... The Dube Train by Themba Can The Dube Train by Can Themba The coffee-cart girl by Es’kia Mphahlele Important summary of the NOVEL: [pic] [pic] Important to remember! The Setting: This is the background of where and when the story takes place. It may be in one time and place or change through the story. The setting is important to understand the theme and the characters. Plot: This is what happens in the story (sequence of events) Some novels have a lot of action in the story line BUT some are very “slow” and nothing seems to happen. All the action is then “inside” the characters’ hearts and minds....
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...prisoners feel. She even tries to imagine Jesus as being one of the prisoners (p.2, l. 40), and this just shows that she is very good at putting herself in other people’s shoes. In the prison she also helps to run the Enhanced Thinking Skills (p. 3, l.91). She is a kind, genuine person, and she is very nervous when she has to tell Victor that his Nan is dead, because she is scared that he’ll get upset (p. 2, l. 55). Evie is fragile, but she is also a very loving and caring person, and as soon as she sees the young Victor, she imagines him being her son (p.3, l. 75). Victor is very young, so her loving heart immediately feels sorry for him. Victor is described as a young, good-looking boy (p.3, l. 75). He has olive skin, sparkling eyes and a big, white smile with a glint of gold filling (p.4, l. 136). He is a catholic, but he’s not very practicing. Instead he likes to...
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...consequences that they may change our future drastically, for the better and worse. People are quick to judge others for their wrongdoings, and are often so narrow-minded by their prejudice and stereotypes that the reason behind others wrongdoings becomes irrelevant matter. This is exact-ly the topic where Keehan takes at hand in the story, where the female prison chaplain Evie, con-fronts a young charming prisoner, condemned for murder, who reveals to be everything but what she had expected him to be. The story takes place in prison; however we are not given a name of the place or the location. There are hints that indicated that it´s somewhere in England, since a tearoom is mentioned, and tearooms are characteristic for England. The plot of the story proceeds chronologically and starts in medias res with no introduction as to where we are or whom we´re going to meet. This story has a 3rd person narrator with a restricted point of view also called limited omniscient, where the narrator doesn´t have full access to the thoughts of anybody but the main character, Evie. Keehan has chosen this point of view to make the reader sympathize with Evie. The narrator is not a participant in the story, and the restricted narrator gives no access to the mind of Victor, the young inmate, or the officer. If we knew the thoughts of these we could have a clearer picture of the situation; what does Victor really think about the fact that his Nan just had died, and what is the officers real intentions...
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...The sandwich factory By Jason Kennedy The short story The Sandwich Factory is written by Jason Kennedy in 2007. The plot takes place at a sandwich factory in 1994.. The narrator of the story, who we follow through the story is 1st person narrator, we gets his own view of the factory. One thing we should remember while reading the story is that we hear the thoughts and opinions from his point of view, so that doesn’t necessarily that it’s all true. We know that he is a male only because someone at the factory wants to find him a female partner. He works at the factory, so we meet him there. He gives us an impression that the employees are no longer considered as humans nor individuals. They are just one of many. The narrator realizes in the end of the story, that he don’t want to be a part of the factory anymore, because they threatens to turn the humans into machines, by thwarting the development of the peoples emotions and imaginations. The language is full of humor and irony, for example is Dot described as one who would have been an excellent pirate, given both blowjobs and sandwiches to the seagulks. Dot has lost her soul by the monotonous work, like many of the other workers, and now she is giving blowjobs to strange guys at the nightclub. Another co-worker we hear about always looks afraid when he interacts with the narrator. He is alienated from his colleagues and is not used to human contact. The narrator is unlike the others, and has not turned...
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...------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the Loss How is it possible that a young man who has been an inmate for at least five years, can still have glowing white teeth, glowing skin and a big grin? Why is a knife that has been made to kill and slice been named after an innocent creature such as a butterfly? We have all these weird questions, as to why two very different things, which clearly make up contrasts, are put together. Why is this, really? There are no answers, or in fact there might be all the answers in the world. You decide and you create the truth. In the literature of the 21st century we are allowed to make up our own truths. Bridget Keehan takes us on a journey in Sorry for the Loss where these questions pop up more than once. In the following I will try to make up my own truth to these questions. The plot of the story proceeds chronologically and starts in medias res; this means that we are thrown into the story, with no introduction as to where we are or whom we are going to meet. A third person narrator with a restricted point of view, the narrator is not a participant in the story, tells Sorry for the Loss. A restricted point of view, also called limited omniscient, means that the narrator does not have full access to the thoughts of anybody but the main character, in this case Evie the Catholic chaplain. The restrictive narrator gives no access to the minds of Victor, the young inmate, or the officer. If we knew the thoughts of these...
