By Sanat Subhash Book Title - 41 A Portrait of my Father Author - George W. Bush Publisher - Crown Publishers Year Published - 2014 Number of Pages - 294 Genre - This book is a biography of George H. W. Bush’s life. Awards - A Portrait of my Father has not won any major awards. Author - George W. Bush has also written a bestselling memoir, Decision Points, before he wrote A Portrait of my Father, and he has just released another bestseller, Portraits of Courage. How the book is organized - A Portrait
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softback. Bryan M. Litfin at the writing of this book states that he earns his living as “a professor whose academic expertise is the early church fathers” (p.7). He is a husband and an associate professor of theology at Moody Bible Institute. He summarizes himself by saying that he is one who has been “taught to think like a Christian; taught to think like a scholar; and taught to think like a catholic” (p. 7). Litfin begins and ends this book with an overall theme and challenge to see how the
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of her life as she journeyed from a slave owner’s house to the White House. This is evident in how the thirty years she lived as a slave was condensed in a mere 31 out of 219 pages. According to Keckley, “From such a wilderness of events it is difficult to make a selection, but as I am not writing altogether the history of myself, I will confine my story to the most important incidents which I believe influenced the moulding of my character” (Keckley, 8). The remaining pages detailed her life
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adventure? Read as Odysseus and Mary travel, and what they learn. In the poem The Journey the author Mary Oliver ventures away from society. She was influenced by everyone around her to be someone else, but finally found her own voice. This is similar to the book The Odyssey where Odysseus courageously leads his men into the battle of Troy. After they leave Troy to return home there journey is only beginning. The authors use personifications and diction to further express substantial feelings. People take
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MCN BOOK CLUB BOOK: ARUNA’S STORY AUTHOR: PINKY VIRANI SUBMITTED BY: AKANKSHA, HRM C (2014-16), H14127 SUMMARY: “One man. Plus a savage twist of one chain. And the thirty seconds for his sperm to release. Equals one broken woman.” These intense words leave me stunned long after I had turned over the final few pages of Aruna’s Story. Like most of us I too was familiar with the heart wrenching story of this unfortunate case of a bright, young nurse at King Edward Memorial hospital who was brutally
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of the text rather than for the development of a deconstructive or historicist perspective. The concerns that an ordinary reader seems likely to have about a literary text, such as its style, its narrative structure, or the reader's relation to the author, the impact on the reader's understanding or feelings - such concerns now seem of little interest. In this paper I should like to study a few kinds of reader and the subjectivity of their responses to the objectivity found within literary texts
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the famous author Frank McCourt and The Street by Ann Petry. It is clearly portrayed throughout both stories that the theme is daily-life struggle. In Angela's Ashes, the author describes the setting and feelings of characters of being ravenous, dying of terrible starvation, and desperate for food. As well as in The Street, the author describes the characters of struggling through their daily life, with lack of food and supplies to last them through the day. To begin with, the author, Frank McCourt
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An unknown author once stated that a cautious statement to live by is “If you do right nobody remembers, but if you do wrong nobody forgets” (SayQuotable). Clearing your own name after something traumatic happens is next to impossible. One small mistake is the difference from being hated and living normally. The Crucible by Arthur Miller paints a bright picture in our heads on what doing wrong may do to you in life and the chaos it shall bring. Arthur Miller also works in great literary devices
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To Kill A Mockingbird In the book “ To kill A Mockingbird” Author Harper Lee uses plenty of symbolism. Symbolism is a literary device where author uses an object to stand for an idea. The most famous symbol used in the book is “Mockingbird” the symbol of innocents. In her novel, “To KIll A Mockingbird” Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson , Boo Radley and Atticus Finch as human “Mockingbirds” to contribute the overall theme of innocents. First, Lee uses Tom Robinson as a mockingbird. Tom Robinson is
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Literature. Sruthi Murali Reg No: 130021007268 Supervising Teacher Ms. Mary Sapna Peter Miranda Assistant Professor Department of English St. Albert’s College Ernakulam March 2016 Introduction The Silent Raga is an eminently readable book by a first time author. This is Ameen Merchant's first published novel and he has certainly presented a rich repertoire of emotions strung to a melodious tune. He uses fine strokes and bright colors, commonly associated with miniature painting, in his portrayal
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