Reader Response: 1984 The novel 1984 made me paranoid and suspicious of the government’s power and intentions. I became aware of the potential manipulation of which the government could impose upon us. The very thing which I depend on for security and protection may be a conniving entity which feeds off of it’s own power and corruption. As I flourished in my naivety‚ I was unaware that the people I trusted‚ whom I believed to be wholly dedicated to our well-being as a society‚ could betray
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Mary May 2nd‚ 2013 African Literature Final Paper Retribution from Rape In the book Disgrace J. M. Coetzee focuses on the effects of post-apartheid in South Africa. It is a book that has won much prestige and criticism. Yet even with all of its fame some people take offense to it arguing that Disgrace is fundamentally a racist book. However‚ I believe that one has to overlook these accusations in order to discover the possibility of justice hidden in the situations. Disgrace is not a
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The poem begins with a discussion about Shield Sheafson ‚ who was the king of the Thanes. He was a baby whose parents abandoned him and rose to the top. After Sheafson died‚ his son Beow became king in his place. Once he died‚ Hrothgar became the ruler of the Thanes. Hrothgar brought fortune and success to the Thanes and in celebration of it he built a hall called Hereot‚ where he and his men gathered for festivities. For a good amount of time the Danes enjoyed peace until one Grendel‚ who was descendant
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J. M. W. Turner is one of Britain ’s most popular artists who showed exceptional artistic talent from his early age and entered the Royal Academy at fourteen. His landscape paintings made him popular regardless of a darker side to his paintings that were made big issues by critiques. He became a well-celebrated artist despite of the difficulties he came across in life. Even being born in family of a Garden barber‚ he became very famous for his works such seascape and landscape. His success seems
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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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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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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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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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Wheat. One could infer from this quote that some writers write not just for the enjoyment derived from it‚ but rather out of a feeling of 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
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1) The language is magnificent. For a reader such as myself‚ who likes to get lost in tangential thoughts mid-sentence‚ Conrad offers a warm bath we can soak in. I often just let the sentences flow over me in waves of color and music (I usually read Faulkner this way too)‚ but if I want to stop and extract all the meaning from one of his dense little beauties I just pull the golden ribbon and what appears to be a knot of words opens up nicely. I have tried unraveling some of Faulkner’s and McCarthy’s
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