The Reader Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

- The introduction of the essay seems too rhetorical to be interesting. It is also too wordy at the expense of clarity. The author should consider using simpler language that readers will be able to relate to.
- The thesis statement is quite clear – the youngest child is ‘luckier’ than the oldest in a family’. The author has repeated it twice within the paragraph. However, the introduction does not include a summary of supporting facts, other than the author’s personal experience, to back the thesis.
- Although the author does not explicitly state the purpose of ...

- A. the effect of the first-person narrative voice in the story is of great significance. This is because the reader is in a position to relate with Dubus’ story. This is because it is through the first-person narrative that a writer can fully express himself giving a detailed account of their experiences. This is an excellent technique since the reader is well enlightened and in a position to put across the events in the story.
B. if the story was told through an omniscient narrator, the story would be in the third person pronoun. In this instance, the writer would be ...

INTRODUCTION

Dorothy Allison delivers the literary masterpiece with emphasis on thematic content and a narration using the first person. The book has no happy as it explores the experiences of growing in a poor family and a challenging setting. The author writes with bluntness and stark prose to paint a clear picture of the emotional and physical challenges experienced by the main character and the people around her. The first person narration manages to draw the author closer to her audience as it personifies and brings life into a book. Narrating in first person makes the reader feel as if they are experiencing a situation in ...

Critical review

Introduction
The Quran is an Islamic holy book believed to have been revealed to the prophet Muhammad (Haleem, 2001, p.7). Since the creation of the Quran it has been translated into various languages around the world to cater for all Muslims speaking a variety of language around the world (Ahamed, 2006, p. 23),. Abdel Haleem's translation of the Quran is a fine translation of the book. This is because of the author's mastery both English and Arabic languages. He author is an expert lexicographer and is, therefore, a master of both ancient and modern Arabic languages. This makes it easy for ...

This article uses a wide range of styles in rhetorical, figurative and structural senses. Entirely, there are examples of the story within a story, irony, juxtaposition, description in a piece that takes a narrative orientation.

Story within a story

William uses one plot to relate other stories that prevent the flow. While his focus is on telling Tompkins endeavors, there are times when reciting other stories in the interest of depicting the Chilean setting and the characteristics of the natives. An instance is when he hires a truck driver to take him to Tompkins residence. The author paints the perception of the natives about Tompkins and his forest ...

Changes in University

The article by Simon Young explains how changes in Universities Education have taken place since the earliest times to the present. To attract the interests of the reader, Simon Young has employed use of several techniques to make his article convincing. Such technique includes personal anecdotes, comparison and contrast.
The article begins with a personal anecdote. Simon Young explains his personal experience the University for over forty years. He then moves the reader through changes in academic research which he finds disturbing, “the purpose of this editorial is to discuss the current state of University research and explain why ...

The narrator of the poem is a field worker with scarce education. He addresses himself to his brother, who is also working the soil, and states the importance of the human transformation of nature. This shocks and makes the intended reader uncomfortable, as it would be a cultured and mainly academic and reasonable person.
There is no discernable story in “Dirt”: it is more about the exposition of an idea and the happiness that this makes the narrator feel. While one could track the development of the main theme throughout the poem and locate the climax in the expression ...

Classic English literature

Once Percy Bysshe Shelley said that human history is like a poem written by time upon the memories of man. But sometimes history gets a form of a novel, and hearing about historical events from a novelist may become much more exciting and entertaining than getting facts from a historian. Reading a historical novel allows the reader to avoid prejudice and form own opinion about events and historical figures; understand real causes and backgrounds of what was happening.
It is interesting that Sir Walter Scott was a collector of antiquities. He admired this captured history that once had been put into the object by its ...

“America” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in the 1958. The poem revolves around the life of the speaker, who feels overwhelmed by life in U.S. Specifically, the speaker is dissatisfied with the level of capitalism in the country, which makes him admire his communist upbringing. He also conveys his admiration for Marxism. Although there are several literary strategies (put forward by different theorists) on the best means to interpret a text, none would be more appropriate than Michael Foucault’s in analyzing Ginsberg’s poem.
In his articles “The Archaeology of Knowledge” and “What is an Author?” Michael ...

