...at our childhood, we all had a certain idea of how the world around us was working. An ignorant illusion that was created by our parents and the way we have been raised as a child. As we become grown-ups, everything is turned upside down and suddenly we see the world around us from another perspective. This is the exact theme in the short story “My Mother and Her Sister” by Jane Rogers, 1996, which tells the story about a girl who finally realises that the people around her, after all doesn’t match the illusions from her childhood. ”My Mother and Her Sister” is told from a 1st person narrator’s point of you, limited to the unnamed main character of short story. This is being expressed already in the first line of the short story: “My aunt Lucy…”(l.1). Reading the short story you get the feeling that the main character is a woman, because of her feminine values and behaving in life. The short story is set in modern time, and is characterised by a lot of flashbacks, throughout the story. The flashbacks reflect the main character’s life, as it was before she became a grown-up woman. Especially here, we get to know her aunt Lucy, and her deceased mother Dorothy, who are sisters and not to mention each other’s opposites. Both are included in the main character’s sweet childhood, where everything is portrayed with joy and happiness. Here Dorothy, the main character’s mother, is described as person who enjoys life as a free woman, and not to mention an eternal optimist...
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...Exploring the Use Literary Techniques in Bossypants To create a striking and memorable story, authors often use literary devices to bring a text to life. Literary devices help eloquently express one’s feelings while also playing to the reader’s emotions. In Tina Fey’s Bossypants, several techniques applied help successfully create a notable work of literature. Her use of literary devices proves to be effective as shown through the irony, humour and flashbacks. Irony is often used by authors to add an element of humour to a simple narrative; Tina Fey’s use of verbal irony helps effectively convey her story. An example of this is when she says: “…I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: wide German hips that look like somebody wrapped Pillsbury dough around a case of soda” (Fey 25). This is verbal irony as Tina Fey expresses an opinion that is opposite of what she actually means; wide hips are not considered healthy. Her use of irony adds interest to the plot while also making the text more human to readers. By proving that she is not perfect, her story becomes more relatable. A successful story is one that is easy to connect to. Situational irony also contributes to effectively conveying her story. This is evident when Tina and her husband go on a cruise to avoid planes but end up having to fly home anyways due to several problems aboard the ship. Situational irony adds a comedic feel to the story, which breaks down barriers between...
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...Jato, and Jato’s wife Sama. The story is about how an ordinary workday triggers some memories. These memories start out as good and nice memories about his family back in Liberia, but turn bad. It is memories he has been trying to forget. As we read the story, the memories get tied together, and we end up discovering that something truly awful has happened to him and his family. The story takes place in America. The protagonist, Baluta, lives in the ghetto with Jato and Sama. Baluta drives an old rusty car he calls Swiss Chevy, because it is full of holes. Baluta is very goodhearted by nature: “… Jato and Sama who had to wake up at five a.m. to catch the buses to work. Baluta felt awful for this, but he had to work to get a car, and he needed a car to get to work.” The story follows the storyline chronologically with some flashbacks. It starts out with Baluta thinking of his dead little sister Alanso. He describes her as a very loving and happy person: “It was Alanso’s laugh, flowing like doves out of her bright smiling mouth. It was Alanso’s laugh, out from between those cheeks caught the sun and held it in a warm glow the rest of the day”. It carries on as an ordinary workday: he showers and drives the Swiss Chevy to his worksite. I suspect that the worksite is a so called Gated Community, as there is a lot of golf resorts on the way, an a big gate he has to drive through. This is usually where the wealthy, nervous people lives, and that description fits perfectly on Tiffany...
