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    Train To Pakistan is written by Khushwant Singh and is India’s best known writer and columnist . He has been founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India ‚ and National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007 ‚ he was awarded the Padma Bhushan . Among the other awards

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    Train to Pakistan‚ originally published in 1956‚ is not a very good book‚ but quite enjoyable much of the time. Khushwant Singh‚ less than ten years after Partition‚ in 1947‚ wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. Ideas‚ allusions‚ characters and bits and pieces of story float all over the book. There’s no denying that Singh‚ who has since become a famous public figure and intellectual in India‚ prefers to lecture rather

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    Team) The Next symbols used throughout the story would be the train station and luggage. “These are symbols of bodies in motion‚ of travel and maybe even transience. Since the man and Jig’s suitcases have stickers that give a record of their travels‚ the luggage can be seen as a map of the journey that brought them to this point. The train station is a midpoint between that time and the future time that they will move toward on the train. Train stations‚ airports‚ bus stations‚ and ports‚ when found in

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    connected to the story? I see a subway train‚ a boy and a cat. These images may be connected to the story because the boy works at the lost and found underground in a subway station‚ the boy is the boy who works at the lost and found and the cat is the cat that the man killed. 4. The title of the novel is Acceleration. What does it mean to accelerate? How do you think this connects to the story? Accelerate means to speed up. Accelerate could be referring to the train or it could be referring to his increase

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    The Train from Hate” by John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin’s “The Train from Hate” tells a story of a black family in Oklahoma during the time of racial separatism. When the family boards a train to head a couple miles out of town to Checotah‚ the conductor informs the mother that they must leave the train when it stops. The mother tells the kids that they must exit the train and head back to their hometown of Rentiesville. The narrator‚ who is a young boy does not understand why the white conductor

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    magazines nothing sells as well as sex‚ as marketors for men‘s magazines are well aware. To sell a men’s magazine‚ this Ché advertisement in a magazine uses a metaphor to equate the product to a “better” dream world and shows a young woman approaching a train station. There is text at the bottom of the advertisment‚ which is smaller than the message on the model’s skirt‚ indcating that the advertisement wants to draw their reader’s attention to the young woman first and then to the fine print at the bottom

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    of technique and through rich and vital imagery. ‘Flame- Tree in a Quarry’ (henceforth ‘Flame-Tree’) and ‘Train Journey’ are just two of Wright’s many poems that she has written that include these qualities. In these poems‚ Wright expresses her passion for the country she loves so much and her frustration and sympathy for her country as it is constantly being destroyed. ‘Flame-Tree’ and ‘Train Journey’ share many similar techniques. “From the broken bone of the hill”‚ this opening line from ‘Flame-Tree’

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    Although Love on the B-Line is simple to read and perhaps less of a rollercoaster than other more dramatic plays‚ it leaves the audience wanting to know what will happen between Marie and Robbie. Will Robbie leave her at the train station‚ never to return again? Will Marie finally let go of her fear and give herself the chance to find happiness? The audience is kept engaged and wondering the answers to these questions‚ and wanting to read the play from beginning to end. Marie

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    Transportation was one of the things that made my old neighborhood great‚ and I used to take the train to go to college and to work. The train station was only four blocks away from my home‚ and the commute to the College was only about 15 minutes away‚ and I did not need to spent money buying a car as I do now. The N train which was the train that I used to take was available all the time and it was a clean train that provided me with good service every time I needed it. I felt so lucky to have the

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    Highway‚ waiting for a car ride away from this place but so far no cars will stop. Billy does not want to go home. Freight Train Billy still waiting on the highway and not one car has passed. Looking across the freight train the coal carriages are all empty and is heading to Waggawang Coalfields. Billy races across the highway and jumps on the train just as the train whistle blows again lurches forward. Cold Billy is two kilometers down the track and is freezing to death. He wraps himself

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