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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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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Vanessa Duell 2/1/15 Mrs. Brothers AP ELA 11 Associative Reader Response for “A Rose For Emily” It must be hard for a person to really love someone and only that person‚ and then that certain person dies. Miss Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout this short story. None of these changes had a positive effect on Miss Emily’s life‚ and her life just seemed to keep getting worse. I can connect to Miss Emily in some ways because I know how it feels to lose a loved one
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“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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The Oedipus complex or Oedipus theory is a psychological concept‚ created by Sigmund Freud in the 1920s‚ that explains the unconscious desires and some sexual attractions of pubescent males and females. This theory stems from a cluster of Freud’s ideas about the human subconscious as well as from direct events from the play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ and from relationships between characters within the play. All of these factors combined have produced the modern day idea of the Oedipus Complex. Sigmund
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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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