In taking into consideration of her confinement, the loom, the mirror and/or Camelot, the part that presented the qualities of The Importance of Being Earnest and which happened to be most humorous would be covered. The mirror providing the reflection seems to be carrying the day. It reflects the shadow that makes her feel half sick. It then heightens the perceived tension that exists between the woman’s cloistered position and the world in the exterior.
There are presence of many and varying allusions in T.S Eliot’s work of art ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. ...

Summary/Critique

Obesity is a thorn that keeps on pricking the modern society. This is the reason as to why Grossman wrote the article “Food for Thought (and for Credit).” In this article, she looks at the reason as to why the menace of obesity has struck the society hard. The argument has it that this is all due to the preference to the convenient fast foods that are highly consumed by the modern society. Rather than judge the quality of food from the nutritional value it offers, the modern society goes with the policy of ‘more for less” (Grossman Para 4). ...

While reading a short story, the imaginative language used by the author helps transport the reader into another world created by the author. In this case, a short story presents an experience that the author puts down which brings an imaginary world to life. On the other hand, when it comes to drama and poetry, the reader becomes part and parcel of the experience as they participate in the bringing to live of the written work. This is possible because the characters in the drama or poetry are brought o life by the audience as they take part in the reading, ...

Cassandra is a novel told about the survivors of the Trojan War. It is the story of a young woman named Cassandra, and her struggles during the post-war era. There are many different ways to analyze literature, but one of the leading literary analysts, Gerard Genette, has provided an extremely useful method for analyzing novels like Cassandra by Christa Wolf. Because Cassandra does not have a coherent or cohesive timeline, and rather jumps about in time with little warning, special types of literary analyses must be applied to the text to truly dig into the meaning of the multifaceted text.
Helen ...

Fair and Tender Ladies, like Lee Smith’s novel The Color Purple, is a literary work in the form of letters. The letters in question are written by the novel’s female protagonist, Ivy Rowe, and through them the reader gets an intimate account of her life. Like other letter novels, Smith creates the impression that the letters are written over time, as narrations of experiences shortly after they take place. Moreover, Smith persuades the readers to perceive that Ivy writes the letters in the middle of experience, or at least while she is in the middle of construing their ...

Essay Review – Greed Viewed as Good

- The introductory paragraph of the essay comes across as sharp and factual that may be off-putting to some readers. The focus is also not on the topic itself but on supporting examples. The tone could have been less impersonal.
- The thesis statement is clearly stated in the introduction though it appears in the middle of the paragraph.
- There is no mention of the target audience by the end of the introduction. I believe that students and philosophers will take an active interest in the topic. Moreover, the topic can hold the attention of sociologists.
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Literature:

Reader-response theory, also referred to as reader-response criticism, generally refers to a category of literature theories that the reader at centre of interpreting and giving meaning to a piece of literature work (in this case poetry). The theory, emphases on the audience /reader’s reaction to a literature work than on the work itself. In fact, the theory suggests that the text (poem) cannot exist without the reader and thus cannot be interpreted and/ or understood in the absence of the reader’s reaction. As such, reader-response criticism renders literature a performing art with the reader as an active agent that gives the ...

The essay under discussion here, “Misconceptions about Gamers” is a nicely written piece explaining the basic misconceptions and the misgivings that the society has about the members of the Computer Gaming community.
Following is a review of the essay discussed in a comprehensive manner and to the best understanding of the subject which the essay attempts to describe.
- Does the intro paragraph catch the reader’s attention? Does the writer use any of the techniques we discussed in class? Make at least one specific suggestion that will give the writer a direction or an option for improving the way of ...

Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel which tells the story of the narrator Werther, through a series of dated letters his “best of friends” Wilhelm. The letters develop the character’s narrative, the ongoing of his inner life, by narrating his own sentiments and reflections on his interior state of mind. This at times moves over time from elation to despair across a few weeks, and moves eventually towards a more dramatic shift between those two emotions, sometimes within a single sentences. The exclusion of other points of views, other than dislodging interjections of the narrator, further contributes ...

Question one: The human cost of illiterate society by kozol

Kozol opens the thesis with poison warning to put emphasis on the weight of the matter that he is talking about. Poison is known to kill or harm those who consume it, likewise illiteracy can cause harm to the society. Poison is therefore used metaphorically to refer the effect of illiteracy to the society. For instance, Kozol talks about an illiterate person who cannot even read prescription instructions on how to take medicine which may cause death. He also gives many examples on what illiteracy can cause to support this, from people making un-informed decisions to people getting lost ...

Response Paper - "Interaction Between Text and Reader"

In Wolfgang Iser's "Interaction Between Text and Reader," the author notes that the reading of a literary work is contingent entirely upon how the structure and its recipient interact with each other (Iser 1673). In essence, when reading a work of literature, the reader is providing just as much to the overall interpretation of the text as the author; it is an interactive experience that is not the same between readers. It is known as the phenomenological theory of art, as humans interpret what they see around them in different ways, and is the same with art. I found this to ...

“The Sacred Pipe: Black Elks Account of the Seven Rites of Oglala Sioux” edited and complied by Joseph Epes Brown, is a narrative of the life and spiritual beliefs of Black Elk, a Sioux Holy Man, who shares his religious traditions in order for his readers to gain insight and understanding of his culture. Upon reading this book, the reader is able to make connections between the Sioux religious beliefs and those present in Western religions. Black Elk helps the reader to see the many parallels between Christianity and his Native American beliefs. By looking at Christianity through the eyes of ...

The epistolary novel and intimacy are often branded as synonymous terms. The Coquette initially aligns itself as simply an epistolary novel, as the controlled expression of the writers, and limited point of view, offered by the letter form, allows the two leading men to reveal their true thoughts, whether they are the suddenly untempered passions of Reverend Boyer or the duplicitous libertinism of Major Sanford, in a limited and controlled way. However, the often stark contrast between these written confessions and other characters’ perceptions of the writers gives the reader a sense of intimacy, and involvement, in spite of ...

The British novelist, critic and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf is considered one of the most authentic writers of England in the period between the First and the Second World Wars. Being discontented with the novels on the basis of the well-known, actual and apparent, Woolf went on her own experimental way. Walking along this path, the writer discovered a more internal, subjective interpretation of life experience, which is reflected in all of her creative works. It is also worth mentioning about the impact of such famous people such as Henry James, Marcel Proust and James Joyce on her work. ...

Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King are two people who helped to change America for the better with their actions and their words. Henry David Thoreau, in both is writing and in his social practice, developed a new form for citizenship and civic action called Civil Disobedience. He developed Civil Disobedience in response to his government’s support of slavery, but also its support for the Mexican-American War. Over the years, many great leaders of important social movements, both within and without America, have been inspired by the example of the life and social practice Henry David ...

Introduction

Discussion
Atwood’s Main message
As a visionary writer, Atwood has authored many books. What is common in Atwood’s books is that she attempts to put across one message over and over again. This is the message on the woman’s voice in the society. Atwood effectively passes this message in a unique manner by reconstructing her version out of ancient myth stories. Old pieces of literature were synonymous with stories of feminist exploitation. The society of the time was characterized with giving a woman no chance whatsoever. They had no say in most society matters even by a little ...

In Argent et al.’s article “The Sponge City Hypothesis: does it hold water?” the concept of the ‘sponge city’ is explored – cities which act as command centers for the surrounding area, providing a haven for culture, infrastructure, and economy. The abstract offers a great refresher for the concept of a sponge city and what it means, as well as the purpose of the article – looking into migration trends within the cities of Tamsworth and Dubbo in order to find out whether or not these two cities could be considered sponge cities, as well as determining what that means for the subject.

