...The Hidden Desires and Dreams of Married People Janet Vint Ashford University English 125 Prof. Benzon Barbin August 19, 2013 The Hidden Thoughts of Married People Telling a short story involves many different things. Theme, tone, irony, and plot are just a few that really make a story come alive. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber (b. 1939) and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (b. 1894) are two short stories that are written many years apart but still convey the same struggle that many people face with being married. Both stories display individuals that are having a hard time “finding themselves” or trying to go back and imagine their independence more or less by finding ways of escaping the “trapped” feeling of marriage. Both of the stories are portraits of the struggle that men and women face during a marriage. “The Story of an Hour” tells of a woman with a very weak heart condition that has been told that her husband has been killed in a railroad accident. While most people would have expressed great sadness (she did for a brief moment) in learning such horrible news, Mrs. Mallard felt more like she had received a whole new life, only later did she learn that she had been misinformed and that her husband was still very much alive. The same could be said in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. This story tells of the restrictiveness of some marriages by giving great details of the constant daydreaming of a married man, who feels like...
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...Reaction Paper – Fiction: Drama ENG/125 June 22, 2015 Reaction Paper – Fiction: Drama In the weeks reading, “Death of a salesman”, writing by Arthur Miller, created a scene in which plots a salesman with many problems. The technology that was presented was around 1949 in which no modern computers or emails existed. A salesman had to travel by car on his own to create income for his family and although many salesmen had family to support in cities where they would have to leave for weeks at a time, the salesman would always find time for his or her family. The salesman name is Willy in which his family is mentioned throughout the play. At the beginning his wife Linda, is always very supportive of his views towards his sales career as Willy has to make sales all over the United States and travels a lot in order to make his career strong. Willy Loman, an old salesman, returns early from a business trip. After nearly crashing multiple times, Willy has a moment of enlightenment and realizes he shouldn't be driving. Seeing that her husband is no longer able to do his job as a traveling salesman, Willy's wife, Linda, suggests that he ask his boss, Howard, to give him a local office job at the New York headquarters. Willy thinks that getting the new job is a sure thing since he (wrongly) sees himself as a valuable salesman. We begin to learn some family background and hear about Willy and Linda's grown sons, Biff and Happy. Biff has just returned home from working as a farmhand...
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...Death of a Salesman Reaction Paper Travis Givens ENG 125 09 March 2014 Edward Wilson Death of a Salesman Reaction Paper Death of a Salesman is the literary composition play I chose to analyze. Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning play of 1949 is widely regarded as one of the cornerstone pieces of American literature. Death of a Salesman is centered on the life of Willy Lowman. It challenges the literary fact of achieving the American Dream. Willy is a 63 year old man and has been a traveling salesman all his life. Despite his hard work Willy, his wife Linda, and their two sons Biff and Happy have always lived on the brink of poverty. Willy has always been low end of the totem pole at his company, but Willy constantly tells himself and his family that he will soon get the "big break” he deserves. He has raised his two sons, Biff and Happy, to also believe that somehow life has cheated them and insists that one day they will get their due. Linda, Willy's loyal wife, lives under the thin veneer of denial that her husband has so long tried to keep from collapsing. In the end despite his protests otherwise, Willy knows he is a failure. He begins to slowly kill himself by inhaling gas fumes from a hose in the garage, an act that relieves his mental anguish and gives him a brief high. The gas also muddles Willy's mind, conflating past, present, and future. This shifting through time and space helps the reader/audience see how much pressure there has been on this simple...
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...The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas Marlene Monarrez University Of Phoenix ENG125 James Iddings February 24,2012 Overview Imagine a city of perfection, where excitement fills the streets and happiness is present within every household. In the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin, this is exactly what is described. LeGuin starts the story by introducing us to the utopian city of Omelas. However, the survival of Omelas’ happiness depends on the mistreatment of one forsaken child. Although all of the citizens know about the child, most choose to accept that “all the prosperity and beauty and delight would wither and be destroyed” if the child were treated fairly. Some, on the other hand, after seeing the child and the horrible conditions it lives in, decide to walk away from it all and leave Omelas forever. LeGuin’s fantasy utopia is much like the world we live in today. There are many who suffer at the expense of those who prosper every day. Symbolism People in the world today undergo an immense amount of suffering just for the happiness of others. One example that I can think of off the top of my head would be slavery. For over two hundred years, Africans were the property of others (usually wealthy White men). They were bought, sold and held against their will. In a sense, slavery reminds me a lot of the child that was locked away in Omelas. People knew about it but there was very little that they could do. Much like the child in Omelas...
