The Chaser by John Collier provides many meanings in the title that present clues as to what the story may be about. These meanings can vary from a chaser being someone who chases a person that chases after another person. It can also be a drink that is drunk after another different type of drink and it can be defined as a hunter. The word chaser can provide a sense of tone that can set the mood for the entire story. The title of this story was selected for not just one meaning but for multiple meanings
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As two great stories “Appointment with Love” by S. I. Kishor‚ and “The Chaser” by John Collier‚ were love is seeing from two different perceptives. S. I. Kishor’s “Appointment with Love” shows the audience the deep feeling of love‚ and John Collier’s “The Chaser” is based on the situational irony of the unreal hope of youth as opposed to the extreme disillusion of age and experience. “Appointment with Love” and “The Chaser” are two similar stories were love takes a different path. While Kishor story
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ability to choose anything on their own nor any feelings. Throughout this image‚ several euphemisms are used. In order to undermine the significance of the events‚ cover up the bad things and prevent the community to have any feelings. We can analyse these euphemisms in two groups ways: the euphemisms used for the community and their lives and the euphemisms used for the feelings. The first group of euphemisms
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○ ○ SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION 2010 9 Euphemisms and English Lear ning ( 511325) 【Abstract 】Euphemisms are a linguistic technique for people to achieve various goals in communication.So mastering euphemisms is very important for our English learning.This passage mainly talks about relations of euphemisms and English learning. 【Key words 】Euphemism ；English learning 1 Introduction Euphemisms are “defensive in nature offsetting the power of tabooed terms and otherwise eradicating
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A euphemism is defined as a non-harmful phrase or word used to substitute another word or phrase that is seen as‚ in some way‚ unpleasant. These words and phrases‚ though created with the best possible intentions‚ are slowly causing the English language to decay. For example‚ penitentiaries used to be led by a warden. In an effort to seem politically correct‚ penitentiaries‚ prisons and jails have been renamed to the‚ allegedly less controversial‚ title of “correctional facility” or “detention facility
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Euphemisms Euphemisms are everywhere in today’s society. They are a daily accessory used in today’s language and are such a normalcy that one does not notice them as strange. For hundreds of years people have used language to persuade people or even nations. With the more advanced society gets so does the language and thus this persuasion gets even more convincing. Many novels show examples of euphemisms. Among those novels includes 1984 by George Orwell. Euphemisms can range from being used in
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In Ender’s Game‚ euphemism is present while the government does not tell Ender the whole truth about his activities‚ which affects Ender’s actions drastically‚ proving euphemism alters people’s decisions. When Granger travels to Ender’s house to recruit Ender to help destroy the bugger aliens‚ he used tons of understatements to persuade Ender to come. Granger tells Ender that he will fight for Valentine‚ Ender’s sister‚ who will be saved from the possibility of dying but‚ Ender is really needed to
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Puddles rippled as the rain dropped down. Lights were flickering on and off and traffic was slower than it was supposed to be. Cars were honking and people yelling. Boom! A lightning bolt went‚ scattering the birds sitting on top of the power line. They flew around in circles‚ but they didn’t just fly in circles anywhere they flew right on top of a wide long alleyway. The alleyway was lit up by the uncovered moon‚ drip drop‚ was all you could hear as it hits the ground‚ but if someone were to listen
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“The chaser” was the short story written by “John Collier”. The story was based on the fantasy world of humans in which they talk about the love potion that made someone madly fall in love. In the exposition‚ they talk about the character Alan‚ who went to his neighbourhood to meet someone. He found one of the doors in an old street where the name of that person was written “obscurely” (3). He entered the room and found no furniture inside it instead of “a plain kitchen table‚ a rocking chair and
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The Story Alan Austen‚ a young man who is passionately in love with a young woman who is indifferent to him‚ comes to the establishment of a mysterious old man who deals in magic potions. Austen has been told that he can buy a potion that will make the object of his affections fall madly in love with him. The old man shows little interest in the financial profit to be gained from selling Alan a love potion. Instead‚ he devotes most of his sales talk to recommending a potion that he calls a spot remover
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