Running Head: THE JUNGLE The Jungle [Writer Name] [Institute Name] The Jungle Thesis Statement In this novel Upton Sinclair shows the problems of working class people. His believe in and contempt for capitalism as described in this story “The Jungle”. The writer explains capitalism in which the labor communities were treated very badly and to survive in the conditions of poverty. The novel rotates around the family of a character Jurgis Rudkus who have immigrated to America from Lithuania. As
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Professor Boniecki English H102 30 January 2013 Reader Response Paper #1: After reading all of the assigned poetry and having sincerely vivid images accompany almost all of them‚ I settled on “Dawn” by James Laughlin for my first writing assignment. Hearing the writer’s disheveled thoughts‚ spilling out and changing lanes without signaling‚ reminds me of my father who up until recently I was very close to. Thomas [Last Name] is an older man at seventy-five whose thoughts and memory
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crude; it is rich‚ almost rancid‚ sensual and strong." | Meat packing industry makes the reader disgusted from the detail of the odor | Parallelism | "It is a sound‚ a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds. You scarcely noticed it at first-it sunk into your consciousness‚ a vague disturbance‚ a trouble." 1`7 | This quote has to do with immigration and giving the character a more humanistic view to the reader | pathos | "Relentless‚ remorseless‚ it was; all his protests‚ his screams‚ were nothing
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“Mugged” By: Jim Crocket : Reader Response In the essay “Mugged” by Jim Crockett he talks about his relationship with his coffee mug. This essay is about building relationships and how almost everyone has something they cling to. In the beginning he makes it sound like he was mugged by some people and lost all his money‚ but that wasn’t the case‚ he lost something more valuable to him‚ his coffee mug. Jim thinks he has an addiction to coffee itself‚ but in reality its with the coffee mug. People
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Readers Response #1 The short story‚ “The Veldt”‚ written by Ray Bradbury‚ is one of the literatures that talks about the effects of technology in a negative point of view. The story is introduced in a futuristic setting‚ a sound-proofed Happylife Home‚ where the Hadley family lives with the advanced technology. The machines are capable of fulfilling all the family’s needs and desires such as cleaning‚ clothing‚ feeding‚ and even rocking them to sleep. In the beginning‚ the technology
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Reader Response- “Streetcar Named Desire” Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in the Tennessee William’s‚ “ A Streetcar Named Desire”. She is presented as a woman who has an older sister Blanch and a husband named Stanley. She is often overlooked in the play because of her husband Stanley and her sister Blanche are much more dynamic. However‚ Stella plays an important role that without her‚ Stanley and Blanche who are considered‚ as two major characters of the play throughout the story
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to be considered here are these: moral/intellectual; topi cal/historical; New Critical/formalist; structuralist; feminist; economic determin ist/Marxist; psychological/psychoanalytic; archetypal/symbolic/mythic; Deconstruc tionist; and Reader-Response. A number of critical theories or approaches for understanding and interpret ing literature are available to critics and students alike. Many of these have been developed during the twentieth century to create a discipline of literary studies
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Bryan Kent Miss Myers Honors English III 2 June 2012 Final Essay The Jungle Nature and economics move in similar cycles throughout history. Prey grows exponentially unless there is a limiting factor‚ such as predators or food sources. Companies grow until they do not have resources to grow. Companies as a group compete with each other‚ as well as with the consumers and producers in order to maximize profits and minimize waste. Waste might be employees who are not producing fast enough
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Nathan Egert Mr. Maffey 1H - 6/8 25 April 2013 Reader Response - "My Indigo" "My Indigo" is a featured poem from Li-Young Lee’s 1993 book "Rose". The poem is a relation between Li-Young Lee‚ and the history of the Indigo also known as Indigofera tinctoria. The poem strings together Lee’s search for his identity as a Chinese-American‚ and the origin and value of the Indigo. The Indigo originated in India where it was turned into an industry in 300 BC‚ and then it was later discovered and later
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David James Duncan’s A Mickey Mantle Koan Reader Response This essay was by far my favorite essay I’ve ever read. It really hit home with me because I have a brother that I am super close to and we spent a lot of our time as kids playing any sort of ball. I believe Duncan’s heartwarming essay was to alert people about the concept of searching for happiness in “the finer things” when for the most part; happiness can come from the simplest things. This was something that really hit home for me because
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