The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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Introduction: Inky Shadows Movie Actors Scribbling Letters Very Fast in Crucial Scenes The velocity with which they write – Don’t you know it? It’s from the heart! They are acting the whole part out. Love! Has taken them up – Like writing to god in the night. Meet me! I’m dying! Come at once! The crisis is on them‚ the shock Drives from the nerve to the pen‚ Pours from the blood into ink.
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After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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Narrative Response 1 The Shadow‚ was written by Albert Camus‚ in the year of 1942‚ just three years after World War Two began. Even though throughout the book much of the war isn’t shown‚ Albert Camus‚ was still able to incorporate one aspect of the war‚ racism. While at his mother’s funeral the main character first notices the women sitting next to his mother’s coffin. “An Arab woman—a nurse‚ I supposed—was sitting beside the bier; she was wearing a blue smock and had a rather gaudy scarf wound
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the most important allegories ever to be gifted to humankind is Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of the most potent and pregnant of allegories that describe human condition in both its fallen and risen states. The Allegory of the Cave is Plato’s explanation of the education of the soul toward enlightenment. It is also known as the Analogy of the Cave‚ Plato’s Cave‚ or the Parable of the Cave. It is written as a fictional dialogue between Plato’s teacher Socrates and Plato’s
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Have you had a life changing experience? Well‚ Brian‚ Moon shadow‚ and Rachel had life changing event. First of all‚ Brian was lost on an island and thought that the pilot will look for him. Secondly‚ Moon shadow was a fear of American because of the heavy debt they have to pay off. Last of all‚ Rachel faced her emotions in the classroom that an ugly red sweater was her’s. As shown above‚ all the characters can have a life changing experience. Brian faced loneliness and hunger when he was stranded
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Prehistoric art of caves in southern France and northern Spain have many common motifs. In both places‚ the main subjects are animals. The paintings are quite sophisticated‚ thus creatures depicted with great details: horns‚ tusks‚ eyes‚ faces‚ bodies are very well observed and painted. The Hall of Bulls in Lascaux Cave in France is a good example. Wall paintings include images of the cows‚ bisons‚ deers and horses. Animals features are emphasised and pronounced: deers have beautiful antlers‚ bisons’
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“Explain Plato’s analogy of the cave” Plato’s analogy is intended to explain the fight or struggle for true knowledge about the world and to see a different view on how we see the world. The analogy tells the story of three prisoners who are chained with their backs to the entrance of the cave‚ so they are unable to move or see anything behind them. Behind them is a fire and many people move through the cave all day and they are carrying things‚ so the shadows are projected onto the wall for the
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How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and
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TITLE Of Assignment In Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave‚ the allegory narrates three prisoners in a cave who have never seen the outside world. Their arms‚ legs‚ and necks are tied to a rock so all they can see is a bare wall. Behind the prisoners is a fire that emits the shadows of statues onto the bare wall. However‚ the prisoners see the shadows on the wall as real objects because they have been there since birth. They think the shadows are the true forms because that is the only truth they
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