...Greifswald Proseminar Theme: Sinclair Ross’ short storie “The Lamp at Noon” Thesis: The natural phenomenons in the short stories can not only be seen as antagonist but also as protagonist Katharina Joachim English/History LA GYM 4th semester Contents 1. Introduction 2. Nature phenomenon and its influence in “A lamp at Noon” p. p. 2.1. The influence on the relationship between Ellen and Paul p. 2.2. The problems for the baby and its relationships to its parents 2.3. Ross describtions of the nature phenomenons 3. Conclusion 4. Bibliography p. p. p. p. 2 1. Introduction In my term paper I want to discuss if the nature phenomenons in the short story “A Lamp at Noon” written by Sinclair Ross (1908-1996) have such a loom large that they can be seen as a protagonist. During my research I found the statement: (D)ie enge Verbindung von Mensch und natürlicher Umwelt, welche in ihren extremen klimatischen Verhältnissen [...] immer wieder übermächtig und indifferent grausam gegenüber den ums […] Überleben kämpfende Farmersleuten, ja beinahe als >Protagonist< erscheint. (Gross 158) I found that point of view very interessting and that is way I will discuss this theses. A protagonist is “the main character in a play, film/movie or book [...]” (Wehmeier) Even though the nature phenomenons can’t be the protagonist as such because they are not represented by a character, they have an important situation in the short story. Obvious is that the nature phenomenons...
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...Georgina Sime, Sinclair Ross, and Margaret Laurence all share one key element in their respective short stories. That common element is the fact that all three short stories’ settings directly impact the lifestyle, but, more importantly, the growth and decisions of the people (the individual and the wider society) involved. To begin with, Sime’s urban realism is used to depict the life of a woman during World War I. She discusses and expands on the idea of the new woman. Furthermore, she notes and how the emergence of this idea of the new woman had a great impact on society and the individual. More specifically, she points out how women went from noiseless to being heard. Furthermore, as we move from urban life to the prairies, Ross explores what is means to live and the effects of living in the prairies with prairie realism. The mother in Ross’ “The Runaway” experiences anger as a result of the great depression and the lifestyle...
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...Alcock Table of Contents Introduction About Short Stories The Writer Synopsis Elements Activities Beyond The Text Assessment Answer Key Glossary Panel of Writers [pic] SHORT STORY Welcome to the World of Literature and to Short Stories! We hope you will enjoy working with this guidebook, which has been specially designed to help you prepare your students enjoy the Literature Component of the KBSM English Language syllabus. A brief explanation of the short story genre has been provided together with suggested activities, teaching steps and worksheets/handouts. An answer key with suggested answers has been provided at the end of the guide to assist you. There is also an assessment section with contextual questions and ideas for authentic assessment and a glossary at the end of each story. We recommend that the activities in this guidebook be adapted for your students’ needs and be carried out creatively in order to develop students’ appreciation and critical analysis of the short stories. Be ready to listen to students’ views and opinions, and encourage them to work out the answers. It is our sincere hope that the activities and worksheets in this guidebook will act as a springboard for your own ideas and methods of exploring the individual stories. SHORT STORY What is a Short Story? Can you explain what makes a short story? Well, a short story is a short piece of fiction aiming at unity of characterization...
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...Popular poems: * A Very Short Song * A Dream Lies Dead * "Star Light, Star Bright--" * A Certain Lady * Résumé * A Fairly Sad Tale * Afternoon * August Popular poems: * A Very Short Song * A Dream Lies Dead * "Star Light, Star Bright--" * A Certain Lady * Résumé * A Fairly Sad Tale * Afternoon * August Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the Hollywood blacklist. 1920: Parker's caustic wit as a critic initially proved popular, but she was eventually terminated by Vanity Fair in 1920 after her criticisms began to offend powerful producers too often. 1925: When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, Parker and Benchley were part of a "board of editors" established by Ross to allay concerns of his investors. 1934: In 1934, she married Alan Campbell, an actor with aspirations to become a screenwriter. 1936: At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and...
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...himself, suspicious of Macbeth’s thirst to be on top. He begins to start determining whether or not he should make a visit to the witches, when the sound of roaring trumpets tear through the silence. In comes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth along with two of their most loyal noblemen Lennox and Ross. Macbeth then announces that he will be holding a banquet in the evening and Banquo is to be honored as the chief guest. Banquo states that he must ride in the afternoon but will return for the banquet. Later that evening the festivities begin. The first to arrive consist of Lennox, Ross, and other loyal noblemen and women of the land. Everyone is standing around enjoying themselves when Ross realizes something. He walks towards a group of people whom one of them is a good friend of his, Lennox. Ross pulls him to the side to ask “Who is that strange man Macbeth is talking with?” Lennox looks over his shoulder to see Macbeth talking to a man he has never seen before.” I don’t know, but I’ve never seen Macbeth looks so uneasy,” says Lennox. Just then the mysterious man makes a swift exit. “Must have just been a peasant, a beggar of some sort” Ross points out.” Yeah, must be” Lennox says suspiciously. In a short time, Macbeth announces that the feast will take place, directing his guest to the dining table. Everyone makes their way to the table to sit. Everyone except for Macbeth. He stands at the end of the table addressing his guests. Declaring that the banquet would be perfect if only Banquo...
