...weather, and some limited word processing all for a lot of money ($500 to get started, $22 per month henceforth). Alex was going on a vacation, to take time off from his job of growing bacterial cultures in little Petri dishes. He was studying the effects of mucus on Staph cultures in a somewhat grungy laboratory in London. He forgot to wash up his last batch before he went off, and when he came back two weeks later, he saw an amazing sight. A mold was all over the dish, but all the bacteria were dead. To cut a long story short, Alex, or rather Dr. Alexander Fleming, found the mother of all disease fighting drugs, Penicillin. Blown in by dust on his Staph cultures. Many years later, Dr. Fleming was touring a new sparkling medical laboratory in the US. The place was very impressive and well equipped and scrupulously clean. After the tour his host made the remark “If you worked here, think of what you could have invented?” Dr. Fleming’s response was short and...
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...León “A Cat in the Rain” is a non-fiction story that belongs to Ernest Hemingway’s collection. In a 1958 interview, Hemingway expressed his literary concern in a way that shows how his art both depends on and radically departs from conventional “realism”: “From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all the things that you know and all those that you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than any thing true and alive. (The Harper American Literature, 1156) In “A Cat in the Rain,” Hemingway demonstrates his ability to portray real women with problems and to respond to their unhappiness with real sympathy. “A Cat in the Rain” is, on the surface, a simple tale of an American couple in Italy. Ernest Hemingway’s “A Cat in the Rain” However, the reader soon realizes that this uncomplicated story illuminates much deeper meanings. This seemingly mundane plot becomes symbolic and purposeful under the reader’s gaze. There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotel facing...
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...written by Daniel Orozco (McMahan 454) was to me, mostly a comical read. I have that dark sense of humor I guess. I liked the way the story was presented. By using primarily first person narration, I felt as if I was the one being shown around the office on my first day of work. I found myself conjuring up question after unanswered question as I was being pulled into a story line about yet another employee. I became less interested in the particulars of who exactly was the narrator, the intended audience, or the office itself; and more interested in the inner workings of the office dynamic. I guess I had not much of a choice since the narrator nor the audience was ever clearly defined. One thing that did break the cycle was when the narrator pointed out “this is your phone.” and “That was a good question. Feel free to ask questions” (McMahan 454), this was the basis for my assumption that I was the intended audience. I found it interesting that there were a number of things “you may be let go” (McMahan 454-457) for. This phrase seemed to squelch my desire to clarify just who the audience was meant to be. No one wants to be “let go” not even me, the reader! The setting was immediately painted with the comment, “These are the offices and these are the cubicles” (McMahan 454). By painting such a dull picture in the beginning, the individual stories became a lot more colorful. The narrator seemed to go from dull to dramatic several times throughout the read. This effectively drew...
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...The author is communicating the thoughts and the experiences of the main character. He is guiding the reader through the short story with a third-person limited narrator exclusively grounded to the main character, making it easy for the reader to sympathize and identify with the character. The short story is written in past tense, which gives the reader an impression that the narrator already knows what is going to happen in the story – the narrator is retelling a story to the reader, making the story seem more reflective. The narrator gives hints to the reader about a certain danger which lies in the future of the story making the reader feel a bit anxious along with the father. For example when they are crossing the river second time around. Just as the open ending of the short story, many things stand unsaid forcing the reader to reflect on the presented problems and themes. The setting of Crossing takes place in a nature reserve. The surroundings are very important for the story since it is carefully described along with the flashbacks and thoughts of the main character and his experiences. The setting helps providing an atmosphere throughout the story; for example, when a parachute like mist is described as seemingly dragging behind a car, provoking a flashback to past adventures for the main character, creating the effect of a foggy memory returning. “(...)Dragging a long cloud of mist like a parachute, and when it passed he touched the wipers to clear things up and...
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...Cat in the rain by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. The story begins with the description of the hotel where American couple stopped. It was raining, that’s why the couple stayed at their room and just a cat in the rain attracted the young woman’s attention. The man was reading and almost didn’t pay any attention on his wife. He was absolutely indifferent in that cat; but the woman wanted to get the cat inside. Then we saw the woman’s attitude to the owner of the hotel. She really liked him and there were words to prove it: “She liked the hotel-keeper. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel-keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands.” The woman went downstairs in order to bring the cat at her room...
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...The short story, “Seventh Grade”, written by Gary Soto is a realistic fiction piece of literature. The purpose of this story is to entertain the audience through a story about a seventh grade boy who is trying to figure out how to impress a girl and start off his school year well. This short story is directed towards an older youth audience, as it relates to what middle school students might go through and how they may feel as they start a new school year. The theme of this text is the first day of school, more specifically, a boy trying to impress a girl he likes. Throughout the story the author shows how the main character, Victor, is constantly thinking about Theresa and how he feels when he is around her. The diction used throughout the story emphasizes the thoughts...
