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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Whom do I most relate to in Crash? The question has the same prejudice as the movie. The movie implies that everyone is racist (or at least have some stereotypical pictures of other cultures)‚ which creates problems in dealing with those from these other cultures. Therefore‚ since if everyone is racist‚ I must also be racist and be able to identify with one of the characters. Crash kills diversity since without diversity‚ there would be nothing to be prejudiced against. It’s hard for me to pick
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prose text may‚ to some extent‚ control reader response to themes within the text but the reader’s context may also influence the way the text is read. It is particularly evident in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale that by examining the experience of women within the world it is evident that women are more repressed. The characterisation of Offred may control reader response to theme because her own personal experiences are projected onto the reader. In Gilead‚ women are repressed by male
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New Criticism vs. Reader-Response A piece of work can be evaluated in plenty of ways. Critique methods such as Reader-Response‚ Deconstructive Criticism‚ New Criticism‚ and many others act as examples of literary evaluations. All of the critique methods share similarities‚ but differ in other ways. Reader-Response and New Criticism‚ for example‚ share characteristics but they are also two very opposing things. Reader-Response focuses on attention towards the text influenced by the reader’s thoughts
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Reader Response Chapter 1-6 Before I actually opened the book‚ I knew that 1984 by George Orwell‚ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin are the three most famous anti-utopian novels. Utopia sounds like a nice word to me‚ I was expecting a “brave new world” before I opened the book. However‚ the descriptions in the book crashed my imagination. What a world it is! I was surprised that where’s no emotion in the world. Children are not raised by their parents
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scientific procedure that are positive. The first positive outcome of genetic engineering in the movie was that it allows the parents of children to choose how they want their children to be. When having a child‚ in the first few months‚ parents do not know the gender or any of the traits‚ unless they are genetically tested to determine the phenotype of their offspring. With the genetic engineering the movie‚ Anton’s parents were allowed to pick out exactly what they wanted their son to look like and
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The Reader‚ set in post-World War II Germany‚ relates the story of an SS camp guard‚ Hanna Schmitz‚ and her evolving relationship with the narrator‚ Michael Berg. Both the book and the movie deal with serious issues‚ including love and denial‚ guilt and accountability‚ and reconciliation. They both employ several subversive strategies: in presenting Michael Berg’s first love‚ it is impossible not to be sympathetic; we are drawn in. Hanna is the mysterious older woman who initiates the young boy into
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considered their own nation. The movie Gallipoli illustrates how the World War I was important in helping Australia find their identity and create a sense of patriotism. Australian moviemaking had its highs and lows through the Twentieth Century. After the 1970’s‚ a new age of Australian films started to flow from the country and “historical films became the most visible internationally” (Bordwell 628). Gallipoli was a film made in 1981 by Peter Weir. The movie not only tells the story of two young
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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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