Greg Bennett 3/18/13 Required close Analytic Reading Authors Stylistic Choices: Enhancing Analysis Using Rhetorical Grammar The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien 1. What is the narrator’s tone in the opening sentence? Describe how the use of the word butterfly affects the reader’s understanding of the description that follows. The narrator’s tone in the opening sentence is of peace and or prosperity. The narrator tricks the reader by using the noun butterfly to show beauty‚ calmness
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Dehumanization‚ objectification‚ and violence are linked together like a chain. Each one can lead to a series of events that bring upon another‚ and so on. Dehumanization can lead to objectification‚ which can lead to violence. In society today‚ many women and men are dehumanized‚ objectified‚ and violated. Women are often dehumanizied‚ because society has a certain look for women. If women don’t look the certain way society wants them to‚ they are automatically objectified. However‚ women
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that guy Mark Fossie who shipped his girl over to Vietnam to spend time with him‚ I couldn’t believe it. He says he saw the whole thing‚ and that he was there when everything happened‚ but I doubt it; Rat is the type of guy who would lie to get his story more interesting. But anyhow‚ I agreed for him to tell me the story even though I was very sceptical about the whole thing. It almost seemed like he was fooling me. So I crossed my arms‚ and let him amuse me with his anecdote. Although
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curiosity of which portions of the book are actually based on O’ Brien’s life. This quote looks at the “fictional” Tim O’Brien’s view of war stories. He says that memory doesn’t always serve a person well when telling war stories‚ as there are some things that didn’t actually happen‚ they merely seem to. The same affect occurs when the reader is unclear as to what actually happened to real Tim O’Brien‚ and what was simply fabricated for entertainment purposes. The novel becomes even more like a war
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convinced himself that his thoughts of Martha distracted him to a point where he led his own men astray‚ resulting in Lavender’s sudden death. Cross doesn’t want men to perish because of his own incompetence and recklessness‚ so he sacrifices the one thing loved – Martha‚ for the sake of his troops. Cross emerges from a man obsessed about returning home to his beloved Martha‚ to a man who sacrificed his own desires for the well being of others. “He would accept the blame for what had happened to Ted
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looking at the social phenomenon of dehumanization. While most people would agree that all human beings are created equal‚ there are those who let their minds cajole themselves into believing that some people are less than human. Throughout history‚ there have been many occurrences in which one group of people convinces themselves that because another group is different‚ they are inferior. Furthermore‚ historical evidence helps to define the term dehumanization through the characteristics of labeling
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the fence has more freedom than she does. She wonders if her people can escape from their cruel life. After reading the poem‚ Even the croaking of frogs”‚ it impacted how I saw the world for what it really is. First‚ the theme of this poem is dehumanization. In the poem‚ it says‚ “comes from outside the barbed wire fence” (Kennedy‚ Gioia 719). This shows that there are people behind the fence‚ unable to leave. The fence
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Glass Menagerie while maintaining the same function of truth as a source of distortion and control. Collectively‚ the themes of dehumanization in 1984 and distortion of memory in The Glass Menagerie relate to one another regarding the function of truth in each work to substantiate a sense of authority and deception. Oppression in 1984 as a direct instrument of dehumanization
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the Holocaust. Dehumanization is when one human or group of humans believes that they are more human than another group or person. Usually dehumanization takes place when one race‚ religion‚ or culture believes that another race‚ religion‚ or culture is not as human as themselves or not human at all. Dehumanization has unfavorably impacted the lives of many throughout history such as during the Holocaust‚ slavery‚ and the Rwandan Genocide. During the Holocaust‚ dehumanization was the reason
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As the Europeans came into contact with the indigenous Americans their views of women became challenged. The white man’s Indian equaled a primitive man. Europeans did not originally view indigenous Americans as adhering to any of the cultural structure that Europeans believed they had already mastered. The culture of native Americans was matriarchal and largely unfamiliar to the immigrant community. Pueblo groups were tied to female political power and women provided for families in a way unseen
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