
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Introduction  "A Class Divided" is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the profound impact of discrimination and prejudice on individuals and society. This essay provides a summary of the documentary, highlighting its key themes, lessons, and the lasting significance of its message. Through an experiment conducted by teacher Jane Elliott, the film offers a powerful glimpse into the effects of discrimination...
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When a person has a friendship, you must be there for the other person. This is one of the main themes in the novel by Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This story is about a Native American boy named Junior. Junior lives with his mom, dad, sister, and grandmother on a Native American reservation in...
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Imagine living in a state of constant suffering, belittlement, control, and alienation. That is what life is like for the men in the asylum throughout the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”. Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist. Her emasculating power over the patients forces them into submission and constant unease. The so-called “Big Nurse”...
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Literary Analysis of Sing, Unburied Sing Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Sing, Unburied Sing, is set in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, near the Mississippi River delta, and “. . .stinks like possums or armadillos smashed half flat on the road, rotting in asphalt and heat. […] It’s the smell of death” (Ward 6). The protagonists Jojo, a thirteen-year-old boy from...
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Fire can be used as a weapon of great destruction as well as an opportunity for new beginnings and life. Throughout the novel, it serves as a symbol of ruin as well as rebirth. The firemen use fire as a weapon to both destroy books and the homes of those who possess them. We can see within our own history...
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In the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the amount of symbolism is abundant as the narrator goes through a journey of hardships and self-discovery. One key symbol in the novel is a briefcase which becomes arguably his most valuable possession throughout the novel. Without his briefcase, he would not have experienced the realization of his purpose in society or...
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In the book Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech, A teenage girl named Sal Hiddle goes through many many changes where she has to face her fears. Sal goes through lots of internal feelings about losing her mom, moving away from By banks, and losing her grandma. When Sal was younger she had to face one of many fears…. Pregnant...
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Individuals experience childhood in various conditions and as they develop, their environment impacts them from numerous points of view. In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, she is a 10-year-old who lives in Iran that has encountered groundbreaking occasions, for example, the Islamic Revolution which happened in 1979, and the Iranian and Iraq war in the 1980s. Marjane utilizes these occasions and showed...
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When I think of the word Innovative, I think of words such as ideas, creativity, imaginative, truth, and originality. I believe being innovative as a writer is being able to create creative, original, thoughtful, content that readers can relate to or experience as they read the story. A piece of writing that can help a reader make connections to characters...
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Everyone is exposed to discrimination. Whether it be at a young or old age, this exposure causes people to lose their innocence and realize that you should not mistreat someone because of their appearance. The film The Help (2011) produced by Tate Taylor; set in the 1960s, is a text that uses aesthetic features including symbolism, repetition, metaphor, and characterization....
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“Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. We played until dark. We played until the streetlights lit up the court. We played until the bats swooped down at our heads. We played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky. We didn't keep score” (Alexie, page 230). In the graphic novel, “The Absolutely True Diary...
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Major themes: The major themes that occurred in the story, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, written by John Boyne, was the desire for friendship, boundaries, and the innocence of childhood. Firstly, the author of the powerful story introduced the theme of friendship by having Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, roam the large forest located in Auschwitz. After exploring the woods...
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This dissertation entitled Comparative study of racial discrimination in the novels: The Help by Kathryn Stockett and Beloved by Toni Morrison is an attempt to compare and analyze the relationship between Blacks and Whites in the chosen novels using the theory of internalized racism by Karen D Pyke. This tries to focus on how black people suffered for reconstructing their...
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