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...First I want to say I am so sorry for this extremely late post. I was having some problems with my internet connection at home and my phone was stolen. I have learned that each and every one of my class mates are amazing people. We all sure one thing in common which is “Wanting to be successful.” The way we learn and look at things are supposed to be different I mean we are different people so yes we may agree with one another but not 100% and that is find also. Disagreeing and agreeing is a part of life it is what makes it worth living and as you live and learn you gain understanding of what is right and what is wrong. What you do expected to learn in literature? Honestly, no I have not changed my point of view of Clugston quote. I agree with Clugston’s quote because we as humans are very curious when it comes to things happening around us. We want to know the how, why, and when, in everything and also everyone that we may or may not come in contact with. In my honest opinion yes the value of literature has changed and for the best it is a book about everything and anything you want to learn about which allows us to teach ourselves some things without the help of ours. I still believe that literature and be boring if what you are reading is boring but once you get into that literature and gaining understanding it can be a real...
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...ENG 125 Week 5 DQ 1 To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/ENG-125-ASH/ENG-125-Week-5-DQ-1 Throughout this course we have explored the similarities and differences between the literary forms of the short story, the poem, and drama. For example, one major difference is that both poetry and drama frequently place a strong emphasis on performance before an audience that is physically present, while the short story is more commonly intended for individual reading. With that said, it is important to remember that all literary works couldn’t always be easily classified into a single genre. Moreover, literary works, which might be classified as belonging to one genre, might possess many qualities more typical of other genres. For example, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is classified as drama, but in many respects takes the form of poetry. In other words, sometimes the differences between categories like drama, poetry, and the short story are not so easily defined. Often a short story might contain poetic or dramatic qualities, or a poem might include narrative and dramatic features. In your post, summarize the major similarities and differences between the forms of drama, poetry, and the short story. Demonstrate your ideas with textual examples from the course readings. In your response, include at least one example of each literary form. If you wish, you may also point to examples that indicate the blurring of literary genres (e.g., the poetic qualities of Macbeth...
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...Aspect of Human Experience: Love Team B: ENG/125 Aspect of Human Experience: Love Introduction The human experience chosen by this team is the experience of love. There are many forms of love and many different ways literary authors bring readers to experience love through their works of art. To demonstrate this experience of love throughout the different types of literary forms, the team chose to compare Chekhov’s Misery, Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Langston’s Salvation, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Through this comparison, the team will demonstrate how authors bring readers to understand and experience love through their use of literary devices and style of writing. Misery Chekhov’s use of literary devices Anton Chekhov’s short story, Misery, had literary devices to show the love Iona, the protagonist, had for his deceased son. Chekhov displays imagery of the unconditional love a parent has for their children. Throughout the story, Iona was searching for someone he can confide to about his loss. Iona, a sledge-driver in Russia, encountered five people during his route but was unsuccessful in venting his sorrows. He loved his son so much he was willing to talk to strangers about it. Foreshadowing was a device used in Misery as well. The story began and ended with Iona and his mare. In the beginning of the story, Iona and his mare sat in the snow while waiting for customers. Iona searched for strangers to talk to but in the end, it was his mare...
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...Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story Cathedral Jeffrey A. Bauer ENG125 Dr. Myer September 18, 2014 Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story Cathedral The story “Cathedral” is a first person story about a narrator, his wife and a blind man named Robert who is close friends with the narrator’s wife. The narrator remains unnamed throughout the story, who is a jealous, insecure and close-minded man which is basis of the main theme in this story. According to Clugston, 2014, “The narrator, a self-absorbed person, admits his own “blindness” (lack of insight) about blind people. He doesn’t like the fact that Robert and his wife are close friends” (p.145). I believe the main theme here is insecurity, ignorance and irony. A theme is “an idea, or message, that lies behind a literary work” (Clugston, 2014, p. 117). The narrator is insecure about the relationship between his wife and Robert. In the essay, “Cathedral” by Bill Delaney, he writes about how the narrator is jealous of Robert because of his former relationship with his wife and how he is insecure knowing that his wife has probably told Robert about his faults (Delaney, 2004). I believe that the narrator shows his ignorance by mocking Robert with comments such as, “Maybe I could take him bowling” (Clugston, 2014, p.145). The irony in this story is that despite the narrator’s insecurity and ignorance, he is able to see from Robert at the end of the story. The main character in this story is the...