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...Bull Professor Brewer English 1302.007 24 September 2013 Imagery is the Key Throughout the short story “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz, there are several different types of imagery. The descriptive detail in the story adds a design of what the scene of the village looked like in Paz’s eyes. Without descriptive detail and imagery, the short story would be hard to understand and follow. With the use of visual imagery, auditory imagery, and kinesthetic imagery, showing more detail and visual imagination, throughout the story, helps the reader see and feel exactly what Paz is feeling throughout the story. Visual imagery is one of the factors Paz uses in his short story to help the reader’s visual and imagine what is going on. For example when he says, “Suddenly the moon appeared from behind a black cloud, lighting a white wall..,” (Paz 3), it is making the reader imagine the moon coming out of the clouds, so the little boy could see where he wanted to go. Another example of Paz’s visual imagery would be when the little boy finally turns around and faces the man who is trying to take his eyes. When Paz says “..He was small and fragile. His palm sombrero covered half his face. ..,” (Paz 12), that helps the reader understand and visualize what the old man looked like and who the little boy was up against. As the reader can conclude that without visual imagery in a story, the story is hard to understand and imagine. Without Paz describing the old man, the readers would have never...
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...Sun Poisoning Sun Poisoning is a short story of the collection Slaves of New York, written by Tama Janowits and was published in 1986. Janowits is known for her use of sarcasm and irony as a way of describing issues and circumstances of which she is critical and Sun Poisoning is a prime example of this. The story criticizes a homogenous society and the superficial relationships between people, and is heavily influenced by postmodernism. Notably the narration and the characterization have postmodern traits. It is very common for postmodern texts to utilize an unconventional narrative form. The narrator in Sun Poisoning is a 2nd person narrator, which is rarely seen in literary work. The effect of this is that it feels as if someone is bossing you around and constantly telling you what to do and feel. This is really how the life of the protagonist works. She doesn’t have much of a say in her life, for example she would rather stay home than go to Haiti but her boyfriend decides for them both that they need to get away. Additionally, the use of the 2nd person narrator engages the reader in a way that is untraditional for literary work. In this story it adds to the ironic and sarcastic tone of the story. As an example we as readers can identify with the sarcastic thoughts of the protagonist after the conversation with the other couple: “Here you manage to interrupt the conversation by saying it’s time for the barbecue dinner and time to get on line. By dragging your boyfriend...
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...Without a heart your body is useless. When your heart stops beating, you live until your brain dies from lack of oxygen, but in this short story the narrator lives perfectly fine while changing hearts. This short story is basically about restarting peoples’ ability to love, but also of how real love can overcome technology in place to fake it. This subject is exactly what the main character is dealing with in the short story “The Rental Heart”. That leads me to the setting of the story. The shorty, “The Rental Heart” is written by Kirsten Logan in 2010. We do not know where and when the short story takes place. Neither do we know if the main character is a he or she. In my interpretation of the short story, I have interpreted the main character as being a she. The main character is portrayed by a third person limited narrator, because we hear the story from the main characters point of view. Seen from the main characters point of view we get a description of the surroundings and feelings the main person is dealing with. The short story has two big flashbacks. Grace is first presented as the girl the main character falls in love with, with no risk of being hurt. On the way to the rental place the narrator looks back and remembers all the times it has been done before and in the end we see the narrator in Grace’s arms again. In the beginning of the short story, we get introduced to the “heart rental place”. This is a place where u can rent a heart and change it when you change partners...
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...ability to leave an audience with a great lasting impression. Cirque du Soleil’s latest production entitled “Amaluna (which premiered on April 19th, 2012)” is very unique compared to many of the Cirque shows. The show was inspired by a play by Williams Shakespeare entitled “The Tempest.” The show was directed by a world-renowned individual named Diane Paulus, who created many productions such as “The Magic Flute” and “Hair” (Paulus). Recently, I’ve conducted an interview with my friend Melanie Sinclair (an acrobat for the show) to find out what the show is all about. Also, I will be describing three of the sixteen acts in the show that I find fascinating. In order to fully understand the show, one must know the story and the concepts in Amaluna. Amaluna is a wonderful love story that starts off on an island with a girl named Miranda. According to Melanie, Miranda is about to have a coming-of-age ceremony for her entrance into womanhood. Her mother, Prospera, is the queen of the island and directs Miranda’s ceremony. Little did Miranda know, her mother was soon to conduct a storm that would bring in a boat full of suitors to their island. Miranda eventually meets one of the suitors named Romeo and falls in love with him. However, their soon-found love for each other is halted. Romeo soon has to endure numerous trials in order to win the heart of Miranda. One of the biggest trials he encounters is with Miranda’s pet lizard, Cali. However, Cali...
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...Students Name University Name Year I read this sad story of a courageous woman from a magazine sometimes ago. It was just a short news article in one of the local dailies. The story keeps on ringing in my mind up to today. I feel that the whole nation should stand and honor this woman for her courageous actions she portrayed on this fateful day. It happened that in the year 2007 in the city of Orina in India, a town that had over 100,000 people. It was raining heavily, and life was almost coming to a standstill. Everyone in the area woke up in shock after finding pools of water moving at alarming speed sweeping everything it came across. It was around 8 in the morning. Before even people realized what was happening, the water level started rising, and there was no accessible route to escape. People quickly rushed out of their houses and water was unfortunately found themselves stranded as the water level continued to rise above the level of their waists. At this moment, the rain was still slowly falling, and everything became a menace. After about an hour, the town was full of water and people were trying helplessly to come out of the water. Water was gradually rising, and there was nothing else visible but water. It was a moment of darkness as people started drowning one after the other. The aged people and children were the most affected. Everyone was screaming to save his or her own life. There was neither gender nor tribe; the language was the same; Save a life at whatever...
