My son the fanatic The generation gap is a dilemma which frequently occurs among immigrants‚ and in his short story My son the fanatic‚ Hanif Kureishi brings up the issue concerned. Kureishi introduces us to a father‚ who’s alarmed and puzzled by his sons’ strange behavior‚ which proves out to be against his own values. During this‚ Kureishi touches on the topics fanaticism and religion‚ and how these can change ones behavior towards ones family. Kureishi also focuses on how people relate to their
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Mother Tongue The essay I want to write on is Mother Tongue‚ which is written by Amy Tan. This article recalls me some adversities when the first few days I came to the United States. Amy is an ethnic Chinese writer who was born and living in United States. She was faced with language problem during her life. In this essay‚ Amy Tan talks about her mother’s broken grammar and the dialogue in English without grammar between her mother and her. But when Amy talks with other people‚ gives a speech‚
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(short for Solomon). He has a hard life‚ as he struggles with dyslexia‚ and people do not understand his problem. Whispers in the graveyard is a story about a young boy‚ whos dad has a excessive drinking problem. At the start of the book Sol’s relationship with his dad is very wobbly. As the story develops it gets worse‚ but soon sorts itself out. Throughout the book Sol gets bullied by his teacher at school‚ so goes to the kirkyard to clear his head. Whilst at the kirkyard things start to get a
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a system in which they raised enough money and supplies to make a huge difference in the war. This all seems hard enough‚ but most do not truly realize how strong these women were. Not only were they suffering emotionally due to their husbands and sons off fighting with the chance of not coming back‚ but they were maintaining a household for these loved ones to hopefully return too. The Patriot women were a huge group of women that were strongly affected by the war. Before the war‚ they had no power
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Just finished two really interesting books. If you get the chance you should read. - heroes for my son- Brad Meltzer also -heroes for my daughter- Brad Meltzer. These two books are very touching‚ they describe some of people in history that young people should look up to and what they are known for. I have to say I think that my favorite is probably between two woman. One of which is Harriet Tubman‚ this was a dark skinned woman what she did happened during the Underground Railroad. She had escaped
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Interpreting The “Prodigal Son” This story was a reminder for me‚ because it still happens today. When the young son wanted and demanded his money‚ he decided to move far away from his family. He thought that he didn’t need any one and just be on his own‚ having fun and spending all his money. Today that still happens‚ when we are young; we tend to want to move out as soon as possible from our parents home. And eventually we realized like the young son that life is not as easy as we thought. So
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My son the fanatic Growing up with teenage attitudes and not having a role model around can make it difficult to be loved. The short story “My son the fanatic”‚ by Hanif Kureishi is set in 1997 in England. Ali has no one to look up to – He starts as an attentive scholar who got straight A’s‚ but turns into a dedicated Muslim‚ which gives Ali the opportunity to find it in his religion. We get to know Parvez‚ who is a Pakistani immigrant in England. He had an indignant experience with
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doFor you‚ Beloved‚" said he."Then go‚" said she‚ "to your mother dear And bring her heart to me. "Without another word‚Youth left and went to his mother dear. And opened her breast and took her heart.He did not shed a tear! Then back to his Maiden fair he ran‚Unmindful of the rain;But his feet slipped and he fell down And loud he groaned with pain! Still in his hand he held the prize That would win his Maiden’s hand; And he thought of his mother dear So kind‚ so sweet‚ so fond. And then he heard a
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historical person in the world is Mother Teresa‚ the saint of the Gutters. I admire her deeply because of her achievement‚ moral values‚ traits‚ and many more. Mother Teresa has to sacrifices from head to toe to help those poor people. Mother Teresa was very amazing person in my life. There are many reasons that I admire Mother Teresa. To begin her story‚ I admire her how she proceed her life’s objective of caring for the poor people in Calcutta‚ India. Mother Teresa was extremely tough to
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Mother Teresa has dedicated her life to helping the poor‚ the sick‚ and the dying around the world. She is one of the most well known and respected people of the 20th century. The movie that viewed in class displayed it very well. It showed how much she cared about the ’un-cared for’ and how she preached to millions of people around the world. In her speeches she spoke of ’blessing the misfortunate’ and loving them as well. She also spoke of how easy it is to help them. All we have to do is show
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