...hiding it at this point, what was the use? Everyone one knew what he’d done and trying to deny that would seem cowardly. No. Let them look. A desk lamp adorned the cherry stained desk, the only concentrated source of light, making this meeting feel more as if an interrogation. Perhaps the Minister felt he’d be more comfortable if he didn’t know who he was talking to, the intimidation tactic was definitely working however. “So... Mr. Malfoy, how is it that you came to work for the Aurors? Your file mentioned that you've studied as a healer but chose not to practice.” Malfoy could discern the rumbling timbre of Kingsley Shacklebolt easily enough but could not recognize anyone else. Kingsley’s passover for the Minister's position was nothing short of foul play─ still a huge shock to the wizarding community, a no name official had taken the position without much resistance and Kingsley was left in his position of Head Auror. Draco sighed, so much for elections. A man’s hand emerged from within the darkness to reach for another cigarette. To defuse some of the rigidity of the room Malfoy laughed as he answered, pulling out a lighter he leaned forward in his chair, reaching across the table to light the man’s fag. “Would you want to be healed by a former Death Eater? He was provided with mumbles and shrugs of shoulders, awkwardness deflection brought on by pointing out the hippogriff in the room. “Well, my parents still see it as an act of rebellion… but I saw the Ministry as a place...
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...Married Woman’s Complex In 2012, the University of Chicago conducted a “well being” study and it was found that 97% of married people are “happily married”. If this study were conducted a century ago, 97% probably would have reported being unhappy in their marriage, the majority being women. These dutiful wives and repressed mothers were not allowed any personal or intellectual freedom. These oppressed, married women are the types of characters feminist author, Kate Chopin, revels in. During the production of “Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening” at Emory University, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese said Chopin was “nonetheless a woman who took women extremely seriously, she never doubted women’s ability to be strong.” The characters in Chopin’s short stories’, “The Story of An Hour” and “The Storm”, are unfulfilled and desire more in their marriage. They have no validation in life and may have husbands that love and provide for them yet they are still unhappy. They are all invested in their marriages and families yet at some point realize that they ultimately yearn for a single and free life. Louisa Mallard ironically felt more liberated when she learned of her husband’s death and Calixta and Clarisse are involved with the same man yet want different things from him. In such few words, Kate Chopin is able to illustrate the oppressiveness women of the late 1800s felt in their marriages. Louisa felt more obligations in her marriage than love. Chopin describes her as, “young, with a fair, calm...
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...“Morgiana did you see Hakuryuu?” Alibaba had asked the fanalis girl. You could tell by the way she looked something was bothering her, something had to have happened between her and the Kou prince. Before you could make a move to try to comfort the girl she spoke softly. “..Hakuryu..” she started seemingly trying to put the words together, “..Departed from the city already and is heading alone to the Tenzan plateau.” Glancing at your two male companions it was clear the two were surprised by this news. Of course you were as well, though Alibaba had seemed to take it the worse. Aladdin then continued to question Morgiana about it as Alibaba’s body began to shake a little. All three of you were surprised when he started to walk off towards where Hakuryuu had been heading, saying he needed to talk to the other prince. You tilted your head to one side as he spoke of someone named Cassim, you had only met the trio as well as Hakuryuu when they arrived in Sindria. The air around the former prince of Balbadd had changed. Aladdin and Morgiana must have felt it too as they then began to try to calm him down, while you, the newest member of the group watched on. If you felt you knew how you would have also been trying to calm him down.Morgiana had then grabbed the blond and begged him not to go, this act alone seemed to calm Alibaba down. Aladdin then asked if it was okay for him to go instead, to which the fanalis girl didn’t object. “Aladdin please let me go too,” you said as...
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...ENC 1102 March 20, 2014 Amy Tan's, “Mother Tongue” and Alice Walker's “Everyday Use” both share similar traits in their writings of these two short stories. “Mother Tongue” revolves around the experiences Tan and her mother had due to her mother's English speaking limitations, she also revolves her story around the relationship of a mother and daughter. Alice walker on the other hand writes a story narrated by “Mama” the mother of two daughters Maggie and Dee and explains the conflicting relationship she has with Dee, both writers similarly emphasize on the relationships these mother and daughter characters had and they unravel both short stories based on these relationships. Although both short stories share this one similar characteristic it is clear that both writers have opposite point of views of their described mother daughter relationships. To begin comparing, both Tan and Walker use the characters of mother and daughter to evoke the importance the relationship plays in the telling of the story. There are similarities that both these characters share. One of these similarities are shown through the use of words that describe a similar feeling of shame or embarrassment both Dee and Tan have towards there mothers at some point in the stories. In one part of the story Tan describes feeling “ashamed” of her mother's broken English (Tan 345). Walker also shows the character Dee having some sense of shame of her mother and sister Maggie by saying “Its really a new day for us...
