to Literature October 1, 2012 Instructor Kristina Munz Reading Reflection In any stories, poems, plays, and any other written piece of art contain a mixture of literary themes accompanied with literary works. In fiction, the theme is not intended to teach or preach. In fact, it is not presented directly at all. The reader extracts it from the characters, action, and setting that make up the story. In other words, the person reading the paper must figure out the theme himself/herself. The
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A Worn Path The short story I read "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, is the tale of the unstoppable love and care of a grandmother for her grandson. It tells a story of determination of Phoenix Jackson "an elder Negro woman" and how she walks a journey through the woods and fields on her way to town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. As she begins her journey, she talks to herself and warns, "Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals!…Keep
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Looking back at my last year’s AP Language Composition class , the frustration I felt while reading the short stories written by Ernest Hemingway was overwhelming. Even after rereading the story we were working on, I was unable to fully understand it. The short story that I remember the most is the “Sea Of Change”. In this story, a man is having a discussion with his girlfriend or wife about her embarrassing him and she leaves him. A shift in the character's behavior suggests that the man went through
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Statement: Conflict plays a major part in the short story “The Dawn” In the short story “The Dawn,” we learn that there is many different kinds of conflict between man and nature, and father and son. While reading, I found that conflict was spread throughout the story. These next few paragraphs will explain the points in the story that I felt showed conflict the most. Right in the beginning the short story, we see our first hint of conflict. The story starts with the line, “Deer, all they are good
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struggles with assimilating into a new culture while in “Lusus Naturae” by Margaret Atwood, the narrator fights to live on her own away from her family and loved ones. Though these conflicts seem hard on the characters, their growth throughout the stories helps readers to view them sympathetically. The narrator of “Lusus Naturae” lives with a disease and is eventually exiled from her home and forced to live in the wilderness on her own. Every day she watches her family grow and go through life without
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Nguyen Cong Hoan is considered one of Vietnam’s great writers and especially a writer of socialist realism. During his life, he produced many collections of short stories, novels and memoirs. In his collection of short stories, Kep Tu Ben is one of the most impressive works. With subtle irony, in a style later known in Vietnam as critical realism, Nguyen depicts the struggle between poverty and humanity in the portrayal of the protagonist, Tu Ben. At first, Kep Tu Ben is known as an unique talent
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For those of you that don't know me my name is Brittany. I work at The Willows at Citation where I took care of Julia. For the short 3 months and 11 days that I knew Julia. I've learned something that no book could possibly ever teach me. On our Journey together I was constantly being moved and touched in ways that I often cannot describe. To live with Alzheimer's and still laugh, love and find joy is nothing short of amazing. I never got that chance to meet Julia when she was full of life and energy
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Universidad De Manila College of Education Submitted to: Prof. Nigel Cornejo The Dream I Once Dreamt Before I start telling one of the several stories of my lovelife, let me first introduce to you the person who serves as my guiding inspiration, the guy that seems to be perfect for me from then until now. Juan Antonio M. Oriondo or just simply Benjo for short, the guy whom I am really crazy for. His personality is merely the same as mine. For about two years of studying his life, I concluded that we’re
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The Whaler The Irish short story “The Whaler” introduces us to the tale of a whaler’s and a young boy’s meeting, whereby the author uses flashbacks to introduce different themes, such as; growing up - the progress of becoming an adult rather than just a naive boy. The setting of the story is in Ireland, on the top of a hill with fields surrounding it (p. 1 l. 1-2), not a completely deserted hill, but within sight of town (p. 4 l. 154-155). Presumably, a small town, since the town was too small
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the characters, conflict, settings, and tone that are found within the stories of “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence. I will also point out the vast similarities in both of these short stories. It is my intention to show you the how these are centered around biblical truths. Both of these short stories are written by British authors, but in different eras. Each of these stories was written during post war periods. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” was
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