After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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1. I was most worried about what might happen to Omovo when he ran after the lady through the forest and got to the river. It seemed like he was going to run into a lot of trouble by following the lady all the way to her cave with the rest of the people she was with. 2. I think Omovo’s feelings towards the solders were more of fear and hate than anything else‚ it seemed from the beginning that he didn’t like them. After he saw them at the bar and they spit in his face‚ I think he got the feeling
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Narrative Response 1 The Shadow‚ was written by Albert Camus‚ in the year of 1942‚ just three years after World War Two began. Even though throughout the book much of the war isn’t shown‚ Albert Camus‚ was still able to incorporate one aspect of the war‚ racism. While at his mother’s funeral the main character first notices the women sitting next to his mother’s coffin. “An Arab woman—a nurse‚ I supposed—was sitting beside the bier; she was wearing a blue smock and had a rather gaudy scarf wound
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Have you had a life changing experience? Well‚ Brian‚ Moon shadow‚ and Rachel had life changing event. First of all‚ Brian was lost on an island and thought that the pilot will look for him. Secondly‚ Moon shadow was a fear of American because of the heavy debt they have to pay off. Last of all‚ Rachel faced her emotions in the classroom that an ugly red sweater was her’s. As shown above‚ all the characters can have a life changing experience. Brian faced loneliness and hunger when he was stranded
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How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and
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THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN - Sean O’Casey The Shadow of a Gunman is the first play in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy‚ first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1923 James Joyce’s Ulysses had been published the year before. It is set in 1920‚ as the War of Independence rages. The other two Dublin plays are Juno and the Paycock [Peacock]‚ and The Plough and the Stars‚ the latter of which caused a riot when first performed at the Abbey because nationalists in the audience resented O’Casey’s hostile
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt is no less than a perfect example of film noir. Low-key lighting‚ dramatic shadow patterning‚ and camera angles are all expertly used to foreshadow and portray the emotions and psyche of the characters. Hitchcock uses sets and props to mirror scenes‚ creates characters that are remarkably similar but simultaneously conflicting‚ and emphasizes emotions that offer contradictions. The sense of duality and contradiction in the film demonstrates how darkness can take
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Shadow of a Doubt 1. Story and Plot What is the difference between story and plot? In narrative films the difference between story and plot is quite important. The story is all the events “explicitly presented and those the viewer infers” that occur in the narrative arranged by the viewer in their chronological order (Bordwell & Thompson‚ 2010‚ p.80). This material as defined in Film Art‚ is know as diegetic and therefore existed in the narrative world and can be seen and heard by the characters
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time allowing the reader to better understand the mind of the characters. This is demonstrated with the characters of Cinderella‚ in the different versions of Cinderella in the classic Fairy Tales‚ as well as with Isabelle Marie‚ in Mad Shadows. In Mad Shadows‚ the main character Isabelle Marie is deemed “ugly” by her mother‚ and for this reason is treated as virtually a slave and made to tend to the needs of her mother and more beautiful brother Patrice‚ who gets all of their mothers attention
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Lawrence had aquired a teaching degree‚ and published his first story. He married in 1914‚ travelled and lived in various states and countries‚ then settled in the south of France. Just before his death from tuberculosis in 1930‚ he penned the poem "Shadows". This poem gives readers a look into the undying faith he had in God‚ how he used that faith to accept his impending death‚ and his belief in the new life that awaited him. Lawrence tells us he is ready to die at this exact moment‚ knowing there
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