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...Life of an Author Submitted to: Devy Ann Matias Submitted By: Kyla Ryce Pacleb Grade 10- San Pedro Calungsod Veronica Roth Personal Life Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988 in New York City, and was raised primarily in Barrington, Illinois. Her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter who resides in Barrington. She is the youngest of three children. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her mother has since remarried to Frank Ross, a financial consultant for landscaping companies. Her brother and sister live in the Chicago area. She is of German and Polish descent. Roth says of her father: "He had a job, and worked far away. Now I have a good relationship with my stepdad ".Her maternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors, whose religious convictions pushed her mother away from religion. Veronica Roth learned about Christianity by attending a Christian Bible study during her high school years, and has stayed with it. Roth graduated from Barrington High School. After attending a year of college at Carleton College, she transferred to Northwestern University for its creative writing program. She married photographer Nelson Fitch in 2011. They reside in the Chicago area. Career Veronica Roth is best known for her trilogy of novels: Divergent, Insurgent,...
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...Atwood’s Rapunzel Syndrome in “The Painted Door” Ever since it’s publishing by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s “Rapunzel” has become more than just another short story, it’s become an element of literature. The struggle between a woman and the ties holding her from happiness has become a vital part to an increasing number of literary works both Canadian and otherwise. Canadian literature can often be placed under Margaret Atwood’s literary analysis “Survival a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature”. In this it is stated that women in Canadian literature frequently suffer from Rapunzel Syndrome (209). In the Rapunzel Syndrome there are four elements: Rapunzel the main character; the wicked witch who has imprisoned her [...]; the tower she’s imprisoned in [...]; and the Rescuer (Atwood 209). Sinclair Ross’s short story “The Painted Door” is an example of how all of these elements can be present in Canadian literature. The Rapunzel Syndrome requires a wicked witch who imprisones Rapunzel to her tower. In “The Painted Door” John can be seen as this wicked witch who is responsible for trapping his wife, Rapunzel to her tower. After deciding to visit his father before the storm his wife expresses genuine concern about the undertaking. John disregards her pleas to stay and convinces her that she will be safe. Although John is at fault for trapping his wife he is by no means wicked. He loves his wife deeply and has only good intentions in mind; keeping his father and her...
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...A former cop gets entangled with the murder of the Mayor and the Mayor’s secretary. STORY COMMENTS PREY presents as a mystery thriller. The opening sets the tone with the murder of the Mayor. This creates a mystery regarding who the killer is. The goal appears to be clear: catch a killer and the stakes feel high. The tone is dramatic. However, the real hook is the mysterious woman who leaves her raincoat with the protagonist, Jude Stevens. The idea that the woman disappears is a smart story choice. Good anticipation is created. The audience wants to know more. However, allegedly she’s been gone for 20 minutes, but when Stevens talks to the concession stand worker, who says the woman just left with two men. It seems unlikely that it would take her twenty minutes to get popcorn or that the two men would be standing around with her for twenty minutes before leaving. Also, Steven goes...
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...The author Sinclair Ross writes the short story The Lamp at Noon to inform the reader that stubbornness can lead to upsetting and unfortunate events. Throughout the story, the main characters, Paul and Ellen make poor decisions which lead to the avoidable and upsetting death of their child. Two stubborn decisions the parents make are, Ellen failing to feed her child when he is hungry and Paul having false hopes that his farm will one day be successful. First of all, when Ellen’s child is hungry she fails to feed him right away and tells him to “Sleep…It's too soon for [him]to be hungry”(Ross 1). Although this event is not significant on its own, it gives the reader insight into how Ellen handles her role as a mother. Knowing her child is hungry,...
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...“Science Fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it’s the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself” (Bradbury and Ross). This quote expresses Ray Bradbury’s love for what he wrote, and why he wrote in a genre that wasn’t respected until he changed that. Bradbury was an American author who wrote in the Great Depression to early twenty first century era. He wrote primarily science fiction, but he also wrote poetry, fantasy, drama, mystery fiction, nonfiction, and a few children’s books. He is best known for his short story collection titled The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury became a distinguished author by the influence of other great authors, life experiences like publishing his own fan magazine, as well as his own cutting-edge style, these commodities granted Bradbury with many well-deserved awards. Reading the works of great authors influenced Bradbury’s writing that shaped the type of writing he did in his time. Bradbury said himself that his exceptional writing skills came from “stuffing myself [Bradbury] constantly with the works of Shakespeare, Pope,...
