...My theme for this ISP will be character change through joseph boyden’s novel “Three Day Road” In the novel Boyden utilizes Elijah and his closet friend Xavier as they experince an adjustment in both of their identites. Boyden splendidly figures out different stragiers to survive through a devasting war. In the novel he says “Do what you have to survive” ( Boyden 20). Plainly boyden utilizes the war as a case of how and why one may encounter an adjustment in their character. In spite of the fact that they apperar to be at changed degrees, Elijah and Xavier both experience an adjustment in personalities. All through the novel, Elijah figures out how to change characters for the more awful. He embraces numerous psychopathic qualities because...
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...Independent Study Project – ENG 4UE Here is all of the important information regarding the ISP for this class. Below you will find timelines, assignments and due dates that will be helpful for you to refer to throughout the course. The ISP is designed to help you demonstrate your independent learning throughout this course. Instructions: 1. Choose a novel from the approved list by Wednesday July 6th. You should be emailing me the title of the novel by this date. (If you would like to choose a novel that is not on the approved list, you must have it approved by me in advance) The link to the approved list of novels is here: http://bit.ly/1F7JmCL 2. Start reading! By Thursday July 7th you are required to hand in a “Statement of Intent” for the final literary essay you will write for your culminating project. This is a 250 -word statement that introduces the themes you would like to discuss for your paper. This is a very open-ended assignment – you will come up with you’re the topic, the thesis statement and what you would like to prove based on your analytical reading of your chosen text. Here is a link to the “Statement of Intent” assignment:https://tdsb.elearningontario.ca/d2l/le/content/8112205/viewContent/77130279/View 3. Take notes while you read! As part of your culminating assignment, you must keep a “Readers Journal” with detailed notes from your reading of the text. You are required to have analytical notes that illustrate that you are attempting...
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...within Jane Eyre including religion, order and education. However the greatest one of all is love. This is why the topic for my ISP is the effect love has on the story and the reader in Jane Eyre. I chose this topic simply because while reading the novel I found that love had a crucial role in the novel. It seemed to have the richest descriptions and most alluring imagery. Therefore in this ISP I will demonstrate how love is the most important theme in Jane Eyre, as it greatly affects the plot, is present in many forms throughout the whole book and gives the story a deeper connection to its readers than any other themes. The major points in my essay are: In Jane Eyre there are many important themes including order, education, love and religion. Education is important because Jane is a governess and enjoys learning throughout the book. Order is important because it restricts Jane from being happy at the Reed mansion and restricts her passionate nature. Religion is important because it is the main reason she left Thronfeild. But none of these themes has such a major role in continuing the plot then love . Love is present in many forms throughout the novel such as when she is staying at the Reeds, at Lowood, at Moor House and at Thornfeild. Since it is seen in so many different forms, it is easy for anyone to connect with it. Throughout the novel Jane never revokes her love for Mr. Rochester. The narrator, an older Jane, assures the reader frequently of her thoughts and...
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...My ISP novel is called The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green. In fact, the movie was just released last Friday, and this novel is one of the most popular books amongst teens. The story takes place in Indianapolis, which is where sixteen year old protagonist Hazel Grace Lancaster is battling Stage 4 Thyroid cancer. Since she has terminal cancer, Hazel is required to carry an oxygen tank everywhere she goes, which makes it very obvious that she has cancer (physically). This causes a barrier between Hazel and society, thus resulting a character vs society conflict. Hazel states, “I could feel everyone watching us, wondering what was wrong with us… That was worse part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.” (144) Hazel believes that her time on Earth isn’t as long as most people, and decides to distance herself from others to minimize the number of causalities she leaves behind, and that makes her very anti-social. Even though Hazel doesn’t go to school, she is VERY smart and because she has cancer she spends a lot of time thinking about life; She is very philosophical. Being faced with several situations that have threatened her life, she is very cautious of who becomes close to her because she knows that there is a good chance she will die and she doesn’t want to leave behind emotional damage, and therefore distances herself from people. This internal conflict is important because it affects most of the decisions she...