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...Araby and Evelin How does James Joyce reveal the inner life and the conflict of the characters in Araby and Eveline? Dubliners is a collection of short-stories from James Joyce. Both stories Araby ad Eveline belong to this collection of James Joyce. He was a original and influential writer of the twentieth century. During his lifetime his works were banned, confiscated and even burned in result of his influence in the word due his poems, plays and fictions. There are many connections and equalities in the two short stories. Both stories were written between 1904 and 1907; both Araby and Eveline are out of the first person reflective narrative and are presented as an epiphany. Evelin is a story about duty and family ties whereas Araby is about the material world a boy tries to grow up and understand the difference between physical and emotional love. Eveline is a deep story into the thoughts of the young woman who wants to run away from her life in Dublin and leave her family behind. She considers exploring another life with her lover, Frank in his home in Buenos Ayres. During the whole short-story she is in conflict with herself. Thru the story James Joyce uses foreshadowing for example the depiction of the priest. He writes as each word has a purpose in his work. In Eveline the inner conflict is about the decision of the young thoughtful woman, she has to decide if she wants to leave her family behind or will she go with Frank to his home in Buenos Ayres. In the process of...
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...Chris Newsome Professor Clough English 101 8 December 2014 "Araby" Analysis James Joyce's "Araby" is the story of a young boy from Dublin. Written in a first person point of view, the same young boy is also the narrator. While his name is never revealed other things about his life are brought to the reader's attention. He is raised on a dead end street named Richmond Street which is described as "blind" (Joyce 572) in the first sentence of the story. Richmond Street is also described as a "quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free" (Joyce 572). Living in a home with his aunt and uncle where a Catholic Priest once lived and died. The boy becomes intrigued by the old books and many other things left in the library by the priest. Soon though he becomes obsessed with his friend Mangan's sister. At first he admires her from a distance and one day while the other boys are playing she speaks to him. Astonished and at a complete loss for words when she finally speaks to him. She asks him if he plans on attending the local bazaar Araby. Desperate to impress her he promises to return with a gift for her from the bazaar. Things do not go as planned however, he spends most of the evening waiting for his Uncle to come home to give him the money he needs. Once his Uncle finally makes it home the bazaar is all but over. Determined to buy the girl a gift he decides to make the journey there anyway. When he arrives everyone is packing up and preparing...
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...and beverage industry. NATURE OF CRISIS: THE CRISIS: Nestle, the world’s largest food conglomerate, has undergone a turbulent period since 2010. On March 14 2010, the Independent, a UK-based newspaper, stated that Nestle’s Kit Kat contained palm oil that results in deforestation and threatens the livelihood of the endangered Orang-utans. Environmental Group Greenpeace immediately requested Nestle to “give the rainforest a break” by ending its business partnership with Sinar Mas, its palm oil supplier in Indonesia, as soon as possible. The report spurred Nestle to cancel its contract with Sinar Mas—months after Sinar Mas was shown to be involved in illegal deforestation—but the corporation continues to purchase oil palm from Cargill, which is supplied in part by Sinar Mas. For its part, Cargill says it is investigating Greenpeace's allegations and if Sinar Mas is found to be committing illegal deforestation they will drop them. Nestle has said in a statement: "we share the deep concern about the serious environmental threat to rain forests and peat fields in South East Asia caused by the planting of palm oil plantations." Thousands of hectares of rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia have been cleared to make way for palm oil plantations, depriving tribes of ancestral lands, increasing climate change emissions...
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...ever seen someone run or swim, you know exactly what running and swimming entail. The story “The Rental Heart” deal with love and the feeling you get when love fails you. When you are in love everything seems much better but when you break up everything turns dark and empty. It is for most people a fact, that you during your lifetime are going to get your heart broken. The heartbroken feeling of an endless pain that never goes away. Have you ever thought about, ripping out your broken heart, and change it with a new functional heart that will spare you from the heartbroken pain. No? Maybe it is because it is not a possibility in our world, but in “The Rental Heart” the reality is a bit different. The short story is a science fiction story written by the author Kirsty Logan in 2010. The story is told by a first person narrator who also is the protagonist of the story. Try to imagine a life where broken hearts is not an option. That is how the society works in “The Rental Heart”. It is a world where instead of feeling the awful pain of heartbreaks, you can just change your heart at the local heart rental place. Kirsty Logan uses the saying heartbroken literally in this short story. When we use the saying, we use it as a symbol of being sad and depressed over someone we love, which sometimes might feel like our heart has been shattered, even though that is not case. The short story is a frame story with flashbacks, the opening and closing constitutes a frame. In the beginning, we get...
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