Case Studies Read the case studies below and answer the questions that follow in two short essays that will be submitted as one deliverable. Case Study #1 Ms. A. is an apparently healthy 26-year-old white woman. Since the beginning of the current golf season‚ Ms. A has noted increased shortness of breath and low levels of energy and enthusiasm. These symptoms seem worse during her menses. Today‚ while playing in a golf tournament at a high‚ mountainous course‚ she became light-headed and was
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isolation and insanity which ultimately lead her to her downfall. Faulkner uses grotesque imagery which showed the lengths she was willing to go to‚ so she wouldn’t feel empty. Emily represents southern life at large. She is controlled by male dominance which leads her to isolation and insanity. Faulkner’s vision of a family is sick and grotesque mainly because he took her life away from her. Using the genre grotesque and the theme of insanity and isolation help to portray what is going on in the
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Memory moments are usually used by authors to easily show the past memory of the main character and to briefly introduce the settings of the story. In the novelette Old Woman Island by George Lalor‚ he incorporate memory moments in the first three chapters of one of the main characters‚ Timothy Flynn. The story started to when Timothy Flynn was driving up the road to Flynn’s Landing while recalling his grandpa’s sawmill: “... its giant swirling blades that screamed across water and its all surrounding
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In the story "The Wise Old Woman" is a Japanese folk tale‚by Yoshiko Uchida ‚ is about how a young leader does not approve on the elderly being in his village and later on realizes his mistake. This folk tale basically tells‚ just because one can not do something doesn’t mean they can not guide us with their wisdom. This shows how the elderly can give good ideas and confidence‚without being able to work and have a living. You can tell how the characters feel about their cruel leader and his rules
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the grotesque. He is not only physically abnormal but also a character capable of fantastic transformation. Jone’s is described as “blind‚ and crippled”(Capote 14). His “legs had been denied him by a childhood accident‚ and he couldn’t move without crutches” (Capote 14). This abnormal physicality set him apart from the norm. He is not only unable to move “without crutches” but he is also unable to see where he is going. Of course‚ this physical abnormality fits the description of the grotesque in
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Flannery O’Connor and the Use of the Grotesque Much of Flannery O’Connor’s writing revolves around themes of redemption‚ the concept or grace‚ or a character’s view of the world being challenged. Often O’Connor uses extreme violence or the grotesque in her stories to provide her characters these challenges; which is interesting considering her strong religious beliefs. The stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge”‚ for example‚ make similar uses of literary elements
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THE BROKEN GROTESQUE Broken grotesque‚ sitting on the ancient roof our great lady’s cathedral‚ made only out of stone. You were meant to last for eternity‚ but the wind and rain has slowly chipped away your wings and horns. You have been around longer than any of us. You have seen kings‚ queens‚ and popes come and go; glorious revolutions‚ bathed in passion and blood‚ till they have fizzled out and lie down in the gutter to die‚ like an old dog. You have lips‚ but no voice behind them. If you had
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term "grotesque" is appropriate in a way Anderson could hardly have been aware of; for it was first used by Renaissance artists to describe arabesques painted in the underground ruins‚ grotte‚ of Nero’s "Golden House."<br><br>The conception of the grotesque‚ as actually developed in the stories‚ is not merely that it is an unwilled affliction but also that it is a mark of a once sentient striving. In "The Book of the Grotesque‚" Anderson writes: "It was the truths that made the people grotesques the
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Dutch painter Rembrandt. He often used the themes that Rembrandt painted for his own works. This piece‚ the Old Woman Reading a Bible (c.1630) is very similar to Rembrandt’s own Old Woman Reading (1631). Dou was very similar to Rembrandt in style‚ he seems to be more detailed and meticulous in his execution. His scenes of domestic‚ bourgeois life were tremendously popular. The woman is in this painting seems to be sitting in near-darkness. She is reading a story from her Bible about the entry
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Major Themes- The Grotesque- The God Of Small Things The grotesque permeates the story of The God of Small Things from the very beginning‚ when Rahel imagines the ceiling-painter dying on the floor‚ "blood spilling from his skull like a secret." We learn later that this is Velutha‚ dying alone and wrongfully accused in the police station. The grotesque takes precedence throughout the story precisely because it is not allowed to do so by the characters. That is‚ it is the manifestation of the ugly
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