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Introduction

Kim Hong-Joon, Park Tae-Jun, and Ahn Kang-Min developed a study to review 25 cases on Bisphosponate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in metastatic breast cancer patient's analysis in the year 2016. The study aimed at reporting Bisphosponate-related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (BRONJ) in metastatic breast cancer patients. The research objective plays a critical role in helping the reader understand the main issue discussed by the authors. Kim et al.'s study findings play a significant role in the field of medicine today by recommending effective methods of preventing BRONJ in metastatic breast cancer without subjecting the patient to high risks of ...

A Critical Analysis

1 Title

Everton-Moore, K. (2006). Anna's Story - Law's response to domestic violence. Griffith Law Review , 15 (1), 196-266.

2 Topic
The article is based on the importance of laws and regulations in controlling domestic violence in Australia. Domestic abuse can have a severe and lasting mental, emotional, physical as well as financial impact on a victim. Considering the prevalence of the issue in the Australian society, the laws pertaining to domestic violence will play a crucial part in not only controlling the rise of its incidence but also checking the recurrence of pre-existing cases. In order to explain the ramifications of domestic abuse, the author relies on a fictional person named Anna who is abused by Chris, her ...

In Richard Florida's essay "The Transformation of Everyday Life," he uses a variety of techniques to get the point across that there have been many subtle yet important social and cultural changes in American over the last century. Florida ultimately comes to the point that these changes occur, for better or worse, because we want them to, in logical and rational ways. Florida's overall style is one of informal, yet insightful and interactive, communication with the reader, allowing them to make the discoveries of the essay along with him.

In the essay, Florida attempts to describe the primary reasons for ...

Critique

The article titled: “Nursing and healthcare students’ experiences and use of e-learning in higher education” is critiqued using the structural framework and guideline suggested by Rebecca (Becky) Ingham in the paper titled, “A nurse’s guide to the critical reading of research”. Reading and critically analyzing research papers will help in improving and validating once knowledge on the topic. (Moule, Ward, and Lockyer, 2010; Broomfield, 2016)
The title of the paper is simple and comprehensive. It suggests that the paper is on e-learning experience of students of in higher educational institutes (HEI). The topic can attract readers who are ...

“O Me! O Life!” is a free verse poem written in the traditional Walt Whitman style. It explores the old age question that has pre-occupied human existence for ages, the question of life and its meaning. Whitman manages to weave together his free verse form with a dark imagery that portray an individual at odds with their self and their purpose in life. This paper seeks to analyze how Whitman uses his free verse form and literary devices to create a vivid imagery of an individual on a quest to find satisfaction in their existence.
The title “O Me! O Life!” has ...

Ernest Hemingway was an American author born in 1899 in Oak Park Illinois to a conservative middle class family in the suburbs of Chicago. At his late teenage years, Hemingway travelled to Europe to serve as a Red Cross office for the Italian army at the onset of the First World War. Later, Hemingway was to travel to different parts of Europe including Germany and France eventually becoming the European reporter for the Kansas City Star Newspaper. Hemingway leaves a legacy of novels such as A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the most famous of all his novels ...

In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, does her style add value and complement the story?

Many readers find the experience of reading Beloved bewildering and confusing. Daniels refers to “Toni Morrison’s intense and challenging narrative,” (5) and refers to “the bewilderments of the novel’s beginning.” (5). Unsurprisingly, Daniels accounts for this confusion and bewilderment by reference to what he calls, “The shifting points of view and the multiple pasts of the narrative. “ (5) However, this essay will argue that Morrison’s’ style is an integral and vital part of the novel’s message and it is in the style and in the reader’s reaction to it that the real meanings of ...

Discussion 1 - Analyzing Point of View

A point of view is considered as the narration of a given story from a given perspective of the first, second, and third person. The importance of point of view is determining from what perspective a reader will hear a given story. Through the point of view, the narrator gets to revel given information to the readers. A writer can control how the reader understands the story by describing well his or her point of view (Clugston, 2010, p.74). Unlike a short film, which has picture, a short story calls for imagination through different perspectives or viewpoints that are provided by the writer. It is ...

