the purpose to live it. Tuesday’s with Morrie tells the life story of Morrie‚ although he is faced with a terminal illness of ALS he embraces his fate and inspires others to find happiness and learn from the lessons he has gathered throughout his life. Morrie finds solitude in his former student Mitch‚ who he tells his lessons to for not just him but for others to learn and motivate them. Through Morrie‚ there can be examples of Erikson’s psychosocial theory such as Identity
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here are these: moral/intellectual; topi cal/historical; New Critical/formalist; structuralist; feminist; economic determin ist/Marxist; psychological/psychoanalytic; archetypal/symbolic/mythic; Deconstruc tionist; and Reader-Response. A number of critical theories or approaches for understanding and interpret ing literature are available to critics and students alike. Many of these have been developed during the twentieth century to create a discipline of literary studies comparable
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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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Tuesday’s With Morrie The movie Tuesday’s with Morrie tells a story about a successful sports reporter for the Detroit press (Mitch) who sees his former college professor (Morrie) on a TV documentary‚ and learns that he is dying from ’Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS)‚ which is a disease that slowly breaks down muscle tissue. Mitch begins to visit Morrie every Tuesday learning many life lessons from Morrie. Before Mitch learns that Morrie was diagnosed with ALS he was a man who was afraid to
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Summary The Thirteenth Tuesday: We Talk about the Perfect Day Morrie decides that he wants to be cremated and discusses his funeral plans with Charlotte and Al Axelrad‚ a rabbi from Brandeis and a long-time friend of Morrie’s. Now‚ Morrie must breathe through an oxygen tube which has been inserted up his nose. Mitch hates the sight of the oxygen tube‚ as he views it as a symbol of complete helplessness and even has the urge to yank it from his nose. Morrie describes to him a violent coughing
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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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Nathan Egert Mr. Maffey 1H - 6/8 25 April 2013 Reader Response - "My Indigo" "My Indigo" is a featured poem from Li-Young Lee’s 1993 book "Rose". The poem is a relation between Li-Young Lee‚ and the history of the Indigo also known as Indigofera tinctoria. The poem strings together Lee’s search for his identity as a Chinese-American‚ and the origin and value of the Indigo. The Indigo originated in India where it was turned into an industry in 300 BC‚ and then it was later discovered and later
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