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...film is the joker. The film starts with a bank robbery. We see a group of robbers with mask. It gets audience into the story directly, and from the first scene, we get a quick idea of what kind of character the joker is. The story is told basically in two parallel lines, one for Bruce Wayne, and the other one for the joker. This structure reminds me of some Michael Mann films, like Heat, and Public Enemies. Those films all have a long story line, and they also have several parallel story lines running at the same time. They all structured generally in the same way, which is: Protagonist/Antagonist story They have some conflicts They meet in a way without violence involved Protagonist/Antagonist story keeps going on Climax, big conflict. I think this is a well-thought structure. For this structure, it requires a complicated protagonist and an also complicated antagonist, so that it can help establish the cause and effect. The story of The Dark Knight is actually quite simple if you look at it in a simple way. It’s just about how Batman takes the joker down and how he becomes the dark knight of the Gotham city. But if we have to add more details to it, then it will become way more complicated. However, we can break down the film, and divide them into parts. I’ll divide the story this way: how Batman deals with the mobs/ how Joker deals with the mobs Joker starts to offer Batman troubles Batman has to turn himself in Harvey Dent declares that he is...
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...films are the present-day version of the epic poems and ballads told round the fires of our ancestors. Horror movies of the 1970s reflect the grim mood of the decade. After the optimism of the 1960s, with its sexual and cultural revolutions, and the moon landings, the seventies was something of a disappointment. By 1970, the party was over; the Beatles split, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix died, while John Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King were all felled by an assassin’s bullet. These tragedies seemed to be just the first domino to fall, for then came Nixon, Nam, oil strikes, Watergate, and when society goes bad, horror films tend to get a resurgence, as a result of this turmoil, the 1970s marked a return to the big budget, respectable horror film, dealing with contemporary societal issues, addressing genuine psychological fears. It was within these times that horror was once again considered a dead genre. Much like the Western movies were...
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...ROMEO AND JULIET Submitted by: John Hansenn M.Ravara II-Humility Submitted to: Mrs.Abiol William Shakespeare The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. National Portrait Gallery, London. | Born | Baptised 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,England | Died | 23 April 1616 (aged 52) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,England | Occupation | Playwright, poet, actor | Nationality | English | Spouse(s) | Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616) | Children | * Susanna Hall * Hamnet Shakespeare * Judith Quiney | Relative(s) | * John Shakespeare (father) * Mary Shakespeare (mother) | SUMMARY: We meet our hero, Romeo, after a duel between the servants of two enemy families of Verona: the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo Montague is pining away for Rosaline, a girl we never see. Juliet Capulet, age thirteen, has just heard that Paris, Verona's attractive young bachelor, would like to marry her. The two will meet that night at a masquerade ball at the Capulets' house. Romeo and his friends have decided to crash the Capulet ball – in costume – because Rosaline is on the guest list. Romeo meets Juliet there instead, and they fall madly in love. Afterwards, they discover they are members of rival families, but they are still in love. Romeo stays after the party under Juliet's balcony, and the two use this romantic meeting to plan their marriage. Hasty, but genuine. Juliet hears from the Nurse that...
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...Coyotes main goal on his journey is to kill the giant. The basic situation for both stories are similar because the main character wants to accomplish something big...
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...*Plot Twist* *Plot Twist* *Time Change* *Time Change* Slant rhyme Slant rhyme * 10 stanzas * AABCCB * Except for stanzas 5,6,10 * 6 line stanzas * Except lines 6 and 9 * Cash’s accent makes the 4th and 5th lines of the 10th stanza sound like they rhyme (slant rhyme) * 10 stanzas * AABCCB * Except for stanzas 5,6,10 * 6 line stanzas * Except lines 6 and 9 * Cash’s accent makes the 4th and 5th lines of the 10th stanza sound like they rhyme (slant rhyme) And he said: "Son, this world is rough And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along. So I give ya that name and I said goodbye I knew you'd have to get tough or die And it's the name that helped to make you strong." He said: "Now you just fought one hell of a fight And I know you hate me, and you got the right To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do. But ya ought to thank me, before I die, For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you "Sue.'" I got all choked up and I threw down my gun And I called him my pa, and he called me his son, And I came away with a different point of view. And I think about him, now and then, Every time I try and every time I win, And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name! And he said: "Son, this world is...
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...“Since its debut in 1965, Frank Herbert's Dune has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling science fiction novel of all time. Frank Herbert's Dune saga is one of the greatest 20th Century contributions to literature.” [1] This is just one quote of many that exemplifies the critical acclaim and groundbreaking development that the multi-award winning novel Dune has achieved. Now Dune is a soft science fiction novel meaning that it does not focus on technology, so don’t worry if you're not a big science fiction fan, that is not the focus of the book. Dune presents the deeply intricate and philosophically challenging galactic empire, under the rule of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, who instructs the house Atreides, of whom the protagonist Paul is the heir of, to take control of the fief-planet of Arrakis, known as Dune....
