I N T R O D U C T I O N —— A novelist of all humanity R. K. Narayan’s novels are like a box of Indian sweets: a highly-coloured container conceals a range of delectable treats‚ all different in a subtle way‚ but each one clearly from the same place. There are fourteen novels in the oeuvre – enough to create a world. Enthusiasts of his work will read them all and return to them time and again. The busy‚ or the less committed‚ may open the box and take out one at random – it does not really matter
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A Man’s Best Friend This can’t be happening! I don’t believe this is happening! He was my best friend. They were both my best friends. How does one go from having two best friends to having none at all? I’m all alone…and he is who I have to thank! It was him who did this. He is responsible—him and him alone! And I will make him pay if it’s the last thing I do. [Pause] It seems like yesterday me and ‘ol Murph were playing fetch out back. I’d throw his favorite stick and he’d bring it back every
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pampered by them and suddenly I moved to the boarding school and everything is on me. I need to take care of my clothes‚ my books‚ my study and everything without my mother to watch on me. Everything on my own. For the first three days‚ I had no friends and obviously I felt so lonely. I need some time to adapt with the new environment. As time goes by‚ I grew up and entered the second phase of university.. For the past three years‚ I’ve experienced many new thing in my life‚ it taught me to become
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My best friend and me It’s been said many times that birds of a feather flock together‚ and if you consider my best friend and me‚ you would be sure that’s true. Some people have told us that we are like two peas in a pod. In fact‚ my best friend and I are so much alike that we are practically twins. First of all‚ our personalities are really similar. We are both a bit lazy. We like to lounge around during our free time‚ and we nearly always wake up late. In addition‚ my best friend and I are
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Classify the types of friends you have. When I was a little girl‚ the thing made me happy was having as many friends as possible. However; when I grow up I realize that there are many types of friends I should not get close with. According to me‚ based on how well I know friends are classified into three types are: best friend‚ hypocrite friends and pest friends. First of all is the best friend whom you can truth‚ you can share everything‚ you can rely on and whom you can call when you get in
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internet called “Happy Tree Friends.” She explains the setting of a seemingly innocent cartoon. The cartoon then takes a turn for the worse. She explains that one of the cute characters suffers a nervous breakdown and savagely murders the other cute fuzzy critters. The author then goes on to say‚ though she lives in a very liberal area of California; “Yet I would readily skip my next yoga class to march with right wing-fundamentalists in a cultural war against “Happy Tree Friends” (354). Ellison uses
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Some Notes on “The Custom House” Novel vs. Romance: A novel is concerned with characters and events. It may contain symbols‚ but these are of secondary concern. A romance‚ on the other hand‚ may have events and characters‚ but the real focus is on the ideas and the symbolism that shape the book. These are inextricable from the story itself. The characters and events in a romance are only there to get across these larger ideas and the symbolism—and usually these are intended to lead the reader
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Zizek on Ideology and the Relationship Between Ideology and “The Real” ` CMNS 410 Professor Rick Gruneau December 13‚ 2011 Zizek on Ideology and the Relationship Between Ideology and “The Real” Slavoj Zizek is one of the leading theorists on ideology since the 1990’s and his conceptions of the real versus the symbolic versus the imagined are of particular importance when dissecting the question ‘what is ideology?’ Zizek’s critique of ideology and attempt to unpack it’s inner workings is fascinating
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The fascination of images: How do images teach us to desire The culture in which we live teaches us to‚ and what to desire. It does so through the works of psychoanalysis‚ interpreting the unconscious‚ free associations‚ fantasies and dreams. Interpreting these in a way in which to make the viewer the resolute to the images. The basic human needs are different to that of what we desire‚ we need food‚ water‚ shelter‚ yet we do not desire these things in a way in which we desire love and sex
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Velgard a short story by Sadeq Hedayat. Established on Lacan’s psychoanalysis human’s unconscious is highly structured like the structure of language that can be systematically analyzed. There are three stages in each human’s life that include the imaginary‚ the symbolic and the real order and each of them contain some significant features. In Hedayat’s story we are introduced with the life of a stray dog which is living a suffering life highly distinct from the life he used to have in past. To conclude
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