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...ISP ESSAY How one lives their life relies a great deal on perspective. Perspective is either the key to happiness, or the route to misery. The novels Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen both display how ones perspective determines their path and ultimate outcome in life. Although the novels deal with two completely different styles of families they do share many common themes concerning the aspect of perspective. Both the Vakeel and the Berglund families struggle with the trials and tribulations of everyday life, however they approach it differently due to their past experiences, as well as their personal values and morals. This allows for an overall completely different experience for the characters. Firstly, the characters perceive the issue of family relationships differently, as one family is close knit, whereas the other is torn and distant. Secondly, each novel displays the character’s struggles with finding personal freedoms and breaking away from the traditional views of society. Lastly, the characters in the novel deal with finding their true self and the person they are meant to be. Therefore both authors incorporate the themes of family relationships, personal freedoms and self discovery into their thrilling novels to empathize the power that perspective has on one’s life. In Family Matters, the relationships within the Vakeel family are strong due to an abundance of communication, respect, and equality. As a result the members...
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...roles of an artist are as following: 1. Artists help us see the world in a new and innovative way, 2. Artists create a visual record of their time and place, 3. Artists make functional objects and structures more pleasurable by imbuing them with beauty and meaning, 4. Artists give form to the immaterial ideas and feelings. (Henry M. Sayre 2010) The cover illustration for Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is very fascinating to me. It seems to be another version of The Man of La Mancha, except the man is covered in a newspaper that is on fire. Because the book is about censorship, the choice of covering the man in newspapers that are burning makes a lot of sense to the story. Joseph Mugnaini fulfills role number one, helping the viewer see the world in new and innovative ways by taking the idea of a knight (The Man of La Mancha) and changing his armor to newspaper. This idea is like taking an old iconic character, a knight, and putting a new spin on how one should interpret his role. Perhaps the knight is on fire because he is losing his battle, just like the main character in Bradbury's novel. In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government commissioned the mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a large mural, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance to Spain’s pavilion. Picasso did not do any work after receiving the commission until reading of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica...
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...Janey Bucy Mrs. Cavotta Literature, Period 3rd January 13, 2014 In Salman Rushdie's excellent book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, there's a striking scene near the beginning where Haroun, the child of a famous storyteller, confronts his father by repeating a line that was previously parroted by a narrow-minded neighbour: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? Haroun spends much of the story (which I gather might be imagined rather than true) making up for this mistake, through fantastic adventures in a universe where two factions are at war: those who tell stories, and those who want all stories to end and silence to reign. For this is where fiction is so much better: at the telling not of factual truths that anyone can observe, but of greater Truths about life, about what it means, what it's about, how to live it, how to enjoy it and be happy and find a purpose. To observe these Truths, one needs very good eyes indeed, and telling them directly is almost impossible. Instead, a great author must tell a story that illustrates the Truth that they experienced and observed. If they do it extremely well, it becomes a kind of distilled life experience that the reader assimilates and which changes their understanding of life in subtle and important ways. The plot concerns a boy who all but curses his father in a moment of despair by saying, cynically, ''What's the use of stories that aren't even true?'' As a consequence, the father becomes heartbroken, and loses...
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...The plot of the story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O.Henry I have to honestly admit that with all due respect to gifted writers who write voluminous novels, undoubtedly deserving respect for their well-weighed plot and images of heroes, perceptible and heart-piercing description etc., still with big respect I treat authors (surely talented) of short lambent stories. Furthermore, there is a need to “squeeze” almost everything in some pages, whereas novelists would require at least hundred pages. Thus, in my view one of the recognized masters of such genre is, undeniably, O.Henry. His impressive, common story “The Ransom of Red Chief” would make many people smile and think about life much easier. The story of two unlucky swindlers, Sam and Bill, who decided to make a pretty penny out of kidnapping, cannot leave someone untouched. Interesting and edifying story teaches us that there is no such thing as a free lunch, also that opportunities make thieves. Needing money, swindlers kidnap the boy, hoping to receive repayment in two thousand dollars (rather great sum for 1910s) from his wealthy father. Everything could have been easy, if the boy was “homebody”, however he was mischievous. The brigands made a serious mistake: they should have carefully chosen the captive. I think the plot of this story is to think properly before doing something and that everyone gets what he deserves. For instance, two hooligans suffered from their own conspiracy, instead of Dorset’s. In addition, at...
