and begins a trek across the Western United States‚ which eventually brings him to the place of his demise-Alaska. Jon Krakauer makes you feel like you are with Chris on his journey and uses exerts from various authors such as Thoreau‚ London‚ and Tolstoy‚ as well as flashbacks and narrative pace and even is able to parallel the adventures of Chris to his own life as a young man in his novel Into the Wild. Krakauer educates himself of McCandless’ story by talking to the people that knew Chris the
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art should look at it longer and in more detail. In a website artist quotes he is quoted interpreting art as‚ “The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” According to a very famous poet and author Leo Tolstoy he explains art as something that is studied and practiced through experience in life. He states that‚ “Art is that human activity which consists in one human consciously conveying to others‚ by certain external signs‚ the feelings he has experienced
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“A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet.” Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton‚ 2011. 264-271. Print. Shakespeare‚ William. Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton‚ 2011. Print Tolstoy‚ Leo. “Shakespeare and the Drama.” Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton‚ 2011. 252-255. Print.
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people who befriended Chris in his journey‚ folks like Jan Burres and her boyfriend‚ Bob Wayne Westerberg Ronald Franz Explain why Chris left such a strong impression on them. 2. Chris McCandless had certain literary heroes Henry David Thoreau‚ Leo Tolstoy‚ Jack London‚ etc. Choose one or more of Chriss literary heroes and analyze what he appreciated about their work as well as what he incorporated into his own philosophy of life. (This topic is manageable just from having read Into the Wild and
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GEAS2103 Literary Appreciation: Term Essay Outline CUI KE JUN‚ April (13635670) Essay topic: Compare and contrast the conflicts faced by the protagonists in the two texts. Discuss how they are forced to submit to their parents. In literature‚ the conflict moves the story forward. When the story is to end the protagonist’s favor‚ the conflict occurs. It is what the major character must face with and hopefully defeat. What behind conflict is want. The author always creates situations where the characters
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Abul Fazal 26 Akbar-Nama Abul Fazal 27 Shakuntala Kalidas 28 War and peace Leo Tolstoy 29 A Dangerous place D.P. Moynihan 30 Raghuvamsa Kalidas 31 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 32 Adventures of Tom Saweyer Mark Twain 33 Agni Veena Kazi Nasrul Islam 34 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carrol 35 Ancient Mariner Coleridge 36 Animal Farm George Orwell 37 Anna Karenina Tolstoy 38 Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 39 Arms and the Man G.B.Shaw 40 Around
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Although all of the texts that we have read in class are of equal importance‚ I have chosen to compare “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy‚ “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe‚ and “From Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. All works have to do with the sense of self and coming to terms with the world around them. To begin‚ “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is about a man who lived a life based on the world around him and what was expected of him‚ he was not living for himself. Ilyich’s life was an
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Henry David Thoreau once wrote‚ “If a man does not keep pace with his companions‚ perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears‚ however measured and far away” (Thoreau). Both Esther Greenwood of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Christopher McClandless of John Kraukaer’s Into the Wild had their own “music” different than societies. This “music” lead to Esther’s suicide attempts and Christopher’s journey to Alaska. While media influences both Esther Greenwood’s
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Russian literature: History Overview Russian literature has long been a cultural focus of the entire world. It’s not surprising that the formation of Russia’s first literary traditions goes back to the first century. The adoption of Christianity boosted the development of literacy‚ philosophy and theological literature. The earliest literary works were not written in the Russian language but in Old Church Slavonic which was developed in the 9th century by Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius
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