"The Bike" Choose a short story in which a technique (e.g symbolism) is used by the author and is ,in your view ,vital to the success of the text. Explain how the writer employs the technique and why, in your opinion, it is so important to your appreciation of the text .In your answer, you must refer closely to the text and to it's theme as well as to the written use of the chosen technique. ... Symbolism is a technique used effectively to convey this theme of disillusionment, and is I my view crucial to the success of the text .The main usage ...

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A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have make of them. ...

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Law In both texts, there is a difference between the presences of laws in indigenous society. ... Culture (Reincarnation and Respect for Elders and Ancestors) However, there is a strong representation of culture throughout the indigenous society in both texts. ... Culture (Connection to the Natural World Moreover, both texts explore the spiritual and cultural connection to the natural world. ...

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Evidence from the text describes the Fastalogians; 'their clothes were worn badly, ill-fitting, often with childish mistakes, like buttoning the third through the fourth buttonhole' (Carey, 1995 p. 3). ... In reference to the story, the indefinability, fundamentally the conclusion is significant as it 'challenges the reader's determination to make a logical connection between fantasy of the text and the real' (Rutherford, 1996). ...

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The Unsettled Acquaintance Setting is the foundation of any good piece of literature. Without it, misrepresentations of the different outlooks and views are easily made in a story and the underlying meaning may not be observed correctly. In the short story "Feeding the Piranha," Pamela Painter c...

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Even if Paul dismisses these actions because of his narcissic tendency to be unconcerned with his peers opinions (the fact that they are rapidly glanced over in the text shows how little importance he accords them), the truth is that they are still happening and his subconscious records that. ...

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This story, I feel, falls into the situation that there can be no new stories anymore, only different treatments of the same broad themes, which Annie Proulx put to me very well through her use of language, characterisation and her clever use of the unexpected ending, of which I will explore fully with reference to the text. ...

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Though the text can leave many unanswered questions, the dialogue is very detailed in trying to understand what the couple is trying to portray and the reader must rely on the use of symbolism to fully comprehend the storyline. ...

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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 themes, issues and problems To develop a broad historical understanding prose production at this time To develop literary critical skills of contextualization, close analysis, and argumentation To further develop your research skills and to prepare you for the research paper By the end of the module, students should be able to demonstrate: An ability to relate literary texts to relevant historical, social and cultural contexts An ability to identify central themes in the p...

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Since the beginning of Industrialization, between European and American countries/states, in the 19th century, a dramatic change from modernization reflected in society's methods, ideas, and lifestyles. For example, when the first American train was developed it eventually led to cars and buses. Al...

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A Rose for Emily was published in 1931; according to the text, this story takes place in a town called Town of Jefferson who seems to be fictional, a town created by the author with some characteristics of the real Mississippi Town of Oxford where Faulkner grew up. ...

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Rip Van Winkle Analyzation encompasses the application of given criteria to a literary work to determine how efficiently that work employs the given criteria. In the analyzation of short stories, the reader uses a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single incident and a chief character by m...

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Death appears in gothic texts in many different ways. Often through the plot, setting and the characters perceptions and reactions, therefore one interpretation is that gothic literature itself has become fascinated with death. It is inevitable that death is the ultimate unknown and therefore one of...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to ...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated ...

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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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