...something that is beyond your power? In the memoir "Red Scarf Girl", Ji-li is a proud and fortunate girl who lives with a smile on her face. However, that all changes once the Cultural Revolution comes after her like a full speed train. "I was happy because I was always loved and respected. I was proud because I was able to excel and always expected to succeed." (Prologue, 4). Her happy and fantasy lifestyle was envied by her classmates and the rest of the poor community. But to her it was another day in her beautiful home with her family. Prior to her life changing discovery this is how Ji-li's life was in her eyes. Then in 1966 that all changed drastically. The Cultural Revolution was in full speed and her perfect and glorious life was at steak. It's the election for the Red Successors and Ji-li is up. She is already nervous as it is and it doesn't help that Du Hai is ready to pull her under. As he realizes that Ji-li is on the verge of winning he asks her an inquiry that he knows will be impossible for her to answer. "Jiang Ji-li, what is your father’s class status?” (The Red Successors, 24). With a mischievous smirk on his face he purposefully shouts, “He was a—LANDLORD." As the crowd whispers in disbelief Ji-li becomes defensive and calls him a liar. Of course she becomes...
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...I have read the “Red scarf girl” written by Ji-Li Jiang in the reading logs task, which it was provided me with the background of the Communist Party in China between 1943 and 1969. During that era, China had the leader of the Communist Party called “Mao Zedong”. He was aiming to transform China into a modern communist society through the process of “agriculturalization”. However, there were either advantages or disadvantages on a huge number of Chinese people. During 1949, Chairman Mao or Mao Zedong became one of the most powerful men in the world. He had a purpose of developing China into a modern communist society, and transforming Chinese into a higher living standard, so he decided to focus on the economy of China. He did want to solve the problem from the cause, which the huge problems of the country during his leadership were about equalization. This led him to think about solving problems of the gap between rural and urban areas, which he set the rule that the party will share out the land equally between the rich and poor....
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...that the entire world wished had never happened. In 1982 Thomas Keneally wrote Schindlers Ark which was based on the accounts from a Holocaust survivor. This story was later developed into a screenplay by Steven Zallian later to be a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg made the film to educate those who tried denying that persecution on such a grand scale ever happened. Though filmed in black and white the director chose to highlight a few images in color to draw attention and elicit emotion. The actress who portrayed “the little girl in red” is 24 years old now but the impact the film had on her disturbs her to this day. We are introduced to the girl in the screenplay on page 52; she is described as wearing small red shoes. In the movie the director chose a jacket instead of just the shoes. I think this was merely because it could be viewed easier by the audience. But why do both screenplay and movie use the color red. I believe red was chosen because it is a bold color that stands out but it is also the color of blood. It can be assumed that its significance was chosen to represent that amount of bloodshed during that time. The scene takes place in one of the ghetto’s. The screenplay describes this taking place during dawn. In the movie it appears to be later in the afternoon, but it is the weather that plays a more important role than the time of day. The movie sets the scene during a rainy and dreary day to coincide with the events that are occurring. This choice...
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...We get to see two varying prose styles when we read the works of Harriet Jacobs in Diary of a Slave Girl and Stephen Crane in The Red Badge of Courage. While one embraces the idea of realism, the other one takes a completely different route and embraces naturalism in their work. However, what is of key interest is the difference noted is the differences noted between the works of the two artists as far as the realistic and conventional nature is concerned. A review of the Diary of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs indicates that the book uses a ‘simple and attractive’ style to the extent that one feels as though they are talking to the woman herself and not just reading a book. Well, this is just about right; Jacobs uses pretty simple language....
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...The actions of the doctor serve to reiterate the fact that Annie and the people of Antigua appear as lesser beings in the eyes of their British colonizers. The Antiguan people remain slaves to their oppressive colonizers, continually aiming to please them just as Annie aims to please the Red Girl as she “hardly ask[s] [herself] what use the Red Girl could have for these gifts; [she] hardly cared that she only glanced at them for a moment and then placed them in a pocket of her dirty dress.” (64) Annie John is unable to evoke true emotion from the Red Girl with these gifts, therefore, Annie continues to give the Red Girl gifts, expecting a new emotional response with no avail. The Red Girl has no use for the gifts that Annie gives her, however, just as the colonized countries continued to give Britain goods, as soon as the gift giving stops, a new emotion of anger and resentment is taken up by both the Red Girl and the British...
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...Wolves have captivated human imagination since ancient times, and have sparked love and hate relationships among cultures that have come in contact with them. These misunderstood creatures expand their natural habitat from the northern lands of Alaska as far south as the Ethiopian highlands, exposing themselves to a rich variety of civilizations, who included them as a symbolic element of their folklore. In Europe, where the Red Riding Hood has its roots, wolves have played significant roles in many mythological tales, several portraying them as malevolent agents of chaos that must be eradicated to bring back order, so unsurprisingly, the wolf in Perrault’s and Grimm Brother’s version of the tale is no exception to this trend. Perrault’s wolf...
