...Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and Langston Hughes’ “On the Road” Alice Walker stated, “the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Power is a mental attribute. Many people put boundaries around themselves. These self-imposed boundaries result in anguish, despair, pity, and ultimately a sense of powerlessness. Sometimes these boundaries are not only self-imposed, but society-imposed. The protagonists in Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and Langston Hughes’ “One the Road both suffer through a state of powerlessness imposed on them by a racial prejudice society. This state of powerlessness provides both a physical and mental effect upon the protagonists. Victor, the protagonist in “The Long Ranger,” is a Native-American man that lives in Seattle, Washington. He lives with his girlfriend (who is a white woman) and drinks frequently. He is unemployed and eventually moves back to his reservation. Sargeant, the protagonist in “On the Road,” is a Black-American man. He is unemployed and looks for salvation at a church. The church refuses his pleas. He acts in rage, and subsequently, he is arrested and jailed. Racism in America has a long-standing tradition from the “March of Tears” to “Bloody Sunday.” Racism is “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another...
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...are many symbolic features that serve to enhance the description of Phoenix Jackson’s journey to town. From the biblical references and birds, to the protagonist’s name, and the windmill, Welty effectively implements a series of symbols to further develop the true meaning behind Jackson’s journey. There are many examples of symbols in “A Worn Path,” that symbolize biblical events. Phoenix says, “…and the good Lord made his snakes to curl up and sleep in the winter. A pleasure I don’t see no two-headed snake coming around that tree, where it come once. It took a while to get by him, back in the summer” (385). The snake symbolizes the serpent among the Garden of Eden who tempts Eden to stray from her intended...
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...aunt and uncle, but when the uncle tries to abuse her, she leaves their house. She finds an apartment and a job as a waitress. A young man in the restaurant quickly finds her interesting, and Akunna says yes to go on a date with him, after he has persistently tried to ask her out. They are in a relationship until she gets a letter, informing her that her father is dead. She travels back to Nigeria without her boyfriend even though he offers to travel back with her. America is the land of opportunities, but are these opportunities for everybody? At first Akunna’s family have many expectations to America and thinks that people living in the country gets a big car, house and a gun. Therefore, the country is from their point of view a land of prosperity. However, when the protagonist first arrives to the USA, she gets a “big hot dog with yellow mustard that nauseated you” . She is nauseated by America and never gets a car, house and gun. Instead, she ends up not being able to go to school because she needs to work in order to earn enough money so she can afford not to live with her uncle. So according...
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...Beckman describes femme fatale as having an enigmatic relation between visibility and truth. She is never quite what she seems to be even though she is highly visible. She is attractive and threatening at the same time. An alluring secret that needs to be revealed (p25). Beckman states that she often alternates between active and passive (26). They use their sexuality to control and manipulate the man into doing her bidding, often these tasks are immoral acts that will benefit her, however, it would bring eventual destruction for the man. The femme fatales is often brought to justice and punished by the protagonist, ultimately she gets destroyed. Beckman adds that “the dangerous woman is almost always punished for her threat to masculinity and male power. The strong, independent, and sexually provocative femme fatale is typically subdued toward the end of the film noir, through her death, her abandonment, or her "rescue" from moral decline by a man. If it is correct that a certain Hollywood realism tends to confirm a patriarchal status quo through coordinating the gradual unmasking of the sexual power of the woman with the "epistemological drive of the narrative," then this tradition of narrative continuity itself must be of interest” (p 26-27). Often films would have another female character that acted as her idealistic double - the pure, virtuous...
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...because the two types of literature are wrote differently. “The Most Dangerous Game” is escape literature; it’s adventurous and unrealistic, written for pleasure, while “The Child by Tiger” is interpretive literature it teaches about the world around us and helps one understand deeper issues. In both stories, the characters show different sides to themselves they show their good side and fool people thinking they are someone they are not and eventually show their evil side. Fiction Essay In both “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child by Tiger” both men are portrayed very civilized and kind, but both authors show how people can change in an instance and become murderers. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Sanger Rainsford is the story protagonist he is an intelligent renowned hunter who believes the world consist of only predators and pray. As he is traveling on a yacht for Rio de Janeiro with a friend named Whitney she points out a mysterious island that people named Ship-Trap Island. Whitney becomes tired and wants to go bed, but Rainsford stays ups to have another smoke. While he is up, he hears gunshots in the direction of the island. Rainsford leans to far over and falls overboard, he calls for help no one hears him to save himself he swims to the Island in hope to find someone since he heard gunshots from that direction. Once he reaches the island he passes out because of the long swim, the next morning he begins to look for help as he is walking he finds blood and...
