By the way, it would be apposite to mention that my purpose is here just to exploit the parameter of 'contact zone' to show how it helps me to resolve the crisis I experienced while teaching and interacting with my students. ... My class has students ranging from 10 to 15 in number, who previously had courses on literature, General education, and some courses on humanities in keeping with the vision of liberal education, the reward of which lies in itself. ... The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key ...

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A stock character, also known as a stereotype, fits an established characterization from real life or literature. ... A chart often helps establish a better understanding of character type and style. ... Characterization happens in two ways in literature, by description and personality. ... Authors help the reader understand where a character's values lie by using character archetypes or original patterns or models of a character type. ... Analyzing the specific parts allows the reader to understand and appreciate the instructional value of the short story form of literature....

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The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. The alternate meanings can be considered "hidden meanings" as they do not directly...

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In the short stories "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce and "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, the authors left their audience in shock and awe. These authors were successful in their surprise endings because of the unique arrangement of the story; they carefully set up subtle clues...

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According to "A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature: Fourth Edition", the Historical-Biographical approach: "...sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of the author's life and times or the life and times of the characters in the work" (Guerin, 22). ... Jefferson Davis was a determined and a capable man who help the Southern state to consolidate as an isolated nation with its own rules apart from the North. ...

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I describe this story as "unique" because of the way it is written; the sentences are very short and to the point, which was unusual in comparison to most literature that I have read. ... However, the touching of hands is very different; the narrator is trying to find a common ground with the blind man, and help him to "see" something the same way he does. ...

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Literature has a strange ability to force an individual to look introspectively at their own existence and to question their own qualities - to self-evaluate. ... Similarly, the odd behaviors of the unnamed main character in Mark Strand's "The Tunnel"" also lead one to conjecture the respectable and upright virtues of a character that we cannot help but to feel empathy and compassion for. ...

• Word Count: 1660
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