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...The Story of an Hour Antoine L. Womack ENG125: Introduction to Literature (ADI1431D) Instructor: Magdalena Sokolowski August 6, 2014 This story immediately identifies the main character which is Mrs. Mallard who suffers from heart trouble, by revealing to her that her husband had passed away in a tragic accident the way it was told was handled with great care, due to her own health conditions. Josephine who is Mrs. Mallard sister would be the one to do so and Richard being her Husband friend would also comfort her also with his presence. This short story is very literary capturing because it’s a story that many people can relate to and have experience some type of close death in the family. Also they with the way it was handle to break the news to her about her husband death; this is something that also many can relate to especially if they are also dealing with health issues their self. What also was literary capturing with this story was the way family members and friends took inconsideration to tell her the news about her husband being passed away. Even though the story that was told was very sorrowing the way it was said it seem as if the author put a lot of thought into the way she went about what was said. The details of the grief she felt was very literary capturing in this story. The author of this story also went into great detail to make the reader feel as if they was there and had experience this sad sorrow themselves. The way the author would build you...
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...The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Reaction Paper- Fiction: Drama Sherryl Cascella September 1, 2014 ENG/125 Judy Williams The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Reaction Paper- Fiction: Drama The Death of a Salesman tells the story of Willy Loman’s last day. The entire story addresses Willy’s inability to change or accept responsibility for the mistakes he made. He is unable to acknowledge that he is an average man in America living an average life. Even with the love and support from friends and loved ones, he still feels an immense amount of regret about decisions he made in the past and spends a large amount of time retreating into the past and reliving moments where he felt successful. The three themes within the play are denial, contradiction, and the desire to live the “American Dream” by being liked and successful. Denial is portrayed in many of the characters. Willy is in denial about the amount of success he has achieved as a salesman. He is unable to accept the fact that he is nothing but a mediocre salesman and even has to take out a loan from his friend in order to pay his bills. Later in the story Happy begins to display some of the very same characteristics that Willy does. He is seen to exaggerate his job position in order to appear more successful than he is, leading to a fight with Biff. Willy makes several statements about how “easy” it is to live the American Dream and even makes the statement “Certain men just don’t get started till later...
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...ENG 125 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT READING REFLECTION A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=eng-125-week-1-assignment-reading-reflection-2 Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ENG 125 Week 1 Assignment Reading Reflection, Not everyone can say that they have a disability, but then again, who would want to say they have one. The character Walter Mitty created by James Thurber in the fictional story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, had a disability that he did not allow for it to stop him from achieving his career goals of becoming a journalist. All throughout his life, Walter was a daydreamer. He would constantly daydream at the oddest of moments. Walter Mitty daydreamed to get away from reality, to be a hero instead of a handicapped person; it was a way for him to be bigger than what he felt. The literary work captures my interest because it reminds me of someone I knew back in high school. That person that I knew back in high school had lost an eye and it was heard for me to look him into his eyes and to talk to him. It was hard on me as his friend because it was a hurtful thing that had happen to him. Walter Mitty always daydreamed about being someone of importance, a commander, a famous surgeon, an accused witness in a courtroom trial, and a captain in a war plane facing heavy enemy artillery. Mitty imagined himself facing a firing squad bravely. That’s how all his daydreaming episodes turned out...
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...ENG 125 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT READING REFLECTION A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=eng-125-week-1-assignment-reading-reflection Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ENG 125 Week 1 Assignment Reading Reflection, Not everyone can say that they have a disability, but then again, who would want to say they have one. The character Walter Mitty created by James Thurber in the fictional story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, had a disability that he did not allow for it to stop him from achieving his career goals of becoming a journalist. All throughout his life, Walter was a daydreamer. He would constantly daydream at the oddest of moments. Walter Mitty daydreamed to get away from reality, to be a hero instead of a handicapped person; it was a way for him to be bigger than what he felt. The literary work captures my interest because it reminds me of someone I knew back in high school. That person that I knew back in high school had lost an eye and it was heard for me to look him into his eyes and to talk to him. It was hard on me as his friend because it was a hurtful thing that had happen to him. Walter Mitty always daydreamed about being someone of importance, a commander, a famous surgeon, an accused witness in a courtroom trial, and a captain in a war plane facing heavy enemy artillery. Mitty imagined himself facing a firing squad bravely. That’s how all his daydreaming episodes turned out...
