Generational Perspectives on the War in The Reader In the book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink‚ the main character Michael Berg encounters several characters that lived in Germany during the Nazi regime. Through these encounters Bernhard Schlink depicts the differences in perspective between the generation born after the war and those who lived through it. These differences lead to awkwardness and conflict and show the difficulty of these two generations to reach a resolution. The
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1) The language is magnificent. For a reader such as myself‚ who likes to get lost in tangential thoughts mid-sentence‚ Conrad offers a warm bath we can soak in. I often just let the sentences flow over me in waves of color and music (I usually read Faulkner this way too)‚ but if I want to stop and extract all the meaning from one of his dense little beauties I just pull the golden ribbon and what appears to be a knot of words opens up nicely. I have tried unraveling some of Faulkner’s and McCarthy’s
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Today‚ the waves of feminism are far too big to be overlooked. Leading feminists work to achieve social equality of the sexes. Other from gender‚ race and/or color can also be an overlapping oppression. Patricia Hill Collins is one of many leading feminists that sit at the intersection of gender and race and has gone through it herself. Working as a woman of color in a white-dominated institution‚ she felt silenced and small‚ “I tried to disappear into myself in order to deflect the painful‚ daily
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we do whatever it takes just to stay alive‚ even if it means losing site of who we really are? These are all decisions that Peeta and Katniss‚ two kids from a city called Panem had to make all by themselves. The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has many themes‚ but the most important overall‚ is the importance of keeping dignity and humanity while fighting for our life. In the Hunger Games‚ a sixteen year old girl named Katniss and a sixteen year old boy named Peeta are chosen to go into
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A good reader will ask themselves questions as they read along‚ using sticky notes for that section. This technique allows the readers to come back to the questions and answer them after reader more of the novel or essay. Also‚ a good reader uses hints the author hides through the passage for the reader to interpret. This lets readers figure out what message the author wants the reader to know. Good readers are active readers which means they use their reading experiences for support by bring knowledge
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GOOD TO GREAT Why Some Companies Make the Leap…. And Others Don’t Author : Jim Collins About the Author : Jim Collins‚ a student and teacher of enduring great companies. He serves as a teacher to leaders through the corporate and social sectors. He is an ex-faculty of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and proud recipient of the Distinguished Teaching award in 1992. Known for his deep research’s‚ Jim has authored or co-authored four books‚ including the classic a. BUILT
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believes in the child impressive physical capability. Moreover the word ‘’fabulous’’ highlights the fact that the reader thinks that whatever the child has made and put together is worthy of praise. This shows that the speaker is very proud of the boy. In the first stanza alliteration is used to emphasise key points: sighing and shaking his head like an old man‚ it encourage the readers to think of shivering‚ as if the boy gets confronted with reading‚ he shivers with fear. When she describes him
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be seen through both the novel The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and the film Atonement directed by Joe Wright. Guilt is a prevailing theme in both Atonement and The Reader. In The Reader‚ guilt is persistently explored as a reoccurring theme. ‘and when I feel guilty‚ the feelings of guilt return; if I yearn for something today‚ or feel homesick‚ I feel the yearnings and homesickness from back then.’ (pp. 215) This quote highlights the principle to the reader that feelings of guilt‚ while not always
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strange spell over you. It’s the intimacy of being let into such details of a character’s feelings and being that draws you to read The fluency of the writing and the drama‚ heroism‚ and intrigue exhibited by the characters can almost be too much for a person. The pure power of literature sometimes wont allow you to set the book aside and leave the characters life. The attraction and attachment of humans to fictional characters through reading is seen in the poem “The Reader” by Richard Wilbur
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written by Patricia Hill Collins entitled “On Lynchings‚” Collins describes the life of Ida B Wells through theoretical frameworks such as Black intellectual production and Black Feminist Thought. Collins situates Wells’ lived experience as a catalyst for her activism. “Ida Wells-Barnett’s voice in these essays grows from lived experience with Black people‚ and not simply from theorizing about them.” (182 Collins) Wells’ intellectual and political work‚ as told by Collins‚ involved the development
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