Name: Navitha Asohan Intake: April 2013 Qeustion: In the story titled Elephant‚ how does Raymond Carver focus on the elephant literally and figuratively? “The writing style of Raymond Carver’s short story entitled “Elephant” represent a simplistic‚ yet strong style of writing that is reminiscent of the great work of Earnest Hemmingway. There are several ways in which the writing style within Elephant harkens back to the stylistics of Hemmingway. Carver always goes straight to the point; like
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Shooting an Elephant Essay Courage is being able to drown out the voices of others and stay true to one’s own morals. In the memoir Shooting An Elephant‚ George Orwell describes his time as a British Colonial police officer in Burma. While he is there he develops hatred for the British Empire and his actions‚ throughout the memoir are contrary to his beliefs. There are several events that take place in Shooting an Elephant that reveal Orwell’s character flaws. He lacks the ability to make decisions
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Comparative essay on Orwell’s Suppressed Preface and Shooting an Elephant “Shooting an elephant” is autobiography of Orwell’s life and the duty he experienced as a police officer in a British colony in Burma. In this story‚ the writer tells us about how the British were viewed as intruders and how it felt to execute orders without wanting to do so. In the preface of “Animal farm”‚ we can see more obvious and relevant fact about how hard it was to publish the book and the amount and the gravity
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Cruelty To Circus Elephants Cruelty to elephants as well as other circus animals has been a global issue for over a hundred years‚ and we are just now recognizing the severity of it all. Millions of charges have been pressed against different circuses in the United States for the abuse and death of the circus elephants. With the rise in charges and complaints of animal cruelty‚ eyebrows have begun to rise and activists have taken notice and taken a stand. Circus elephants have been said to
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have ever imagined that this simple night out would end it warm blood and wet tears. The recent shooting in Aurora‚ Colorado is only another example of the repeating violence in the United States. Many blame these psychotic killings on the violence our children grow up with in the media and toys. “Shootings” by Adam Gopnik‚ expresses the views of others such as me‚ who believe that the blame on these shooting is not on the media‚ rather on the lack of control and actions the government takes to prevent
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Elephants Attention Getter: What’s big‚ grey and stands in the rain but doesn’t get wet? Elephants!! Background info: It is estimated that there were once more than 350 species of elephants in the world. Today we only have two of them left (well tree) the Asian‚ the Africa and the mix of them. Both of them are at risk of extinction. Between illegal hunting of them for ivory as well as the destruction of their natural habitat things are simply closing in on them at an alarming rate. Specific Purpose
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Elephant Inspiration is the most important factor when you write. You have to have the motivation to write and tell a story. You can get writer’s blockage when you write and become in desperate need of an interesting subject to get the work done. In the short story “Elephant” by Polly Clark we hear about William who is a writer. He writes short biographies of pop stars‚ that you can buy for only £1.99. William is not interested in pop stars‚ and really wants to write biographies of male film stars
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The elephant Make a point-form list of the people‚ actions‚ or events that are “absurd”. 4- zoo director: is not possible to do a rubber elephant and nobody knows that is fake The worker- According the book the workers were old people‚ so is absurd that they tried to inflate the elephant with his their mouth. The children- in the story said‚ after saw the elephant was fake the children never believe in elephants and they turned into hooligans‚ this part is of course absurd‚ how the children turned
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Essay - “Elephant” When most students go to school they feel motivated by the thought of learning new things and to be able to hang out with their friends in the breaks. A student may also be aware that all the tasks and assignments at the end will come to their own benefit. If the final exams turn out well the examination certificate will be worth showing future employees. But sometimes the motivation that drives people disappears and leaves them with an empty feeling of being stuck in some way
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Elephant by Dolly Clark -An analysis and interpretation The main character of the short story‚ “Elephant” by Dolly Clark‚ is called William. William is an author just like his namesake William Shakespeare. But only the name and their profession bind these two persons together. Because although William is an author he is not quite as magnificent an author as the famous Shakespeare was it. In fact he is just a biographer who is “writing £1.99 stories for the record shops”. William does not seem
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