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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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    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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    literature are crucial when writing a story as they are what raises the story above being a line of strung together sentences and give the story meaning. It is especially important to have a clear idea of these elements when wring short stories because‚ unlike novels‚ the writer is only given a small amount of space to get his/her point across. By reading literature and searching for these narrative elements one can get a true feeling for their importance to the story and improve their own writing. Recently

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    William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” are both stories about women that struggle with love. In a Rose for Emily‚ Emily Grierson is in the need to get married‚ while in The Story of an Hour‚ Louise Mallard is convinced that her husband is dead and we she finds out that he isn’t‚ it saddens Louise and ultimately kills her. The characters‚ the setting‚ and the idea of repression in both stories are three topics that can be compared in these two selections.

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    Wallpaper” is a short written in the late 1800s by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story is about a woman living in the late 1800s who is not getting the help she needs because she does not yet understand how the brain works. At this time she had a kid‚ so she went through Postpartum Depression. Her husband is a doctor but he cannot understand what is wrong with him and he thinks she is just faking it or crazy. In the story‚ they go to this house that seems like a psychiatric house based on the

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    The Isolated Rooms Where Women Transform The short stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin can be considered as a feminist and gender theory. It is noted that both stories were written by women and narrated from a woman’s point of view. In this regard‚ we find that the plots in both these stories are altogether different from each other‚ yet they both touch upon similar topics and can be said to be fundamentally the same as to themes and

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    In Story of an Hour and A Rose for Emily both leading ladies seemed to live in a time period where the men had all the control in their lives. A time where the males were dominating and the women were just for home and decoration. Although both women were greatly affected by the men in their lives‚ each handled the situation and grew differently from the other. Louise Mallard‚ in Story of an Hour‚ was a young women living in time not meant for her. She was married to her husband‚ Brently Mallard

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    take reading past the title of “Country Lovers” to be instantly attracted to this short story. Just knowing it was a story of love and romance was enough of a draw to this literary piece. No matter how the story played out between these lovers‚ the feelings that would most certainly be evoked from such a powerful story raised curiosity to follow the tragic-turned-morbid love story of Paulus Eysendyck and Thebedi (Clugston‚ 2010‚ sec. 3.1.). Gordimer’s short romantic story plays to multiple aspects of

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    Nadine Qordimer (b. 1923) South Africa 332 NADINE GORDIMER COUNTRY LOVERS The farm children play together when they are small; but once the white children go away to school they soon don’t play together any more‚ even in the holidays. Although most of the black children get some sort of schooling‚ they drop every year farther behind the grades passed by the white children; the childish vocabulary‚ the child’s exploration of the adventurous possibilities of dam‚ koppies‚ mealie lands and

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    Country Lovers The river is the place to be yourself‚ there are no rules. Thebedi and Paulus can be together at the river. At the river-bed there is nice plants‚ with stinkwood and Cape willow trees. In line 69 the text says that Thededi and Paulus not are afraid of each other. They are not afraid of each other while they are sitting at the river. The difference between the river and the farmhouse is that at the farmhouse they have to be “afraid” of each other. They cant show that they

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