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...Essay Paul Auster: City of Glass * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * By Cornelius Andersen * October 2013 * * * * City of Glass is the first novel in Paul Auster’s bestseller: “The New York Trilogy”. In the novel we follow Quinn, a lonely writer who has lost wife and son. One day Quinn receives a phone call that completely changes his life. Quinn gives oneself out of being the famous private detective Paul Auster, which leads him into an old case that eventually will change him forever. * * Our main character and protagonist of the story is Daniel Quinn, 35 years old, living by himself in New York. Daniel is a writer, who writes mystery novels by the pseudonym William Wilson. Some years ago he lost wife and son. Daniel spends most of his day walking around in the streets of New York. But Daniel is not just one single person. In the story, his name is no coincidence. Daniel also changes his identity to Paul Auster, the famous detective, and his initials (DQ) also have a reference to knight Don Quichote. He also uses the pseudonym Max Work in his literature. All these different identities make Daniel a very confusing main character. Though the story he shuffles between different identities, which also change the way that Daniel acts as a person and to his surroundings...
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...bearers for that matter. She defied these beliefs by doing something no women did in that time, write. This book was revolutionary, especially since the release of Jane Austen’s works, which had a lot more of a happy ending feel that were published a century before. Charlotte Brontë and her sisters Emily and Anne, wrote novels that were much more dark and mysterious. Jane Eyre became one of the most successful novels of its era. This novel is set in the early decades of the nineteenth century, and depicts themes such as social class, religion, and gender relations. The novel is a hybrid of three genres: a romantic novel, a bildungsroman novel, and a gothic novel. Each of these genres are used in Jane Eyre, and rightfully so. They help to tell the story of Jane Eyre’s life in the most mysterious, sometimes supernatural, and retrospective way. I believe that Charlotte Brontë depicted her life through the novel of Jane Eyre, she did this by using her own experiences in life, namely through some key developments from her life translated into Jane Eyre’s life. Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë embody each others lives. This is clear through all the similarities between the novel and real life. Some examples of these are: both Jane and Charlotte being orphans, both living with an aunt, Jane attending Lowood and Charlotte attending Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymen’s daughters, Charlotte losing her sisters to tuberculosis and Jane losing Helen, her dear friend to a sickness, both becoming...
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...------------------------------------------------- A Simple Exchange of Niceties “A Simple Exchange of Niceties” is about a girl getting unexpectedly pregnant. She often goes to a park and sits on her favourite bench. Here she sits and reflects about her life and her surroundings. One day a young lady approaches her, and her life changes forever. The novel “A Simple Exchange of Niceties” is written in 2007, by Joanne Fedler. The main character does not see herself as someone who is important. She feels as if, she is worthless and a failure. Her self-esteem is very low, and she explains how she is different from other girls. “It’s not like I’m going to find a decent bloke and get married.” She has a good heart and would give up anything to anybody. Some people see that as a weakness. She puts other peoples happiness before her own. On the other side, she also describes herself as “bad news”. She was caught shoplifting and she tells, that it sort of just happened. Her relationship with her mother is really bad. She explains to the lady, that her mother does not love her. She even refused to pay the bail of her own daughter. The first time the main character sees Damian she is very attracted to him. But when they are in the middle of sexual intercourse, she sees him in a different light. “When just two nights before, he held his strong hands behind your hair and licked you from your throat to your bellybutton in a way that made you think, you know, that maybe he loved you...
