Name : Fahmy Sabiel Noerfiqhy Std. Number : 0902477 Class : 7A Course : Critical Analysis of Prose Reader Response Analysis of W. W. Jacobs’ Short Story: Monkey’s Paw The short story which is going to be analyzed in this paper is Monkey’s Paw. It is a horror short story by William Wymark Jacobs. He is an English author of short stories and novels. The story itself is divided into three parts and will be determine the constituent and supplementary events of it. The constituent
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English 101 is an important seminar to its’ students because for most they are able to develop skills that they never previously had. In the class the professor had us critically read The Eater Reader by James Miller and then develop our essays on each chapter. The essays each requires each class member to write an analytical essay on the text in the chapter. The essays then go through a process to make them better. The professor would write down his or her thoughts on the essay and students would
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Water is a vital to all human life‚ but people don’t know how they should limit their use of it‚ how their actions affect the purity of it‚ or how restricted water actually is. They do not know how to take care of water‚ or their environment. They need to realize that water should not be carelessly used for leisure. Also‚ recognize that they pollute their own water supply with chemicals and trash‚ and they do not seem to understand that there is a limited supply of water. Americans do not comprehend
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writes because he has something to say.” This quote applies directly to Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s novel A Grain of Wheat. One could infer from this quote that some writers write not just for the enjoyment derived from it‚ but rather out of a feeling of obligation to let readers hear what they may have to say. Ngugi’s message that he feels obligated to convey is delivered‚ however‚ he uses a very unusual writing technique to arrive there. He wants the readers to understand the pain‚ suffering‚ and confusion
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The relationship between reader and writer is intertwined. Of course‚ a writer can write without a reader‚ but if their words remain unread and unexplored‚ then do the words really mean anything? On the other side‚ a reader cannot exist without a writer. Therefore the relationship is one of symbiosis a relationship of mutual benefit or dependence. I view the writer as someone who is writing for my pleasure‚ and hopefully for theirs as well. To pick up a book and be transported to another
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The Symbolism of Water Many works of literature use symbols to represent abstract ideas. One symbol that is commonly used is water. Water is a viable symbol because it is versatile. It can be used to represent many different ideals because water in itself is ever changing. Water is used in many works to represent such ideals as death‚ life‚ love‚ betrayal‚ purity‚ holiness‚ and so on. Giglamesh‚ the Old Testament‚ Egyptian Poetry‚ and The Odyssey all have symbolized water to represent an idea
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Novel Study Annotated Bibliography Gruen‚ Sara. Water for Elephants. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill‚ North Carolina‚ 2006. The story follows Jacob Jankowski who was an old man living in a nursing home‚ as he looks back about a time that defined his life. In the 1930’s‚ 23-year-old Jacob’s life changed drastically. One minute he was finishing his Veterinarian degree at Cornell and planning to follow his father in the family business. The next his parents passed away in a car
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What Type of Reader are you? What is your favorite type of book to read? Or do you even enjoy reading? No matter how much a person likes or dislikes reading‚ every person in today’s society has to read at least once a day. There is so much material to read‚ one cannot avoid reading something. Not only are there many different types of material to read‚ but there are also many different types of readers. Readers can be labeled either by what they read‚ or why they read. There are the people
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History 116 “Reader‚ I Married Him” Response 2 Reader‚ I Married Him Reader‚ I Married Him is an excerpt from a book called‚ “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew.” The book was written by Daniel Pool‚ and was meant to be a commentary on the facts of daily life in nineteenth century England. Throughout the novel as a whole Pool goes over‚ fact by fact‚ what it was like to live in nineteenth century England‚ something that many people know hardly anything about. This particular excerpt
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own right. In the year after Wallace’s passing‚ the "Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address" became This Is Water: Some Thoughts‚ Delivered on a Significant Occasion‚ about Living a Compassionate Life (2009). And yet‚ even as Little‚ Brown’s publication of the lecture gave the speech permanence and stability‚ it also aroused significant debate about whether the form of this publication worked with or against the speech’s message. In examining the remediation of Wallace’s speech‚ I suggest
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