The Guide Plot summary Railway Raju (nicknamed) is a disarmingly corrupt guide who falls in love with a beautiful dancer‚ Rosie‚ the neglected wife of archaeologist Marco . Marco doesn’t approve of Rosie’s passion for dancing. Rosie‚ encouraged by Raju‚ decides to follow her dreams and start a dancing career. They start living together and Raju’s mother‚ as she does not approve of their relationship‚ leaves them. Raju becomes Rosie’s stage manager and soon with the help of Raju’s marketing tactics
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The Bell Jar - Esther Greenwood The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath has long been known as a haunting American classic. The protagonist of this timeless novel is Esther Greenwood. She travels through The Bell Jar with such intensity and purpose that her thoughts and actions are accessible and very easy to understand. Esther Greenwood is a talented woman who becomes increasingly confused and disturbed as the story progresses. Esther is described as a talented woman because of her exceptional intelligence
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CONFESSIONAL MODE IN POETRY OF KAMALA DAS Confessional mode of writing has its virtual origin in the mid50s in America. It is hybrid mode of poetry which means objective‚ analytical or even clinical observation of incidents from one’s own life. Confessional poems are intensely personal and highly subjective. There is no ‘persona’ in the poems. ‘I’ in the poems is the poet and nobody else. The themes are nakedly embarrassing and focus too exclusively upon the pain‚ anguish and ugliness of life at
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Even though humans are assumed to be social creatures that seek out the comforts of belonging‚ texts frequently engage with individual experiences of disconnection‚ whether it be in the face of death’s isolating force or as a consequence of inner impulses. The desire to belong is an inherent part of human nature but it’s the disconnection or alienating experiences that most define a person’s identity? While Dickinson maintains her faith in the power of communication to bind individuals in “I
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Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice should be taught in language arts curricula’s. Any piece of literature that pushes boundaries in school systems is then questioned whether or not it should be taught. Without this type of literature students would never be able to truly benefit from the quality of these extraordinary books. Commonly‚ books that have the potential to change student’s perspectives are the ones that are banned; novels such as Go Ask Alice have the ability to benefit students. In today’s
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Poetic Sound Devices Practice “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.” Confound the cats! All cats--away— Cats of all colors‚ black‚ white‚ gray; By night a nuisance and by day— Confound the cats! All cats‚ always. I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week‚ Beneath the apple-trees; I thought my eyes were big pork-pies‚ And my nose was Stilton cheese. Big Balloons Bounce into the
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Spider” (pp. 74‚ 74 b to b-2 in Rhet II); Whitman #2: read aloud “Song of Myself‚” sect. 1-6‚ 24 (pp. 74 c to 74 c-5 in Rhet II); select favorite passage and explain how it is Idealist; e-mail to WPE Term paper poems: Sylvia Plath‚ “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” (Google) Due: Final Draft of PAPER (3-5 pp.‚ typed) on Thoreau’s imagery (due at lights out Tues‚ 4 Dec; e-mail to WPE) W 5 Dec Wed Tour
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Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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home and care for her young child. Joan’s supervisor‚ Sylvia‚ told her that she had already exceeded the allowed number of absences and warned that if she did not report to work‚ she could be suspended. When Joan did not report for her shift‚ Sylvia suspended her for fifteen days. In a subsequent hearing‚ Joan argued that it was not her fault that the babysitter had canceled‚ and protested that she had no other choice but to stay home. Sylvia pointed out that Joan had not made a good faith effort
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and being like this person engages how one feels about themselves. “Now I am a lake. A women bends over me‚ searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turned to those liars‚ candles or the moon" this problem introduced in Mirror by Sylvia Plath is that humans tend to mask their true identity and strive to be a "perfect" person due to the pressures of society. In Emerson’s self-reliance‚ an essay consisting of problems and remedies to conformity. Reading through to this essay Emerson states
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