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...development when the Philippines were again conquered by another foreign country, Japan. Philippine literature in English came to a halt. Except for the TRIBUNE and the PHILIPPINE REVIEW, almost all newspapers in English were stopped by the Japanese. This had an advantageous effect on Filipino Literature, which experienced renewed attention because writers in English turned to writing in Filipino. Juan Laya, who uses to write in English, turned to Filipino because of the strict prohibitions of the Japanese regarding any writing in English. The weekly LIWAYWAY was placed under strict surveillance until it was managed by Japanese named Ishiwara. In other words, Filipino literature was given a break during this period. Many wrote plays, poems, short stories, etc. Topics and themes were often about life in the provinces. A. FILIPINO POETRY DURING THIS PERIOD The common theme of most poems during the Japanese occupation was nationalism, country, love, and life in the barrios, faith, religion and the arts. Three types of poems emerged during this period. They were: 1. Haiku –a poem of free verse that the Japanese like. It was made up of 17 syllables divided into three lines. The first line had 5 syllables, the second, 7 syllables, and the third, five. The Haiku is allegorical in meaning, is short and covers a wide scope in meaning. 2. Tanaga –like the Haiku, is short but it had measure and rhyme. Each line had 17 syllables and it’s also allegorical in meaning. 3. Karaniwang...
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...Victor’s Last Wish The short story chosen for the writing of this paper is “Victor’s Last Wish”. “Victor’s Last Wish” is a realistic fiction by Kris Jitab who describes in depth the pain and hardship endured by the main character, Vickramadas Gopal who was an Indian immigrant to Malaysia. Vickramadas was known as Victor throughout the short story. He made great efforts to transform himself to be like whites who he thought were the best. “Anything and everything related to the whites was beautiful to Vickramadas.” The author has painted a vivid picture of sufferings and challenges of Victor in his course to attain a new identity - an Englishman. But, his efforts did not help him to be recognised by the white men as a part of them. He was rejected by Miss Cunningham and insulted by Miss da Gama because his skin was dark in colour. He also thought that his failure to be promoted to Junior Accountant was due to his dark skin. Thus, Victor was so desperate to have his skin colour changed. He was very disappointed for not getting what he had striven so hard to achieve. As a result, he lost his hope and direction in his life. Consequently, he indulged in heavy smoking, drinking, gambling. At last, he became a thief to steal in order to pay his debt. In one stealing, he was caught red-handed together with his accomplices. He tried to escape but unfortunately, in his escape, he fell into a tank of formic acid where his skin was turned white all over by the acid. His wish to change his...
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...First; sorry if the english isn't completely right. English is not my native language, so I've done my best. How Lucky You Are is a short story written by Debi Alper in 2010. The story takes place in Britain, more precisely in the southern part of London . In the beginning of the short story the main character, Max, is in his room. He is thinking back to the day his father left Max and his mother and back to the day he met Ishraqi – an Iranian girl who in a few hours changes Max’ life. This part of the story takes place at the UK Borders Agency. This place is an important part of the story because it is here he meets Ishraqi, who has an appointment there, and it is here his life changes. The short story is written in past tense, and the narrator is a third person that is all knowing, because the narrator knows what Max is thinking . The short story consists of three parts; the first part is where Max is home and is thinking back to when his father left him and his mother. The second part is where Max is thinking back to the day he met Ishraqi and the third part is where Max comes home to his mother and is completely changed because of Ishraqi. Max is a 16-year-old boy who did not care about school. He wanted to take as few exams as possible. He goes to a school named The Brit School. It is a school for performing arts and technology. It was the ideal school for Max, but he found it boring with subjects like Maths and English . He did admit though that The Brit School...
