feet; and at night‚ when the stream hand become of sorrowful blackness‚ one could see across it the red ‚ eyelike gleam of hostile campfires set in the low brows of distant hills.” | 1 | The novel opens up with different impressions of the environment. In this passage Stephen Crane strongly uses mood and naturalism to help the reader visualize his depiction of the novel’s current setting. The stream is described as “sorrowful blackness” which instills a bleak and dreary feeling while you read. The
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The State of Virginia embodies the Founding Fathers‚ the American Revolution and the nation by symbolically demonstrating the beauty of the union. But similarly to the State of Virginia‚ the sense of American Nationality is flawed because of the institution of slavery. Using Jeffersonian rhetoric‚ abolitionist Fredrick Douglass’ “Heroic Slave” transforms white attitudes through his promotion for solidarity‚ activism and resistance. Douglass effectively constructs a new narrative as a revision of
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Alienation Alienation is defined as; isolation from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved‚ but the definition can change depending on a person’s experience. Alienation can come across in many different feeling’s such as powerlessness – helpless and ineffectual‚ meaninglessness – having no significance‚ normlessness – lack of social norms‚ cultural estrangement and social isolation. In the three chosen texts; “Enter Without So Much As Knocking” by
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A search for one’s identity can be an uncomfortable process in the context of racial discrimination and loss. A comparative study of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto explores perspectives on the formation of identity in different contexts. Yoshimoto delves into post-modern Japan while Ng addresses similar issues through a Chinese-American perspective in suburban Ohio. Unacknowledged grief and loss underlie the identities we force upon ourselves‚ with lonely
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there was his favorite color of blue over his head and colorful leaves that tasted like mixed candy‚ it was just as if those colors were not in the same place as he was. Just black‚ the pure blackness of Liesel’s dress and shoes approached him silently‚
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“The Uneasy Game” In Richard Connell’s thrilling short story “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ an uneasy mood is constructed by Rainsford’s illusive adventure on Ship Trap Island. Many moments in the short story help build up a feeling of uneasy‚ one being when Winston uses a simile to describe the evil of the atmosphere‚ saying that the air “ was actually poisonous”‚ and that he felt a “mental chill‚ a sort of sudden dread” when the ship neared the island (Connell 1). The author makes the reader feel
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Industry is driven by the machines that produce the product. Without these machines‚ creating what is necessary for an industry to thrive and grow becomes increasingly difficult; more man power is needed‚ more time is consumed. For these machines to function properly‚ all the pieces; the cogs‚ the gears‚ the wheels‚ the levers and so on within them must be working well together. In the Invisible Man‚ Ralph Ellison applies this idea in a sociological fashion. Tucked away underneath the surface
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a memoir in graphic narrative form‚ and its organization‚ portrayal of different things such as narrative voice‚ and drawings all come together to form the narrative structure. These different areas give the reader the ability to perceive the memoir in a variety of different ways‚ through the use of the passage of time‚ and style in which different areas such as historical context are emphasized. In addition‚ the manner in which the memoir is structured into panels
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I grew up in Coney Island‚ Brooklyn in the 90’s. I lived in one of its many New York City housing developments. As a child I can remember the elevators and stairwells of my building smelling rank from urine. I can still see and feel the bullet holes under our mailbox from a shootout that happened under my bedroom window when I was seven. The chain fences that squared off all the grass areas of our complex. I can still see the poorly painted monkey bars‚ and the wood-chipped seesaws on the black tarmacs
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through the open field‚ we are left wondering about the possible outcome. Martiel’s body is juxtaposed with the body of a white man‚ who is parallel to him‚ and appears walking freely (figure 6). We thus see Martiel’s embodiment of Haitianness and Blackness in the Dominican context as constitutive of a form of modern enslavement‚ where the subject is commodified and stripped of its citizenship rights by birth. Martiel’s performance thus poses a serious critique of current state of affairs for Haitian
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