It’s easy to find Louise Erdrich among the canon of what have come to be known as western writers. Her name (or names‚ given the mltiple pseudonyms) pops up right near the top along with Cormac McCarthy and Elmer Kelton. And as impressive as her notoriety is‚ one eventually wonders if "western writer" isn’t an albatross hanging around the neck of her career. Maybe it’s Tolkien’s fault. After all‚ he’s the one who created an entire genre in which setting is paramount to plot or conflict. But
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The Crossing In this passage from the novel The Crossing‚ Cormac McCarthy uses imagery and word choice to describe the dramatic religious experience of his main character who becomes conscious of the spiritual unity of every soul in the natural world‚ because of the death of a she-wolf he had formed a connection with. McCarthy conveys to the reader that the main character is going through an intense‚ and somewhat frightening‚ spiritual experience through his religious imagery and dramatic word
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The pieces I chose are “Boys” by Rich Moody and “The Things they Carried” by Tim O’Brien. “Boys” doesn’t use any paragraphs‚ and is told through the repeated words “Boys enter the house…” (Moody). The piece true there story of two twin boys who grow up as normal‚ mischievous boys. As they grow up‚ they go through hardships and drift apart. It isn’t until they exit the house after the paramedics take their father’s body or are they “no longer boys” (Moody). “The Things they Carried” features
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The Road: A Breakdown of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel‚ “The Road”‚ a man and his young son find themselves on a journey fighting for survival through a dark and desolate world. With no identity or any hope in the future‚ the characters are faced with many compromising decisions. Two levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs‚ the physiological and safety levels provide the most motivation and validation for the characters’ actions throughout the novel. There
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world. The definition of dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant‚ or bad. No matter the amount of help and solutions‚ there are some things that can never be resolved. Cormac McCarthy establishes his dystopian beliefs in his novel‚ The Road. On page 75‚ McCarthy writes‚ “The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly
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Metaphor- a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Literary Work- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Example: “That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass and the wildflowers out of the ground and the flowers ran all blue and yellow far as the eye could see and in the dream he was among the horses running and in the dream himself could run with
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Friday Night Lights Captivating audiences and myself from the first episode‚ Friday Night Lights‚ has a complex and dramatic plot line. Dillon‚ a small Texas town‚ rallies around the high school football team on their journey to the state football championship‚ but the voyage is not without love‚ drama‚ and learning experiences. The characters within the program have diverse dispositions‚ representing the wide variety of personalities within Southern culture. Friday Night Lights exploits the events
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McCarthy gives the readers an insight on how the characters thought and an insight of their feelings and emotions. In the very beginning of the book the narrator Sherriff Bell speaks to the readers‚ and outsiders which he tells how he saw a new evil and how
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Have you ever had a nasty break up? Felt abandoned or threatened as you yourself have lost love? Within love‚ however you may define it‚ you devote actions and emotions to a sole person and for feelings to dissipate over a long period of time or for love to be cut off suddenly can hurt‚ and sometimes love itself can feel useless. The immediate aftershock of heartbreak‚ from family or otherwise‚ can either leave you bitter or wiser. The phrase “It is better to have loved and lost to have never loved
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Writers provide glimpses of other worlds‚ giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world To what extent do you agree with this view? The Road written by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy travelling down across what seems to be a bleak and dull land. In this book‚ we see a world that seems to have a bleak and dark future without a lot of hope. Land is somehow destroyed‚ perhaps by a natural cause. The cycle of seasons has been completely altered and
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