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...their own cultural identity behind, ending up in a melting pot of a homogeneous culture. This is exactly what has happened to the anglicized main character Sir Mohan Lai, in Kushwant Singh’s short story “Karma”. The short story is narrated through third person. Singh has chosen the narrator to be omniscient, but shifting between being limited to Sir Mohan Lai and his wife Lachmi. This allows the reader to discover thoughts and feelings from both characters and it gives the reader a broader perspective. Sir Mohan Lai, our main character, is an Indian man whom while studying at Oxford for five years has adopted an English lifestyle and now, in every manner possible, tries to imitate Englishmen. Lai hates everything about his home country, India. This is seen already in the very beginning of the story when Lai talks to a mirror made in India, “You are so very much like anything else in this country inefficient, dirty, indifferent” (p.15 lines 4-5). Throughout the story it is very clear that Lai is fascinated with British culture and English lifestyle, and that he is very much against, and very contemptuous against, everything that has anything to do with India. Lai has chosen voluntary assimilation while studying in England. Lai sees himself as a fine man, because of his nice Oxford-English, his expensive suit, his eau de cologne, and the fact that he drinks whiskey and reads The Times. It is clear that Lai only does these things in order to impress Englishmen that he meets on...
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...Eating Sugar The short story written by Catherine Merriman named ”Eating Sugar, was originally published in ”Getting a life”, Honno, in 2001. A third person narrator tells the short story and furthermore the narrator is omniscient. It seems to me that the time is not important in this short story. On the contrary the environment, the surroundings, are described into details. In this analysis I have chosen to focus on the description of the surroundings, a short analysis of Eileen and Alex and their relation, an analysis of the title “Eating Sugar” in comparison with the contents of the short story. Furthermore I have chosen to take the extract of the essay “A Small Place” and the picture “Tourists 2” into perspective. Finally I will discuss the globalization of the English language in the world today. In the short story we meet a family of three, Alex, the father, Eileen, the mother and their daughter Suzanne. Eileen works as a teacher in Thailand, where they live, and the moment she gets her Thai New Year holiday they decide to become tourists. They go on a trip with other holidaying Thais but when they decide to leave the paradise the small British family of three decide to stay so that they can have the small paradise to themselves. Alex and Eileen have been together most of their lives at least since the 1970s. Together they have tried LSD and they have also travelled to Yugoslavia hitchhiking - long-haired innocents as Alex himself calls it. Alex starts...
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...A DEMO-LESSON PLAN IN GRADE-7 ENGLISH A Lesson Plan Presented to: Mrs. Mae D. Tupasi Cooperating Teacher Mrs. Teresita V. Bolalin English Department Head Mr. Peter R. Cannon Jr. Principal III Presented By: Joya Mae L. Ocasla BSE IV-I English Major Section: Banaba No. of Students: 47 Lesson 3- Going Extra Miles YOUR JOURNEY This lesson allows us to internalize a deeper sense of sacrifice to sustain our family needs. It will help us realize that one has to undergo further or beyond the distance with the sense of patience, understanding and give up our cherished possession for our families welfare. I-OBJECTIVES * To value the importance of family. * To analyze and identify the five important elements of short story. * To read in order to research self-selected and assigned topics. * To apply the five elements of the short story in different activities. II- SUBJECT MATTER Lesson: The Sacrifice by Celso Carunungan Materials: Power Point Presentation, Illustration board, chalk References: English Time: Linking to the World, p-17 III- PROCEDURE * A. Daily Routine * Classroom Management * Prayer * Checking of Attendance * Word of the Day Sacrifice (Noun) * the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone * an act of killing a person or animal in a religious ceremony as an offering to please...
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...Poe is best known as the author of numerous spine-tingling stories of horror and suspense. He should also be remembered, however, as the author who helped to establish and develop America’s one real contribution to the world of literature—the short-story form. Poe was the first writer to recognize that the short story was a different kind of fiction than the novel and the first to insist that, for a story to have a powerful effect on the reader, every single detail in the story should contribute to that effect. His stories and criticism have been models and guides for writers in this characteristically American genre up to the present time. No one who is interested in the short-story form can afford to ignore his ideas or his fiction. Poe was influential in making American literature more philosophical and metaphysical than it had been heretofore, especially in terms of the dark Romanticism of Germany rather than the sometimes sentimentalized romanticism of New England Transcendentalists. Poe also helped to make periodical publishing more important in American literary culture. American writing in the mid-nineteenth century was often discouraged by the easy accessibility of English novels. Lack of copyright laws made the works of the great English writers cheaply available; thus, American writers could not compete in this genre. Periodical publishing, and the short story as the favored genre of this medium, was America’s way of fighting back. Poe was an important figure in...