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...shoved him firmly against the wall, he recognized Bobby’s hair. Jeff was never the courageous and heroic type, but decided to stay a little longer would things escalate to serious degree. The man’s voice was getting louder and more angry while Bobby sounded more submissive and in fear after each response. Jeff couldn’t quite make-up what was being said, but by hearing the tone of the two individuals he was ready to intervene. Once the man put a knife up Bobby’s throat, he had no choice but to separate the two. Do not be confused, Jeff was no hero, but he was no coward either and was raised with a strong moral sense. With an authoritative and deepest voice his vocal cord could possibly hit, he said “Hey! What’s going on over here?”. Without making any eye contact, the man responded “we’re just having a conversation nothing to worry about”. Not convinced at all, Jeff replied “This doesn’t look like a conversation to me.” The man’s eyes widened as big as an owl’s, the man turned his head and noticed Jeff was just a boy. He slowly closes his knife, stares at Bobby for a few seconds, then calmly walks by Jeff who could not quite make up the details of his face as it seemed fairly blurry. On the outside Jeff seems contained, but on the inside is completely terrified. For a brief moment he takes a couple deep breathes, then looks at Bobby covered in sweat and frozen like a statue. He then asks him what that was about and he replied “Nothing just business things, forget what just happened”...
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...Zack Protzmann Miss Paugh English 9 February 18, 2010 Three different fathers How does Atticus Finch, Mr. Walter Cunningham and Bob Ewell’s parenting differ? How are Jem and Scout Finch, Mayella Ewell and Walter Cunnungham treated by their fathers? Are the actions made by their fathers reflected on the children? Atticus Finch is kind to Jem and Scout. Mr. Walter Cunningham treats Walter well and teaches him to never take anyrhing that he cannot give back. Bob Ewell is a heavy drinker and beats Mayella. Sout and her brother Jem go through many different experiences as they become older. Their father Atticus is defending a black man which was unacceptable in their time period. They are ridiculed, threatened and even attacked because of it. Their neighbor and friend Miss Maudie’s house burns down. Atticus Finch, Mr. Walter Cunningham and Bob Ewell parent differently in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus Finch treats his children, Jem and Scout very well. Jem is growing and is very moody at the age of 12. Scout asks Atticus if he reckons Jem has a tapeworm. Atticus says, “No, Jem [is] growing. [You] must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible(153).” Atticus shows slight annoyance during the stressful trial period. His voice shows how stressed out the trial is making him. Scout runs Jem’s comb up and down the edhe of his dresser. Atticus says, “Stop that noise(178).”Atticus is kind to his children and only...
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...ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have one never-ending party. Wine, women, music, dancing, fools – Prospero's castle has it all. After the last guest enters, no one else can get in – the Prince has welded the doors shut. That means no one can get out, either… About five or six months into his stay, Prospero decides to have a spectacular masquerade ball (a ball where the guests where masks and costumes). The setup is weird and wild, just like the Prince who designs it. The ball takes place in a suite of seven rooms, each one dressed up in a different color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. The black room, which looks like death, is awfully creepy – it's got dark black walls, blood red windows, and big black clock which chimes so eerily every hour that everybody at the party stops dancing and laughs nervously. Most of the frolicking masqueraders are too weirded out to go into the black room. Anyway, the party's in full swing and everybody's having a wild time when the clock strikes midnight. Everyone stops dancing and falls momentarily silent, as usual. Then some of the dancers notice a guest no one had seen before, wearing a scandalous costume. Whoever the new guest is, he's decided to dress as a corpse, a corpse who died of…the Red Death. He's so frighteningly lifelike (deathlike?) he freaks everybody out, and he slowly starts "stalking" through the frightened crowd. When Prince Prospero sees the ghostly guest, he's...
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...Jonathan Hoyer LIT 369: Short Fiction/Honors Dr. Quan Ha 4/9/13 Psychoanalytic Objectification of Women – When Women Literally Become Objects (Revised) The story “The Babysitter” is fraught with sexual language, addressing sexual behavior directly and nonchalantly in discussing characters’ interactions with non-sexual objects. Psychoanalysis relies on the Oedipus Complex; the assumption that male behavior is a result of a deep-seeded unconscious “castration anxiety,” whereupon a young boy loves his mother and wants to have sex with her and competes with the father, resulting in an unconscious fear that his father will castrate him. In adulthood, a male “fetishizes female beauty as a way of defending against the anxiety brought about by the spectacle of woman as representing ‘lack’ or castration” (Gabbard, 161). This fetishizing female beauty, or in other words, objectifying women, is a defense mechanism against castration anxiety. Psychoanalysis offers multiple explanations for the objectification of women. Objectification is also considered to be a result of the disturbance of the relationship between mother and baby. Objectification is a compensation for the loss of “the blissful relationship with a mother who has no autonomy or otherness but exists only to serve the baby’s needs” (Gabbard 166). Objectification, then, is a result of the male trying to recreate this perfect maternal symbiosis in which the mother serves the baby’s needs, and is essentially used as an...
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