the novel’s overall seriousness. However‚ Nabokov manages to manipulate the reader in such a way that the reader becomes a part of the game from the very first page but does not realize it until the very last. From the very beginning‚ Lolita presents itself as a game played with words. It is made apparent to the reader through the first person narrator Humbert Humbert. Although Humbert is a grown man‚ he still has the callow mindset of a child. He treats everything like one big game. A stellar
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focus on the horizon instead of the ground beneath our feet‚ a place more deserving of our attention. People that constantly have their eyes glued on the horizon‚ and nothing else‚ often regret not doing more later on. This can relate directly to my first text‚ “The Road Not Taken” – “I shall be telling this with a sigh‚ somewhere ages and ages hence”. Here‚ Robert Frost is looking back on his decision from the diverted road in the future‚ and is glad of the decision that he made‚ and sighs as a sign
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connection to the foreign land through the use of various literacy techniques such as imagery. The poem’s purpose is to let us witness the typical tourists’s shallow mindset‚ lack of respect to the culture and misplacing of priorities. It is written in first person narrative which makes us‚ the readers feel as though it is a personal experience; which to some extent it is. We can all relate as we have either been the tourist ourself or have observed characters like the poem described who have ventured abroad
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The Catcher In The Rye is a fiction book written by J.D. Salinger. It was published in 1951 and contains 214 pages. The publisher was Little‚ Brown and Company. If you were to put the book in a certain genre‚ it would fall under Literary realism and Coming-of-age story. Originally the book was written for adults but over the years more and more teenagers have been drawn to the book because of the themes and the telling of life of being a kid that age. Within two weeks of being published this
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Reflective Statement The Outsider – Albert Camus How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? When I first read ‘the outsider’‚ by Albert Camus‚ I was colossally impressed by the protagonist’s outlook towards life but at the same time the happenings in the work perplexed me because of a different time and place setting. Upon discussing the setting of the work‚ I was introduced to the fact that the course of events
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Two Major Military Alliances By Shannai Sloan The real cause of world war one was the existence of two major military alliances. An alliance is a union or association formed for mutual benefit‚ especially between countries or organisations. As all the major European countries were apart of one of the two alliances‚ any conflict between countries could cause an outbreak in war between them all. Firstly‚ with Europe being split in half with the two alliances it caused suspicion and fear between
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Reports Short reports are usually informal reports. Generally‚ these reports serve current needs and tend to have a limited readership. They tend to be between one and five single-spaced pages (ten double-spaced). They also tend to express a first person point of view. They use a personal style — we and you and a familiar vocabulary that conveys informality. They are often formatted for internal and external use. Memo-Reports Most informal reports follow the memo or letter format and are
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Just below the surface The story is written by Kate Nivison and takes place in a London suburb in an upper class environment (p. 41‚ l. 14) in modern time (p. 42‚ l. 23). It is a first person narrator so we sympathize with Indrani. Indrani: * Is an Indian woman (p. 42‚ l. 37) * Is education‚ but not highly educated * She is very bigoted (p. 42‚ p. 29-30) * She thinks the British people are xenophobic (the woman in the shop and the men from the council‚ p. 43‚ l. 15) *
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This page intentionally left blank 101 Family Vacation Games About the Author Shando Varda is a lifelong game-player who has taught and researched games for the last twenty years. In particular he has studied play in families and its many essential and enriching qualities. As part of his research process‚ he has played with babies‚ children‚ teenagers‚ adults‚ and senior citizens. From this rich and enjoyable experience‚ he has come to see the role and value game playing brings to our everyday
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the town becomes very clear when the grandfather tells his son that there’s only one right thing to do her – abortion is not a choice and of course they have to marry when the girls is pregnant. The story is told in present time by the son as a first person narrator‚ but almost everything in the story is a flashback of the father’s story about his youth‚ therefore the main character is the father. The text is a frame story because of the way it has been composed. Lydia Peelle uses the flashback to
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