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...ENG 125 Week 2 Assignment: Annotated Bibliography https://homeworklance.com/downloads/eng-125-week-2-assignment-annotated-bibliography/ Link to Video Transcript For this assignment, you will write an annotated bibliography on three sources. For detailed information on how to create your Annotated Bibliography, please see this Sample Annotated Bibliography. In your Annotated Bibliography, you will • Copy and paste the writing prompt you chose to explore in Week One into a Word Document. • Restate the working thesis you created in Week One below your writing prompt. • In this same document, identify your primary source(s) and two secondary, academic sources. If you chose to discuss two poems in your Week One Assignment, each must have its own entry in the Annotated Bibliography. • Summarize each source and explain how the source supports your working thesis. These summaries should be 100 to 150 words for each entry. For the Annotated Bibliography assignment, you will write annotations for three sources. One source should be a primary source. Next, you will choose two secondary sources that are additional to the text. The two sources you locate must be academic sources and come from peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications. For information on finding sources within the Ashford Library, please view the ENG125 – Literature Research tutorial. The Annotated Bibliography includes a citation of the source in APA format. It also includes a brief summary of the...
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...ENG 125 Week 2 Assignment Annotated Bibliography Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/eng-125-week-2-assignment-annotated-bibliography/ Link to Video Transcript For this assignment, you will write an annotated bibliography on three sources. For detailed information on how to create your Annotated Bibliography, please see this Sample Annotated Bibliography. In your Annotated Bibliography, you will Copy and paste the writing prompt you chose to explore in Week One into a Word Document. Restate the working thesis you created in Week One below your writing prompt. In this same document, identify your primary source(s) and two secondary, academic sources. If you chose to discuss two poems in your Week One Assignment, each must have its own entry in the Annotated Bibliography. Summarize each source and explain how the source supports your working thesis. These summaries should be 100 to 150 words for each entry. For the Annotated Bibliography assignment, you will write annotations for three sources. One source should be a primary source. Next, you will choose two secondary sources that are additional to the text. The two sources you locate must be academic sources and come from peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications. For information on finding sources within the Ashford Library, please view the ENG125 – Literature Research tutorial. The Annotated Bibliography includes a citation of the source in APA format. It also includes a brief summary...
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...Northern Europe Travel times Kiruna Rovaniemi 16:00 Trondheim 3:50 6:45 9:30 Östersund Bergen Oslo Glasgow Westport 3:30 2:20 7:00 Turku 6:20 1:50 Helsinki Aberdeen 8:40 Stockholm Belfast 4:00 0:50 Edinburgh 4:25 4:05 11:15 5:15 Dublin 3:15 Cork 2:45 Holyhead Bristol 5:05 Birmingham 1:45 1:45 4:30 1:35 København Hamburg 6:10 Amsterdam Switzerland 6:05 4:35 8:40 Penzance 1:53 2:38 London 2:20 Köln Bruxelles 1:47 Berlin Warszawa 5:50 5:45 Rennes Paris 2:00 3:00 2:15 1:25 3:10 3:55 1:10 4:20 3:40 Frankfurt 3:10 6:05 4:10 7:05 Praha 7:30 4:30 11:20 2:45 1:55 3:55 München 4:00 7:45 2:35 1:00 Wien 7:20 9:00 2:20 Santiago 7:05 4:30 Bordeaux Santander Bern 6:15 Budapest 13:50 7:30 Lyon 1:40 3:50 9:00 Ljubljana 6:05 Porto 2:45 10:10 11:00 Milano 5:10 Zagreb Montpellier Pamplona 2:20 Venezia 2:03 Bologna 3:00 2:50 1:45 5:30 2:55 València 4:40 Marseille Nice 2:35 Firenze 0:37 1:35 Ancona 15:00 5:35 6:05 9:10 9:00 9:32 Beograd 8:45 12:10 9:00 Bucureşti Split Sarajevo 4:00 1:10 8:05 Lisboa 3:50 Madrid 2:35 Barcelona Sofia Skopje 4:00 9:00 6:40 Faro Roma Bar Bari 9:30 12:55 12:00 Sevilla Istanbul 2:45 Napoli 7:30 Thessaloniki 4:25 6:00 Málaga Igoumenitsa Patras Catania 3:35 Athinai Piraeus 11:50 6:30 Rhodes...
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