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...AP LIT TERMS 1. Allegory: figurative treatment of one subject under the appearance of another. George Orwell's 1984 (ex. Big Brother: Stalin, Airstrip One: Soviet Russia), Shakespeare's All the World's a Stage (metaphor of human lives being as in a play) 2. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter or the same consonant sound in words that are together. Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven(While I nodded, nearly napping...) 3. Allusion: A casual reference to a significant figure from the past Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("...when King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!": Allusion to an old legend) 4. Ambiguity: An unclear, indefinite, or vague word, expression, meaning, etc J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye(“... I’m quite a heavy smoker, for one thing—that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That’s also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff..."-"Here" and "there" are ambiguous) 5. Analogy: A comparison that shows the likenesses in two things Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet("What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called.": Compares Romeo to a rose and says a rose is sweet smelling no matter how you call it.) 6. Anaphora: The repetition of words in two or more successive clauses, sentences, or verses J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye("It rained on his lousy tombstone...
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...A SORROWFUL WOMAN The following short story is a study of the gradual disintegration of a human personality. In keeping with the "once upon a time" lead, the style is similar to a fairy tale except that "happily ever after" does not happen. The reader should consider the monotonously repetitive tasks taken over by the husband and later shared with the live in girl and compare these with the usual tasks of men in their jobs at the office or wherever. Then, consider how all of this relates to the final "legacy" of food, laundry, and sonnets. Once upon a time there was a wife and mother one too many times One winter evening she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tender golden three. The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again. She told the husband these thoughts. He was attuned to her; he understood such things. He said he understood. What would she like him to do? "If you could put the boy to bed and read him the story about the monkey who ate too many bananas, I would be grateful." "Of course," he said. "Why, that's a pleasure." And he sent her off to bed. The next night it happened again. Putting the warm dishes away in the cupboard, she turned and saw the child's grey eyes approving her movements. In the next room was the man, his chin sunk in the open collar of his favorite wool shirt. He was dozing after her good supper. The shirt was the grey of the child's trusting gaze. She began yelping without...
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...much controversy over its precise nature. Over the years, society has become misguided by materialistic and superficial values, and we’ve defined ourselves as “individuals” while disconnecting from everyone and everything. Friendship no longer carries significant philosophical importance to us because we live in a world where individualism predominates. Dawn Powell’s “Big Night” accurately depicts a time when all values are being overtaken by business values. The characters in the play all act with ulterior selfish motives, and Powell accentuates this theme of disillusionment through the dialogue and the characters’ interactions with each other. She encourages the reader to question the legitimacy of the characters’ “friendships” and makes the reader wonder, “Are Ed and Myra really husband and wife, or are they merely two different people using one another for their own gain?” This idea of “false friendship” can also be seen in the teachings of Greek philosopher, Aristotle. Aristotle knew the necessities of friendship, but also realized the different forms that friendship could take shape of. The characters of “Big Night” all together effectively represent a form of Aristotle’s friendship that is ultimately based on utility. Friendship is necessary to life and in a way, one can say the friends around us may define who we are. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he elaborately discusses three different kinds of friendship: friendship based on utility, friendship based on pleasure...
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...The word personification means the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-living. Personification is one of the most common figures of speech that is used in The Hobbit. Tolkien uses personification a lot in his story. It impacts the story in an interesting way. J.R.R. Tolkien uses personification in his setting to bring his setting alive to show how each “place” can impact reader’s lives. Tolkien names his settings in a particular way. The names of the places are symbols of the characteristics of the characters. As a result of the journey to “The Lonely Mountain” Bilbo shapes into a hero and the company sees him as a hero. The Lonely Mountain is significant because it shows their journey. It also shows all...
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...The story is at the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. I see that Harry reflects on his choices that he has made. Well I have to say in my mind that the protagonist is Harry. Harry is a writer, loves big game hunting, and has flashbacks while his leg is rotting off from gangrene. “The marvelous thing is that it’s painless” (2243). This tells us that Harry is not afraid of death. “Can’t you let a man die as comfortable as he can without calling him names” (2244). While falling in and out of sleep he dreams of when he was in the war. Every time he wakes up he yells at his wife. She is the woman who went on the hunting trip with him. He regrets her because she is rich and a bitch “You bitch, he said. You rich bitch” (2247). After his second flashback he flashed to the time he went to Paris and he combines it with the past and the present. Well I told you a little about Harry. I think another person is his wife Helen. She tries to keep him comfortable. She feels like he is giving up way to soon when he ask for a drink “You shouldn’t she said. That’s what I mean by giving up” (2244). She tells him and begs him not to drink. The last person I think would have to be Compton. He is the one who have come to fly them out in Puss Moth which is a small two seat plane. “It’s the Puss Moth you know. I won’t be able to take the Memsahib. There only room for one” (2258). Death could have been one of the major people because it has a lot of comparisons in the poem. The one that sticks...