Shakespeare writes his play in an era where males are not accepting of women in power and authority. While the Elizabethan Age had Queen Elizabeth at the throne, many critics did not accept women in these positions readily. As a result, Shakespeare’s works reveal women in both negative and positive ways. Males controlled aspects of the society such as power and authority while women were expected to be submissive or weak and follow the orders as stipulated by these males. This submission was important to their survival in the society and within their families. During the Renaissance period, the ...

Constructivism and Psycholinguistic Theories

Constructivism and Psycholinguistic Theories

Constructivism can be assumed to have existed during the same period as the development of Behaviorism in the American educational system. It is a learning theory that involves an individual’s active construction of learning. Constructivism encompasses an integration of learning by combining the existing and new knowledge. However, according to theoretical perspectives, constructivism only occurs when the learner actively participates in the process. Furthermore, learning itself can be perceived as the by-product of an on-going natural state-of-mind and it is not something that can be stimulated or reinforced (Tracey & Morrow, 2012). Apart from the general ...

The poem “A Subaltern’s Love Song” by John Betjeman is a very sweet poem that tells a story. Inside the poem is a mystery about love and who is in charge, the man or the woman. It’s the type of poem that makes a person smile when you read it. The author uses ‘ambiguity’ to make the mystery. The reader isn’t quite sure which meaning some of the words have. For instance I think the “subaltern” (which means “a person holding a subordinate position”) is the young man saying the poem. Although the young woman is the victor in the tennis game ...

Research and management decisions

The quantitative report on brand parity perception in the automotive industry in Germany is not a research study because it lacks some of the important characteristics of a research study. The author, for example, does not do independent data collection but rather relies on data that was already collected. The report also does not have a very clear statement of objectives. The report is a mere analysis of previously collected data. The qualitative report on identifying competitors as a challenge for start-ups, however, is a research study since it comprises all of the important aspects of a research study ( ...

Barbara Ehrenreich’s presents a clear and concise account of the methods that millions of American uses to survive the economic struggles in American. In addition, the 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” analyzes how individuals survive on minimum paying jobs. Ehrenreich postulates that even though these individuals work under poor economic conditions, there is a strong “work ethic” present. But, this work ethic does not help to provide the basic necessities of transportation, food, and shelter. For those individuals who work in hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and a number of other service jobs the wages are not ...

Literary works of the Romantic Era, reaching its peak in the 1800-1850, reveal that artists of that generation renewed a sense of nationalism and voiced their concerns on issues of national importance. In addition, writers of that generation made several clarion calls for patriotism. In Britain, for instance, Alfred Lord Tennyson led the pack in immortalizing heroes of war and calling on the people to honor the heroic deeds of their soldiers. Tennyson’s poems coincided with the Victorian Era - a period associated with national self-confidence in Britain. A cursory look at Alfred Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light ...

Abstract

Slavery is a subject of heated discussion and argument and many works are published each year depicting the ethical inconsistencies and the way slaves and slavery paved the way for the history to arrive to this day. The following is an article that analyzes the book “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World” by David B. Davis on the subject of slavery and the way it created the Americas and the American society.

Inhuman Bondage: Critical Essay

Introduction
Slavery has been the scourge of mankind throughout the ages. Slaves have been the untold structures of not just economies, ...

Erica Jong collection, “Love Comes First” is her latest version of her poetry books. The book is useful to individuals who wish to bring Eros in their sweet life. The book is also useful for learning the diction, styles, thematic structure, and the brilliance of the poet. The literature review has helped to make a comparison with other books to show the uniqueness of the author’s piece of work. The poetry book is mainly concentrated with the death shadow. The poems in this book are speaking direct to the authors and this makes them more persuasive to the readers. ...

