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- 2301: Robinson Crusoe
- From the beginning of some life, people make many choices that affect their personal growth and livelihood, choices like what they should wear and/or what they should do. Even the littlest choices that they make could make a big difference in their lives. In the book, Robinson Crusoe retold by Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, while on the island, made many choices, big and small, that affected his personal growth and contributed to why he survived for so long. On the island he made a lot of smart decisions of what to do in order to stay a live. On his second day he ... from this point on "…now with Friday helping, life became more easy." (105) In our lives we have to make smart decisions in order to get through each day. Sometimes these decisions could affect our personal growth. They could help us or hurt us, but that is the risk we have to take. When Robinson got stuck on the island his choices became limited. Robinson could have left the boat ...
- 2302: Robert Frost
- ... understandable, but yet an unconventional poet. Frost wrote in his own style, and as a result, he took quite a bit of heat from the critics of his period. Frost has an elegant style of writing descriptive and understandable poems. I am going to tell you about the five best pieces he has ever written. First off, "A Considerable Speck" is a unusual poem about Frost noticing a tiny speck on ... of my father: every morning he will get up and watch the birds at the bird feeder in our backyard. Finally, "The Road Not Taken" is a poem about how Frost chose the road in writing that not many writers had dared to venture into. This poem is all about Frost’s adventurous side and how he is a leader, not a follower. Obviously, Frost saw something he did not like ... to one person and that one person is you. Robert Frost’s life took drastic changes and as a result of this his poetry varies quite a bit (Silberner 192). At the time he was writing his more depressing poems, he was having trouble getting his poems published, and he was doing oddball jobs to make ends meet (Gioia and Kennedy 522). His more upbeat poems were not created until ...
- 2303: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversational Implicature
- ... form of referring that is tied to the speaker´s context". This again leads us to the concept of deictic centre. The deictic centre can be divided into certain ‘sub-centres’. 1. Central person (speaker): Personal pronouns, I (Speaker), you (Addresse) 2. Central time (coding time): Adverbs of time, now and then 3. Central place (the location of the speaker): Adverbs of space, here and there 4. Discourse centre (the point ... event seem more remote. In the following section, I shall discuss some forms of deixis in detail. Person deixis These seemingly simple forms are sometimes quite tricky in their use. Children often have problems using personal pronouns. The three pronouns from first to third person I, you and he, she, it are in many languages elaborated with markers of relative social status (social deixis). Expressions indicating a higher social status are ... the addressee. Third person terms are usually more distant terms. Today they sometimes may serve ironic purposes (" Should I clean the dishes for her majesty?"), and they can also be used to make a potentially personal issue seem like an impersonal one, e.g. if I want someone to do me a favour. Spatial deixis Spatial deictic terms indicate the relative location of people and things (here, there). Interesting about ...
- 2304: Pigeon Feather
- ... to write are in the original cast. There are parts for children of two generations: the one seen in a mirror, the other viewed from parental altitudes. Eventually, I imagine, that second generation will start writing stories about Mr. Updike's slowly aging cycle. That should keep the genealogists of lit'ry criticism busy, shouldn't I? At first glance Mr. Updike's range seems narrow. As a matter of fact ... his serious insight. His love of words and ideas for their own sake is almost Joycean, and he has often imitated Joyce in the almost mechanical way of someone doing an exercise in a creative-writing class: how his virtuosity must have charmed his writing teachers! His evident school-brightness and the first-class education it brought him provided every opportunity for the overdevelopment of his onomastic tendencies. They are most obvious in his verse ("Conceptually a blob,/ the ...
- 2305: Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
- ... the loss of her own life. Beyond death there is a deep spirituality to this poem. In the second stanza she says, "If in this sleep I speak it is in a voice no longer personal." This could be interpreted many ways. It may be implying an afterlife. It seems to me that she is speaking a different type of eternity. It may be that this poem is her version of ... most amazing points of this poem is Adrienne Rich's gift for description. The words jump off the page and translate into vivid pictures. When she describes the death scene in the last stanza by writing, "A cable of blue fire ropes our bodies burning together in the snow" the reader can feel the cold snow burning their freezing bodies. The cable is not only the cable that keeps them together ...
