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Critique Of "Death Of The Author"

... life is not a story as it is boring and repetitive. I have read such short stories with similar titles by authors like Raymond Carver and others. I was surprised when I began to read "The Death of an Author" that a story with such a powerful title would be a wordy, whimper of a passage. The author Roland Barthes is a brilliant writer, he is able to weave phrases and create new uses for verbs, nouns and adjectives. Though he is a brilliant writer I have to assume that he was not a very bright man or that he at least has very little commo ...

Number of words: 777 | Number of pages: 3

Sweat By Zora Hurston

... resembles her hard work, with “knuckly hands” from using the washboard. Delia has put many hard- earned tears, blood, and sweat into her house while supporting Sykes’ habits and taking all the abuse he could dish out. On many occasions Sykes has cut down Delia and her kind nature, even to her religious beliefs, accusing her of being a “hipocrite” because she worked on the Sabbath day. Sykes not only abused Delia emotionally but also physically. One night after an argument between the two where Delia act ...

Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2

Cheaper By The Dozen

... also put out progress and work charts in the bathrooms. These were to make sure that everyone had brushed their teeth, taken a bath, combed their hair, and made his or her bed. Plus, each of the children had to weigh themselves, plot their weight on a graph, and initial the charts after all the other chores were done! Frank is known as an efficiency expert. He did things like button his shirt from the bottom up, instead of top to bottom because the process has a three second gap. He would even lather his face with two brushes and then try ...

Number of words: 723 | Number of pages: 3

Heart Of Darkness 2

... Cunninghame Graham: “There is...a machine. It evolved itself...and behold!--it knits....It knits us in and it knits us out. It has knitted time, space, pain, death, corruption, despair and all the illusions--and nothing matters. I'll admit however that to look at the remorseless process is sometimes amusing.” In the Heart of Darkness, three evident themes include death, corruption, and despair. During Marlow’s journey into the “heart of darkness,” death, corruption, and despair became the manifest themes of th ...

Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Description, Narration, And Symbolism

... and symbolism to characterize Pearl. By using description and narration, Hawthorne shows how Pearl looks physically and how she acts in the Puritan society. “We have hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion “ (62). Hawthorne calls Pearl a “creature” which shows that she immediately has a label of an outcast or something other than human. Hawthorne’s use of the word “cr ...

Number of words: 942 | Number of pages: 4

The Three Angles From Which The Adventures Huckleberry Finn Can Be Viewed

... old friend Tom Sawyer sneak off in the night. The first half of the novel is actually a continuation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with Tom and Huck actually venturing out on many adventures. Huck's adventures take him many places. Once, Huck pretended he was a girl, and on another, he pretended he was Tom Sawyer. Perhaps Huck's greatest adventure was when he faked he own death. Huck faked his death in order to get away from his abusive, alcoholic father. Huck did this just before he and Jim left on another adventure: the journey on t ...

Number of words: 612 | Number of pages: 3

Commentary: A Child Called "It"

... understood, and sometimes even expected or surrendered. Society at large is making efforts to understand the nature, origin, and treatment of such situations so that all those involved can feel like individuals and yet part of the group. What happens when the adversity encountered by the family comes from the internal structure of the family itself? How does the community react when the symptoms are general and misunderstood; the disease in not on the surface, but rather deeply imbedded in the mind and soles of the family. Those trappe ...

Number of words: 2220 | Number of pages: 9

The Outsider: Meursault

... to “draft” a letter to an Arab prostitute. Meursault knows what will result from his actions but seems unemotional and views the letter as being a favour for a friend and not a vicious conspiracy. This lack of emotion is reinforced when the prostitute is beaten up by Raymond and Meursault remains impartial whilst his girlfriend, Marie, thought it was “ terrible” and is sickened by the beating. Another display of his apathetic views is in the opening lines "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know" This indicates that ...

Number of words: 1539 | Number of pages: 6

Marranos: A Lost People

... The Jews were forced to either leave Spain, convert to Catholicism, or be put to death. This was not a surprise to the Jews of Spain. Since 1931, there had been anti-Jewish riots throughout Spain. For years, the Jews had been converting to Christianity to escape religious persecution. These Jews were called conversos. The twist to this tale is that these conversos actually were only putting on a front. They still considered themselves Jews. They practiced in secret.1 The Spanish made every attempt to search out and punish these conversos ...

Number of words: 2428 | Number of pages: 9

The Odyssey And Its Themes

... family is what drives the story. That is his one goal in the entire book, and that really states something about his character. In Book 5 we are first introduced to the character Odysseus. The strange thing is that he is weeping to himself when we first meet him. He is weeping because he pines for his family and home as stated in lines 327 and 328, “Yet it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home.” As he plainly states, Odysseus greatly misses his home, and his tears show us just how much he misses it. In th ...

Number of words: 709 | Number of pages: 3

H.g. Wells The Time Machine

... live with the attitudes and lifestyles of the present. To begin, Wells illustrates how his Time Traveler gets the illusion of a perfect society by what he sees around . Wells places his Time Traveler in forward motion from 1895 AD to 802,701 AD. Upon arriving into the valley of the Thames in the year 802,701 AD his first impression of this society is " Disease, hardships and poverty were eliminated. Man's restless energy turned to art and for a time a great culture flourished"(Bennett 430). Wells, known for his social consciousness, give ...

Number of words: 1828 | Number of pages: 7

Grapes Of Wrath: Summary

... many migrating to California in search for a better life. This is the exact tale which John Steinbeck’s novel delineates. In the Novel the Joads family is exposed the wrath of the Dust bowl and forced to move southwest toward California in search of the “promised land” (French 5). The Dust bowl was a harsh time in the 1930’s, the United States was feeling the effects of the Great Depression, and farmers already had enough troubles dealing with the effects of industrial farming (French 200). The farmers described in the novel wer ...

Number of words: 1947 | Number of pages: 8

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