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...The novel that I chose to study is called Shattered. This novel is a fiction novel. The author of the novel is Eric Walters. He is a former Elementary school teacher and a retired Canadian solider. Eric Walters has written over forty best-selling novels, which includes the novel Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. The story line takes place in the city, mainly in the alleys, park and a soup kitchen. The main types of characters in the story are a homeless guy, a rich kid, and the guy who runs the soup kitchen. There are three main characters, Mac, he is the soup kitchen director and he lived on the streets himself. Jacques who is a retired military person who served in Rwanda, and he is homeless and has a drinking problem. Ian is the rich kid who lives in the suburbs. Mac knows Jacques from the soup kitchen, Ian knows Jacques from the park. Mac knows Ian from the soup kitchen. Ian needed to do forty hours of volunteer work to pass his civics class at school. He decided that he would go and volunteer at a soup kitchen. When Ian was walking through the park on his way to the soup kitchen he got jumped by a couple of guys. Jacques ended up coming to rescue him and this is where their friendship began. Jacque was a retired military solider who became an alcoholic and ended up living on the streets. He became an alcoholic because he couldn`t get the ``mindless killing`` out of his head .The drinking made it easier. Ian and Jacques spent a lot of time...
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...COMMUNITY in a Variety of Texts The text, The God of Small Things and the film Moonrise Kingdom, both thoroughly reflect the theme of identity and the individual versus the community in many ways. Both authors of the film and novel seem to make a new environment. Environment plays a significant role in both these texts. For example, in the town of both texts, it was a society in which laws were secretly written down. There were certain ways in which many had to act, live, and shape themselves to impress that community. “If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.” This quote goes into the situation of Velutha and Ammu, and their love affair. Due to the almost social hierarchy in the location the two had lived in, it was almost a sin of those two being together. It was expressed in such a pessimistic way – even if Velutha kept fighting for his love with Ammu, it would not make a difference is the society had forbidden it. It was forbidden for ‘Untouchables’ to associate, it was written in The Love Laws. Like The God of Small Things, the same went with Sam and Susie. Sam had once said to another boy, “Why can’t you just us disappear?” when found in the woods. It was quite simple: Sam was found a ‘freak’ and ‘not normal’ to most. Many were dumbfounded when they had learned that Susie had gone to escape with him, or even associate herself with him. It was then discovered that Susie...
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...The Secret Life Of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. Book Report, Dorthea Søiland The secret life of bees centres on Lily’s search for clues and connections to her mother, who was killed when Lily was a little girl. We get to follow her journey as she runs away from her abusive father along with her nanny Rosaleen. Lily is longing to be loved, because the lack of it in her past life is destroying her. “People who think dying is the worst thing, don’t know a thing about life” Lily, p2. The novel is an excellent written drama. It explores race, love and the idea of family and home in troubled times. The author of the book, Sue Monk Kidd, is a well-known writer who has written other known books such as “The Mermaid Chair”(2005) and “A Mother-Daughter Story”(2010). She has been on the New York Times bestselling list twice, which one of them were with this very novel. The secret life of bees was published in 2002 by Penguin Books New York. The story takes place in South Carolina in the 1960’s, which we can say is a time were racism was on it’s worst. Time and place has a lot to do with the story, and we get to look into a time were being black wasn’t easy. The main character of the book is fourteen years old Lily. She is a brave and smart girl, whose only wish for a birthday present is to know a little about her mother. Her fear of living a life without being loved is getting her to write poems, which she’s good at. All-tough Lily doesn’t have a mother she has a father, T....
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...Book Club Meeting #1: Triple Entry Journal – Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) By: Abiman Sureskumar Quotation & Context (Include Page Number) | Personal Response | Connections to the Theory(Refer to Secondary Source) | “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” (Austen 5). This is the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice and since the novel starts off with this, quote, I am left to assume that this quote is the basis for this entire plot and that the plot revolves around this quote. This quote is probably the main idea of the entire novel and sets the tone for the rest of the novel that leaves me thinking. | This quotation really gave me a glimpse of what I thought the plot was going to revolve around. Why does Austen assume that a wealthy and single man is always yearning for a wife? In the times that this novel was written, it was safe to assume that a wealthy and single man was in need of a spouse. The values of the society that this novel was produced in are in stark contrast to today’s societal values, where marriage is not looked at as a necessity, but rather as a rite of passage in one’s life. | SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Pride and Prejudice.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.The SparkNotes Editors argue that, “The preoccupation with socially advantageous marriage in nineteenth-century English society manifests itself [in this quote].” A fundamental social...
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