Running head: THIS SIDE OF PARADISE This Side of Paradise - An Archetypal Criticism An archetypal approach to literature assumes that there is a collection of symbols‚ images‚ characters‚ and motifs that evokes basically the same response in all people. According to the psychologist Carl Jung‚ mankind possesses a "collective unconscious" that contains these archetypes and that is common to all of humanity. When an author uses the archetypal approach‚ he selects a universal theme through
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Lost and Found It’s a story that many people have lived through‚ from one side or the other. You’re a child in a busy department store‚ tethered to your mother’s side by her firm grip on your hand‚ your eyes constantly drawn left and right by the colorful displays. She lets go to grab something or talk to a salesperson‚ and you see an exciting toy or stuffed animal and run to it. After playing with it for a few minutes you try to walk back‚ but your mother is gone. First a wave of confusion hits
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Book review Soviet Fates and Lost alternatives – Stephen F. Cohen As Stephen Cohen states in the introduction‚ Soviet Fates and lost alternatives was written out of a personal fascination for alternative roads that ’could have been’ the path of history. Cohen’s approach is indeed personal as he tries to show that the communist party consisted (and always has consisted) of people‚ and not out of a fixed idea. People shape history‚ not economical- political- or other crises. And to every person
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showing her battle with purgatory and acceptance of fate as well as observing the life of her family as they go through the grieving process. In Peter Jackson’s film‚ The Lovely Bones‚ grief and its five main steps become the central theme among the characters during their struggle to accept the reality of Susie Salomon. The first step in the Salmon’s grieving process is shock and denial. It is no surprise to the audience that Susie and her family endure a period of pure shock after she is gone. Once
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Lost Wallet If you have never lost or misplaced something valuable to you‚ let me tell you it is not very fun. It is very stressful and can ruin your entire day. I would also suggest not doing such a thing because your family will never forget how funny you looked freaking out over the whole thing. In my case‚ it was my most precious possession at the time‚ my wallet‚ or purse for some‚ is a precious item in which most people carry things more essential than money towards everyday life. Some
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The Lost Generation writers were separated from American society‚ not only in geographically‚ but also in their style of writing and subjects they chose to write about. These authors were shaped by World War I. They wrote about what they had experienced during the war‚ and some of them had even served time in the military themselves. Although they were unhappy with American culture‚ the writers were involved in changing their country’s style of writing‚ from Victorian to modern. Writhers known as
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“The American Dream is not a paradise but a nightmare.” By comparing A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby to what extent do you agree with this statement? According to James Truslow Adams‚ who wrote ‘The Great Epic of America’‚ the American Dream is “not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely‚ but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain regardless of circumstances of birth or position”1. A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby both
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"In "The Lost Boy‚" the story describes the period in which the bewildered child‚ haunted by the fear of being returned to his mad and alcoholic mother‚ is passed between foster care homes. For six years‚ David Pelzer was sent to over ten different foster homes; sometimes returning to the same home twice. David’s desperate attempts to be accepted by his peers led him into a life of petty crime‚ which‚ including cruel tricks his "friends" played on him‚ included stealing‚ and ending up going to "The
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Lessig presented the topic of “corruption in our government” in his book. There were two element that he went by‚ bad governance and lost trust. By bad governance‚ he meant the “government doesn’t track the expressed will of the people‚ whether on the Left or on the Right” (Lessig 2011: 8) and by lost of trust‚ he meant “when democracy seems a charade‚ we lost faith in the process” (Lessig 2011: 9). By this‚ he is means that these two element makes up corruption‚ how these two element connects
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The Book of Negroes by Lawerence Hill started as a story of the capture of a West African girl and her journey to become a slave. Her traumatizing experience was written with a desperate tone that was achieved through the use of literary devices such as metaphors and alliteration. Emphasis was put on the conflict between Aminata and society which helped to develop her as a hopeful character. "We walked for many suns‚ growing slowly in members‚ lumbering forward until we were an entire town. Each
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