...create Nettie’s voice and perspective in several ways. The extract is a dual narrative, where Celie is reading Nettie’s letters. This is Nettie’s third letter written chronologically, although it is the fourth ready by Celie; this reminds us of Celie’s presence as she is choosing the order to read the letters in. This letter was written just after Nettie left Celie, within the first fifteen letters of the novel. At this point in Celie’s life, “Shug Avery is coming to town!” and it is the first time Celie properly portrays her excitement within her letters; although contrastingly Nettie is at her lowest, this delineates the differences between the two sisters lives. It is written early in Celie’s narrative but it is not told by Celie until later, by this point Celie has developed, she has begun to find her voice and she has built up a network of women; hence she is able to provide Nettie with the strength she requires, whereas earlier in the novel she would have required the strength from Nettie. In this letter, Nettie explains that Samuel will not let her visit Celie, since he believes it is wrong to “come between a man and his wife”. We know that Nettie has grown anxious at this point because she formally states with the use of a modifier, “By now I am almost crazy”, it is evident that writing to Celie is holding Nettie together. Nettie’s letter is reported through Celie’s first person narrative within a single letter. The voice of Nettie is reported as direct speech, though...
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...understand the text. Atwood presents language as a special freedom for the Handmaids in a life in which freedom is absent. In her dystopian novel The Handmaids Tale the protagonist Offred is lacking in freedom. She is living a life filled with forced sexual acts in order for her to avoid being sent to the Colonies. She has no freedom of speech and has been programmed to have automated responses by the government. Responses such as “praise be” are terms Offred and her Handmaid counterparts have been ‘brainwashed’ to say. This lack of freedom has a negative affect on the Handmaids and leads to small, irrelevant victories becoming large doses of personal freedom to the slaves of the republic. This is evident when Offred participates in a game of scrabble. “This is freedom, an eyeblink of it.” These words, said by Offred through first person narrative point-of-view ensure the reader understands that Offred find joy and freedom out of word play and language use. As the game progresses Offred begins to indulge in the word play. “The counters are like candies, made of peppermint, cool like that. Humbugs those were called. I would like to put them in my mouth.” Offred has transferred her word play to a thought of food and candies, the small fulfilling treats that others and I in my Western society enjoy. Offred finds the same contentment out of word play and language use as others find a similar and pleasurable satisfaction out of eating sweet. By using symbolism of the Scrabble tiles and...
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...for the first day at school on national television. In this Speech he stressed the importance of education. He would spread a message across the country: do not give up, do not quit because: “you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country” (l.63-64). The rhetoric in this speech that Barack Obama held to all American pupils is a classic way of build-ing it up: The opening is first. Here Obama says hello and talks about the first day in the semester. Then the narrative, which is some background information. Here Barack Obama talks about his own experience as a pupil. After the narrative comes the argumentation. In the argumentation is all the main weight of the speech. He talks about obligation, the future for the students and so on. Then the ending is coming. Here Barack Obama concludes what he expects from all the students Barack Obama starts off by addressing the audience personally in the very first line, “Hello every-one – how's everybody doing today?” (l.1). He sets the scene and reaffirms his authority not just as the most powerful man in the world but, more importantly, as an equal. That Barack Obama uses ethos creates a much more personal relationship between him and the listeners. After Barack Obama has welcomed all of the students at Wakefield High School and the rest of the American pupils, who are watching it on national television, he starts with a little introduction. In the intro-duction he talks about how it is the first day at school and...
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...Describe the genre of Slave Narrative in his essentials on the basis of an example. What was the role of the genre for the abolitionist movement? Anti-slavery literature was very important for the abolitionists` fight against slavery. The Slave Narratives took a special importance because of the fact that slaves reported from the personal perspective. They described autobiographically how the life in captivity looked like. Consequently, they disputed the description of slave keeper, which were played down and romanticized. Frederick Douglass, one of the former slaves, wrote his story on his own, whereas some who couldn´t write and read (who were illiterate), dictated their stories to abolitionists. Those wrote and published these stories. Moreover, the Slave Narratives always were authenticated in preface and epilogues from whiteness. In the following part, I will quote many a time from the autobiography of the mentioned Frederick Douglass‘ “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass“ “Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder. It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him. He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers...
