I am having a hard time with this reading response because this was the book I was the most excited to read for this class but I really struggled to like or even finish the book‚ which is very disappointing. Regardless of the notes we were given about the story in class I felt as if I had no idea what was going on during the first third of the book and after that I continuously wondered if I had missed very vital details to the story because I was so confused to begin with. Despite the interactions
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Animal Farm Author’s Purpose The novel Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ on the surface appears to simply be a story about anthropomorphic animals uprooting a farm and slowly becoming humans. But behind this strange story is a metaphor that presents a powerful message about human nature. In this book‚ Mr. Orwell shows us that power categorically corrupts. During the story‚ the author shows the evolution of the farm as a civilization. In the beginning‚ the animals have good‚ altruistic intentions
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society; this is not the case. In the short story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ George Orwell demonstrates that the imperialistic standard not only affects the oppressed‚ but the oppressor through the irony of the governing rules and those who are being governed. Throughout the text‚ Orwell presents the concept imperialism as an ongoing conflict of self-conflict and conformity towards something that is not favorable. Orwell presents this claim by providing examples in order to prove‚
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Reading Response In the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon a young boy diagnosed with autism named Chris tries to uncover the murder of his neighbor’s dog. The story is written from first person point of view which is Chris’. By doing so the author allows us to step inside Chris’ mind and understand how he views and analyses things. If the novel were to be written in any other point of view it would not be near
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Man Farm What if we were all animals instead of humans? The Animal Farm by George Orwell is about animals overthrowing humans so they can live a better life. On the farm the pigs are the smartest. They teach the other animals how to read and write. The pigs also came up with ways to make the animals’ jobs easier. Since the pigs were the smartest they decided to be in charge. Over time the pigs start to adapt to human life. They start wearing clothes and have conversations with humans. Once the
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In Part 2‚ Chapter 9‚ of 1984 by George Orwell‚ Winston is reading Goldstein’s book and is trying to finding out why the Party does things in a certain way. The main component of the Big Brothers control is war. Goldstein claims that destruction is the vital act of war. He does not mean that it is the destruction of the enemy. Goldstein states that war is necessary to destroy the wealth in the society that is instigating the war. He is saying that destruction makes it easier for the Party to take
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The Way To Wealth Reading Response Benjamin Franklin’s‚ “The Way to Wealth” essay talks about the taxes in which Americans had to pay but ways to make their earnings worthwhile. One of the steps to wealth is the line between getting help from others and helping ourselves. The essay informs of the extent to which outside people or institutions assist people on the way to wealth. The essay starts off with some old fashion‚ “hard work pays more” sayings. “ . . . neither the estate nor the office
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Reading Response #2 Benjamin Franklin’s principles are comparable to the Mary Rowlandson’s orgins in way and also diverse in some ways. In Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography‚ Franklin holds alloy of importance on educations and improving one own self‚ and how it can benefit to anyone. Franklin is a person who believes if he constantly read and educates himself he will improve his own work and archive hid dream. Compared to Puritan constant belief in the bible and her faith in god will
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Objective Reading Response In the reading ‘2b or not 2b’’‚ there are figurative devices that can be identified as used by the author. Metaphor; the metaphors found in the passage is used to make a compare the text messages to’ bleak‚ bald sad shorthand‚ Drab shrink talk.’ The comparison continues ‘Texting is penmanship for illiterates’. Another comparisons without the use of the terms ‘as’ or ‘like’ with unlike things that in this case seems to have similar characteristics‚ was
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This has particularly brought to attention because of its similarity to George Orwell’s 1984 telescreens. In the book‚ an authoritarian government ruled by Big Brother controls its people by various telescreens planted around various places‚ hidden to the eye. Shown by the quote‚ “Big Brother is watching you‚” the setting in 1984 is ruled by fear. An alarming question brought upon us is‚ “are we reaching a similar setting as George Orwell’s imagination?” Although there may be important counterarguments
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