...Life and Work of Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. He was born on October 2, 1904, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in England. He was one of six children. His parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, were first cousins, both members of a large, influential family that included the owners of Greene King Brewery, bankers, and statesmen; his mother was cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson. He was educated at an English School, the head-master of which was his father. His childhood was not at all happy; he describes this period of his life as "…something associated with violence, cruelty, evil across the way". Graham often skipped classes in order to avoid the constant bullying by his fellow classmates. At one point Greene even ran away from home. When Greene began suffering from mental and emotional problems, his parents sent him to London for psychotherapy by a student of the famous Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). Greene actually found the psychoanalysis to be very interesting and remained fascinated by dreams for the rest of his life. While he was living there, Greene developed his love for literature and began to write poetry. In 1922 Greene became a student of Balliol College, Oxford. At the age of twenty-two he became sub-editor on the staff of a newspaper The Nottingham Guardian. It was during this period that his...
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...General Nathanael Greene. Greene never stopped working to his fullest potential ability, always sedulously achieving his goals. Born at Botowonut in Warwick, Rhode Island on July 27, 1742, Greene was able to pursue his dreams as president of Yale College. With a keen mind, a genius for organization, and an ability to understand and use America’s geography and topography to his advantage, Greene demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for military leadership. Later, Greene became known as the “Fighting Quaker” because of his religious background, which...
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...Daniel john Patrick Greene was born on 14 November 1933 to first generation irish american parents. Complications surrounding the birth caused his mother to die, and with his father drinking excessively he was sent to live in an orphanage before ending up with his grandfather. His turbulent childhood would continue, and between fighting and tardiness he was expelled from a number of schools. Despite his behavioural problems he was always noted as an excellent athlete and sports person. (SOURCE: BIOGRAPHY.COM) In the early 1960s, Greene began working on the docks as a longshoreman. In his free time he read about Ireland and its violent yet culturally rich history. He found pride in this, and began to think of himself as a "Celtic warrior". It...
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...Aurora Salinas Eng. 1302.33 Stuart Greene writes a realistic fiction in Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument (2001). In this article, Greene discusses how an argument is not a dispute, but rather an ongoing discussion that can include the historical context hidden behind it and that engaging in and then leaving said argument does not mean that it will be over. He presents his opinion in framing and research as inquiry, cites other authors, and writes Argument as Conversation the way he is describing it in the first place. He explains the importance of using sources and the necessity of doing so in order to have a basic understanding of how to effectively argue a point. Greene intends the audience to be students barely going into college and have yet to learn how to debate in an academic setting. In my opinion, this article is perfect for the incoming freshmen students that do not know how to argue efficiently. It shows how to write, read, research, structure, and overall make better an argument. But I feel like there is nothing that can help a more experienced student. The article does not introduce anything new with how to argue a point. It is very basic and therefore, useless to those experienced students looking for new ways to debate a certain point. After hearing Greene’s description of research writing, the task seems clearer, and useful in my mind. A research writing is so much more than jotting down reasons and facts about...
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...The Ballad of Greene Henry Graham Greene was born on October 2, 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. The fourth of six children, Greene was a shy and sensitive youth. He disliked sports and was often truant from school in order to read adventure stories by authors such as Rider Haggard and R. M. Ballantyne. These novels had a deep influence on him and helped shape his writing style. The recurring themes of treachery and betrayal in Greene's writing stem from his troubled school years where he was often tormented for being the headmaster's son. After several suicide attempts, Greene left school one day and wrote to his parents that he did not wish to return. This culminated in his being sent to a therapist in London at age fifteen (Greene). His analyst, Kenneth Richmond, encouraged him to write and introduced him to his circle of literary friends which included the poet Walter de la Mare. In 1978 Greene gave Professor Norman Sherry a map that marked the spots he traveled to (Greene). Sherry spent 20 years retracing Greene's journeys, not without suffering. He contracted diseases from diabetes in Liberia, gangrene of the intestine, to temporary blindness. He won the Edgar Allan Poe award for Best Critical/Biographical Study in for Volume I of The World of Graham Greene.(Graham Greene) After graduating with a B.A. in 1925, Greene was employed as a subeditor at the Nottingham Journal after two abortive positions at other companies. His dislike of Nottingham's...