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...because the book takes place in a mental hospital which contains people with this disorder and others. The main character McMurphy puts them through more traumatic events throughout the book which shows who can handle the stress from the events and who cannot. Post-Traumatic Stress disorder can occur at any age by a natural disaster such as a flood or fire or other events such as assault, rape, or war. People who have PTSD often have flashback episodes or nightmares of the event. They can also feel very uncomfortable with situations that remind them of the event. They will try to avoid anything that relates to the feeling or moods that make them think of the event. PTSD makes people unable to sleep, gives them anger issues, and guilt. PTSD is an anxiety disorder which means it causes stress and tension in your body like dizziness, fainting, and headaches. There are no tests or diagnostics that can be done to say that someone has PTSD but they can diagnose certain symptoms of it. Treatment for PTSD is also called “desensitization” which is slowly making the person cope with the traumatic event that happened in their life, which will make them less frightened of the event over time. Most people with PTSD have problems with alcohol, depression, and certain drugs. ( This disease relates to the book because some of the characters have PTSD in the mental hospital. Chief has PTSD because he will have flashbacks of him as a child running in the fog and he does not know where he...
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...two characters are in fact very different. To characterize the killers Capote frequently uses flashbacks into their pasts, giving the reader a sense of what their lives were like and why they became who they are. Capote also utilizes detailed descriptions of the men’s appearances, quirks, and habits to characterize the murderers. From the moments in the book when we read about the brutal murders of such a benevolent family the killers appear to be nothing more than violent, cold hearted brutes, to be capable of committing such a terrible crime without no apparent motive. As Dick and Perry are running away from the village of Holcomb, Capote begins to delve into the lives of the men. Perry’s past reveals an unstable household, an alcoholic mother, and an abusive childhood as Capote flashes back in Perry’s memories “when he was seven a hated, half-breed child living in a California orphanage run by nuns—shrouded disciplinarians who whipped him for wetting his bed. One of these beatings, one he could never forget. She woke me up she had a flashlight, and she hit me with it. Hit me and hit me. And when the flashlight broke, she went on hitting me in the dark(Capote 93) .” Later on Perry’s memories flashback again as he remembers his family “his mother, an alcoholic, had strangled to death on her own vomit. Of her children, two sons and two daughters, only the younger girl had entered ordinary life…the other daughter jumped out of a window…the older boy who had one day driven his wife...
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...Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a serious condition that occurs in people who have witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist incident, sudden death of a loved one, war, violent personal assault such as rape, or other life-threatening events. PTSD is a serious problem that was first common and found in war veterans. This disease is interesting because of the way it affects the brain and makes you think. It makes people re-experience and avoid situations that caused them to develop PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is considered abnormal behavior because of the fact it causes people to be unable to interact normally in social settings. You can suffer from re-experiencing which means that during traumatic situation they will suffer from flashbacks, bad dreams where they can wake up screaming in terror. They also are subject to avoidance symptoms where they do everything in their power to avoid places that remind them of anything like the experience. Things that remind a person of the traumatic event can trigger avoidance symptoms. These symptoms may cause a person to change his or her personal routine. Another thing that makes PTSD abnormal behavior is the hyperarousal symptoms that are persistent and constant instead of something that is triggered by a traumatic event. It makes the person stressed and/or angry. It can affect daily routines like sleeping, eating, and even concentrating. There...
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...awards and has also premiered at several well-known film festivals around the world including the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 and has also won as the 2nd runner-up in the Audience Award of the Toronto Filmfest. The problem with Jose Rizal if that it concentrates on historical accuracy rather than artistic contribution. The film, as mentioned, is basically a history book adapted to film. My problem with this Rizal film is that the depth of this film’s Rizal is as much as the depth of Rizal you’d get from a high schooler’s Filipino textbook. However, there arealso negative comments that I must say about the movie. The plot was full of twists and turns. It is confusing to watch because of too many flashbacks and you couldn’t guess whether it is still in flashback or not. Also, some scenes are brutal, and some are not suitable for young kids such as the bed scene wherein the Spanish priest with the use of his power tried to rape a Filipino woman. Compare that to Tikoy Aguiluz’s Rizal sa Dapitan, which has its own historical inaccuracies, but the Rizals there are definitely deeper, probably less a hero, but more a human. Nonetheless, it is a splendid film that deserves much praise and acclaim. “Simple yet prolific” is the best word that can describe the...
