This short story written by Hemingway is titled Cat in the Rain. The title suggests that something weak (‘cat’) is trapped in a difficult situation (‘rain’). Since cats are generally very afraid of water‚ being in the rain can be such a torture to them. From the title‚ it is hinted that the story may be related to some characters having to go through difficulties and struggles. In the story‚ the American wife cannot find the poor little cat when she goes outside of the Italian hotel to try to
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prose text may‚ to some extent‚ control reader response to themes within the text but the reader’s context may also influence the way the text is read. It is particularly evident in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale that by examining the experience of women within the world it is evident that women are more repressed. The characterisation of Offred may control reader response to theme because her own personal experiences are projected onto the reader. In Gilead‚ women are repressed by male
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Good writing is never merely about following a set of directions. Like all artists of any form‚ essay writers occasionally find themselves breaking away from tradition or common practice in search of a fresh approach. Rules‚ as they say‚ are meant to be broken. But even groundbreakers learn by observing what has worked before. If you are not already in the habit of reading other writers with an analytical eye‚ start forming that habit now. When you run across a moment in someone else’s writing
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After mentioning the list of good readers‚ Nabokov says that we need to really immerse ourselves into the book‚ and “we have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and then can enjoy its details. But at a second‚ or third‚ or fourth reading we do‚ in a sense‚ behave towards a book as we do towards a painting.” (7) He makes a reference to how paintings are easy to “fondle” over the details of. However‚ reading is considered an art in this context
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“Mugged” By: Jim Crocket : Reader Response In the essay “Mugged” by Jim Crockett he talks about his relationship with his coffee mug. This essay is about building relationships and how almost everyone has something they cling to. In the beginning he makes it sound like he was mugged by some people and lost all his money‚ but that wasn’t the case‚ he lost something more valuable to him‚ his coffee mug. Jim thinks he has an addiction to coffee itself‚ but in reality its with the coffee mug. People
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about/ Bloom‚ A. (2000) . Hold tight. In Meyer‚ M. (Ed.) ‚ The Bedford
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New Criticism vs. Reader-Response A piece of work can be evaluated in plenty of ways. Critique methods such as Reader-Response‚ Deconstructive Criticism‚ New Criticism‚ and many others act as examples of literary evaluations. All of the critique methods share similarities‚ but differ in other ways. Reader-Response and New Criticism‚ for example‚ share characteristics but they are also two very opposing things. Reader-Response focuses on attention towards the text influenced by the reader’s thoughts
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This will impact the reader because they can now go through this book with the idea of The Wave‚ an experimental movement created because World War II was being studied in their class‚ is the main topic of the novel. The impact of the use of characterization is that it gives information about the character to the reader. This knowledge of her appearance will impact the reader for the rest of the novel because it will help us imagine what’s happening in the book‚ and we also know now that she is a
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Uptown Funk 23 May 2014 Outline Reader‚ Culture‚ and Text: How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? Thesis: No two people are exactly the same therefore the body and mind pose as an example of how two readers could interpret The Metamorphosis differently. Religion‚ values‚ morals‚ culture‚ and experiences shape our minds and this transfers over to our understanding or take on many topics but especially The Metamorphosis. I. Finding the most accurate interpretation
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Professor Boniecki English H102 30 January 2013 Reader Response Paper #1: After reading all of the assigned poetry and having sincerely vivid images accompany almost all of them‚ I settled on “Dawn” by James Laughlin for my first writing assignment. Hearing the writer’s disheveled thoughts‚ spilling out and changing lanes without signaling‚ reminds me of my father who up until recently I was very close to. Thomas [Last Name] is an older man at seventy-five whose thoughts and memory
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