The Year of the Flood is a complex yet captivating book. There are many things going on at once during the first 20 chapters that we read. I don’t think I have ever read a book that shifts narration as much as this book does. Just about every chapter is a different person’s narration than the previous chapter. Although this first confused me‚ I now think that it makes the book even more unique. Through a bit of research‚ I found that this is actually the second book in Atwood’s dystopian triology
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In the book Push precious is similar to one of the prisoners in “Allegory of the Cave” because they both started in the cave. This is true because while they were in the cave they both faced some similar oppression. To begin‚ when precious got out of the hospital and straight home her mom tried to kill her so precious says ¨Gonna kill me wif her ¨BARE HANDS¨ it’s like a black wall gonna crash on me¨ (Precious 74). This is significant because when precious return home as well the ¨cave” she is getting
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Reading Response to "The Cause of War" "The Cause of War" by Margaret Sanger is about the high birth rate in Germany during World War I. Sanger also states that "behind all war has been the pressure of population. (533)" Sanger wrote this essay to inform the public that "the great crime of imperialistic Germany was its high birth rate (533.)" The audience to the essay is essentially anyone who is against war and overcrowding families‚ nations‚ and the earth (533.) The author offers three
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traditional societal roles and their sexuality. As a result‚ sexuality and violence against women became major areas of concern. The traditional role of woman as sexual objects renders them susceptible to non-consensual sexual activity‚ such as rape. Margaret Atwood’s short story “Rape Fantasies” demonstrates the misconceptions concerning rape. The story is narrated by Estelle‚ who discusses her coworker’s lunch stories of their ‘rape fantasies’ to a man at a bar. She adds humour to the fantasies in an
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Ms. Margaret Dolgenos was kind enough to once again answer questions about her company‚ Cruzio Internet‚ at which she is both the CFO and owner. She has worked at Cruzio for nearly 30 years and before had worked at several large companies‚ such as SCO‚ which she hopes can give her better insight into performance management and how it has differed in her different jobs. Ms. Dolgenos starts off by explaining that she believes Cruzio actually has a better performance management system than some of
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Emily Blanzy The Relationship between Postfeminism and Power Politics Margaret Atwood’s‚ Bodily Harm‚ details the descent of a Canadian woman named Rennie from normalcy to physical‚ emotional and psychological disturbance. Rennie undergoes a partial mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer‚ suffers the disintegration of her romantic relationship with Jake and finds herself entrenched in the political upheaval of the Caribbean island St. Antoine. Rennie lives rather apathetically;
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My topic for this ISP is focusing on how the main character‚ Susie evolves‚ and how she affects people on Earth without being present. In the novel “The Lovely Bones” Susie is a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family‚ friends and killer from heaven. Throughout the novel‚ Susie is trapped in a “perfect world” leaving her from seeing her family‚ friends and killer. Susie begins to mature in her journey through heaven as she progresses and even though she does not grow up‚ shows
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This poem portrays Attwood’s attitude on inner journey to discover oneself. She presents a metaphorical journey to explain a journey into the mind. She examines human behaviour’s reasons‚ understanding one self’s mystery‚ lack of knowledge of individual about themselves. Attwood has composed a Metaphysical journey contrasting the similarities and differences. Her fascination with the bizarre fluidity of identity and its mystery is the focus of this poem. The first paragraph establishes the similarities
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Among the Hidden is the book I read for this book report. It has 153 pages and it is fiction. The book takes place on a farm over a one-year time period from late summer to late spring. We don’t know the exact year‚ but it is sometime in the future. It is here in the US‚ but it just doesn’t seem like it could be since things happen in the book that just don’t seem imaginable to us. The story is about a boy named Luke. He is a shadow child. A shadow child is a third (or even more) child in a family
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1) Plot- The plot of Happy Ending centers around different scenarios for two characters‚ John and Mary. Although each story might be different they all have the same ending which results in a happy marriage and death. This leads Atwood to make the point that endings tend to be generic and the real "meat" of a book is in the middle. 2) Theme- In Happy Endings the theme focuses on that the middle of a story is far more important than the end. Atwood argues that most endings are generic and non
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