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...some of them are for teaching life lessons. The story Little Red Riding Hood was written partly to teach a lesson. In the French version, a young girl loses her virginity and is said to have “seen a wolf” that is what this story is based on. Little Red Riding Hood is about an innocent little girl who runs in to a wolf in the forest while she is on her way to her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother being ill, her mother had baked a cake and a pot of butter hoping that it would make her feel better; however, while Little Red Riding Hood was taking her the food to her grandmother is when she met the wolf in the forest and the wolf was thinking about attacking and devouring her but there were woodcutters working in the area and didn’t want to bring any attention on himself. However, the wolf being nice started to ask her questions and gained the trust of Little Red Riding Hood in a short time and he learned where the grandmother lived. Little Red Riding Hood being naïve she had informed him the location of her grandmother’s house to the wolf. The end result of her providing the information to the wolf was the death of her grandmother and the little Red Riding Hood because the wolf ate both of them. According to our reading, “In fiction is associated with something abstract, something broad: The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story” (Clugston, R.W., 2010, ch. 7). The theme of Little Red Riding Hood is don’t talk to strangers and the author uses...
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...1. Apply ICA to show syntactic ambiguity in the following sentences: a) Her new husband is a Greek wine merchant. b) The dog bit the woman in the bathroom. c) A British Tornado pilot survived a crash. d) Their professional development strategy failed. e) Henry photographed the woman with a cell phone. Her new husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new husband | is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek| wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek| wine | merchant. Her new husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new husband | is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek wine merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek wine |merchant. Her| new| husband| is| a| Greek| wine | merchant. The dog | bit the woman in the bathroom The dog | bit | the woman in the bathroom The dog | bit | the woman | in the bathroom The dog | bit | the | woman | in the bathroom The dog | bit | the | woman | in |the bathroom The dog | bit | the | woman | in |the | bathroom The dog | bit the woman in the bathroom The | dog| bit the woman in the bathroom. The | dog | bit the woman |in the bathroom The | dog | bit the woman | in | the bathroom The | dog | bit | the woman | in | the | bathroom. The | dog | bit | the | woman...
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...In the Woods with Red, the Wolf, and Perrault Over time, the story of Little Red Riding Hood has seen hundreds of different interpretations, versions, and changes. Charles Perrault, a 17th century author, wrote the first publication of this story to reflect that young children, particularly young girls, are wrong to listen to strangers, in this case wolves, and that in doing so, said strangers will undoubtedly get their delicious meal in the end. In Perrault’s version, the male and female are depicted in a very particular way, which is ultimately a reflection of the culture and society of the time. Given this society, and the status of women, it is clear that Perrault is criticizing the gender representation through. While Little Red Riding Hood is a classic tale, it holds a more valuable meaning than society realizes. The story of Little Red Riding Hood has a particular depiction of both men and women. In the story, men are depicted as a “metaphor, a stand-in for male seducers who lure young women into their beds.” (Tater 5). This depiction, while true, is not complete. The wolf is in fact luring Red into the bed with him, after she has taken her clothes off, and although it is not explicitly stated, the action of a girl removing her clothing and climbing into bed with a man implies a sense of sexuality. Additionally, though, the male is depicted as duplicitous and dominant. In several instances throughout the story, the wolf clearly tricks Red and her grandmother into believing...
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...Little Red Riding Hood as Depicted in Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996) Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: Little Red Riding Hood as depicted in Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996) [pic]Mathew Bright’s film Freeway is literal work that presents the Little Red Riding Hood with a preface of the verbal and visual texts. The film draws ideas from different books starting from Charles Perrault’s little riding text of 1697 (Catherine, 2002). The film further contains the depiction of the Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 1982 text. In addition, the film is based on a book review of Little Red Riding Hood as portrayed by Charles Delarue’s works on French oral tales (Zipes, 2010). The books reviews have a historical dimension in their examination of the Little Red Riding Hood. Mathew Bright’s film was produced in 1996. It features the Little Red Riding Hood. The film is referred to as the freeway and it was cast in California. Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as a generation X character discerning from the way the character is clothed. The Little Red Riding Hood is shown in the film wearing saggy trousers, a jacket made of leather and combat boots that are prominent feature in hip-pop artist attires. In examining the attire it is discerned that the attire represent the people from social underclass who are closely associated with the hip-pop culture. The Little Red Riding Hood is further characterized by a voice peculiar...