1) When Michael Herr sought to “reveal” the Vietnam War, he knew that he had to take dramatic journalistic steps in order to do so. One of these was to write a novel about the war, Dispatches. In this book, he wrote about his own experiences during the war, making it a personal story about what he went through. This allows the reader to form a more intimate connection with the events that are being described. This elevates the information and provides an immediacy to it that makes the reader sit up and pay attention all the more.
The other method ...

For example, the story is effective because the family deals with daily issues that many people have gone through or are going through right now. All the characters seem to spend their time in very convincing ways doing things some people may have experienced in life. First, the narrator states that he is watching television with his father. Neither of them is looking at each other while they are talking. Some boys and men may find it difficult to have an honest, heartfelt conversation with each other. Some of them may use items such as drinking, a movie, or ...

In Medieval Literature women tend to be depicted as having no agency. They have act in accordance to the man’s will and have events acted upon them. In many cases they are nothing more than props used to provide the hero a basis for a heroic act. This paper will look at two stories in which the power of women is on display and how the power is utilized in comparison to each other.
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we have Guinevere, Lady Bertlak and Morgana Le Fay. Guinevere is the first women that we meet ...

INCIDENT REPORT

Report

104302 Hillview Avenue, Suite 15

Los Angeles, CA 91311

The purpose of this report is to inform about the client support managers’ failure to use the brand new call recording software on March 19, 2016 during the working hours.
The incident started in the beginning of the shift in the morning because the client support agents failed to switch on the option of call recording in the newly installed programmed. The client support agents that came to the next shift in the afternoon failed to switch on the option as well. Although the incident started in the morning, the technical department responsible ...

A widely used cliché “all that a glitter is not gold” can best explain the story The Monk, written by Matthew Lewis. The story is riddled with important issues that touch on the morals of the society particularly seen through the main characters. It is the fall of Ambrosio the celebrated monk from grace to grass that is its major highlight. At the very beginning of the book, the reader meet a respectable monk and “the adoration paid to him both by young and old, man and woman, is unexampled. The grandees load him with a lot of presents; ...

The persuasive essay “Forger Shorter Showers” by Derrick Jensen has appeared in Orion magazine in 2009. It is highly persuasive essay, and Jensen’s thesis argues that “personal change does not equal social change” (Jensen 665). He persuades that the environmental problems are so serious today that the large scale action are required to actually change anything that include the global changes in society and economy. The author examines different aspects of the life in modern society and aims at proving that little everyday acts people do in order to positively influence the environment do not actually change anything, ...

Zora, the author of Dust Trucks on a Road, was born in 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama and died in 1960. She was regarded as one of the best and contemporary American novelists, anthropologists, and folklorists of the Harlem Renaissance (Meisenhelder, n.p). While she was three, her family moved to Eatonville Florida, one of the first all-black towns to be established in the United States. This was a place where the blacks existed independently and as they desired. Due to this, Zora often referred to it as her birthplace. The death of her mother was the beginning of her misery ...

The Journal of Hendrick Hamel is an account of the thirteen years he spent in Korea under the Joseon dynasty when the ship he was sailing on shipwrecked off the Jeju Island in the southern coast of Korea. Contrary to the name ‘Journal’ the account of Hamel is not a daily report of the years he spent but rather a report he wrote for his employers. His employers were the Dutch East India Company and he wrote this journal specifically to inform them of any possible trade opportunities. His journal was published in the Netherlands soon after his release and arrival. ...

Article Analysis

It is an interesting undertaking to study how valuable different people treat and hail the different components of life that attracts their hearts. Games particularly and bowling to be specific is one which cruises a lot of fans both loving to watch as well as to play. Paul Rudd observes the environment he finds himself in and tries to link it with the game he loves most. Considering all the activities one would find himself deeply entrenched in during the day, it would be to some degree, disturbing, why bowling would be the best of a choice to a forty-year old actor. ...