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...essay in English – Some good advice Reading and preparing for writing the essay 1. Make a cursory reading (= at skanne) of the text to in order to find out what the text is about. 2. Read the text more carefully (remember a dictionary). Use a marker to underline what you think is important. Also; write a lot of marginal notes. 3. While reading you should pay attention to some of the following elements: - What is the setting of the short story? (Where, when, the environment) - Who are the main characters, and how can you characterize them? (Age, looks, mentality, etc.) - Do any of the main characters change or develop during the story? This is often the case, and is almost always significant. - What are the main conflicts of the story? In all stories the main character(s) has a problem, or a number of problems, which he/she has to solve. Find out what the problems are in your story. The passages where the conflicts are clear are often important in short stories, and can be used when you quote from the text. - What is the theme(s) of the short story? All short stories are focused on an important theme. This theme must be found and discussed. The Writing Process 1. Make a plan (disposition), before writing your essay! The elements of an English essay will often be: 1. An introduction. In the introduction you give a general introduction to the main theme of the story, and relate it to the story. 2. The analysis of the story. English essays very...
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...Man from the South of Dahl Roald The short story “Man from the South” is one of the most famous stories of Dahl Roald. This tale speaking about a bet between two men; an American young sailor and an elderly man called Carlos. The story started when Carlos sat down in one of the tables around the swimming pool, next to another man, the narrator. At the same time in the swimming pool there were a lot of American sailors, who were playing and were getting on with some English girls. Suddenly one of the cadets sat at the same table with one of the English girls and then he took a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. When he was going to light the smoke between his lips, the little man, Carlos, started to say the sailor`s lighter wouldn`t work when there was the wind. The cadet told him that it always worked and it had never failed; it was then that Carlos ordered the bet. If the boy had could light his lighter without fail for ten times, he`d have won Carlos’ car, a Cadillac; but if the boy had lost, he`d have lost his little finger. At first the young boy doubted about this, but Carlos kept to persuading him until he agreed to do that. Then they came in to the hotel room of Carlos and the little man started to prepare all the necessary for the bet and when all was prepared, the boy started to strike the lighter while Carlos held a chopper handing in the air ready to cut off the finger. Suddenly...
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...Home Page » English and Literature Short Story Review - "There's Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" by Fernando Sorrentino In: English and Literature Short Story Review - "There's Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" by Fernando Sorrentino Have you ever read the short story titled ‘There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella’ (by Fernando Sorrentino) ? http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TherMan.shtml What do you think of the story? As I read this short story in the beginning, the gist of what I have captured the narrator writing is whether the man with a strange habit does really exist or not. Or, if he did exist who was the man that was hitting the narrator in the story on the head without stopping. It sticks in my mind wondering who the strange man was to the narrator. Somehow, despite the agony of trying to understand the motive underlies the story; I was at first wondering what was the strange man had gone through actually and somehow I could feel the strange man’s plight humorous. Was it a medical condition that was driving him crazy? It’s rather hard for me to really understand the whole point of the story until it came to the end and after repeating reading it a number of times. Based on the description the narrator described about the man in the story, I assumed that the man is an old man and came from rather an average community. This story has kind of deep...
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...The Red Line The short story ”The Red Line” written by Charles Higson’s in 1993, takes place in the centre of London. The story deals with three extremely different people who all happens to meet each other while riding the tubes of London, which takes a dramatic turn. Furthermore I will analyse and interpret the short story with special focus on narrative technique and the creation of suspense. In this short story we are introduced to an Italian man, named Berto. He used to live in Venice, where he met a girl who he believes to be his “girlfriend”, Cathy, who is English. They met in Venice where they had a “relationship”, but they spent most of their time in bed, partly because of Berto's lacking skill of speaking English. Furthermore Berto seems to be a very naive and persistant kind of person. He's naive in a way because he believes that he and Cathy actually were in a relationship, he may not have understood the things that Cathy told him back in Venice, because when he arrives in London he finds that Cathy is in this “open relationship” with another man, with whom they spent a lot of time with. Berto is persistent because even when finds out that Cathy is in this other relationship and has been, even before the two of them met each other, he still keeps on trying to be with Cathy, he clearly seems to be in love. One last thing we can tell about Berto from hos behaviour is that he is very shy. The only to why he keeps sitting in the tubes is because he is way too afraid...
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