- 2306: Penelope As Moral Agent
- ... ethical and moral decision "on which the actions turns…without critical knowledge of the circumstances" (Foley 93). To this end, Foley ultimately decides that Penelope meets these standards and adds that her social, familial and personal responsibilities play integral roles in making that decision. Foley's examples and her in-depth analysis of the Odyssey all support her thesis as I have interpreted it to be. There are, however, problems in ... place, a modern feminist theorist would have little or no bearing on classical interpretations of gender roles influencing decision-making because of the inherent differences in cultures and historical contexts in which each author is writing. More than likely, Gilligan did not have Penelope in mind when she came to her own conclusions on how men differ from women in making decisions. Foley says it herself that "Gilligan's distinctions...are ...
- 2307: P.G. Wodehouse
- ... G(renville) Wodehouse, "Plum" to his friends(Babuser 1248). Was born to a well-to-do family in Surrey, England on Ocotber 15, 1881 in Guildford, England. He was educated at Dulwich, London and started writing at a young age. By the end of his life, PG Wodehouse turned out more than ninety stories and fifty other miscellaneous pieces of works such as film scripts, etc. (Jasen 1). During his childhood ... Man With Two Left Feet" , "Much Obliged Jeeves" , and many other stories. His claim to fame is his many stories about the "perfect English gentleman" Jeeves, which became a very popular series. Also, just by writing so many pieces of work, Wodehouse was popularized. He reached sales of fifty million volumes in thirty different languages (Damrosch 453). In the humorous short story, "The Truth About George" the reader is introduced to ... it, just as P.G. Wodehouse solved his problems in his own life. In the short story, "The Truth About George", author P.G. Wodehouse shows influences from his childhood and his formative years in writing the tale of George, a man struggling to find a cure for his speech impediment in order to win the affections of the woman he loves. There are many similarities in terms of problems ...
- 2308: Out, Out
- ... the way in which everyone got back to their own businesses shows how life is meaningless, how when one is gone it does not make that much of a difference. Its Frost's style of writing that makes his readers feel as if they are part of the poem. Its almost as if the events in the poem are really taking place and the readers are merely people who are standing by and watching it all. It is his writing which allows him to make an allusion between the story of a tragic boy and the story of a tragic hero. It is his writing which makes his poems so unique.
- 2309: Ordinary People
- ... land destroying his home and him being helpless to its destruction. These descriptions add "the eternal note of sadness" to the poem. In the second part of the poem, Arnold uses the same method of writing, however he speaks of human history to further support the mood of the "Sea of Faith" and it's "eternal sadness". Arnold writes of Sophocles hearing the "eternal sadness" on "the Aegean" with it's ... speaker's window, but Arnold uses Sophocles as another example of nature's strength over the entire world. Arnold uses this to illustrate the speaker's despair and helplessness over his situation. Arnold uses this writing to exhibit the conflict between the land and the sea, and how more than just land suffers from the destruction. Arnold wants to show how deep the speaker's emotions run for his home. In ... lines, Arnold, however returns the reader to the dismal view of the land struggling with the sea, with a man caught in between. The cycle of the speaker's thoughts is played out in the writing style. The poem bounces from contentment to despair, just as the speaker is feeling. These literary styles fully illustrate and complete the story's mood. Arnold utilizes this part of the poem to advance ...
- 2310: Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
- ... describes a time of unfair poverty, unity, and the human spirit in the classic, The Grapes of Wrath. The novel tells of real, diverse characters who experience growth through turmoil and hardship. Jim Casy- a personal favorite character- is an ex-preacher that meets up with a former worshiper, Tom Joad. Casy continues a relationship with Tom and the rest of the Joads as they embark on a journey to California ... a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one. ... I'll be ever'where-wherever you look." Casy was a Christ-like, unprovincial, and harmonious man albeit he still had personal conflicts. Although Jim Casy has always seemingly been a man of God and Jesus, he battles with his faith throughout The Grapes of Wrath. He feels like he is contending with the very ideals he ... as any man got a right to say." A hedonistic moral code that tells of pleasure before rules and presumes to deny punishment is highly unusual for a one-time preacher. Casy struggled with his personal inner faith, and also his actions and speeches that defied what a regular man of the faith would do. The inner being of Jim Casy was evolving and furthermore conflicting when he metamorphisized from ...
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