Heath LyBrand Readers Response Native Son Native Son is a story about an African American boy that has grown up in a poverty stricken area‚ and lived in the shadow of the successful white community. The narrator of the story is Bigger; which is an angry boy that has been created to hold a grudge of hate towards the white community. Wright depicts Bigger as this angry boy that has been molded by racist propaganda on the 1930’s along with the oppression of African Americans during this time
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line in fact – it captured me. The first chapter of the book is titled ‘one hundred and thirty six days before’. I felt extremely curious upon reading that‚ as I questioned what we were leading up to‚ and what myself as the reader was waiting for. ‘One hundred and thirty six days before what?’‚ I asked myself. This made me extremely eager to continue reading. For me‚ as I was coming to the chapters that are a few days ‘before’‚ I was in total suspense‚ and could not put the book down. I think that
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The Chrysalids Reading Response Chapters 4-6 There are a few patterns that I noticed in the Chrysalids the one that really jumped out at me was the idea of “normal” the entire story is based around the idea of “normal” and gods image. It’s repeated all throughout the book‚ Sophie gets her foot stuck in the rocks she doesn’t want her shoe to be removed because she fears David will think of her having six toes as something abnormal‚ in Davids house where there are no paintings on the walls instead
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The Comedy of Errors: Reading Response 2 Act 1‚ Sc. ii of Comedy of Errors begins the cascade of confusing identity that is played up throughout the play with the interaction of Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus. Through this brief interaction‚ particularly lines 53-94‚ the hierarchy of social status is shown between the two characters. A section of this scene also reveals Shakespeare’s playing with the time period it is supposed to be set in. The significant theme of Comedy of Errors
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“What’s in a Name” Reading Response Within the story Gate’s describes the difference between his family and other black families in town‚ he says‚ “we had stopped off at the Cut-Rate Drug Store (where no black person in town but my father could sit down to eat‚ and eat off real plates with real silver wear).” Gates’ family social status is different from other black families in Piedmont‚ West Virginia due to the fact that his family has “financial security.” His father works two jobs in order to
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she wanted him to suffer rather than for him to marry and fall in love with a women whom she despised. I still wonder why the author made the ending the way it was. I think this story shows how your actions could possibly cost you your life. After reading this story‚ I will always think carefully about what I do- what is right and what is wrong. Although this story is described as in a semi-barbaric village‚ it still shows a very meaningful message. I really enjoyed this story and it can really teach
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Seeing is not believing Yirong Wang This is an essay that introduces a new perspective to us to decode ancient visual arts. The author reminds us that there are other ways of decoding visual figures alongside the “Beazley method” so we need to undermine stereotypes in our minds in appreciating ancient Greek vases. Let’s first talk about “Beazley’s method”. The basic principles of this approach are that we can distinguish the artists through their stylistic skills on the vases. The author thinks
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euphoria that could be described as “drowsy numbness”. In the first line Keats repeats the A sound with “aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains”. In the second line Keats repeats the H sound with “Hemlock I had drunk”. This alliteration and assonance creates a sort of euphoric musical quality‚ further emphasizing Keats’ chemically induced lack of feeling described. Continuing with the idea of drug induced emptiness in the third line Keats speaks of “some dull opiate to the drains”. Also continuing
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way it can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth." Reading these sentences make me understand the passion she has for the English language and what it can do. She also provides examples of her mother’s ’broken English’ as she calls it‚ "He come to my wedding. I didn’t see‚ I heard it. I gone to boy’s side‚ they have YMCA dinner. Chinese age I was nineteen." This confused me as I was reading because I did not understand the text. Then I realized that Amy Tan’s "Mother
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“Imagination in A Christmas Carol” Graham Holderness says A Christmas Carol categorically that the writer’s imagination fails. Scrooge is allowed to slide into a rarefied limbo of Christmas sentiment and Christian charity‚ so abstract as to be empty of life and meaning. His encounter with the three ghosts is far more credible‚ far more realistic‚ than this closing vision of life of permanent goodness‚ which scarcely resembles human life at all. In one respect‚ of course‚ this misses the point
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