“THE COLDEST WINTER EVER” Reader Response by: Prayogo Algi Utomo 1014025025 Sister Souljah’s style is like no other that I have read‚ her style is so real and honest. I can quickly understand about the novel (The coldest winter ever) I do not have to think twice about this novel like I do in the other novel that have different language from mine. As I read this book I feel like I am in the Winter’s world. Sister Souljah grew up in the underclass urban areas in New York and knows how Winter feels
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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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A Doll House: Irreconcilable Views of Men and Women Throughout history‚ men and women ’s roles in society have created them to have irreconcilable views with each other. Their opposing opinions are based on different outlooks regarding various aspects of their lives. The way a person views themselves depends on their culture and the time period and which they live in. One issue that causes clashing of ideas between men and woman is their responsibility to their family. An individual ’s duties
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prose drama. Most of his major works reflect the social issues that provoked controversy in the nineteenth century. “ A Doll House” is one of the clearest portraits of women’s lives in this era in which they have to struggle with many challenges to identify themselves and to see the value of individuals. Nora‚ who is being suppressed in her own house and representing as a doll‚ a decoration. However‚ eventually‚ Nora finds out her true self and she knows that she deserves more. Throughout the play
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Expository Writing 6 November 2013 Reader Response to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” John Donne’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a very deep poem‚ and it’s difficult to understand if you only read it once. It focuses on how all humans have a connection to one another; if one person dies‚ the entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the
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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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Reflective Statement – A Doll’s House In the play‚ “A Doll’s House” written by Henrik Ibsen‚ there is a strong statement of existentialism throughout. Interestingly enough‚ it seems that each of the three acts in the play correspond to a stage within the concept of existentialism‚ in the order of which they occur. Act I is in correlation with the Aesthetic Stage. This is the stage where one is obsessed with their appearance‚ always changing due to a lack of knowing oneself. We see this evident
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Written Task 1 Narrative text – Fable Fable on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Student Name: Seif El Din El Nadoury IB Candidate number: Session: IB English language & literature HL Universal American School Dubai Date: 17/12/2012 Rationale Word Count: 297 Fable Word Count: 997 Rationale: In this fable‚ I will try to illustrate the themes of money and reputation in the drama A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen; and how having them as a priority in your life will eventually
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woman than marrying a stranger and bearing children with him? “A Doll house” by Henrick Ibsen is a play which was written in the 1878 during when men were more dominant than women. “A Doll house” talks about a woman who faced this problem head on as she stands up for her on rights‚ and starts her journey in finding herself. “A Doll House” begins with a happy family scene‚ it was Christmas Eve and the whole family was decorating the house preparing for Christmas. This seems like a big happy family
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Most readers of Benito Cereno will be surprised when the African conspiracy is finally revealed. Although Melville begins the novella with ominous imagery‚ the text is designed to lead the reader away from the true events of the San Dominick. The point of view of Benito Cereno is the major tool Melville uses to trick the reader. The story is written in the third person‚ but expresses Delano’s thoughts and observations. Most readers will trust Delano’s judgement‚ and his observations of Don Benito
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