RAGTIME By E.L.Doctorow This extract is taken from the novel “Ragtime” by the American writer E.L.Doctorow and is centred on a black jazz pianist‚ Coalhouse Walker Jr. The text contains a detailed narration of the way Coalhouse Walker Jr. Made his appearance at a certain house in which a white family lived. We are given neither the names of the family‚ nor their ages‚ nor any other details. The author calls them Mother‚ Father‚ Grandfather‚ Mother’s Younger Brother and the boy‚ but they do
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RAGTIME MUSIC PROJECT What is Ragtime Music? Ragtime was a relatively brief-lived musical form‚ its popularity lasting for about twenty years‚ but it was an essential link between earlier forms of “Negro music‚” European (“classical”) music‚ and jazz. It was defined at the time by its then-revolutionary use of syncopation‚ or it’s “ragged rhythm‚” which refers to its rhythmically broken up melodies. Its rhythms made it lively and springy‚ and therefore ideal for dancing. How/Why it started
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For many immigrants moving to America‚ their ultimate goal is to achieve the American Dream. For many of the characters within the historical fiction‚ Ragtime‚ written by E. L. Doctorow‚ they are also striving for the American Dream. There are also characters who have achieved the American Dream or had become the symbol for the American Dream. For Tateh‚ a Jewish immigrant‚ he managed to achieve the American Dream‚ however‚ he has sacrificed... His first sacrifice was the abandonment of his wife
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The author of the novel “Ragtime” is rather popular American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorow who was born in the Bronx‚ New York City. He was the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He published his first literary effort‚ The Beetle‚ in the school literary magazine‚ Dynamo. Young Edgar described his masterpiece as “a tale of etymological self-defamation inspired by my reading of Kafka”. During all his life he was send to the military service‚ than had a wife and 3 children
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Ragtime By E.L. Doctorow The setting of the book takes place in New Rochelle‚ New York in the 1902 during what is known as the progressive era. The two main characters are Mother and Father. They own a family business that sells fireworks and patriotic items. When Father goes off on the first expedition to the North Pole times change‚ women become very active in the society. When he returns he see how independent is wife and son has become leaving him feeling depressed and helpless. They are married
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Was the country ready for these changes? E.L. Doctorow shows the reactions of the different people in America at the time through the characters in his historical fiction novel Ragtime‚ intended to be read by young adults. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6‚ 1931. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952‚ he did some graduate work at Columbia University and served in the US Army in Germany. E.L. Doctorow has worked as senior editor and editor in chief
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may strive for a simple life‚ its attainment might not be possible. In the book Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow‚ a father who likes to read articles to the family during dinner‚ is the perfect example of this kind of character. He has a family of five. However‚ big changes occur in his family. An ordinary life is all he seeks‚ but the world keeps challenging him with changes that completely destroy him. His experiences in Ragtime represent the life and value system of middle/upper class men at the turn of
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Ragtime‚ a work of historical fiction that is mainly set in New York City from about 1900 until the United States entry into World War I in 1917. It is a novel with many impactful themes. Major themes include: the theme of accepting change‚ and dealing with the instability of life. But one of the most universal themes in the novel is also the most applicable‚ the theme of escape. To best analyze the theme of escape in the novel‚ we must look at each character on an in-depth level. First‚ we Mother
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “Ragtime” This novel is written by the well-known novelist E.L. Doctorow. He was born in the Bronx‚ New York City‚ the son of Rose (Levine) and David Richard Doctorow‚ second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent who named him after Edgar Allan Poe. E. L. DOCTOROW’S works of fiction include Homer & Langley‚The March‚ Billy Bathgate‚ Ragtime‚ the Book of Daniel‚ City of God‚ Welcome to Hard Times‚ Loon Lake‚ World’s Fair‚ The Waterworks‚ and All
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Money Does Not Buy Happiness In Ragtime‚ a famous piece of American literature written by E.L. Doctorow‚ Father suffers the fate of being unsuccessful. It seems that Father’s character is depicted by Doctorow as an extremely ordinary upper-class American of the 1920’s. He’s conservative‚ fairly wealthy‚ sexist‚ and racist. He’s an explorer‚ an entrepreneur‚ and a patriot. Doctorow uses Father to show us that success certainly cannot be found through money‚ and for that matter‚ fitting in with
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