Professor Boniecki English H102 30 January 2013 Reader Response Paper #1: After reading all of the assigned poetry and having sincerely vivid images accompany almost all of them‚ I settled on “Dawn” by James Laughlin for my first writing assignment. Hearing the writer’s disheveled thoughts‚ spilling out and changing lanes without signaling‚ reminds me of my father who up until recently I was very close to. Thomas [Last Name] is an older man at seventy-five whose thoughts and memory
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“Mugged” By: Jim Crocket : Reader Response In the essay “Mugged” by Jim Crockett he talks about his relationship with his coffee mug. This essay is about building relationships and how almost everyone has something they cling to. In the beginning he makes it sound like he was mugged by some people and lost all his money‚ but that wasn’t the case‚ he lost something more valuable to him‚ his coffee mug. Jim thinks he has an addiction to coffee itself‚ but in reality its with the coffee mug. People
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Readers Response #1 The short story‚ “The Veldt”‚ written by Ray Bradbury‚ is one of the literatures that talks about the effects of technology in a negative point of view. The story is introduced in a futuristic setting‚ a sound-proofed Happylife Home‚ where the Hadley family lives with the advanced technology. The machines are capable of fulfilling all the family’s needs and desires such as cleaning‚ clothing‚ feeding‚ and even rocking them to sleep. In the beginning‚ the technology
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Reader Response- “Streetcar Named Desire” Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in the Tennessee William’s‚ “ A Streetcar Named Desire”. She is presented as a woman who has an older sister Blanch and a husband named Stanley. She is often overlooked in the play because of her husband Stanley and her sister Blanche are much more dynamic. However‚ Stella plays an important role that without her‚ Stanley and Blanche who are considered‚ as two major characters of the play throughout the story
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Flowers for Algernon “The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.” The author of “Flowers For Algernon‚” Daniel Keyes‚ would agree and disagree with this quote depending on the situation. He would do this because in the story‚ he lets the main character‚ Charlie who is mentally disabled‚ find answers with both his brain and heart. In this essay‚ I will explain how he does that. Daniel Keyes would disagree with the quote because after Charlie gets his brain surgery‚ he realizes that
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antagonist within one character in the story? In Flowers for Algernon‚ the developmentally disabled Charlie Gordon lives a very innocent life. However‚ Charlie is harshly treated by his coworkers and his mental superiors‚ causing him to be viewed as the protagonist of the story. Due to the fact that the story is written in the perspective of Charlie‚ the reader begins to develop a strong relationship with him. When Charlie catalogues his days‚ the reader discovers things that Charlie does not fully
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In the story "Flowers for Algernon"‚ the main character Charlie Gordon has an operation that triples his IQ from sixty-eight to 204. At the end of the story Charlie’s IQ returns to sixty-eight. This experiment was the worst thing that ever happened to Charlie. Charlie did not have a high enough IQ to make an intelligent decision on his own‚ the experiment messed with Mother Nature’s path of life and most of all it ruined any happiness or contentment that Charlie ever felt prior to the experiment
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David James Duncan’s A Mickey Mantle Koan Reader Response This essay was by far my favorite essay I’ve ever read. It really hit home with me because I have a brother that I am super close to and we spent a lot of our time as kids playing any sort of ball. I believe Duncan’s heartwarming essay was to alert people about the concept of searching for happiness in “the finer things” when for the most part; happiness can come from the simplest things. This was something that really hit home for me because
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Have you ever been torn between a decision‚ have you ever wanted to accomplish something in life‚ but the possible outcomes outway pro’s. In the novel‚ “Flowers for Algernon”[Daniel Keyes]‚ Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation that will increase his intelligence. Before Charlie had the operation‚ he had an IQ of 68(a very low score.) People always saw him as a different kind of person‚ as more as a non-intelligent‚ slow‚ loser. So you ask‚ should Charlie Gordon‚ a joyful man with no hatred‚ seen
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Readers Response to John Updike’s A&P In the summer of 1961 we meet Sammy. Sammy is a 19-year-old clerk at the local A&P in a small town‚ and one day a few girls walk in‚ in their bikinis. Everyone in the store either stares at them lustfully or averts their eyes uncomfortably. When the manager gets back he scolds the girls and tells them that they cannot come back in there dressed that way again. So Sammy quits. I personally enjoy this story because of the dated wordplay and the character
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