In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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ESSAY – EXTENSION ENGLISH Anil’s Ghost‚ Rear Window and 2 ORTS: crime fiction genre‚ texts‚ contexts‚ values and techniques “While the genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts‚ these texts all engage with investigating a crime and associated social and moral issues” Conventions shape a text and are adopted to suit a specific audience or contextual purpose. The genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts that through the composer’s contextual influences and intentions
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finest The stories of Lone Survivor and Ghost Soldiers are two stories that acknowledge two remarkable first hand accounts on surviving in combat when the enemy is greater than you are. Lone Survivor is a story of four men going up into the rocky rough terrain mountains of Afghanistan severely outnumbered and were not expecting to get into a huge gun fight but as their operation went haywire they fought for every ounce of life but only one US navy SEAL made it out alive. Now with Ghost Soldiers the
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are living with the maid. Throughout the early story the governess begins to see ghosts‚ who are in fact‚ that of the father and the previous governess who are both dead. The new governess fears that the ghosts have come for the children and begins planning a way to have the children to live with their uncle. The children are reluctant to leave and the governess is sure that this is part of the ghosts’ plot‚ yet no one else has actually seen the ghosts. Flora‚ the youngest child‚ is taken to her uncle’s
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Hamlet‚ a play by William Shakespeare‚ is a tragic story involving themes that are shown through the actions os several important characters. However‚ there is one character that has a minor part but plays a major role: the the Ghost of King Hamlet. The Ghost plays a vital role in the understanding and interpretation of Hamlet’s sanity. When Hamlet first encounters the Ghost of his father‚ the Ghost reveals to Hamlet the way Hamlet’s father died. After Hamlet hears this news coming out of his
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Similarities Between Ghost Boy and Water for Elephants The circus is a setting common to both the Iain Lawrence novel Ghost Boy and the 2011 film directed by Francis Lawrence Water for Elephants. The film and novel are similar in many ways. The circus during the Depression and the war provides and immediate similarity in the setting for both stories. Characters in both the film and the novel share similar traits and characteristics creating strong protagonists and antagonists. These characters
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In Maya Angelou’s excerpt‚ “What’s So Funny?” she pointed out that vulgarity and crudeness happens to be the direction in which comedians‚ entertainers‚ and people take their jokes. She explains that behind the obscene profanities‚ are people who are just as vulgar as their jokes. By us laughing with them‚ we are not only stooping down to their level‚ we are also taking part in the humiliation. I agree with Maya Angelou’s point. For example‚ laughing when someone makes a joke towards someone
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All ghosts and vampires are never only ghosts and vampires . There’s a thin line between the ordinary and the monstrous. Vampirism is beyond just vampires. More so‚ selfishness‚ exploitation‚ a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people. Seeing this situation in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ was a connection between the two. The novel opens with Hester‚ the protagonist‚ being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicity shamed for having commited adultery. Hester is forced to
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novel Beloved by Toni Morrison takes about the story of a family that was haunted by a ghost. Clearly‚ it is a story of individuals of African origin who underwent harsh conditions at the hands of the Whiteman. The book is divided into three sections with 28 chapters totally. Chapter 1: Haunted House The novel begins by introducing the reader about the ghost that is haunting house‚ number 124‚ at Blue Road. The author shows the reader that the ghost has powers to shatter mirrors and leave its handprints
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