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- 5821: Langston Hughes
- Poetry in Motion - Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was a poet that lived from 1902-1967. He was a very distinguished poet of the Harlem Renaissance, the great out pouring of african-american art. The poetry of Langston Huges is very different, yet it held the reader's attention. As a poet, he defines his role as a poet. Hughes has a very ... life that he dropped out of Columbia University after two semesters to pursue the night life of Harlem. Though at times Langston was a radical writer and addressed the issues with force, he also expressed great pride in being black and having a culture such as it. He was very proud and his poetry reflected that. He is known as a figure of hope in the black race's eyes, his ...
- 5822: Lady Lazarus
- ... familiarity to the audience, deceit rather than vindictive malice, lack of character development and especially the role of social status. The sensational novel is usually a tale of our own times. Proximity is indeed one great element of sensation. A tale which aims to electrify the nerves of the reader is never thoroughly effective unless the scene be laid out in our own days and among the people we are in ... a long journey in search of fortune. He is impatient to reunite with the wife he left many years ago. The expectation is clear: the husband returns, reunites with his wife, his joy should be great. Not so. Instead, he learns that his wife has recently died. Hence, the reader’s emotions are wrung. This is an element that is important to both the mystery and the melodramatic aspects of Lady ...
- 5823: Jungle Book
- ... Sahib, and Machua Appa. All of these minor characters were needed in this story because without them Toomai would not have needed to prove himself. Without this challenge he would probably not have become the great elephant trainer which he has become today. Her Majesty’s Servants The main character in this story is a soldier. The soldiers name is never really mentioned but he is the main character I think ... type of story. Symbolism/Imagery: The only symbolism which I can see in this book was Shere Khan as a symbol of evil. Theme: The theme of this entire collection of stories was one of great importance. It was that each person should learn to live and cooperate with their neighbors, and also learn to appreciate the animals. Style: The authors style was very easy to read and follow. Some of ...
- 5824: Jumping Off For Freedom
- ... were also scared of the see because they were callow, they did not know much about rafts or the ocean, but they ameliorated later, they learned from their own experience. The author easily express her great form of writing and also share it with the reader through the plot, the plot is the sequence of events in a literary work, in this case Jumping off for Freedom, Arilu Bernardor wrote the ... husband and her daughters, Stephanie and Amanda. Anilu Bernardo writes from the heart. Jumping off for Freedom is a moving, sensitive and informative novel, told with clarity and compassion. She also shows her intelligence and great style of writing through the plot, the conflicts and finally the setting. She knows what it feels because she went through what the Leal family went through, There are now thousands of Cubans who leave ...
- 5825: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... the crag protected my head: the sky was over that." In fact, the entire countryside around Whitecross is a sort of encompassing womb: "a north-midland shire . . . ridged with mountain: this I see. There are great moors behind and on each hand of me; there are waves of mountains far beyond that deep valley at my feet." It is the moon, part of nature, that sends Jane away from Thornfield. Jane ... nature will accept Jane no matter what: "Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was." Praying in the heather on her knees, Jane realizes that God is great: "Sure was I of His efficiency to save what He had made: convinced I grew that neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured." Unsurprisingly, given Brontë's strongly anti-Church of ...
- 5826: Jack Kerouac
- ... or Nirvana. Another Buddhist concept is introduced here by Kerouac, that of the bodhisatva. Kerouac spent much of his time with Buddhism studying a particular type, this was Mahayana Buddhism. Within this particular school a great deal of emphasis is placed upon the bodhisatva. The bodhistava is an enlightened individual who chooses to remain in this world, being reborn repeatedly as a human in order to help others achieve the same ... western life and literature and simply adopted Buddhist literary technique. He made several attempts at Haiku throughout his career sporadically, although he dropped the standard syllabic pattern of 5-7-5. He explained that the great difference in writing with letters as in English, as opposed to characters as in Japanese called for this strict adherence to be dropped. In being that Haiku is Japanese in origin, it is reflected in ...
- 5827: Invisible Man
- ... I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own."(22) Here we begin to see the invisible man looking inside himself for pleasure. He has found, through the writing of this book, great pleasure; whereas, in society, he had found little pleasure because his works were not his own. Freud admits that "one gains the most if one can sufficiently heighten the yield of pleasure from the sources ... darkness and hibernation indicate aspects of a cave, and Jung has something interesting to say about the result of being in a metaphorical cave: I have chosen as an example a figure which plays a great role in Islamic mysticism, namely Khidr, ‘the Verdant One.’ He appears in the Eighteenth Sura of the Koran, entitled ‘The Cave.’ This entire Sura is taken up with a rebirth mystery. The cave is the ...
- 5828: Into The Wild
- ... of man made things. He decided to take a trip into the wild woods of Alaska. Chris did not have any contact with his family and no one knew that he was going on this great journey. Well Chris went on his journey into the great forest of Alaska and 4 months after his body was found decomposed. Krakauer the author views this boy’s challenge as an adventure to discover nature on his own without the help of anyone or ...
- 5829: In Dubious Battle
- ... perspective of the mechanics of a strike and the type of people that it involves. Because this book provides these perspectives, I believe that it is worth reading. The parts of the book that involved great intensity were the best parts, for those were the periods in which the perspectives were illustrated best. The most intense parts of the book included the strikers’ raid on the replacement workers, for it illustrated ... others read it. I would especially recommend this book to those who do not fully understand the power of the group and how it can be manipulated by its leaders, because the book goes into great detail of how this is accomplished. I would give this book a four star rating ****.
- 5830: Hunger Of Memory
- ... born and raised in the United States, he was strongly influenced in the ethnic environment of a Spanish family. Although the reader is introduced to only a short excerpt from the autobiography, he learns a great deal about Rodriguez’s family and his relationship to it, his conflict of speaking English versus Spanish, and the paradox that became evident as he used English as his primary language. Furthermore, the reader learns ... his story to the reader in order to speak out against support for bilingual education. In the beginning of the excerpt, Rodriguez explains, "Supporters of bilingual education today imply that students like me miss a great deal by not being taught in their family’s language. What they seem not to recognize that as a socially disadvantaged child... I needed to learn in school that I had the right-- and the ...
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