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- 681: Cloudstreet
- ... meant the move into the city from the outback, brought him his own home and a steady job at the mint. A rather large irony, as Sam is a compulsive gambler, more often than not short of cash. Although for Fish, losing his mental faculties and the ability to communicate to others, in his near drowning experience, gave way for his unimaginable bond with water and his abilities as a visionary ... Winton’s language is also profoundly secular in both its joyousness and relation to the concept of piety. However, the language evokes the bible in its rhythm and godliness, and another aspect is how biblical stories are more often than not noted for their relevance to everyday life. Such as this quote exemplifies found on page 151; "Those bible stories and words weren’t the kind you forgot. It was like they’d happened to you all along, that they were your own memories." Fish, as the novels narrator serves as the essence of ...
- 682: Drown: A Consideration
- In Drown, a collection of short stories, author Junot Diaz presents readers with an impoverished group of characters through harsh, but vivid language. Through the voice of Yunior, the narrator throughout the majority of the stories, Diaz places the blame for Yunior’s negativity and rebellious nature on the disappointment caused by his father and the childhood illusion of America. Diaz, through language and symbolism, forces readers into an emotional ...
- 683: Dylan Thomas
- ... Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. He died November 9th, 1953 in New York City. In only 39 years, Dylan Thomas left an indelible mark on history. Thomas published numerous books of his poetry, plays, short stories, and various other works. He first toured America in early 1950, reading at a variety of public forums. This tour was very successful and Thomas fell in love with America, a romance that would bring ... his hotel (Ferris, 301). Dylan spoke without any problems on the 28th and 29th (Ferris, 301). He spent the 30th with Reitell and another woman. On the 31st, Thomas resumed drinking heavily and began telling stories of his childhood and professing his love for his wife (Ferris, 302). Sunday, November 1st passed without any significant happenings. November 2nd started with Thomas drinking beer in the morning, the meeting Reitell and ...
- 684: Great Expectations
- ... to unbelievable places with his imaginative powers allows him the honor of being the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Dickens has thrilled his readers for many years with his down-to-earth stories about real people forced into real situations. Charles Dickens has the ability to tell his stories from personal experiences. He fine-tuned his ability to tell his own story through the life of another character or cast of characters. Born on the evening of February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the ... describing the troubles of growing up and the benefits of having a rough childhood. Through the rough experiences that he had, Dickens was able to look back on his early life and write world-famous stories about them. Calvin Brown feel that these experiences also helped shape the man the Dickens became, as do all experiences in life for everyone (Brown 144) The structure of Dickens's Copperfield has the ...
- 685: House On Mango Street
- ... Mango Street is a very interesting book about a young Latino girl and her daily life. It is a look through a child’s eyes of the world around her. The story is written in short chapters, explaining different aspects of life from a child’s point of view. The story confronts poverty, physical abuse, discrimination and other issues that we’d never want our children to deal with. The House ... was smart thought. Due to this, Esperanza’s mother wants Esperanza to get a good education and become something. I think this is valid information for all children to hear. If children can hear personal stories, even in a narrative story, they will hopefully gain the knowledge that going to school is very important. All children should know that knowledge takes you everywhere you ever wanted to go and without education ... look up Mexican and Puerto Rican history or culture on the Internet or in a reference book. I would also take more time to reflect on each chapter. In this story, the chapters were very short. I just breezed through all of them without a second thought. Next time, I would definitely try to focus on the cultural aspects, rather than reading the story for the narrative. Reading for the ...
- 686: Huckleberry Finn
- ... movement below the window, and a "me-yow" sound, that he responds to with another "me-yow." Climbing out the window onto the shed, Huck finds Tom Sawyer waiting for him. Commentary In a few short dense pages, Twain manages to accomplish a great deal. Most importantly, the two introductory notes and the first chapter establish the author's use of humor and irony, the character of Huckleberry Finn, the novel ... say that some witches flew him around the state and put the hat above his head as a calling card. He expands the tale further, becoming a local celebrity among the slaves, who enjoy witch stories. He wears around his neck the five-cent piece Tom left for the candles, calling it a charm from the devil with the power to cure sickness. Jim nearly becomes so stuck-up from his ... camels and elephants. It turned out to be a Sunday school picnic. Tom explained it really was a caravan of Arabs and Spaniards - only they were enchanted, like in Don Quixote. Huckleberry judged Tom's stories of genies to be lies, after rubbing old lamps and rings with no result. Commentary These two chapters develop the characters of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. The two are, in several respects, foils. ...
- 687: Ufos And Aliens On Earth
- ... hold up well though. After all the reports were turned in, and all the witnesses had been interviewed, it didn't look like the airforce could support baloon story. So, they have been changing their stories around, from a weather balloon, to a crashed V2 rocket, to an experimental aircraft. As recent as June of 1995, the airforce officially announced that it was in fact a balloon lofted to view Russian ... a early US spacecraft, or, a UFO. And the UFO , for the first time ever, is the only explanation that makes sense. The aliens of the Roswell case are the classic Grey's. They are short, 3.5 feet tall, slit mouth, and large oval eyes. They are grey in color and have a very hostile disposition towards humans. There is no known record of what happened to the living alien ... aliens that are said to visit Earth. There are many other species that have been reported, but these incidents are to sporadic and unsupported to believe. The first type of alien are called the Greys, short, militaristic aliens with no apparent emotion. They can take a humans life with no apparent regard for that individual. They are between 3.5 - 4.5 feet tall, and are totally grey with a ...
- 688: ESP
- ... defined as a way of receiving information without using one of our five senses. The study of ESP is a part of a science called parapsychology. This is also called psychical research, or psi for short. Besides ESP, there is another branch of psi communication which includes the phenomenon in which an object seems to be moved by the mind alone. The mover does not touch the object which can be ... of these events through any of the five senses. Precognition is the extra sensory perception of events in the future. And finally, telepathy is the extra sensory perception of someone elses mental state. For centuries, stories about ESP sounded suspicious to those who had scientifically trained minds. After all, they were usually tales told after the fact. The event had already happened when the subject might have foretold it in a ... over a field. These people are called dowsers. An example of skin-vision is when a person can precieve the color of a card while blind folded, merely by feeling it. Everyone has hear of stories in witch, for example, a woman is at work and she senses an eerie feeling about her child. Moments later the telephone rings and it is the school nurse calling to inform her that ...
- 689: The Devastating Effects Of Int
- ... witnessed other hangings (page 60). Millions of peope died because of the hate in some people. Hate can be shown in many other forms too. One form is clearly shown in Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel s short story entitled Who Said We all had to Talk Alike? A woman from the Ozarks named Neffie, applies for a job in California. Neffie is sent back after just one month because she added an r to many words that did not contain that letter. This incident was devastating to the children she was caring for because they really liked Neffie and the way that she cooked and told stories. This also made Neffie feel like there was something wrong with her. The children probably lost one of the best baby-sitters. This is just a small example of an act of intolerance that can even have unintended consequences that hurt many people. Devastating intolerance can also be seen in the short story Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor. An act of religious bigotry and someone s beliefs can become a part of someone else s way of thinking or internalizing one s ideas. The Address Unknown ...
- 690: The Cathedral
- ... cannot seem to recognize the most important things in life. While a lot has been written about Raymond Carver, little has been written about Cathedral. Contributing writer Charles E. May in the Reference Guide to Short Fiction sites a change in Carver’s writing style beginning with the stories contained in the same anthology as Cathedral: "Whereas his early stories are minimalist and bleak, his later stories are more discursive and optimistic." (Watson 114) The few critics who have written specifically about Cathedral tend concentrate on that optimism, seen at the end of the ...
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