“LIKE THE SUN” by R. K. Narayan ABOUT THE AUTHOR. R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) was born in Madras‚ India. After completing his education‚ he taught in a small village school. Narayan left teaching to devote himself full time to writing‚ and in 1935 he published his first novel‚ Swami and Friends. Two other early works‚ The Bachelor of Arts and Mr. Sampath‚ helped establish his reputation internationally. The Financial Expert (1952)‚ his first novel to be published in the United States‚ was followed
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In the short story‚ Like the Sun‚ author R.K. Narayan expresses the importance of telling the truth‚ being honorable‚ and imposes the consequences of telling the truth. In this short story the main character Sekhar reflects on truth and decides to tell the complete truth for one whole day. He goes through a series of challenges throughout the day‚ but still sticks to his promise to tell the truth. Sekhar believed this was an honorable thing to do. In the end though he has to face the consequences
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how the authors of “Like the sun” and “The open window” present the concepts of truth and deception. Then i will also state what rolls paradox and irony play. In the book “Like the Sun” Narayan uses paradox to show how telling the truth really can do more harm than it can help. In the beginning he decides Sekhar (the main character) needs to tell the truth that whole day. Then his wife asks him how the breakfast she made him was. He tells her the truth and says he doesn’t like it‚ this angering
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“ Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.” In the story “ Like the Sun” Sekhar plans to tell the truth for a whole day‚ but telling the truth got Sekhar in trouble. He ends up lying to his wife and kids. Honesty is not always the best policy because‚ it could hurt someone’s feelings‚ get someone into serious trouble‚ Firstly‚ Honesty is not the best policy because you could hurt someone’s feelings. If someone asks you if they look alright and you say no‚ they are going to take that offensive. In
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Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun portrays an African American family during the 1950s in conflict over money. Walter‚ Benita‚ and Ruth were the main characters that showed there greed over Mama’s deceased husband insurance money. This subject became a dilemma with the Younger family. There were arguments‚ fights‚ and people becoming stressed over something that were not theirs. The greed of money almost tore the Younger family apart. Each family member’s selfish desire for the use of the
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A Raisin in the Sun Summary Living in the south side of Chicago a poor African American family had he opportunity to escape poverty. A 10000 life insurance check upon the death of Lena’s husband. Lena has a son named walter. Walter is 35 with a wife and a son. Lena also has a younger daughter named Beneatha. Beneatha Is in college. This money could mean so much for this family and so much more for them individually. So the question in all of this is: what are they gonna do with the money. Walter
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are thought to be honest no matter how difficult it may be and are granted accolade‚ for the encouragement of doing it again. Honesty is favored in life by everyone‚ so people know the facts and build our character on it. People use honesty on our likes and dislikes in life‚ and by letting others know a part of our lives. Everyone is entitled the right to be sincere‚ but there are those who are imposters of candor because honesty is difficult to express rather than lying which requires minimal courage
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did something incorrect you were wiped and beaten. In the book the copper sun Amari the female protagonist‚ goes through these hardships and has to find some reason to live and fight for her freedom. Amari shows traits of perseverance‚ bravery and strength. But still through all of these things she fights to be free. This story takes place in 1738. The story may be a fictional tale but the reality is things just like this story did happen‚ and people did go through these
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dream dries up “like a raisin in the sun"(2.2) A raisin was once a grape‚ it looked pretty and full of juice. But the longer it was left outside in the sun all that juiciness gets sucked out. The speaker is saying that that is exactly what will happen to the dream. The longer this dream of theirs is put aside‚ the more shriveled up it will get. The hope to achieve this dream that was once there will be gone. The next image shown is when the speaker suggests the dream could “fester like a sore” (2.3)
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“Like a Billion Likes” The first production at Stage West on February 8‚ 2018 marketed as a “teenage drama with dark comedy” (News Play Exchange). Entering the play relatively no information‚ the production of “Like a Billion Likes” seemed to focus on our obsession with social media and human desire have fame. The production committed to discuss two major sociological themes‚ gender fluidity and the obsession with social media as form of self-value. Although‚ the play was successful in its artistic
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