Genesis is an important text because it holds such value throughout the ages. ... You need to look at the message in the text and be able to relate that to yourself and your experiences. ... The text forces you to question and "requires constant reinterpretation and struggle." ... It leaves readers to think for themselves, even disagree with the text. ... Readers need to look at sacred texts such as Genesis in a different way. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Initial efforts were made by Formalists and the New Critics who assigning primary importance to the text set up the tradition of close reading. ... Similarly Knapp (2004) thinks that in the present age the focus needs to be shifted from what texts mean to what students think about them and how they learn. ... Students are not trained to see how literary texts are contributing in constructing reality through ideological representations. ... As a result students become a storehouse of the information related to certain texts but not critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers. ... Simi...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Through Asher, who feels the sense of belonging towards Byron Bay, the effect that text types have on a story is explored, and through the use of the letter in the book the reader is shown personal emotions and feelings expressed within the contents. As highlighted above, through Guitar Highway Rose, the incorporation of belonging within fictional texts is able to be successfully explored showing the power which works of literature have with exploring universal themes of the human experience. ... The longing for freedom is also explored within the text through Rosie's character and her ne...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Think about your family and dear friends. Think of all the memories you have had with those loved ones. What would you do if everything familiar, people included, were gone? That is what Robert Neville goes through everyday ever since a drastic plague wiped out all of humanity - except for him. Robe...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It is indisputable that as readers of any type of literary work, we will take our own individual meaning of a text which is likely to differ significantly from another's interpretation. In this sense, a sonnet will always be in the eye of the beholder as it lays with whom ever is reading and their viewpoint on the text. ...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Zusak used written texts to symbolise the power of words. ... Markus Zusak has specifically conveyed and developed these within the text in order to grab the readers attention in a way not possible without the presence of each symbol. ...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We can learn much about our own values and attitudes by examining our response to particular texts. Explain, in detail, what you have learned about you own values and attitudes towards life and literature from you response to reading Breaktime. The meaning of literature is different with each pe...

• Word Count: 1857
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, ha...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, ha...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ernest Hemingway In the sixty two years of Ernest Hemingway's life he produced a literary reputation that went unmatched in the twentieth century. He was looked at from many different respects from writers and critics alike: "an old wise man, a brilliant stylist, a "culture hero," a fraud and a phony, an anti-intellectual, a courageous man who took chances with the violent world around him, a drinker with a metal stomach, a fun loving sportsman, and a strange primitive man." Not only his writing but his life were continuously being watched and described. This resulted in Hemingway bein...

• Word Count: 2253
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School