Hannah Olmstead Ashley Keyser Reading Response #1 The Real Meaning Behind “Boy” The poem “Boy” may be seen by some readers as a recollection of childhood memories entailing what it was like to once be a young child. The speaker of this poem describes the “internal wanting” to be a young boy again‚ and uses poetic devices to try and convey this in an innocent and simplistic manner. I believe‚ however‚ that the poem depicts a more painful and complicated series of emotions described by the
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ethical system in working condition. (Johnson‚ 2006). Beckett‚ in "Waiting for Godot"‚ has turned away from the traditional drama and has an entirely different world view. This world view is marked by chaos instead of order. The universe is void - nothing to believe in but nothingness. There is no moral ethical code. There are just people existing‚ being only for themselves‚ and sometimes by themselves. (Gordon‚ 2002)"Waiting for Godot"‚ is part of the Theatre of the Absurd. This implies that it is
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Name: Michael Champion Title: What does it feel like? Author: Michael Morpurgo Text Type: Short Story Date Read: 8/2/18 2) This story is about a young girl names Sofia‚ who lives in a village. One moment she was going to school‚ the next moment she is hiding in the toilets and watching soldiers‚ taking everything and burning everything in the village. A grieving solider comes into the toilet and finds Sofia in the toilet‚ and has compassion on her and tries to save her. She realises how
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Crucible Reading Response The Crucible is a play based on a society ruled by theocracy. Danforth ‘s statement of “–a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it ‚ there be no road between” clearly demonstrates the Puritan’s prospective of seeing everything in black and white. Arthur Miller’s purpose of writing The Crucible was due to the close resemblance between the Salem Witch-trails and McCarthyism. They are both human tragedies that are driven by human fear. In
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Hubermann is someone that is very valuable and close to Liesel’s heart. He also demonstrates a quiet kindness as he agrees to take in Max regardless of the dangers that lie within harboring a Jew in those times. 2. “She remained on the steps‚ waiting for Papa‚ watching the stray ash and the corpse of collected books. Everything was sad. Orange and red embers looked like rejected candy‚ and most of the crowd had vanished. She’d seen Frau Diller leave (very satisfied) and Pfiffikus (white hair‚
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To Kill a Mockingbird – Reading Response #3 As I continue To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ new characters was introduced and the story gets more interesting. As chapter ten begins‚ Scout feels slightly ashamed of her father‚ because it seems like he doesn’t do anything remarkable. Atticus warns Scout and Jem that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird‚ “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird
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Nea Roby Livesay 5th 25 April 2014 Why Wait? What is the point of waiting? You never know what is going to show up. What if they don’t show up? What if you get let down? It hurts and it sucks. So why do Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot? They don’t even know who the guy is. Godot could be anyone …or anything. Godot could be the mailman or the neighbor. What if Godot was an abstract thing‚ such as the joy that people look for in their lifetime‚ the American dream? Vladimir is restless
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them to improve their circumstances. For example‚ one of the main character‚ Vladimir‚ says‚ “We can’t… We’re waiting for Godot” (Beckett 8). Everything in life is about priorities. Because we can’t have all the things we desire in life‚ we must make sacrifices. All of the choices we make reflect what we care about most. In Vladimir’s case‚ he chooses to spend his time waiting for Godot rather than engaging in other activities that may be more entertaining. However‚ he states that he and Estragon
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Geo 300 Instructor Peggy Lee‚ Reading Response 1 Question 1: Chapter 1 1) Identify and explain four basic causes of the environmental problems we face. a. “Population growth‚ wasteful and unsustainable resource use‚ poverty and failure to include in their market prices the harmful environmental costs of goods and services.” (p.15) 2) What is exponential growth? b. “Occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
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At Face value waiting for Godot could be called a simple play. It uses a basic setting consisting of a tree and a road; it is repetitive in its structure and character pairing. It is an uncomplicated play with no established plot‚ at face value Waiting for Godot could be described as a play about nothing. The substance of Waiting for Godot lies within the ideas and themes of the play‚ behind this front of simplicity and nothingness. It is a question which has never ceased to pervade mankind; the
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