Form Purpose Audience Language How to use the text Reflective expository essay To explore the ideas of the prompt and consider different ways of looking at conflict. General adult audience‚ teacher‚ peers Sophisticated‚ formal with some personal reflection‚ switching between 1st and 3rd person. Descriptive anecdotes. Experiences of particular characters or events can be contrasted with other real life events or personal experiences. Feature Article on the effect of war on women for a weekend
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Chris’ autism also gives him a compulsion to pay attention to small details and to be constantly looking for something. His impulses forces him to always be solving mysteries. Many mysteries in the book Chris thinks over completely before finding the answers much like Oskar. “I thought for a little while then I realized I had to find out who killed wellington.” (Haddon 9) This quote shows Chris’ desire to solve this mystery right from the beginning of the book. This mystery leads to more mysteries
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel that encompasses the struggles of a child coming to age. An autobiographical piece depicting the life of a girl who is living through the Iranian revolution. Throughout the novel‚ Marjane has personal conversations with an autonomous god. She shares everything with him‚ her expectations of the world and her purpose in life. However‚ the relationship between them evolves over time as she grows older. When Satrapi introduces god in the novel she explains
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HUMOR 3.1. Introduction This chapter focuses on the humor language‚ through which the story is narrated‚ which is different time by time‚ sometimes juvenalian‚ then ironic‚ then sarcastic‚ but also the situations are intertwined with one another‚ so do even these types of humor. The main goal of this chapter is to capture the reality that is expressed through the humor‚ starting from the personal life Huck which is characterized as an immature teen to racism‚ slavery‚ lack of empathy‚ etc. 3.2
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A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor: John Morreall What humans find funny is so subjective‚ thus it is one of the strangest things that humans do. With just a few actions or a few words‚ our whole demeanor changes and‚ “…Our diaphragms move up and down in spasms‚ expelling air from our lungs and making staccato vocal sounds (Morreall‚ 2). Why do we laugh? What is humor? What is the difference between laughter and humor? In A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor‚ John Morreall attempts to answer these
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Persepolis The graphic novel Persepolis depicts the Iranian revolution from a child’s point-view through the eyes of the author Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi describes her experiences and actions while being raised during and after the Iranian revolution. The Iranian revolution was based strongly on the Islam faith and the establishment of an “Islamic Republic” (Crossroads and Cultures‚ 1008). After the year 1980 when the revolution had been resolved‚ women and girls were required to wear veils and were
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Black Humor in Catch-22 Joseph Heller uses black humor to express normally emotional scenarios in humorous ways in his writing. One of the clearest examples of Joseph Heller using black humor is in his novel‚ Catch-22. The story follows Yossarian‚ a man enlisted in the United States Air Force during World War II‚ and his frightening experiences while in service. Yossarian witnesses many scenes throughout the story which most people would find extremely emotional or graphic during
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Marjane Satrapi tells her story to readers by allowing them to relate to her. The graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ depicts Satrapi’s life as a young female during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Satrapi universalizes the idea of a battle with independence while growing up‚ by sharing her experiences‚ in order to allow her readers to relate to her. Satrapi suggests that the idea of independence within childhood is universal among children in the world. “Satrapi illustrates that
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Ben Sargalski H nMrs. Elmkies Western Literature 5/31/13 Humor and Entertainment in Shakespearean Times Humor and entertainment in renaissance Europe was an important part of the daily life for people. Even though they didn’t have TV or the internet they had many forms of entertainment and humor that most of which are still popular today. A few of these were; theater‚ music and dancing‚ and literature. Theater was perhaps one of the most if not the most popular form of entertainment during
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Humor in A Tale of Two Cities This novel is filled with humor but one scene that catches attention as humorous is in Chapter one of the Second Book‚ Jerry Cruncher is the most comical character in the book and in this particular scene he yells at his wife for praying against her. This is comical because it is so absurd especially the way Dickens depicts it. Mr.Cruncher wa kes up to find his wife praying and yells twice that she is “at it agin” (Dickens 56)‚ so he continues to throw a muddy boot
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