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...free website wants me to write an essay. So I will use lots of simple words and tell a dumb story about a little red rabbit. I know right a red rabbit, who has ever heard of such a thing. So one day I was walking through a forest when I came along a red rabbit, his name was peter. No not Peter cotton tail, I asked him, they aren’t related. Anyway, I met Peter by a stream and asked him why he was red, he told me that he had once been a white rabbit, but he had fallen into a strange rabbit hole, one he had never traveled into before. Peter said that he had been running away from this blonde girl who had a fetish for rabbits. Anyway he ran away from her and fell down the hole. She followed him down the hole and continued to call after him. Peter was scared; he had heard of girls like her before and had heard about what they would do to little white rabbits like him, so he ran as fast as he could. But no matter how fast Peter ran that silly girl would follow him. He finally gave up hope and ran straight to the queen. Peter knew that she would be the only person in the world that could save him from being molested by this crazy blonde girl. Peter said that as he entered the castle grounds there were some tools painting white roses red, and that was when he had his epiphany, this girl was looking for a white rabbit, so Peter jumped head first into a can of red paint, rolled around for a bit, and was able to escape the clutches of this silly little...
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...use of characters, point of view, and theme that are intended to play your heartstrings. The Student is one of the main characters. He is a romantic figure. ‘“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young Student; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose”’ (Wilde, 1888, para. 1). His heart belongs to a professor’s daughter, who has said she would dance with him if he brought her red roses. ‘“The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,’ murmured the young Student, and my love will be of the company. If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn”’ (para. 5). The Nightingale is the other main character. She is in awe of the love the Student feels for a girl. ‘“Here indeed is the true lover,’ said the Nightingale. ‘What I sing of, he suffers- what is joy to me, to him is pain. Surely, Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals”’ (para. 6). The nightingale searches for a red rose in the garden, being turned away at each stop. “’One red rose is all I want,’ cried the Nightingale, ‘only one red rose! Is there no way by which I can get it’” (para. 27)? Because of her enthrallment with the students love, the nightingale is willing to sacrifice her life so he might have the girls love. “And when the Moon shone in the heavens the Nightingale flew to the Rose-tree, and set her breast...
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...To most people, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood is a familiar one and Charles Perrault’s version is the most familiar. A moral tale against idleness and disobedience, this classic has stood the test of time. Less familiar to readers is Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” A dark retelling, Carter’s version is more an exploration of coming-of-age sexuality and a young woman discovering her own wildness than a cautionary tale against strangers and “gentle wolves” (Perrault 1576). While in Perrault’s story, Red and her granny are eaten by the beast due to Red’s idlness and in Carter’s story, we see Red’s willing surrender to the wolf, both tales deal with the burgeoning sexuality of a young girl. Charles Perrault begins his tale of Red Riding Hood with a glowing description of the young woman as “the prettiest creature who was ever seen” (1574), and the little red riding cape her grandmother made for her. The imagery evoked by the red cape for most readers is one of familiarity. As children, many watched as that little red cape traipsed across Saturday morning cartoons with carefree bliss. Conversely, that red cape serves as a beacon in the forest, a brilliant splash of primary color in a neutral world, almost guaranteeing the notice of the predator that awaits her. The wolf has no chance to miss his target, as she blazes with color through his domain. Upon their first encounter in the woods, Red has no fear of the wolf. Perrault states she “did not know it was dangerous...
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...THE REAL MEANING BEHIND LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD APRIL V. SLAUGHTER INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (ENG 125) DAVID MAKHANLALL 4 MARCH 2013 I will be describing the theme of Little Red Riding Hood, and the real meaning behind this story. The elements that I found that will be contributing to the theme, is symbolism and the point of view. The point of view is described in our text as is third-person objective, which the narrator takes a detached approach to the characters and action increasing the dramatic effect of the story (Clugston, R. W. 2010). Plot is described as “a dynamic element in fiction, a sequence of interrelated, conflicting actions and events that typically build to a climax and bring about a resolution.” (Clugston, R. W. 2010 Ch. 5) To me the theme in the story is how Little Red is coming into her own maturity. With identifying the point of view of the story, you first need to know that the narrator is not telling the story in the first-person point of view, the first-person point of view is when one of the characters in the story, telling their own thoughts or feelings. Third-person point of view is when the narrator is not a character in the story. There are a couple different types of third-person point of view, omniscient, and objective. Omniscient point of view is when the narrator is knows or can relate to the characters, there is a second type of omniscient point of view is limited omniscient point of view which is when the narrator relates only...
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...A huntsman saved Little Red Hood and her granny after they were eaten alive by a wolf. Wolf tricked Hood into picking flower as he headed down the road to granny’s home. When he arrived to the home he knocked at the door and entered after receiving no response. Wolf then ate granny alive when he got to her room. According to Sarah Griffiths in her article on history of Little Red Hood states that Little Red Hood’s story first appeared in Europe during the first century. The story of this young girl dates back to about 2,000 years ago and is considered to be a folktale. “It's a story told around the world. Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her grandmother, only to discover that a wolf has eaten the old lady, dressed in her clothes, and now...
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