Literature Studies

- The theme of Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a parent’s love. Hayden wishes to express that often we do not realize the importance of our parent’s love until later in life.
- The subject of Robert Frost’s “Out and Out” is a boy who has a fatal accident. The theme of the poem is existential contingency. Because of the mundane nature of how the boy was injured it is meant to engage the readers in thought about the suddenness of death. Since he was also young, the author wants to express that one never truly ...

‘Institutional Affiliation’

Candide / Voltaire
Candide, penned by Voltaire, is one of the most significant literary works of the past few decades, not so much for its witty and humorous plot, as much for the way in which the author narrates the social and political issues of the eighteenth century, in a philosophical perspective. It is an excellent satiric novel that questioned many of the popular beliefs of its time and created much debate and criticism wherever it was published. The novel was so scandalous, that it was banned both by the church and secular authorities. In fact it was classified ...

Analysing the short story
Analysing the short story
The Magic Barrel is a collection of thirteen short stories, written by Bernard Malamud which was published in 1958. One of the short stories from the collection was titled the same as the book- ‘The Magic Barrel’. It is quite an interesting account of a young rabbinical student seeking a marriage-broker for suitable match and their experiences henceforth. With an amusing as well as mischievous tone, it does leave the reader skeptical at times. This essay presents an analysis of the very story through the following points:
- The Storyline
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“Hills like White Elephants” is a short story written by the eminent writer Ernest Hemingway. The story is set in a city of Spain, Zaragoza. As Hemingway wrote after the World War I, many of his stories focus on the depression and despair which was caused by the war. Hemingway portrays how people lost faith in themselves and in God. Due to this they started to indulge in faithless and vulgar activities like mindless physical intimacies and they just let go of their norms and traditions.

“Hills like White Elephants” revolves around two characters; a girl named Jig and a boy who is ...

Childhood was a markedly different experience during the Romantic period than it is today. Whereas there are myriad laws in place to keep children safe from abuse inside and outside the home, and free from the burden of work, in the time of the Romantics, children were simply seen as little adults, with much higher expectations on them. For example, when Charles Dickens was twelve years old, his father, mother, and younger siblings were all thrown into prison because of debts that Dickens’ father had incurred. Dickens was not imprisoned, because it was his responsibility to earn the money that ...

James Thurber’s, “The Life of Walter Mitty,” is one of his most famous and well-liked short stories (All-Story, 2012). On first read, it appears humorous and light. However, further consideration reveals a sad undertone to the tale, as Mitty is incapable of living up to his own fantasies of himself. The main theme of the story is that there are different versions of reality, for everyone. Thurber uses a variety of narrative techniques, such as symbolism, to highlight his chosen theme.

As George Cheatham says in his piece, The Secret Sin of Walter Mitty?: “Serious matters, we now know, bubble ...

More often than not, people usually have their ideas and perspectives on different issues. These ideas, though varied, may be valid and necessary as points of information. The right channel ha to be identified in order to air these ideas. One of them is through a blog. The essay below looks at a blog, analyzing it to find out how it is effective in information delivery.

Blog Analysis

Deborah Blum is has an interest in the elemental science. Armed with this information, she sets out to inform the people about it through her blog. However, she does not just write out of the ...

Summary of text

In Eberle and Cuneo's "Religion and Political Theory," the authors seek to explore the role of religion in an increasingly liberal democratic, secular political world. At the same time, religion seems to be increasing in scope and influence in the political spectrum, with religious pluralism instead of strict atheism driving political decisions. The relationship between three distinct groups in the political world is explored - the standard view of politics, the liberal perspective, and the advocates of a philosophy known as New Traditionalism.

In the standard view of politics, religion drives many political decisions. According to political theorists, "religious reasons ...

The book “The Coffee Trader” mainly focuses on business aspects which involves exchange of commodities from one place to another. The mainly scene of the book takes place in Amsterdam in the year 1659 (Liss 52). The author of the book, Liss David describes how the city was filled with a variety of people from diverse destinations from all over the world. David Liss who compiled the book illustrate the manner in which Amsterdam as a port was vital in the exchange of the goods. Since it comprised of people from all over the world, it was very simple for business ...