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    Week Three Assignment: Compare and Contrast Jacqueline Stephens ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Annemarie Hamlin September 20‚ 2012 Week Three Assignment: Compare and Contrast I have chosen to compare and contrast the literary works‚ “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker‚ the theme being race / ethnicity. I want to explore the differences in how each of the black women portrayed their selves and how the narrator made me feel when reading

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    In the analyses of comparing and contrasting “The Necklace” and “Ambush‚” they are very different‚ but also similar. The setting in each story could not be any more polar than they already are. The similarity of the two stories is that the plots both contain lies. In “The Necklace‚” a female character‚ Mathilde‚ is living in Paris during the 19th century. She is poor‚ yet undyingly wishes she was wealthy. One day the woman is invited to a prestigious ball within her city. She immediately she

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    “The necklace” and “The Bet” talk about two characters that think they can win or have everything that they want or think. On “The necklace‚” a girl named Madame Mathilde Loisel thought she needed everything because she was a pretty girl‚ but she was very poor. On “The Bet‚” the banker makes a bet that he thought that he would win a bet. “The Necklace” and “The Bet” functions to reveal aspects of character by showing their thinking and their character traits. In the first place‚ “The Necklace” written

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    Country Lovers Kimberly Robinson ENG 125-Introduction to Literature Katherine Ness March 8‚ 2010 Literature is a wonderful journey that takes you into an imaginary experience that will take you away from your everyday life into an entire new world. Literature has a way of providing you with entertainment while educating you of many different facts and situations. It teaches you new perspectives to look at daily situations. You are pulled away from a living‚ breathing world into one that

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    COUNTRY LOVERS PAULA SCOTT ASH FORD UNIVERSITY ENG 125 JOAN GOLDING A story of forbidden love on a South African farm‚ one child nothing more than a farm worker‚ as the other one prepares for boarding school. Both ignorant to the color of their skins‚ all they knew they were best friends playing together until they grew up

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    Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer is a story of an inter-racial love between a slave and her master’s son. It demonstrates how the prejudice and racism destroys the innocent. To have a deeper understanding of the story‚ and understand what the author seeks to communicate through it‚ one must analyze the underlying theme (Clugston‚ 2010). “Country Lovers” is a story set in the time when owning African Americans was acceptable in society. In this story‚ children of slaves and slave owners

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    Turner Kela English 1C 18 January 2013 Dr. Williams L. James Country Lovers Every culture has their own judgment on love and how it’s suppose to go? Whoever said love came with a manual and rules to tell how to love or who to love? There are negative and positive outcomes‚ that comes along with it. Country Lovers shows the readers what love and intimacy meant to them and how it affected their lives because they broke the “rules” in both of their cultures. They live in an abnormal lifestyle

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    Country Lovers The story portrays the apartheid system. Paulus: * He is a white upper-class Afrikaner. * Truly in love with Thebedi‚ his love for her is growing. The love is genuine. They have grown up together‚ therefore they have a strong. His love for the white girls is only of a physical love‚ it is superficial. Is Thebedi just entertainment? * He is not as emotional as Thebedi. Thebedi: * She is a farm worker. She is from the worker-class. * Strong love for Paulus

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    Country lovers Country Lovers is a story of love between a black woman and the son of her white master. It was a story of a love that began out of childhood romance‚ and later‚ in adulthood‚ lead to flirting and sexual curiosity. Eventually‚ Thebedi‚ the black woman‚ got pregnant with his‚ Paulus‚ child without him knowing it. He left for college and when he came back‚ he found out that Thebedi was married to Njabulo. Njabulo had accepted the child as his own but Paulus overcome with fear upon

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    Country Lover’s: A Forbidden Lover Story I chose to discuss the short story by Nadie Gordimer‚ Country Lovers‚ I will identify the theme and the literary elements that helped me with my analysis. I would consider the story Country Lovers to be the story of racial barriers that created a forbidden love story. There are many literary elements that aid my analysis‚ and support my interpretation of the stories theme. I will discuss how symbolism‚ characters‚ and settings supported the forbidden

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