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... | | | COVER STORY Is Wilbur Ross Crazy? Like a fox, maybe. His bets on steel plants, textile mills, and other woebegone assets are risky, but they're paying off A damp November wind blows off Lake Erie and across the Cleveland steel works, leaving a dusting of snow on the hulking metal buildings, many of which have long since fallen into disrepair. A rusting monument to America's industrial past, the Cleveland plant once employed some 18,000 workers who manufactured 500 different kinds of steel used in everything from General Motors (GM ) cars to Maytag (MYG ) appliances. These days, the sprawling site, which spans both banks of the Cuyahoga River, is largely still. Just two mills, manned by about 1,200 workers are still operating, although at something far below capacity. To most observers, the Cleveland plant looks like the last gasp of a dying Rust Belt behemoth, but not to Wilbur L. Ross. Ross is a collector of the junked, the unloved, the wretched refuse of an economy that has mostly given up making things in favor of buying them elsewhere. Ross, who picked up the plant for a song in February, 2002, is almost laughably contrarian. In May, he added mammoth Bethlehem Steel to his International Steel Group Inc. He has also bet big on Japanese banks, Korean insurance, U.S. textiles, and telecom. All are part of his growing empire of the damned. QUICK TURNAROUNDS At 66, an age when peers are looking toward retirement, Ross is taking on more risk, bigger...
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...Healthy Grieving: A Comparative Analysis Introduction To compare and contrast the grieving process as defined by Kübler-Ross with the Bible story of Job can be a beneficial study. By comparing these processes and also other religion's grieving processes, such as those in Judaism, and by looking at the relationship between ones joy and the grieving models discussed we can better understand human emotion and Gods expectations. By reviewing these methods and comparing them with my own grieving method my views have been altered, perhaps it will make a difference in yours as well. Grieving process Grieving is a healthy reaction to loss. God made people to have emotions, and it’s perfectly expectable for us to grieve when we are sad. Exercising our emotions is healthy. Those who bottle up their feelings can make their grief seem unbearable. Kubler-Ross attempts to break down the stages of grief to help us expect what we might feel or what others might feel when they go through loss. Kübler-Ross ' The five stages that Kubler-Ross sets before us are; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance were first published in her seminal book On Death & Dying in 1969. These 5 stages were posed to help people understand grief and what we as humans go though when we face hard times such as sickness and death. Denial is the person simply refusing to believe the bad news. Anger is when we get upset over the circumstances set before us. Bargaining is trying to make a deal with...
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...Miscommunication in The Lamp at Noon In literature, authors often present characters who come from different backgrounds and fail to communicate. In the short story The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross, a series of events trigger post Paul and Ellen’s argument which leads to a family disaster. Paul and Ellen’s different way of life before their coupling gives them different points of views. This leads to their dispute and resulting in the terrible decision to be made which results in the death of the baby. Therefore in the short story The Lamp at Noon, Different lifestyles prior to marriage lead to miscommunication resulting in tragedy. Ellen grew up in the city working as a young teacher in town while Paul grew up in the suburb as a farmer boy. She is use to moving around and “loves shiny things” but that is not provided with her life with Paul. Because of the sand storm, baby and living the farmers life during the great depression, she is unable to leave the house without conflict, causing her to feel trapped like a sealed jar. She claims: “I'm still young— I wasn't brought up this way” (pg. 67) Paul is blind by his pride at the opportunity to work for Ellen’s dad following their argument. “‘you’re a farmer’s wife now. It doesn't matter what you use to be or how you were brought up’” (pg. 67). Their difference in life styles prior to marriage is heavily displayed when Paul says: “It doesn't matter what you use to be”. Paul claims that Ellen had a different life before...
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...character that are able to put the happiness of other people before their own. People will often claim that they are motivated by making other people happy, but this is simply not true. The short story The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross exemplifies this as a young woman, Ann, is exceedingly selfish and has little regard or thankfulness for her kind selfless husband John. Ann is primarily motivated by her own desires and throughout the story she finds ways to justify her egotistical ways. Unfortunately, these kinds of people are always detrimental to societies and will always cause more harm than they do...
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...friends as a source for comfort and security has sky rocketed. However, in the Warner Brother’s hit sitcom, “Friends,” the life of Ross Geller takes the idea too far—those familiar with the show will remember the endless scenes of all six friends lounging around, often either talking in the coffee house, or in Monica’s apartment. However, the viewer will also struggle to remember where each character does for a living, and remembering any scenes that depict them at their jobs because, with the possible exception of Rachel during her waitressing years, the characters are rarely shown to work. Ross is the most unrealistically portrayed of them all: as a palaeontologist who also is a professor at New York University, and being a father sharing custody with an ex-wife it is difficult to understand how he has the time to socialize as much as the show depicts him too. “Friends” provides an unrealistic portrayal of how active Ross Geller’s social life is in comparison to his work and family commitments during the late 20th and early 21st century. Friends shows that most adults will frequently be able to engage in sexual intercourse regularly and with many different partners in the span of a few years. While Ross is typically the quiet, bookish friend of the show, and is certainly less crazed for sex than Joey, over the course of ten seasons the viewer sees Ross’ three divorces and development of several sexual relationships with new women more often than what many other adults are experiencing...
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