Catch-22 The Reader’s Response By: John O’dea I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22‚ because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret‚ and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms‚ and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers. A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature‚ in
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obligation to let readers hear what they may have to say. Ngugi’s message that he feels obligated to convey is delivered‚ however‚ he uses a very unusual writing technique to arrive there. He wants the readers to understand the pain‚ suffering‚ and confusion that took place during the Emergency. Through jumbled chronological order‚ numerous character and point of view changes‚ and a powerful conclusion‚ Ngugi relays his message with immense authority. The writing style Ngugi uses in this novel is
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Keunna Cannon Engl 1302-40721 Essay 1/ Savant June 9‚ 2014 Poor Mrs. Emily William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily‚” is very interesting and unusual. My first reaction after reading the entire short story was just complete shock that anyone can be capable of something so gross to put it simply. When reading through the story‚ it is written in a very confusing way. The reader has to be actively reading the story or you will miss something which I did the first time reading through it
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Name : Fahmy Sabiel Noerfiqhy Std. Number : 0902477 Class : 7A Course : Critical Analysis of Prose Reader Response Analysis of W. W. Jacobs’ Short Story: Monkey’s Paw The short story which is going to be analyzed in this paper is Monkey’s Paw. It is a horror short story by William Wymark Jacobs. He is an English author of short stories and novels. The story itself is divided into three parts and will be determine the constituent and supplementary events of it. The constituent
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Readers Response of ‘Scarlet Letter’ Despite the declination in the personal and societal standards of morality in the past century‚ it is still evident today that a universal standard of ethics does indeed exist in every civilization. Likewise‚ these communities administer consequences upon those who fail to meet up to those principles. The severity of the punishment inflicted rests solely on the offender‚ the offense and the society itself. For Hester Prynne‚ the penalty for fornication
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Conn 1 Jennifer Conn Professor Michael Hickman GWRTC 103 –Sect. 61 15 April 2013 Reader Response #3 Though Meyerhardt states that the opening account on female circumcision seemed “Amusing”‚ I personally found it far more disturbing. I was very shocked and disgusted while reading this piece‚ as I am sure my classmates were as well. The “small opening left for urination and menstruation . . . held open by a single piece of straw which is left there during the healing process” (1) forced me
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In his essay‚ “The Importance of Writing Badly‚” Bruce Ballenger encourages students to write freely and to not worry about finding the “perfect way of saying it.” I feel by saying this he means to not worry about what you’re writing and it may not necessarily be perfect‚ but that you write what you are thinking and continue writing even if it’s bad or may not make sense. He means to put all your thoughts down on paper and start from there. Ballenger gives his students permission to write badly.
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Reader Response for The Yellow Wallpaper Darlene Santangelo August 13‚ 2013 Vocabulary: • Derision – disapproval‚ disgust • Flamboyant – flashy‚ garish • Interminable - unending • Bedstead – hardware/woodenware on a bed • Querulous – irritable‚ difficult to deal with Difficult sentences: I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors‚ but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells was a very thought provoking novel with an intriguing flow of events in the form of a story. Wells’s original intent for the book was to prove a dull point and put it in an interesting form‚ but it turned into something much more. I thought it was a great story packed with interesting characters and an entertaining plot Wells does a good job on clarifying the meaning of events or people just as your curiosity peaks. He really shows what is symbolic in the story by
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Pit and the Pendulum Reader Response Poe’s story is of a person sentenced to death by torture during the Spanish Inquisition. The story is an account of the narrator’s time from sentencing and throughout his journey during incarceration. It’s a tale of hope and despair. A story of one’s mental ability while facing an eminent death. Of this the narrator says‚ ‘It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack—that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.’ Unusual for
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