the writer organizes the concepts and ideas. – Text Structure 2. What should be your primary concern when reading literature? – Recognize the differences and similarities in real life experience 3. Literature leads us to ________ the life of man‚ society‚ culture‚ and tradition. – understand 4. How does literature affect you as readers? – Molds man as a total human being 5. In literature you can witness different emotions and struggles of life – True 6. A poem that expresses the emotions‚ feelings
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In my personal opinion about "Macbeth" and the thoughts of Shanley is that I would have to have to agree with Shanley’s thought proses on the situation given in the book. Because when all of this is happening Macbeth still has a consionce witch would prove that he is also still human he still realizes that there is something to be lost. In the test example I gave earlier the person would probably have some sort of controversy going on in his/her head and. It would probably be going like this. "If
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WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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1) The wall is a metaphor for the barriers we place between ourselves and others. It can represent an emotional‚ mental or even a physical barrier we want to create. We all need our personal space around us which some call our personal bubble. Therefore we feel the need to define that space by building physical boundaries around it. “We keep the wall between us as we go.” (line fifteen of “The Mending Wall” by Robert Frost). In this line‚ Frost is speaking about the wall which is put up between
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Home Is Where the Heart Is In the book Clear Light of Day‚ Anita Desai develops an extended metaphor of the Das family house to symbolize the entrapment of the Das children: Bimla‚ Tara‚ Raja‚ and Baba. Desai’s book follows each of the children as they grow up‚ but when the family gathers at the Das house for Raja’s daughter’s wedding‚ it is the first time the family had been at the house together since childhood. The house‚ kept the same through the years‚ then morphs into a prison‚ causing each
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“The Lotos-Eaters” “Courage!” he said‚ and pointed toward the land‚ “This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.” In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon‚ Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke‚ the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some‚ like a downward smoke
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Obligation isn’t always driven by reason. What a person feels obliged to do may not be the most reasonable choice of action. In fact‚ this choice may even physically harm them in some way. The following short stories‚ The Inheritor‚ Tell-Tale Heart‚ and Harrison Bergeron are all examples of a sense of obligation leading someone to make an unreasonable choice. In The Inheritor‚ Tell-Tale Heart‚ and Harrison Bergeron‚ the main characters are all forced to make a choice to either follow what they felt
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American writer Mary E. Pearson has said‚ “Words have longer lives than people” (Goodreads 6). This quote is implying that words never fade away. Rather written‚ spoken‚ or musically played‚ people cannot undo the impact of their language. Words not only hold power in real life‚ but also in fiction novels. The use of the accordion and Liesel’s book in The Book Thief illustrate the presence of symbolism which Markus Zusak uses to shed light on the power of words. The accordion illustrates the importance
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apocalyptic literature. In and of itself‚ it does not refer to disaster and hopelessness. Instead‚ it refers to an unveiling of something hidden. In this case‚ it is the final chapter in the story of Jesus Christ and His victory over sin and evil. In this paper I plan to shed some light on the understanding apocalyptic literature‚ the characteristics of apocalyptic literature‚ and how a person should interpret biblical apocalyptic literature. How to understand apocalyptic literature? Understanding
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How would you feel being dragged into the harsh ideals of war; being forced to fight and potentially die? William Blake‚ an 18th and 19th century poet‚ was easily a rebellious figure who maintained a strong belief in freedom and individuality‚ in which his opinion of war was communicated strongly in “A War Song to Englishmen”. Blake was known for expressing his own dominant ideologies‚ where he was highly criticized for contesting common societal beliefs. Perhaps this was why the essential meaning
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