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...A Journey A Journey is a story written by Colm Tóibín in 2006. The story is about Mary, her family and their problems. In this essay I will find out what could cause the problems. To support my claims I will make an analysis and interpret the short story “A journey” in which I will put my interpretation into perspective with this to other items. The story starts in media res where we get introduced to Mary the protagonist, and her son David. At the beginning of the story there is a flashback. The flashback is from David’s childhood. Suddenly the story moves on to present time, where Mary picks her son up from the hospital and drives him home. Almost the whole story takes place in the car. Mary is an ordinary married woman and it seems like she has an unhappy and depressed family. She lives with her husband Seamus and her son David, in the house her father gave her at her weeding. David is suffering from a depression and Mary does not know why, neither can she figure it out. Mary seems to be a good and careful mother “She dreamed for a second that they had not sold it and thought that working there every day might help David” Even though if it seems like Mary has been a good mother, she still has not spend a enough of her time with David when he was child. “Mrs. Redmond, who lives in a nearby cottage and whose husband died just after David was born, came in every day to help and babysat at night if they wanted to get out” This might indicate that it was not Mary...
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...the 'I' form. This viewing of events largely through a character's eyes is called an internal point of view. We may not experience everything they do but events are mostly seen through their eyes, with an insight into their thoughts and feelings and often with comments on the situation,” (Sanger, 1998, pg 13). Robert is no ordinary blind man though, he and the narrator’s wife are friends and Robert has come for an overnight stay. “This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night,” (cited in Clugston, 2010, sec. 8.3, para 2). The narrator initially sets the theme of the story with his stereotype of blindness, “My idea of blindness came from movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to,” (cited in Clugston, 2010, sec. 8.3, para 2). The narrator’s stereotypical thoughts continue throughout the story, “I remember having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t see the smoke they exhaled. I thought I knew that much and that much only about blind people. But this blind man smoked his cigarette down to the nubbin and then lit another one,” (cited in Clugston, 2010, sec. 8.3, para 2). Carver makes it obvious that the narrator is insensitive, not only to Robert, but also toward his wife. His wife is excited and happy that her old friend is coming to visit, the narrator shows...
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...The Constant Gardener INTRODUCTION Why Fernando Meirelles? Fernando Meirelles’ film is one of a recent batch of Hollywood films dealing with serious issues. In this case the film is a conspiracy thriller, which looks at the involvement of a large pharmaceutical company in testing drugs in Africa. That said, the film is much more, combining a love story, a quest for revenge and expressing real anger about the West’s apparently unchecked exploitation of ordinary African people. The Constant Gardener is an adaptation of a novel by the British writer John le Carré, best known for his tales of spies and Cold War intrigue. Fernando Meirelles seemed an odd choice for director, because of his Brazilian background and the seemingly huge difference between this film and his first feature, the explosive story of a Rio favela, City of God (2003). www.filmeducation.org 1 Mike Newell was the first choice for director, but had already committed himself to the new Harry Potter film, but Meirelles was very interested in the project. He told The Independent, ‘The chance to take on the pharmaceutical industry was one of the three elements that made me want to direct The Constant Gardener, as was the chance to shoot in Kenya. Also, it’s a very original love story about a man who marries a much younger woman who is very different from him, and it’s only after she dies that he truly falls in love with her.’ Meirelles’ Brazilian background gave him a source of empathy with the poverty in...
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...Theodore has a job where he builds imaginary connectedness and imaginary intimacy through letters for people that may as well be virtual, as he does not know them nor ever cares to meet them. While in his cubicle, Theodore is just imagining relationships for other people. An ordinary day at work finds him navigating a crowded city riding the subway, headphones in, he asks his device to play a melancholy song. We know with his choice of music that Theodore is in a constant state of sadness. He does all this all the while sealed off from any hope of connection from those around him. Theodore is approached by a coworker by the name of Paul at work who tries to befriend him, Theodore is dismissive of his attempt to connect with him. His whole existence...
