Rudyard Kipling It can be seen in "The Gardener" by Rudyard Kipling that the relationships are very complex. For example Helen Turrell‚ Michael Turrell and the gardeners relationship can be perceived in many different ways. The most likely scenario is that Helen is the mother‚ Michael the son and the gardener is the son resurrected but to determine this each of the characters need to be examined. To establish this theme it is best to look at the three main interpretations‚ Kiplings own history
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major writers is Rudyard Kipling. He is a British novelist and poet who was born in British India in 1865 and died in 1963. Though he lived over thirteen years there‚ the reader finds that his works espouse the imperial ideology and he came to be recognized as a "prophet of the British imperialism"(Orwell 116). And this is well manifested in his poem "The White Man’s Burden" published in 1899. It ideologically justifies the process of colonization and empire naming it a "burden". It urges the colonial
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Population; A Human Source Or Burden Zawar Hussain The world population milestone that is sparking a global discussion on today’s most pressing environmental‚ health and justice issues‚ Pakistan’s population has continued to grow at break-neck speed. This has put immense pressure on the resources Pakistan has or can generate. Some would argue that every birth produces a consumer. Increasing population is actually a blessing in Islam‚ Christianity and Judaism. So in religious sense its good
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Richard White’s short story‚ “The Man Who Was Almost a Man‚” portrays the internal struggles of a yearning for power and manhood while also shedding light on the inherent immaturity that accompanies such a forced desire. The protagonist‚ Dave Saunders‚ is an African-American teenager struggling with his desires to be viewed as a man. He works as a field hand for Mr. Hawkins and is teased by the older men who work alongside him. Such ridicule drives Dave to buy a gun after convincing his mother that
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Othello: The Tragedy of a Black Man in a White World When William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello around 1603‚ he was writing from the perspective of an individual living during the historical Elizabethan era. The play was set in Venice‚ Italy as was a good number of Shakespeare ’s other works‚ and later Cyprus became the play ’s final setting. The characters themselves attested to a Greek system of language‚ dress‚ and behavior. However‚ Othello ’s several themes and the attitudes
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Theme is the main idea of what a story is about‚ and it could have a lesson that could speak to the reader. In the story‚“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” I am certain that the theme is “greed can have negative outcomes”. Rudyard Kipling‚ the author of the “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi‚” couldn’t have made it more obvious. He literally hit me in the face with this theme. For instance‚ Nagaina is greedy and dies‚ but Rikki-Tikki isn’t and he lives. Although some people might think the theme is “it is possible to survive against
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Dead Man’s Shoes – Essay The short story “Dead Man’s Shoes” (1998) by David Evans is an astonishing view into the life of a rural village in South Africa after the fall of apartheid‚ and of the different attitudes flourishing in the community. The story depicts the life of a rich widow‚ Anne Bezuidenhout‚ who lives alone on an enormous farm with only her black workers to help her. She has many offers of marriage‚ all with something to offer her‚ but she ends up surprising everyone with her choice
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The 1860’s brought hardship between whites and Indians. As our people slowly moved into the tribe’s land‚ no friendship was bound to be created. Little by little‚ we nudged the Indians into a limited area of land where they felt the need to fight back. Included in this retaliation was three massacres. The bloodiest battle according to the rest of the US military that was not murdered‚ was titled the Fetterman Massacre. The last two Massacres took place in territories such as Colorado and Missouri
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The Burden of a Happy Childhood In “The Burden of a Happy Childhood” Cantwell described her grandparent’s house‚ the three story Victorian house her family lived in during her childhood life. There are so many great things she has experienced‚ like having a bird as a pet. After a morning dip on the beach‚ she had a playful moment with her grandfather in his beautiful garden; he washed her feet to remove the sand from her feet. As she grew older‚ all the images of those special moments still captured
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person. The child was moving on to pluck still another flower‚ when there came a sound of hoof-beats‚ and Ben was aware that a horseman‚ visible through the shrubbery‚ was coming along the curved path that led from the gate to the house. It must be the man he was waiting for‚ and now was the time to wreak his vengeance. He sprang to his feet‚ grasped his club‚ and stood for a moment irresolute. But either the instinct of the convict‚ beaten‚ driven‚ and debased‚ or the influence of the child‚ which was
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