Marla May Lindsey Martin-Bowen‚ J.D. English Comp 102 23 October 2012 Bitter Sweet Realization Today is a day of great sadness in the literary world. While I was not a personal friend of Amy Bender‚ she touched me on a personal and emotional level. Her death came unexpectedly and as I watched the story unfold on the news I felt a deep sense of grief. She was an author who understood the depth of feelings and portrayed it magnificently in The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. I sat at
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“The Girl in the Flammable Skirt”‚ Aimee Bender utilizes “salt” to develop a state of placid‚ encumbrance‚ and guilt that accompany life. The author opens the story with a young girl struggling to carry her father’s burden. A book bag made of stone that she cannot set down. Bender
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Aimee Bender’s story “Tiger Mending‚” underscores themes of characterization describing behavioral habits based on association. Raymond Carver’s story “Popular Mechanics‚” uses themes of characterization and diction to explain responses or reactions to events. It is apparent by juxtaposing these two short stories that characters are dependent‚ and they have different responses or reactions depending of the events. In “Tiger Mending” and “Popular Mechanics” the writers use characterization to reveal
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stories. I will also discuss the tone‚ point of views‚ and imagery taken place in both stories. Both titles of the stories are significant and will be explained in detail of why and how. In the fictional story Tiger Mending by Aimee Bender written in 2004. The author Aimee Bender who was born in the late 1960s attended the University of California and taught elementary in San Diego for 3 years. She currently lives in Los Angeles‚ LA and teaches creative writing at the
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Kincaid’s style of writing was not really even a story. It seemed to be more or less a string of lessons‚ and sayings given to a daughter‚ all for her benefit‚ from her mother. Based on the story‚ it sets you back into the early to mid-1900 era. While Aimee Benders writing method was much more of a modern day storyline. “Girl” was a story about how things are how one is expected to behave. While “Tiger Mending” is more about why things are the way they are. The girls weren’t afraid to seek out life and explore
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art of close reading more and more as I’ve been able to understand the concept more fully. Although it may have started out a little shaky in Inquiry 1‚ by Inquiry 3‚ my grasp of the concept had become more developed. My Inquiry 1 paper was about Aimee Bender’s story‚ The Rememberer. My interpretation of the story was one of the Alzheimer’s disease. I spent the rest of my inquiry advocating for that hypothesis‚ why that was my hypothesis‚ and how I could back that argument up. “The Rememberer
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It Is Bitter‚ and Because It Is My Heart”‚ the main characters are so desperate to be accepted by the society that this very desire molds their decisions and their lifestyle. The longing to be accepted burns so deep within Duke and Persia Courtney‚ Jinx Fairchild and most importantly‚ Iris Courtney that their lives are built around it. Duke and Persia Courtney clearly base their lives around their desire to belong. First‚ Duke Courtney does this through his gambling habit. Through gambling‚
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utilitarianism is the version of rule consequentialism that says that well-being is the only thing of intrinsic value” (Shafer-Landau‚ Russ G-6). Added that the action is correct as it accommodates to a rule which leads to the greatest good. Giving Jinx the experimental drug would be more valuable than to Riven by reason of rule utilitarianism since her research could aid the masses more than Riven being unlikely to recover without the drug. In addition‚ she is an unsuccessful artist‚ has a family
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Femisnism in novel Makaan of Paigham Afaqui Feminist literature‚ as the name suggests‚ is based on the principles of feminism‚ and refers to any literary work that centers on the struggle of a woman for equality‚ and to be accepted as a human being‚ before being cast into a gender stereotype. Not all these works follow a direct approach towards this goal of equality. It is only through such media that women believed a change was possible in the way they were perceived in society. Not all feminist
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