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    QUIET AMERICAN Graham Greene READING THE NOVEL There are two main points of focus for your study of The Quiet American and for your responses as a reader. • Understanding the story of the novel and recognising the themes raised by the novel • Identifying and considering the cultural and moral issues presented in the story it tells. Understanding the Historical and Cultural Context To understand the themes and the moral and cultural issues raised by the novel‚ become familiar with the historical and

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    American Literature Mrs. Cormack 27 March 2012 Everyone wears a veil In certain periods of history writers have written about dark things. The reasons may not be known but the effects are certainly felt. Romanticism occurred in the early 1800’s‚ which was when‚ “the Ministers Black Veil” was written. The romantic era was an artistic‚ intellectual movement. Nathaniel Hawthorne is usually associated with romanticism‚ due to his ties with Puritan New England. He was born in Salem‚ Ma which was

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    Essay #3 It is extremely easy for a society to alienate an individual based on assumptions or moral values. A good example of alienation in literature would be Hester Prynne’s role in The Scarlet Letter. Because Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock she is looked down upon by society and labeled with a scarlet let “A” for adultery/adulteress. This alienation highlights the values of society in the time period of the story based on women and pregnancies. Hester’s suffering reveals societies

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    and when he does he realizes that loving the earth in its entirety: people‚ places‚ and objects‚ is what will bring him to enlightenment. Hesse uses the theme of love and the various relationships that Siddhartha develops throughout his life to help him reach a universal love‚ with

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    to start a whole new life alone. As terrible as exile may seem‚ this is what Jane Eyre‚ protagonist of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre had to experience several times throughout her life. Although exile can be a degrading experience for anyone‚ Jane Eyre shows to her readers that it is also enriching.The motif of exile in Jane Eyre teaches that although feelings of alienation may arise at the start of the exile‚ you are still able to make companions throughout the new journey. The companions can

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    Propaganda As a Tool to Overcome Alienation According to Karl Marx‚ the proletariat that worked in large factories did not feel any connection to the products they were making. Because each worker worked only on one component of the product the factory produced‚ and generally workers could not afford the products on which they were working‚ the workers got estranged from their own labour. Karl Marx called the process of becoming estranged of one’s own labour ‘alienation’‚ and several cultural and literal

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    Isolation and Alienation in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Kate Finnegan In Sylvia Plath’s modern novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ the main character Esther isolates and alienates herself throughout the book because she mentally ill. Because her descent into a deep depression is slow and she leads a productive life when the reader first meets her‚ this descent seems rational to the reader in the beginning. Esther has an artsy soul. She is a writer and dreamer. When she does not make it into the writing program

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    New Book‚ ’The Beginner ’s Goodbye ’ Anne Tyler ‚ The Accidental Tourist ‚ Accidental Tourist ‚ Anne Tyler Books ‚ Anne Tyler New Book ‚ Beginner ’s Goodbye ‚ New Book Anne Tyler ‚ The Beginner ’s Goodbye ‚ Books News BALTIMORE — in the living room of Anne Tyler‚ you could shelve virtually all the books under a single heading: fiction. Eudora Welty. John Updike. Vladimir Nabokov. Reynolds Price. A rare brush with fact is "More Matter‚" a collection of Updike ’s essays and criticism. Otherwise

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    terrorism. The reason why this topic needs to be addressed is located in the following quote: "The probability that people are terrorists given that NSA ’s system of surveillance identifies them as terrorists is only p=0.2308‚ which is far from one and well below flipping a coin. NSA ’s [National Security Agency ’s] domestic monitoring of everyone ’s email and phone calls is useless for finding terrorists"(Rudmin‚ Alston P29). Many people argue that the government has gone too far with allowing violations

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    The Tell-tale Heart Written by Edgar Allan Poe True! Nervous -- very‚ very nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -- not destroyed them. Above all was the sense of hearing. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in the underworld. How‚ then‚ am I mad? Observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain. I loved the old man

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