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... WRTG 1001 Personal Narrative: Introduction Born and raised in San Diego my whole life definitely shaped who I have become. Having a love for the beach, the sun and most importantly Mexican food are all loves that have all come from my hometown. But it wasn’t until my sophomore year that I realized maybe there is more to life than just going the beach and getting tan. Maybe there are real issues in the world that are more important than who Sean is going to pick on the Bachelor. Maybe there are issues that are going on just forty minutes out of my picture perfect homeland. The sun beamed through my window as my eyes slowly opened. I dragged my self out of bed and went down stairs. My mom was packing up some clothes and putting it in a box. I asked her what she was doing and she explained that it was some clothes for an orphanage in Tijuana. I gently picked up the clothes in the box and noticed so many of the clothes had stains or holes. I asked my mom, “Who would wear clothes like this? They are disgusting!” My mom then began to explain that these children will wear anything that will cover their backs. They have nothing, so they appreciate everything. I didn’t think much about it and I went on my way to school. However, during the school day I couldn’t stop thinking that if they were so grateful for clothes we substitute as rags, how awful could there living conditions be? The more my mind raced through out the day, the more I felt like there had to...
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...inevitably led to its eradication. John Newton, the half-brother of Hannah More, was an ex-slave trader, according to, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p275.html, “After four years as a slave ship captain, Newton resigned his commission on the advice of his doctors. By this time his views on the trade had begun to change. Several years later, after becoming a minister, he wrote, “I think I should have quitted [the slave trade] sooner had I considered it as I now do to be unlawful and wrong. But I never had a scruple upon this head at the time; nor was such a thought ever suggested to me by any friend.” In 1770, John Newtown went on to pen one of the most famous Christian hymns that are still referenced and song around the world to this very day, “Amazing Grace.” As Wilberforce’s minister, Newton also...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most notable writers of the twentieth century. His prodigious literary voice and style provides remarkable insight into the lifestyles of the rich and famous, as well as himself. Exploring themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the American Dream, Fitzgerald based most of his subject matter on his own despicable, tragic life experiences. Although he was thought to be the trumpeter of the Jazz Age, he never directly identified himself with it and was adverse to many of its manifestations. The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald was deeply divided, in that his early successes in the 1910’s and 1920’s contrast noticeably with the years full of personal happenings and self doubt. It was divided, among all, between the pursuit of the artistic ideal and the continual lure of easy success. He became a victim of the myth of success and money instead of the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald’s incredible prose style and beautiful talent shined through his tragic, disillusioned life and he was able to successful create a beautiful world for his readers to escape to. In the early 1920’s, Fitzgerald was accepted as a symbol of youthful sophistication. He became intensely aware of the strangeness and mystery behind the rich at a young age, and tried so hard to echo their actions through sheen curiosity and characterization. It was then that he established a rich and enduring symbolic value throughout his...
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...Video games today have evolved from the basic structures of Pong and Space Invaders to have complex and film-like narratives. In many ways, games and film are very similar. Despite the similarities, how do video games approach storytelling differently than film, and does this affect the audience? The critical difference between storytelling in games and movies is how each medium engages its audience. Games transform the simple observer to a grand director. With active engagement, versus passive engagement, follows a number of other differences, including interaction, variable outcome, and player agency. The horror game Until Dawn is an applicable example of how the active engagement makes a game stand out from horror films with its outstanding...
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...standardise this process may take many forms, including observation of the structure or literary genre of the text (for example, categorising the text as a novel, poem, report or article) or perhaps the particular literary period or movement, which will link all associated texts with underlying principles or stylistic traits, such as the Romantic era or Post-Colonial literature. However, due to a long-standing patriarchal tradition dominating the history of literature- a literary practice challenged and corrected by the rise of the Feminist movement, particularly following the introduction of universal suffrage in 1928- the gender of the author has also become a means by which works may be categorised and interpreted, forcing the modern-day critic to analyse the works of each sex in isolation from one another. Political and social discriminations against women, rising from the historical lack of sexual equality, have also produced long-standing...
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...Maqbool (2003) by Vishal Bharadwaj, a modern day reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is based in the backdrop of Mumbai’s mafia kings and is a dark and very close retelling of the original text. The principal characters are played by Irfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah. While Bharadwaj has more or less retained the narrative of the original play, he does move around the settings of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Pankaj Kapur (Abbaji - Duncan) is the reigning don of Mumbai’s underworld and Tabu (Nimmi - Lady Macbeth) is his mistress who loves Kapur’s right hand man Irfan Khan (Maqbool - Macbeth). Bharadwaj has intelligently adapted the characters of the play to suit his characters and the time in which it is set by replacing the three witches or soothsayer’s of the original by two corrupt policemen with a knack for astrology, played by Om Puri (Inspector Pandit) and Naseeruddin Shah (Inspector Purohit). Macbeth, a story about personal ambition, has strong themes of violence, political turmoil and guilt. These ideas are maintained by Bharadwaj to a great extent; however the change in the characterisation of Macbeth and his Lady ensures that the overwhelming theme in the movie is also love/passion. Shakespeare’s Macbeth kills Duncan purely out of ambition; Maqbool’s motivations go beyond those of being the don. Maqbool out of love for Nimmi as well as the hearsay that Abbaji may not be as good as Maqbool originally thinks he is, leads to a scared...