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...How Owen shows fear World war one also known as the great war, it was the first ever trench warfare and More than 9 million combatants were killed, it was one of the most deadliest conflict in human history’s and the people who came back from the war were lunatics and shellshocks they were called the lost generation. World war one was a very modern war at the time because it was the first time using gas and bombs. A lot of people lost their lives from the gas and explosions. It was a very different war from ordinary sword fighting. It was very hard for solders at that time because of the conditions they have to live in and what they do though out their lives. The tranches wasn’t a very good place to live in, there were so many disseise for example trench foot, it was caused when the solders kept their feet under the mood though a period of time and don’t have time to wash their feet. The solders that fought in the war were brainwashed and persuade from the propaganda posters. When the war was declared in 1914, many people thought that the war would be over by Christmas. The solders had their hopes because they fought it was going to be easy and have laugh, but it was nothing like that the war lasted for 4 years. Some of the soldiers fought they were fighting for justice and their King and Country. As the war was ending volunteers became fewer and Britain were losing a lot of men so now they stated to make a law were solders form 18 to 40 had to join the war because at that...
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..."American Dream:" the notion that any man can rise from humble beginnings to greatness. His particular slant on this ideal is that a man succeeds by selling his charisma, that to be well liked is the most important asset a man can have. He made a living at this for 30 years, but as he enters the later stage of his life, people have stopped smiling back and he can no longer sell the firm's goods to support himself. His ambition was one of greatness, to work hard and to be a member of the firm; and if he could not succeed in this respect, that he should at least be well-liked and be able to sell until the day of his death: When his friends would flock from all over the country to pay their respects. Willy's main flaw is his foolish pride, this it what makes him such a tragic hero. Yet there are many facets to his personality that contribute to the state he and the family are in during the play. His upbringing of the boys is one major issue, he raised them with the notion that if one is well-liked, he need not worry about qualifications, he believed that if his boys were popular they would come out on top. Sadly, he doesn't realize that the only way an ordinary person can get rich is through work (represented by Bernard) or through luck and good timing (Ben), and Willy missed the boat when it came to luck. The boys grew up to believe in all that their father had told...
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...both of his children's hardships. A feeling of defenselessness despite destiny – consolidated with the approaching memory of his one-time tutor Arnold Bacon – is Cal's main obstacle. Beth Jarrett is mother to Conrad and Buck and wife to Cal Jarrett. She is the jealousy of numerous characters in the movie; she is physically alluring, driven, and a fussbudget. Her response to hardship is hard controlled, and normally heads her to hide her emotions. She is candidly far off from Conrad and from whatever is left of her family also. Jordan (Buck) Jarrett Conrad's sibling; Beth and Cal's child. In spite of the fact that he just shows up in flashbacks and used references, Buck is seemingly the most critical character in the movie. His passing in a cruising mishap triggers the passionate hardship through which the Jarretts battle all through Ordinary...
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...ASSIGNMENT IN TECHNICAL WRITING AND RESEARCH SUBMITTED BY: DATE: ELISEO, JOSEPH ALLAIN F. JULY 15, 2014 Types of Paragraph Narration * A narrative paragraph tells a story of one specific event. * The primary focus of the topic sentence is to identify the event or thought, including your stance on it. * A narration paragraph explains the significance of the event, purpose for writing the narrative and includes enough detail to engage the reader. * Normally chronological (though sometimes uses flashbacks) * A sequential presentation of the events that add up to a story. Example: Jesus and his disciples went to a farm nearby the Nazareth. Native people came to see him. Hearing the miraculous things that he has done, they believe He can also show things they never saw before. Jesus healed the people who was sick and tormented by the devil. He casted away the devil but it went to a pig near the farm. The people panic and got scared that they heave Jesus away. Description * Description is not what you saw, but what readers need to see in order to imagine the scene, person, object, etc. * This type of paragraph causes us to think in more detail about a person, place, event, or situation. * A definition paragraph works in both fiction and academic pieces. * When writing a definition paragraph, use specific examples and be thorough. Example: Zombies are flesh-eating fictional characters. Like human but with rotting...
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