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...Graham Greene’s novel ‘Brighton Rock’ has a reoccurring theme of male identity and how the protagonist Pinkie acts as if he is very masculine through the fact that he is in a gang, a leader of men and is aggressive suggests that he very masculine; however, his name ‘Pinkie’ contrasts this approach and so does his appearance. In addition, Ida is portrayed as being masculine through her free will and her persistence in finding out who murdered Hale. Firstly, the reader get an inclination that ‘The Boy’ Pinkie isn’t actually a ‘man’ this is through the use of the caesura which creates a pause between the word ‘man’ which makes the reader think that he isn’t a man at all which reduces his masculinity. This would interest the reader because Pinkie who is a leader of men; who is considered to be very aggressive is still a boy and not even a man. The reader can interpret this in two ways: either Pinkie is very masculine or even though he is a boy he should be treated like a man because of the way he behaves, or a reminder to the audience that he is still only a child and he shouldn’t be getting all the attention that a ‘man’ does which as a result emasculates him. Moreover, Pinkie with his ironically childish nickname is constantly frustrated when people do not take him seriously and the repetition of his nickname ‘the Boy’ makes the audience feel that not only does the narrator not value him enough to call him by his real name, but it also forces a sense of mistaken identity. In addition...
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...Dreaded Darkness “The End of the Party” by Graham Greene is a short story about fear. A young boy named Francis Morton has an extreme phobia of darkness. Although his twin brother Peter continuously tries to comfort his brother’s fear, there is little he can do. Francis reminds his mother, nanny, and peers of his terrible fear throughout the story, but they all excuse it and believe it to be silly. Tragically, undermining his terrible fear has a price. The first example of fear in the story is when Francis tries to excuse himself from the party he is supposed to attend later that afternoon. He knows that if he goes he will be forced to play hide-and-seek in the dark and he is afraid. Francis fakes an illness and although he does not have an illness, he still feels sick from fear. Greene writes, “It was true he felt ill, a sick empty sensation in his stomach and a rapidly beating heart, but he knew the cause was only fear” (183). The extent of Francis’s fear is beginning to be revealed. Both his nanny and his mother encourage him to go to the party. They do not realize the seriousness of his fear, nor do they question his resistance to his attendance at the party. His fear is beyond himself and it affects his physical being as well. Francis’s fear of the dark is not an ordinary fear, but something very serious and almost unbearable. The next example of fear in the story is when Francis is at the party and again tries to come up with excuses to leave and avoid...
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...Graham Greene “I Spy” The text under stylistic analysis “I Spy” is written by Graham Greene in the style of fiction. It deals with author’s feelings and emotions about relations at school, relations in the family. The main theme of the story is how main character of the story Charlie Stowe was able to steal some of his father’s stock - a packet with cigarettes from his father’s shop, with the purpose to prove his classmates that he is not a little boy. The idea of the story is that real parents should pay enough attention to their children, to bring them up properly in order that there wasn’t conflict’s in their family. So in the beginning of the story we have an exposition, where we get to know about the main character Charlie Stowe; the time of the seen is night. Charlie Stowe waited in his bedroom until he heard his mother snore. Then we got to know that it was the time of war, as ’searchlight passed across the sky,… seeking enemy airship’. Then Charlie draught the thought the cracks in the window frame. We have a detached construction in the second paragraph from the world ‘But the thought of the tobacconist’s shop…’ where author pays our attention to the fact that Charlie wanted to smth with it. then we see that he was 12 years old and that boys at “County school” nocked at him because he had never smoked a cigarette. The author uses periphrases concerning to cigarettes “The packet were piled twelve deep below”. The cigarettes were called Gold Flake and Players...
