• Post-modernism After war world 2-reflects modernists cycle of disillusionment alienation • Metafiction Readers always aware that they are in a fiction characters know that they are in a story • Anti-hero A protagonist who lacks heroic virtues and qualities. Ex: Leroy from Lowlands • Motif Repeated word or image Ex: BIRDS are a motif in the Aguero Sisters • Button -Cisneros’ own term for a detailed image/short scene can be inserted into similar stories • Magical realism Fantasy
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structured around main characters‚ Amir and Baba and their acts of betrayal. The impact of these acts continues to be felt throughout the novel manifesting itself in Amirs guilt ridden narrative. However‚ guilt is not enough. The need for redemption and atonement is what these characters seek. "There is away to be good again" the kite runner shows that this is along painful but ultimately positive journey. Amir’s feelings of guilt spring from incidents of betrayal throughout his childhood. Since 1975 when
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Topic 4 Study Guide This study guide is a tool designed to prepare students for the Topic 4 Quiz. Instructors will grade the study guide for completion‚ not for accuracy. Download the study guide and type in your answers below the questions. Save the study guide to your computer and submit when complete. There is no need to submit the study guide to Turnitin. After submitting the study guide to the instructor‚ save it for use when taking the Topic 4 Quiz. The quiz will be graded for accuracy‚ so
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laws for the Levites regarding their priestly duties. ■ Emphases: getting it right with regard to worship‚ for both people and priests; institution of the priesthood under Aaron; laws protecting ritual cleanness‚ including atonement for sins (the Day of Atonement); laws regulating sexual relations‚ family life‚ punishments for major crimes‚ festivals‚ and special years (sabbaths and jubilees) Overview of Leviticus The title of this book (by way of Latin from the Greek levitikon) means
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Great Gatsby & Atonement Explore how Fitzgerald presents doomed love in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ How does ‘Atonement’ illuminate this key aspect of Fitzgerald’s novel? In your response consider the authorial use of form‚ structure and language‚ context and some critical views. Give primary focus to the core text. 1920’s America was very much a materialistic society revolving around money‚ love being a simple emotion‚ unimportant and always coming second to luxury. This obsession with wealth
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Amir’s journey through guilt‚ atonement and finally redemption shows the reader a prevalent idea‚ Amir’s strength of character. He commits terrible sins against his friend and half-brother‚ Hassan. The story of what Amir does and how he seeks and finds atonement is a lesson for everyone who wants to find a way to be good again. Amir’s journey is very difficult‚ both emotionally and physically‚
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This world is filled with awful‚ hurtful‚ and evil things; however‚ this world is also filled with empathy‚ love‚ and forgiveness. Forgiveness comes from a big person. Someone who has been hurt and is willing to look past the pain to forgive the inflictor. To forgive can be the hardest part of any issue or situation‚ but it brings forth acceptance and happiness. Some ways people try to earn forgiveness is through baptisms‚ sacrifices‚ prayers‚ and fasting. The Bible explains many more examples of
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Notes on Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times Outstanding Writer Course: Dr Z. Ramin Sara Khazai ‚ 2014 Historical Background: 1950s-1960s In The Sixties‚ Arthur Marwick describes the Fifties as “rigid”: [R]igid social hierarchy; subordination of women to men and children to parents; repressed attitudes toward sex; racism; unquestioning respect for the authority in the family‚ education‚ government‚ the law‚ and religion‚ and for the nation-state‚ the national flag‚ the national anthem; Cold War
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Let me start by saying I really have enjoyed this class and have learned a lot and not been able to process some of the material because of the volume. I wish I could have had this class a long time ago because it would have helped me answer so many of the questions about my background and my faith in high school. So many students and teachers would ask me why I did not cut my hair or why I wore long skirts all the time and all I could tell them was it was what I believe is right. So of them also
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Tennessee Williams‚ an American playwright‚ once claimed that “hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.” This beautiful quotation emphasizes the requirements that need to be met for one to redeem himself- focusing on someone else. However‚ is it possible that someone can do too much bad for there to be any redemption? Khaled Hosseini explores this topic in his first novel The Kite Runner. Edward Howel notes that The Kite Runner
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