In the National Gallery In this assignment I will begin by giving a short summary of the short story “In the National Gallery” by Doris Lessing (2007)‚ and hereafter I will analyze and interpret the short story. In addition to that I will put my interpretation into perspective and discuss the extract from The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald and the extract from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson. Besides looking at the two different texts I will try to compare the text into
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effectively. The texts I have chosen and think support the above idea well are “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and “Journey to the Interior” by Margaret Atwood‚ along with the interesting short story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing. The composers of these texts have used a range of techniques to involve their audience in the journey. The ideas in these texts are conveyed clearly by the composer’s effective use of language techniques. There are three main areas to a journey
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Eng 101 Professor Keefe 5 December 2012 Authority in the Heart of Jim Jones Many theories and questions are raised from the problem of obedience to authority. What can make another person be obedient to another? Why do some people obey others when they know what they’re doing is wrong? This is a problem for the human population and it demands reasoning‚ explanation‚ and examination. We must reflect on what many experts have examined in the field‚ and draw some conclusions. There are many experts
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opinions when they are on the side with the most support. The Officer and Gideon are in the minority because they attempt to uphold their personal values instead of mindlessly adhering to the crowd. In both George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant and Doris Lessing’s No Witchcraft for Sale‚ the authors reveal the protagonists’ alienation from the majority as they struggle to preserve their morality. When the authors utilize the modern theme of alienation‚ they suggest people are often segregated from
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organization called Common Core. “A phone (land line!) survey of 1‚200 17-year-olds… researched Feb. 26‚ found our young people are living in “stunning ignorance of history and literature.” (Goldwasser 666) This survey led to the acceptance speech of Doris Lessing‚ a British novelist and playwright‚ for winning a Nobel Prize in literature‚ where she referred too many as “a fragmenting culture‚” and states that‚ “young men and women… have read nothing‚ knowing only some specialty or other‚ for instance‚ computers
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saying in this article that teens aren’t being destroyed by the internet. Their focus is just different and it should be accepted. She finalizes her argument by saying‚ "One of them‚ 70 years from now‚ might even get up there to accept the very award Lessing did - and thank the internet for making him or her a writer and a thinker"
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A Characterisation of the setting in Lessing’s short story; The Mother of the Child in Question “The mother of the child in question” is a short story by Doris Lessing‚ where a social worker (Stephen) is going to visit a family in their apartment. “Stained gray piles went up in the sky‚ and down below lay grey acres where only one person moved among puddles‚ soft drink cans and bits of damp paper” In the text‚ the setting is described as an area of tower blocks with cement everywhere. In
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To Room 19 ‚ Final draft In the short story “To Room Nineteen” by Doris Lessing‚ Susan Rawlings is a woman living what seems like the perfect life with the perfect marriage. However‚ it soon becomes clear that Susan isn’t as happy with her life as one might think upon first glance. Slowly but surely‚ Susan begins to drift away from her home life in attempts to find freedom through solitude. This reaction can be analyzed by taking a closer look at how Susan relates to the places in her life such
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takes to understand why the pieces can’t fit‚ the longer it takes to reach the end goal. For an individual to move beyond adolescence‚ he/she must learn from obstacles to ultimately reach adulthood. In the short story‚ “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing‚ Jerry is confronted by challenge of choosing to swim underwater to impress a group of boys at the beach. In the video The Wonder Years‚ the main character Kevin Arnold faces a problem of getting
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Task 2.1: An analysis of ”Shooting an Elephant”‚ by George Orwell. This non-fiction essay is a report of George himself shooting an elephant. He is a sub-divisional police officer of the town Moulmein in lower Burma. It is here he experiences a kill of an elephant. And it is not just a kill‚ he kills it with a rifle in front of about two thousands Indians. The elephant had gone savage and rampaged homes and killed men. Orwell reports an Indian man who was grounded into the mud by the elephant with
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