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    What is Doris LessingÕs purpose in the following extract and how effectively does she achieve it? Comment on her point of view‚ tone and language and any other important aspects of style. By Adam van Sant The extract from Sunrise on the Veld was written by Doris Lessing. He purpose is to make us feel like we are inside the head of the main character. The main character has come across a dying buck in a field and is contemplating whether to put the buck out of itÕs suffering. Lessing uses many

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    Group Minds

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    “Group Minds” by Doris Lessing‚ she makes a point of acknowledging how individuals will violate their own common sense‚ and moral codes in order to be accepted by their peers‚ and argues why we as a society can’t apply this knowledge to explain how people could be cautious of group pressures. Doris Lessing has been called “the best female novelist” post war era; since 1959‚ she has written over twenty works of fiction‚ and has received numerous amounts of scholarly attention. Lessing continuously states

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    often get into conflict. How many times have you not argued with an old man about something which was obvious to you‚ but for him it was veiled? This conflict caused by the generation gap happens in the short story In the National Gallery by Doris Lessing from 2007. Through a first person narrator we become a part of a public space‚ London’s National Gallery. The narrator‚ whose age‚ gender and appearance remains hidden from us as readers‚ watches‚ observes and comments on activity in the gallery

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    to room nineteen

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    In Lessing short story‚ “To Room Nineteen‚” she explains about being in “tragedy” represents “a failure of intelligence” is when she rents a room for solitude and she cannot find a way to her real self except by killing herself and her marriageis a failure (2759). Although‚ the author uses ”intelligent” and “civilized” to explain that it’s ironic and her intelligence to show that if led her to commit suicide (Lessing 2762). However‚ this story starts in a very ironic tone by bringing up the failure

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    the “Flight” In two stories “Young Man’s Folly”‚ written by Susan Michalicka and “Flight”‚ written by Doris Lessing‚ there are a lot of similarities. In “Young Man’s Folly”‚ the author tells a story about a boy and his mother‚ that by boy’s foolishness of his father are left alone. The boy is not very happy‚ so he blames his mom that he doesn’t have his father anymore. However‚ at the end the boy realizes that his mom’s the one that truly loves him. One the other hand‚ in the story “Flight”‚ the

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    the grass is singing

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    Doris Lessing is a British writer who was born in 1919 in Kermanshah‚ Iran. She published her first novel The Grass is Singing in England in 1950. The title of this novel was taken from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. This title is included in these lines: In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight‚ the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves‚ about the chapel There is the empty chapel‚ only the wind’s home. It has no windows‚ and the door swings‚ Dry bones can harm no

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    plague waiting to spread like wildfire throughout your school‚ your workplace‚ even your home-life. Some may think that’s too dramatic‚ but I envision it as the horrid truth. The article “Group Minds‚” written by Doris Lessing‚ comes from her series of the 1985 Massey Lectures. Lessing declares “When we ’re in a group‚ we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find "like-minded" people. But we also find our thinking changing because we belong to a group.” I believe

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    The two stories or literary novels "Sixteen" by Maureen Daly and "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing‚ who are both authors or wordsmiths‚ Maureen Daly and Doris Lessing uses a theme‚ subject‚ or topic matter of their characters who are wanting to prove‚ validate‚ and justify themselves to someone else. The differences‚ distinctions‚ or variation of these two stories or literary novels becomes extremely useless and obsolete when who the two characters aspire to prove‚ validate‚ and justify themselves

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    The Golden Notebook By Doris Lessing Plot Summary: "Knowing was an ’illumination. ’ During the last weeks of craziness and timelessness I ’ve had these moments of ’knowing ’ one after the other‚ yet there is no way of putting this sort of knowledge into words. Yet‚ these moments have been so powerful‚ like the rapid illuminations of a dream that remain with one waking‚ that what I have learned will be part of how I experience life until I die

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    gradual coming of age. In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel‚” the idea that certain circumstances cause the development of maturity is exemplified through a young‚ English child named Jerry. Lessing uses symbolism and Jerry’s conflict to augment the story’s theme --coming of age. Throughout the story‚ Lessing uses symbolism to corroborate the theme of coming of age. For example‚ Lessing paints a picture of a “wild and rocky bay” that captures Jerry’s growing curiosity (Lessing 1). The bay symbolizes

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