Professor Denny "Mr. Freeman thinks I need to find my feelings. How can I not find them? They are chewing me alive like an infestation of thoughts‚ shame‚ mistakes‚" says Melinda Sordino‚ the main character from the novel Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson. Melinda is a freshman at Merryweather High School and chose the right not to speak. Mirrors in this story are one of the motifs‚ and Melinda learns that mirrors give a reflection‚ whether she likes what she sees or not‚ along with protection to
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Elizabethans took it up with great enthusiasm after it was introduced into English poetry by Wyatt and Surrey. The Elizabethan poets used it to woo their mistresses and to display their poetic skills. Notable among those poets were Edmund Spenser‚ Sir Philip Sidney and‚ of course‚ William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was very conscious of his skill in writing sonnets and referred to it constantly in the sonnets themselves‚ although in a joking manner. He also referred ironically to his skills as poor‚ as
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novel‚ Fever 1793‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ took place in this advanced‚ busy city when the Yellow Fever came to town. Matilda “Mattie” Cook‚ the main character of the novel‚ has to learn how to survive the fever and keep herself and the ones she loves alive while doing it. All through the novel‚ Matilda learns a lesson about how saying goodbye to people she cares about is difficult‚ and has to learn to accept the pain that lingers afterwards - something that Anderson also shows through her use of repetition
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Huttman Honors English IV 20 December 2011 Finding a Voice Laurie Halse Anderson‚ author of Speak‚ is no stranger to the world of censorship and book banning. Born on October 23‚ 1961 in northern New York‚ Anderson was in the literary world from the beginning (“Speak- Anderson”). She received a Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Linguistics in 1984 after transferring to Georgetown University (“Speak- Anderson”). “[Anderson] began her career as an author of three picture books: No time for Mother’s
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What Family Is In his poem “What Work Is‚” Philip Levine describes the kinship between members of the working class by illustrating the speaker’s relationship with his own brother. The bond the speaker has with his brother translates to a sense of understanding towards other people who work long‚ hard hours in order to achieve their dreams. While he stands in line‚ the speaker thinks he sees his brother‚ but upon clearing the rain from his glasses‚ he realizes that “it’s someone else’s brother
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In 1971‚ psychologist Philip Zimbardo set up a simulated prison experiment in order to show that people tend to slip into their predefined roles regardless of their own judgements and morals. Zimbardo was interested in the power of given social situation and social roles. To conduct the experiment‚ Zimbardo and his colleagues Hainey and Banks set up a fake prison facility in the basement of Stanford University. There was a small opening at the end of the hall and intercom system was placed for Zimbardo
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“Larkin is a pessimistic rather than optimistic poet” – Discuss Larkin has been regarded as a pessimistic poet. Larkin surely takes a very dark view of human life. The main emphasis in his poem is on failure and frustration in human life. However Larkin is not a uniformly pessimistic poet. Some of his poems have a profoundly moral character‚ which expresses itself in the need to control and organize life‚ rather than submit to a pre-determined pattern of failure. There is generally a debate going
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Self’s the man Oh‚ no one can deny That Arnold is less selfish than I. He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she’s there all day‚ And the money he gets for wasting his life on work She takes as her perk To pay for the kiddies’ clobber and the drier And the electric fire‚ And when he finishes supper Planning to have a read at the evening paper It’s Put a screw in this wall - He has no time at all‚ With the nippers to wheel round the houses And the hall to paint in his
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cognizant that the material world will not satisfy their longing‚ they turn to spiritual comfort. The poets T.S Eliot‚ Philip Larkin‚ and Matthew Arnold comment on humanity’s tendency to loiter with the notion of God and otherworldliness. Respectively‚ through their poems “The Journey of the Magi‚” “Church Going‚” and “Dover Beach‚” the poets publicize their
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Cited: Chambers‚ Sarah. “Reflections on Identity in Philip Roth’s Goodbye‚ Columbus and Mary Doyle Curren’s The Parish and the Hill. Bachelor Thesis in English Language and Culture‚ Utrecht University‚ April‚ 2012. Kuhnle‚ Deborah. “Jewish American Identity in Philip Roth’s Goodbye‚ Columbus: An Analysis of Neil Klugman” from Contributions to the Study of Language‚ Literature‚ and Culture. Special Issue 2‚ 2011
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