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- 921: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Fall From Innocence
- ... in New York City on January 1, 1919, may not have written many novels in which he is recognized for. Although, he did write one novel, which brought him fame. In many of Salinger's short stories and especially his most well-known novel he writes about how the main character falls from his or her own innocence then rises to face their challenges. In J.D. Salinger's , The Catcher in ... is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book, "Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy". 1) Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep he checks in to the Edmont ...
- 922: Existentialism
- ... situation by someone involved in that situation Is superior to that of observers. Even though one person may view a situation as immoral, existentialism maintains that only those involved can determine morality. Existential novels and short stories include themes of moral individualism, freedom of choice, and responsibility, as well as alienation from the world, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, incorporated subjects of existentialism. In this novel, the protagonist Mersault finds himself alienated from the world. Franz Kafka, another existential writer, expressed his views in the short story' The Metamorphosis." In this tale, the hero, a hardworking insurance agent, awakens to discover that he has turned into an enormo us insect, four feet in length. He recognizes his familial rejection as ...
- 923: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... Florida (DA, 2). They divorced shortly after they got married because they could not continue the idealistic dreams they had shared in their youth. Zora Hurston's second marriage to Albert Price III was also short lived. They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1943 (DA, 2). By the mid-1940s Hurston's writing career had began to falter. While living in New York, Hurston was arrested and charged with ... she desires. "Sing, dance, have fun with me," seems to be what Teacake is offering her-a new direction. Teacake is a good ol' boy. He takes Janie to the Everglades. He lets her tell stories. However, she becomes what she set out to, only when she leaves Teacake. When she leaves Teacake Janie returns to Eatonville and the book ends where it began, as Janie finishes or dialogue with her ... her mother told her to 'jump at de sun' when she was a young girl, Hurston self-confidently refused any feelings of victimization She like her character Janie, was not 'tragically colored.' In her early short story, "Drenched in Light," a wealthy white woman comments on Isis, the happy child of Hurston's your: 'I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'( ...
- 924: Gullivers Travels By Jonathan
- ... ends. They got into an argument about which end is better to break and split up. The Lilliputians called themselves the Big Enders and the Blefescudians called themselves the Little Enders. Gulliver's stay was short because they did not trust him and was plotting against his life. He then fled to Blefescu, which was an enemy of the Lilliputians. They soon rejected him and he started on his journey home. The second place Gulliver arrives is Brobdingnag. These natives are about ten stories high and looked like humans because of their facial features. The farmer that found Gulliver brought him to the queen. The Brobdingnagian government is similar to the communistic government. In this society, there is no ... domesticks, in order to improve and continue the Breed." (Cook,124) He was eventually ostracized from them because he was a threat to them for being a yahoo. Eventually, Gulliver returned home and shared his stories with every one. They marked him as mad and he lived the rest of is days in an insane asylum. Many authors like Jonathan Swift reflect their lives in their books. This book was ...
- 925: The Old Man And The Sea
- The Old Man and The Sea A short novel by a great author named Ernest Hemmingway, The Old Man And The Sea, is the book I read. It was published in 1952. This book is nearly faultless as Malcolm Cowley of the New York Herald Tribune said. Other critics described it as a masterpiece, one of his best writings. In 1953, this short novel won the Pulitzer Prize. The year after that it won the Nobel Prize. The Old Man And The Sea is set in the mid-twentieth century in Cuba and the Gulf Stream. The gulf ... the old man sleeps satisfied that he earns respect of the town. Santiago is dreaming of lions. The Old Man And The Sea is a magnificent book for all kinds of readers. Like most great stories, it can be read on more than one level of meaning. On one, it is an exciting but tragic adventure story. Maintained by the pride of his calling, the only pride he has left, ...
- 926: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- A Good Man is Hard to Find In the short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the main character is the grandmother. Flannery OConnor, the author, lets the reader find out who the grandmother is by her conversations and reactions to the other characters in the story. The grandmother is the most important character in the story because she has a main role in the stories principal action. This little old lady is the protagonist in this piece. We learn more about her from her direct conversation with the son, Bailey, her grandchildren, June Star and John Wesley, and the Misfit ... to east Tennessee and tried anything she could to change Baileys mind (Page 426). Later in the story, as they began the trip to Florida, the grandmother talked the entire time. She would tell stories of her youth to the grandchildren and lecture them about being more respectful to their native state, and to their parents. Although the grandmother is the protagonist, it is her fault that the trip ...
- 927: Symbolism In The Long Rain
- Parallelism in The Long Rain I think that the setting in the short story The Long Rain is a parallel to reality. This short story is set on the planet of Venus, where the rain never stops. The scene is pale and bleak. There are dark clouds rumbling across the sky. Everything is colored in a shade of gray ... reality in that even with our victories we almost always lose something. I do not think the author intended to make this a parallel to life on Earth, but I do think that all good stories need the references to life to let the reader identify with the protagonist.
- 928: Dylan Thomas
- ... was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf 98) During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in ...
- 929: The Riddle Of St. Leonards
- ... her life. Her first efforts at writing were poems. She moved into a journalistic stage which lasted all throughout graduate school. It was after leaving graduate school that she focused on creative writing. She wrote short stories, mostly about science fiction, but one story was inspired by her graduate work in medieval studies. She thought her book would never get published, but then she found a job as an editor of research publications at the University of Washington. Her short story wasnt published, but she turned that story into a novel, The Apothecary Rose. Candace is now the author of two ongoing mystery series featuring medieval sleuths, the Margaret Kerr Mysteries and the ...
- 930: Media Control
- ... and evaluate the information and provide the general people with a clear, full, and unbiased view of the changes in the world, upon which citizens can act. Unfortunately, all too often current-day media fall short. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky have defined the reasons that media fall short in their mission to inform. The model they created has four major filters: (1) the size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, and profit orientation of the dominant mass-media firms; (2) advertising as the primary income ... or television station it creates a conflict of interest. Bill Kovatch, who has won numerous Pulitzer prizes as editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, resigned under pressure after the paper ran a series of stories about Coca Cola's misdeeds. One of the Cox sisters, who own the newspaper and Cox Communications, sat on the board of directors at Coke. In the mid-eighties a law passed that charged ...
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