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...Name: Tutor: Institution: Course: Date: Catholism Pinkie Brown is very religious. To Brown religion is the corner stone of a society and without it, all are but doomed. He believes in the notion that he is evil and beyond redemption and is going straight to hell. Pinkie however tries his best to uphold all of the catholic doctrines based on his catholic background. In the end though he is very certain of his doom he still believes in the catholic belief that one can be redeemed if they repent right before death. Brown however finds a flow in that logic when he brushes with death at the race course. He realizes that he was spending all his attention on trying to stay alive rather than praying for his soul to go to a better place. Pinkie also abhors the idea of having sex with Rose to consummate their marriage as a sin since they were not married in church “It's a mortal sin, he said, getting what savor there was out of innocence, trying to taste God in the mouth . . . he blotted everything out in a sad brutal now-or-never embrace.” (Neil 225). Pinkie is very resentful. When he was a young boy he spied on his parents making love. These both arouse him and disgusted him beyond measure. Ever since that day he bore resentment towards sex and women in general. Pinkie views them as weaker creatures that did not deserve his respect or appreciation. This can be clearly seen in the way he mistreats Rose when they were married. Pinkie did not find any common ground to relate to...
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...TheCase for the Defence The Case for the Defence is a short story written by Graham Greene. The story takes place in England around the time it was written, in the late 1930’s, when a conviction for murder carried a death penalty. We find ourselves in Central Criminal Court in London where the trial of the “Peckham murder” is being held. In this story we meet Mrs. Salmon who testifies against the defendant Mr. Adams. But it turns out he has a twin brother and the witnesses can not be sure of which one of them they saw. Mr. Adams is therefore aquitted, although one of them commited the murder. Outside of the courtroom one of the two brothers is pushed by the crowd and hit by a bus. If it was the murderer or not we do not know. But what we do know, is that their might be a killer that Mrs. Salmon witnessed against on free foot. The narrator of the story is most likely the prosecutor as he is in the courtroom, and talking to Mrs. Salmon , following her out after the trial and speaking of her as the ideal witness. The narrator does not participate in the plot, but he or she is observing and refering from the events of the story in third person. By having a third person narrator the author achieves an open story where you need to read between the lines, whereas an omniscient narrator to take an example, would know everything about the characters and in a way kill some of the tension in the story. Even though Mrs. Salmon is not really significant to the theme, she is important...
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...Fiction Essay Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” and D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” are very different stories, but both have similarities. “The Destructors” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” were both written by British authors and set in a post war Great Britain. Both stories were written after a World War, so the living conditions were still depressed. I will compare and contrast the authors’ choice of themes and characters, emotions, materialism, use of suspense, and setting. The themes of both stories are developed around the characters of the stories, especially on the children in each story. The characters in “The Destructors” are not as fully developed as the characters in “The Rocking Horse Winner”. The only two characters that Green developed were Trevor, better known as “T”, and Mr. Thomas, also referred to as Old Misery. Trevor was the outsider that quickly became the leader of the gang. Old Misery was an architect that lived in a house that was falling apart but was pretty much the only building still standing in that area. The destruction of this house becomes the challenge and the focus for Trevor and the rest of the characters who are gathered together as the Wormsley gang. They have grown up together and share the experience of bombs falling on their town. “The Rocking Horse Winner” has characters that are a little more rounded. Paul, the boy in the story, his mother, his Uncle, and Bassett the gardener are in constant trouble over poverty. Paul...
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...The destructors "The destructors" by Graham Greene is a story that talks about warfare between people in the top class and underclass. There is a gang which is consisted by several kids who are all stay in the underclass. They are too young to understand what the class struggle exactly means. After their county suffers the war and their homes are destroyed, they hate the unfair phenomenon exist in the society. They hate the war leaves them such a miserable life. When they aim to destroy Mr. Tomas's house, which is the only survived house in this area after the war, their purpose is only for destroying anything that better than theirs. They don't take money from Mr. Tomas who belongs to the top of class; they only want to make this society treat everyone as the same. However, tearing down Mr. Tomas's house is not only a childhood mischief but a definitely delinquency. When Mr. Tomas loses all of his property, how poor he is. He earns money by his hard work, so he deserves to have a good standard of living. Eventually, people's jealousy and hate destroy his life. In the end of the story, when the driver, who also lives in the underclass, finds what happen to Mr. Tomas, he only thinks this is funny instead of having any sympathy for him. In his inner mind, he may be satisfied by what the kids do. However, the unfair phenomenon in the society cannot be destroy by several groups or even by time passes. This phenomenon will continue exist in the...
