In Broad Daylight the author Ha Jin‚ tells a story about a moral issue through direct characterization of a dynamic character named Mu Ying‚ a married woman. The issue is Mu is a whore in the eyes of her community because she slept with men for money. Mu was to be punished for the sins she had committed by the Red Guards. Her husband‚ Meng Su is a static character in this story. He loved his wife so much‚ that he over looked her moral flaws and tried to protect her from the punishment that was to
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brown‚ padded-less chairs‚ with an acrid smell swarming in the air Security Guard: Montresor‚ do we have a Montresor? Montresor: We have a Montresor‚ but do we have an angry security guard? As the security guard looked up at the puny Montresor‚ he took him by the back and pushed him aggressively into the interrogation room. Montresor: Wow‚ looks like someone has an acute temper Interrogator: Take a seat Montresor: Very well‚ may we begin? Interrogator: I have been
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world‚ there are two types of crazy people: there are the persistent kinds‚ where they show their insanity as much as possible whether they know it or not. Then there are the kinds like Montresor‚ where you can never tell until they have finally snapped. Edgar Allan Poe uses Montresor’s kind and symbolism in “The Cask of Amontiado” to show situational irony. The beginning of the story starts with a paragraph on Montresor’s vividly detailed hatred for Fortrunado and how he’s achieved in alluding Montresor’s
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Eduardo Urdaneta Montresor and Fortunato are best friends who also work together. Montresor has been traveling a lot lately due to his recent promotion in his position. He has just received a notice from his boss that he must go attend several conferences in Spain for a month. Upon receiving the undesirable news‚ Montresor’s wife‚ Chardonnay gets very upset but eventually acknowledges that traveling this much is essential to the new position that he holds now. Montresor knows that these four
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“On Being Sane in Insane Places” It was very interesting to read about Rosenhan’s study and how psychiatrists‚ who go through big coursework and training‚ could wrongly classify a patient. It surprised me how some psychiatrists couldn’t say they don’t know what’s wrong with patients instead they could possibly diagnose someone as insane. Though reading this chapter I found the strange things from Rosenhan’s study that was hard to believe. Slater states‚ “The strange thing was‚ the other patients
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The Cask Of Amontillado The story was written by Edgar Allan Poe and took place during carnival season in Italy in 1846. In the story the author used the first person narration style and this keeps the originality of the story. The reader get to know exactly what the protagonist was thinking because he was telling the story. So the effect is that he let the audience feel the main character which was Montressor. And this gives a better understanding of the story. We see that Montressor revenged
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Gualtieri 1 The story tells the murder that is committed by a man named Montresor‚ who wanted revenge on Fortunato‚ a man who had insulted him several times and would not withstand another insult anymore. The narrator begins by telling us that Fortunato has hurt him; even worse‚ Fortunato has insulted him. The narrator must get revenge. The narrator mentions he’s found a barrel of a rare brandy called Amontillado‚ and in a very suspicious and intelligent attracts his victim‚ taking it more
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In the short story The Cast of Amontillado‚ Edgar Allan Poe shares a story about insults and revenge in action. Montresor is the protagonist who holds a grudge against the antagonist‚ Fortunato. The first sentence sets the stage for the murder of Fortunato. “The thousands injuries of Fortunate I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe‚ p. 108). It does not say what the “injuries” Montresor is referring to are‚ but in his book they were enough to murder Fortunato
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In this chapter of the book “Sane in insane places” “Lauren Slater‚ Opening Skinner’s Box” David Rosenhan totally exploited the way doctors diagnosed patients and how patients were treated as almost convicts in mental hospitals. He also proved using psychology is not a consistent way of diagnosing patients with loads of pills most patients didn’t need. Also how the same experiment Rosenhan came up with was repeated years later but was due to the fact doctors weren’t giving thorough examinations.
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Upon reading the scholarly article by D. L. Rosenhan titled‚ On Being Sane in Insane Places‚ I thought it brought up many important points about the mental health system. On a purely emotional standpoint‚ I was appalled at the cruelty the mental health professionals treated patients. Rosenhan made many powerful claims; yet‚ upon examination of the article of how he obtained his data‚ it became apparent the credibility of his data was questionable. Despite this‚ his claims against the validity of
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