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...The book Jesus’ Son is a collection of short stories by Denis Johnson published in 1992. An excerpt that helps to convey the main argument the book seeks to make about addiction comes from the story “Work,” from the bottom of page 63 until page 66. An element from this genre that helped to convey the “truth” of the book in this excerpt was the limited description of character and setting. Additionally, the use of first person narrative throughout the book serves to give the reader an experience that conveys the point of the book in terms of addiction in a way that one writing in third person would have trouble doing. Johnson’s use of these aspects in his short stories serve to express the fleeting nature of life experiences that addiction...
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...Personal narrative It was Summer 2005, I had just moved with my family to Colorado from California last year. I was still getting accustomed to the wonders of Colorado, when one day my parents told me and my younger brother that we were going to meet up with our, aunt, uncle, and 2 older cousins at pueblo reservoir. A day or two after we were told this we were woken up early so we could get to pueblo and enjoy the whole day there. We had a quick breakfast, packed some stuff for a barbeque, and piled into the massive brick of an SUV ,otherwise known as a Suburban, and we headed out, on the way I asked a few questions that any five year old would undoubtedly ask on a trip like where we were going, if we were there yet, and a few others....
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...Horse Play I was in my house peacefully in bed when my mom came up stairs in my room. My Mom yelled, “ Wake up, it’s time to go to Linda’s house!!“ Linda is my older friend. My Mom, sister, and I go there from 9:00A.M. to 12:00 in the afternoon. We were so excited to get to get to Linda’s. She’s awesome, and we love going to her house. We were ready to go. My mom almost forgot to get her car keys, but don’t worry she got them. My sister and I wanted to hurry to get in the car and go, but my mom had to lock the house doors. Then, she had to get in the car, turn it on, and then we could go. Next, we got out of the car at Linda’s. When we got out of the car at Linda’s we met her and our horse instructor Alisha. We also met the animals. The horses names are Analee, Jay, and Jay’s mother ( I forget her name ). We also met Milo the fuzzy orange cat...
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...Justin Harris Devon shiver Mohammed Awadallah Kedrin “Rex” Mckinnis Group summary Pages 1-9 The introduction is about a mishaps and why people should be satisfied with their looks. A woman from Murphy, North Carolina was officially tying the knot. Even though she was happy She wanted a better image, by getting a tan. Instead of going once a week, the woman was tripling her dosage of radiation. The day before her wedding, they found her dead in the tanning booth. The lesson to this story is don’t overdue tanning and be thankful for how you look. The tanning bed story is a warning to everyday people and famous stars. Individuals are so worried about their image. The folklore to the story is, people shouldn’t worry so much about what they look like. Tanning won’t change anything, just the color of your skin. You’re still the same individual, so increasing your visit at the tanning booths won’t do nothing but damage your skin if you overdue your visits. A contemporary story is a tale with some truth to it. They’re disagreements with contemporary stories, because audiences think the tale is bogus and are at disbelief with what is told. Unless there is actually prove, most people will check sources on the Internet for any truth within the story. Legends are passed down from generations, which often change up the origin, this makes it hard for people to have belief. A tale’s occurrence on the internet can increase a convinced impression of reliability. There is evidence...
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...his war torn country of southern Sudan. The book paints a vivid picture of the epic journey that the main character in the story, Valentino faces from the time that he flees the country to the time that he finally reaches what he thought would be the “Promised Land” in Atlanta, United States of America. He was soon to realize that even in America, life would not be a bed of roses but it would be marred by unexpected acts of violence and racial discrimination (Dave 28). One striking thing in the narrative is that the author brings out the culture of the Dinka people. For instance, polygamous nature of the Dinka people is clearly illustrated. The myth regarding the origin of the Dinka people is as well demonstrated (Bess). In regards to this origin, the Dinka people are given a choice by God to choose between the cattle and the “What is the What”. They choose the cattle which they understood better rather than “What is the What” which they did not as demonstrated in the line, "—you didn't tell us the answer: What is the What? My father shrugged. —We don't know. No one knows” (Dave 64). Through the narrative, a reader is informed on the historical background of the south Sudanese people. The relative geographical locations of the three African countries of Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya are well described, painting an unforgettable picture in the mind of the reader. The diversity in different cultures comes out clearly in the book as the main character traverses boundaries. Valentino’s...
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