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...searching for work, Whitney was offered a job in Georgia, teaching at a private school. Whitney, having some teaching experience, decided to take the job. On his voyage to Georgia, he met Mrs. Greene, wife of General Nathanael Greene, and was liked among the family. They were also headed to Georgia, so they started travelling together. Upon reaching Georgia, Whitney was despaired for the salary was merely half of what had been offered. Mrs. Greene offered for Whitney to become a private tutor for her children instead, and he accepted the offer. They travelled to her home in Mulberry Grove, where they owned a plantation. Here Eli Whitney first learned of the big cotton industry. Whitney quickly learned that the Southerners were in need of a way to make cotton quick and profitable. The variety of cotton that grew inland had sticky green seeds and took tedious time to pick out the fluffy white cotton. Urged by his employers, Whitney worked on a way to easily separate the cotton and seeds. With the declining cotton industry at stake, Whitney set about designing his machine. He knew that if he could invent such a machine, that he could apply for a patent and reap a handsome profit for his machine. Whitney set aside his law studies and began working on his machine. He was financially supported by the Greene family, to whom he still worked, and in no time was done with his machine. A small cotton gin could be worked by hand crank and larger ones could be run by horses or water power. Whitney...
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...and the characters affected. g. How are the conflicts resolved? Does the protagonist succeed in achieving their goals? h. The effects of the reader IV. Conclusion The conflict of The Destructors by Graham Greene and that of The Rocking-Horse Winner had some similarities and differences in regards to the conflict, plot, and structure. Both display a very invigorating tale and a mystery regarding the conclusion of each story. These shorts stories were both about children who did not have an understanding and were naïve to the ways of the world. Each displayed a very disturbing outcome and some more than others. The conflict lead to a surprising turn of events displayed itself as the stories were depicted. The Destructors by Graham title clearly described and assisted the reader in the series of events to come. One is lead to assume that in some way or form destruction will take place. The conflict that leads to the destruction is the internal turmoil going on with (T) Trevor. He was upset about his family’s current living situation. The narrator makes statements such as “The fact that his father, a former architect and present clerk, had “come down in the world” and that his mother considered herself better than the neighbors Greene (1954). This statement means at one time things were very different for him and his family and that it wasn’t until the War that things changed dramatically....
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...Fiction Essay ENGL 102: Literature and Composition Summer B 2012 MLA WRITING STYLE Fiction Essay Thesis and Outline Thesis: Money, class and values affect the story as well as the reader. Outline: I. Introduction-“The Destructors” by Graham Greene vs. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence. II. Characterization a. Character Qualities/Status 1. Paul vs. T 2. Uncle vs. Blackie 3. Hester vs. Old Misery “Thomas” b. Emotions and Behaviors 1. Paul vs. T 2. Uncle vs. Blackie 3. Hester vs. Old Misery ”Thomas” III. Closing- overall effect on story and reader Character Comparison of “The Destructors” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” In “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence there are many differences and similarities. The reader sees the most emphasis placed on money, class and values. “The Destructors” takes place in Great Britain after World War I and most of the population has been taken from upper class to middle class due to the bombings. Where “The Rocking-Horse Winner” in situated in a suburban area of Baltimore, Maryland and the population is in the upper class, at least most are in appearance The characters have similarities and differences as well, take the protagonists in each story are young boys. Paul in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a young innocent boy that knows in his heart his mother , Hester does not love him or his two sisters but he has an over...
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