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...adjustment issue, how complicated is the adolescent phase in life and the changes in the new place. I will identify and explain on what and how the x-factor in the place does give impact to Riley Anderson. Next, evaluating on how she handle or control her emotion to overcome the conflicts also the highlight of my essay. This can be obtained by observing and interpreting every reaction that protagonist Riley has done in the movie Inside...
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...can deceive his general. * 1. “Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end.” (I.i.57–60) 2. Iago is continually playing a game of deception, even with Roderigo and the audience. II. Othello is poisoned by Iago’s herbaceous manipulation; therefore, Othello becomes blind to Desdemona’s loyalty. 1. Many of Iago’s references of deception concern poison. 2. “I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear” (II.iii.330); “The Moor already changes with my poison. / Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, / . . . / . . . Not poppy nor mandragora / Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world / Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep” (III.iii.329–336). Iago breeds his “conceits” so that they become fatal toxins and then plants their seeds in the minds of others. III. 1. Iago tells Othello to beware of jealousy, the “green-eyed monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on” (III.iii.170–171). 2. Likewise, Emilia describes jealousy as dangerously and uncannily self-generating, a “monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself” (III.iv.156–157). The imagery of the monstrous and diabolical takes over where the imagery of animals can go no further, presenting the jealousy-crazed characters not simply as brutish, but as grotesque, deformed, and demonic. Desperate to cling to the security of his former identity as a soldier while his current identity as a lover crumbles...
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...Philipps-Universität Marburg FB 10: Fremdsprachliche Philologien Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Class: Academic Writing | Instructor: Dr. Johanna Heil The House in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Ambivalence or Brilliance? Name: Anas Asmaeil Module: Literary Studies: History Semesters Studied: 1 Address: Adam-Krafft.7, 35039, Marburg Email: Shoqarqwa@hotmail.com Date of Submission: February 29, 2016 Student ID: 2739275 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 1 2. [Main Part I] 2.1 Gothic Element 2.2 Feminism 3. Conclusion 1 [Bibliography] 1. Introduction: “All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.” By Georg Eliot It goes without saying that the more one ponders upon the masterpiece written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the more compelled one finds themselves to, not only reverence what she brought forth, but to also acclaim the diverse interpretations one can come up with of a text written well over a century ago. The story talks about a woman who is diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency" (Gilman 1) and thus is sentenced by her physician to a rest cure. Following her husband’s and doctor’s orders, her suffering grows worse and worse and signs of depression, anxiety and dissociation manifest, quite the opposite of what was supposed to happen. Having the ability to scare and horrify the reader, this unique story had been considered as a classic...
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...Gender Roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The 1950’s was a decade characterized by traditional gender roles of women as homemakers downgraded to the domestic sphere and men as economic providers. With the arrival of the 1960’s, however, stereotypical gender roles were challenged and the American society underwent a variety of social transformations. American writers, such as Ken Kesey, responded to the change through writing. Kesey’s response to the times was his 1962 novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which is not only a social commentary about mental illness, but also a response to changing gender roles. By demonizing powerful women and uplifting powerful men, his novel promotes sexism and ultimately holds the misogynistic stance that powerful women must be subjugated. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the female characters can be divided into two extreme categories: "ball-cutters" and whores. The negative portrayal of powerful women can be seen in the problematic relationships that the male patients have with their mothers. Bromden, the half Native-American narrator, has a mother who constantly undermines his father, the chief of the Columbia Gorge tribe and a once-powerful man. Bromden’s mother dominates her husband and her son by acting in non-traditional ways, such as using her maiden name for the family’s last name rather than using her husband’s, which convinces Bromden’s father that he is weak and helpless. Because she herself is white, she is ashamed...
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...He ends up on a train to New York and stays at the Edmont Hotel where quite a few festivities occur. The next day, he calls up a friend, Sally Hayes for a date. They end up at an ice rink where he tells Sally about his dream of running away and he invites her to go. She declines the offer and they start to shout at each other. She leaves in a fury and Holden calls up his old pal, Carl Luce to have some drinks at a bar. Once there, Holden gets completely drunk and leaves. He has to find a place to go because he doesn’t have money and doesn’t want to sleep on park bench intoxicated. He ends up back home where he tells Phoebe about getting kicked out. She gets upset and asks him what he wants to be. He says he wants to stand at the end of a cliff full of rye and catch anybody who is about to fall off. His parents come home and he dashes off to his old teacher, Mr. Antolini’s place. He talks to Mr. Antolini for a bit and sleeps on his couch. Holden wakes up to Mr. Antolini petting Holden’s forehead. Holden races out of there and decides that he wants to pursue his dreams of running away, but he wants to say...
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