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- 2411: Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"
- Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation" Ernest Hemingway is a renowned American author of the Twentieth century who centers his novels around personal experiences and affections. He is one of the authors named "The Lost Generation." He could not cope with post-war America, and therefore he introduced a new type of character in writing called the "code hero". Hemingway is known to focus his novels around code heroes who struggle with the mixture of their tragic faults and the surrounding environment. Traits of a typical Hemingway Code Hero are ...
- 2412: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Analysis
- ... I believe, is the language Brown used. In some places, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is difficult to understand and could lose potential readers. This is a book every American should read, but the writing techniques and vocabulary used prove to be a challenge. However, the events this book reveals make reading it worthwhile. Another complaint is that each chapter tells the same story, just with different tribes. But, I believe Brown had a purpose for writing this way. It shows that no matter where the Indians turned, they were slaughtered. This is a powerful point and I believed it was clearly conveyed. The merits of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ... sides to every story, and Brown shows us the side that we rarely see. By forcing us to think about these issues, Dee Brown accomplished the goal he set out to achieve when he began writing this eye opening account of the American West. .
- 2413: Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education
- ... wicked imaginations” after Mr Gradgrind curses her saying she deserted Josiah in his infancy. Mr Bounderby is a bad person thinking about himself and himself only at all times, doing things for only his own personal gain. Sissy who was actually was abandoned by her parents, is the opposite of Boundaby, she is a good person with a good view of life, she is a well rounded person, knowing that life ... it was a bad thing, had no other possibility but to marry Boundaby when the proposal was put to her because again of her love for Tom, as Tom asked her to, again for his personal gain. Her father stated that the age difference did not matter that 'the Calmucks of tartary, the British in India and a considerable part of China' don't take age into account. These places were ... think for themselves, with suppressed imaginations. The Gradgrind system of education has no interest in making pupils into well rounded people and is only an evil way of denying children their childhood for their own personal benefit. In Hard Times Dickens uses the book as the medium to express his bitter feelings against systems of education that were like Gradgrind's, that were plentiful in Victorian Times.
- 2414: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... asserting her self-worth, we are also given a warning about the possible outcome of failure to realize self-worth in Bertha Rochester. This facet will also be discussed briefly. Bronte uses the motivation of personal experiences to create the life of Jane Eyre in which we see the quest for social betterment through her relationships. Bronte herself experienced the social limitations of the nineteenth century. At this time "respectable women ... as Bertha was demeaned. Jane Eyre is an obvious feminine tract, an argument for the social betterment of women. This argument is supported by the fact that Jane is much like the author. Bronte, by writing and publishing the novel Jane Eyre, asserts her own self-worth by making literature a part of her life, even when discouragers such as Southey advised against it. Just as Jane found success in the ...
- 2415: The Glass Menagerie: The Tragic Effects of the Past
- ... However, the past no longer exists, causing them distress in their journey through life. Tom is unsuccessful with his job at the warehouse and Laura cannot seem to fit in with the outside world. These personal downfalls in life drive Tom into a life of poetry and movies, and Laura into a world of glass figurines. Tom is unsatisfied with his work at the warehouse and feels his life lacks adventure. Therefore, he finds it through writing poetry and watching movies. When business is slow at the shoe warehouse, Tom goes to the washroom to work on his poetry. Tom finds adventure in poetry because he is able to create and control ...
- 2416: A Review of Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"
- ... up in coffins of black' which evoke emotions surrounding my own previous experiences with death and coffins; the poem also uses striking images, such as the depiction of the boy in the first stanza. My personal literary and general repertoire are also key to my interaction with the poem. The main element in my personal literary repertoire which relates to this poem is the story of Mary Poppins which provides my positive view of ‘chimney sweeps' with which the poem collides. Elements in my general repertoire which conflict with the poem are: I value children very greatly, I condemn slavery, I believe in healthy and safe working environments and my great value of the family unit. Personal reading strategies are also a factor in my interpretation of the poem. In the case of this poem, I read it first of all to react emotionally, then to understand the meaning, search for ...
- 2417: Book Review: Darkness, Be My Friend
- ... I'd left the door open at Tozer's. And because the fuel tank had been padlocked. And because I'd sneezed." Throughout the book, Marsden keeps an excellent mix of adventure, excitement and of personal `experience'. He looks deeper and deeper into the mind of Ellie and exactly how she feels. He writes this well and in a style that I would imagine Ellie would use. Marsden's excellent writing ability makes the story even more believable and more moving. He is able to portray the feelings and emotions that I would imagine a person in that situation to have and does so so well ...
- 2418: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... She then returned to the United States and earned a degree in French literature from George Washington University and graduated in 1951. Jackie’s favorite interest as a child and young adult were reading, sketching, writing poems and short stories, riding horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23). Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald. She would spend her working day ... photographers and reporters are disrespectful to families such as the Kennedy’s just so they can maybe get a good story. After Jackie’s death, there shouldn’t have been questions about marriage or past personal family problems, there should only be a quiet time of dedication to remember Jacqueline. Against all the confusion and hectic, the Kennedy children planned their mothers funeral. (4) Jackie was a person for privacy, so ...
- 2419: The Works of William Faulkner
- ... an imaginary area in Mississippi called Yoknapatawpna county. Famous for his depiction of the depravity and downfall of the southern aristocratic society, many of these stories’s themes revolve around fallen southern families. His novel writing style is one that used literary devices, subthemes (such as women oppressed), and his main theme of the decline of the blue blood south. This writing manner was Faulkner’s greatest contribution to literature. A Rose for Emily is a gothic tale of a woman who was held back by her status in society, and is left alone with only the ... of myths by which it clung to its pride” (713 Probst ). This overall theme is Faulkner’s greatest innovation and the highlight of his contributions. Faulkner made his greatest donation to literature with his personalized writing style. He used narration to set the tone of his stories and alter his reader’s point of view. The oppression of women by their own families was often an underlying subject in Faulkner’ ...
- 2420: Langston Hughes
- ... C., when he accidentally left three of his poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet. She helped him ge! t publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing(Encarta). In an article about Langston Hughes in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about all the places in the world that Hughes has traveled. He probably used much of the information of ... Renaissance used much of the Black culture in his work. He began to use the Blues, Ballad form, dance rhythms, folk speech, and Jazz in his poetry. Hughes had success in many different fields of writing. His best drama, "Mulatto," a play, was performed on Broadway 373 times in 1935. In his best comedy, "Little Ham"(1935), again he uses themes from Harlem. Hughes's best fiction is in his "Simple ... because he was one of the most talented and famous black writers in his time. Even West Indian poets saw Hughes as the father of the Negritude Movement. It seemed as though Hughes used his writing as his weapon to combat against the ongoing struggle that African-Americans still face today. If it were not for Langston Hughes, African-Americans would not have their current political and social positions today, ...
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