Assignment 1 Produce an analysis of any ONE of these short stories that argues for its ongoing relevance to a contemporary reader in Singapore. Cultural identity in Our Trusty and Well-Beloved‚ and its relevance to contemporary readers in Singapore This essay wishes to argue how Clifford’s Our Trusty and Well-Beloved still carries a vital relevance to contemporary readers in Singapore today‚ through the problematization of a fixed cultural identity. This is brought out by Clifford’s dramatization
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As Scott’s poetic words detail Canada’s natural beauty and beloved spirit‚ the Canadian population’s love and respect for their home land is made clear. There is a significant presence of poetic passion and rhythmical high regard for such a newly confederated nation. The poem is quite patriotic‚ considerably towards
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“Fatherhood ought to be emphasized as much as motherhood. The idea that women are solely responsible for deciding whether or not to have babies leads on to the idea that they are also responsible for bringing the children up.” To what extent do you agree or disagree? I believe that child-rearing should be the responsibility of both parents and that‚ whilst the roles within that partnership may be different‚ they are nevertheless equal in importance. In some societies‚ it has been made easier
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Essay 2 Situation: The Sense of Loss When Losing the Beloved Ones -- Comparing “ To a Daughter Leaving Home” and “On my First Son” How will you feel when you lose your beloved ones? How will you react toward the sense of emptiness? In Linda Plastan’s To a Daughter Leaving Home (1988) Ben Jonson’s On My First Son (1616)‚ both poems reveal the true feeling and reaction that we will have when we lose the person we love very much. The reason why they attract me is because the feeling is so simple
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unity and grand narrative often obscured‚ which can easily be observed by reading and analyzing some of the most important works of American postmodern fiction. Works such as Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo‚ Don DeLillo’s White Noise‚ Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 are only a few of many which contain all or some of postmodernism’s most distinguishable elements. Throught these four novels one can perceive the concepts of potmodernism‚ from its assault upon
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motif‚ frequently referred to by authors and readers alike as the most sacred of literary loves. Written nearly sixty years apart‚ Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison‚ and As I Lay Dying‚ by William Faulkner‚ explore the motif of motherhood and a mother’s love. At their cores‚ Beloved and As I Lay Dying are stories about mothers and their children. Published in 1987‚ Morrison’s Beloved tells a heart-wrenching story of the everlasting effects of slavery in America by centering around the relationship between Sethe
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children’s existence depends on her. Adrienne O’Reilly points out "Sethe is passionately committed to‚ and fiercely protective of‚ her children‚ and that her nurturance is radical act of defiance against the prohibition against slave motherhood" (Toni Morrison and Motherhood 131). Sethe cannot watch her babies be pieces of the white’s checker game; this motivates her to dream about a life full of freedom. As a child she learns that slavery prevents slaves from feeling or loving too much; but as a mother
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Wofford on February 18‚ 1931. She is a Nobel Prize-winning American author‚ editor‚ and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes‚ vivid dialogue‚ and rich detail; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye‚ Song of Solomon‚ and Beloved‚ which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. Cast of Characters Florens A young girl given by her mother into slavery at Jacob Vaark’s farm Lina Native American and sole survivor of a smallpox outbreak that decimated her people. Friend
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changes of a woman’s life during the pregnancy and motherhood stages. Although the topic of the poem seems intense‚ Wright portrays the experiences of this woman as pleasant and wonderous. Incorporating the use of imagery‚ figurative language and rhythm‚ Wright portrays the new lifestyle the woman is being urged into. The use of first person is significant in this poem in expressing the process of birth and the changes associated with motherhood. A significant quote in the poem is “All time lay
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rememory. (Ferguson 112) Mae G. Henderson states: “”rememory‚” it seems‚ is something that possesses (or haunts) one rather than something that one possesses. It is‚ in fact‚ that which makes the past part of one’s present.” (86) A few months after Beloved was published‚ Toni Morrison stated: “We live in a land where the past is always erased and America is the innocent future in which immigrants can come and start over‚ where the slate is clean. The past is absent or it’s romanticized. This culture
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