...Katherine Mansfield Excels “in expressing a child’s sense of things” (MacCarthy). How does Mansfield present childhood in “Sun and Moon” and “Prelude”? Mansfield presents childhood as a time where everything in the world is fascinating and as a time where one is allowed to be ignorant and innocent, as well as a time during which many things can seem violent or intimidating. One way in which Mansfield presents childhood is as a fairy-tale. For example, in the story “Sun and Moon”, Sun is fascinated by the beauty of the dinner table, when it turns out to be like a mask hiding the ugly truth. He is particularly taken with the ice-house: “Oh! Oh! Oh! It was a little house.” This house resembles the house from Hansel and Gretel, and this fairy-tale is about a pair of innocent children being captured by a witch; slightly sinister. At the end of the story, Sun is taken into the dining room by his parents and the ice-house is all smashed: “broken – broken – half melted away.” This is upsetting for Sun, but what is more upsetting is when his sister, Moon, eats the little nut that is the door handle, because he was so enthralled by it earlier on. What this tells us about the way Mansfield is trying to represent childhood is as a time when everything seems overwhelming, and that parents do not always understand their children, because Sun is sent to his room by his father for being upset about the events. Mansfield also presents childhood as mysterious and exciting. For instance, in “Prelude”...
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...Every human allows the trials in their life to shape their character. Some are strengthened by their encounters, using them as opportunities to grow and mature. Others allow these events to slowly (or not so slowly) chip away at their happiness, self-worth, and relationships. The main character in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is an example of a woman who allows her hardships to deeply affect her life, even when her surrounding loved ones cannot see it. Though Granny Weatherall acts like a strong, independent woman, her consciousness reveals what has been hidden behind her facade for the last 60 years. A reader’s first impression of Granny Weatherall is that of stubbornness and self-sufficiency. Granny was given...
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...I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Katherine Anne Porter's reputation as one of American’s most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. She explores the psychology of her characters by revealing their outward actions. Overall Porter is known as a writer of tremendous clarity. Her works have been compared to that of Faulkner and Hemingway in their stylistic beauty. However, she herself creates this unique style and constructs it into remarkable objective pieces full of imagery and symbolism. Porter focuses on the darker side of reality but uses her own sort of humor to lighten her writings. In addition, her works are often focused in such Southern locations as Mexico, Texas, and the Southwest in general. "Miss Porter tends to write a story by sending the mind of a character to trouble the past, turning facts into myths and myths into mythologies; then to return, freighted and ready... In stories of this pattern, the characters are normally motionless, like statues: their memories move with their desires, but these are the only movements...In Miss Porter's best stories the past is so rich that it suffuses the present and often smothers it, and even when there is nothing more there is enough. But this means that her characters are utterly dependent upon the past for their development." (Donoghue, 1965) II. ABOUT THE STORY The story is abstracted from “50 Great Short Stories”(Crane, 1952). The plot of “theft” begins on a frozen moment in which the protagonist, who is...
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...The marks humans leave are too often scars. -The Fault in Our Stars Just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown. -The Fault in Our Stars Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. -Looking For Alaska I’m not going to be one of those people who sit around talking about what they’re going to do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. -The Fault in Our Stars At some point you just pull off the band aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved. -Looking For Alaska That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. -The Fault in Our Stars My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. -The Fault in Our Stars I’m on a rollercoaster that only goes up. -The Fault in Our Stars The world is not a wish granting factory -The Fault in Our Stars I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once -The Fault in Our Stars Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. -The Fault in Our Stars It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you -The Fault in Our Stars It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you -The Fault in Our Stars Nothing even happens like you imagine it will, but then again, if you don’t imagine nothing ever happens at all -Paper Towns It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. -Looking For Alaska Sometimes people...
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...The setting of An Abundance of Katherines started off in Chicago but changed when Colin and his best friend Hassan decided to take a roadtrip to (what began as) anywhere. They ended up in the small town of Gutshot TN; possibly the actual definition of “The Middle of Nowhere”. The boys just hopped into Satan’s Hearse (the name given to Colin’s car because of its dated age and greying paint job). The original plan was just to drive and drive until Colin’s mind was finally distracted away from his break-up with Katherine XIX, then they would turn around and find their way back home. It didn’t end up happening that way, though. Hassan pointed out a sign on the highway advertising tours to see the grave of Archduke. Colin, being a child prodigy therefore loving new information to further enlighten his brain, gladly accepted. They branched off the exit and went to check it out, when they met Lindsey Lee Wells, a beautiful girl who worked for her mother Hollis at their convenience store, giving tours to the fake grave or Archduke to all of the non-existent tourists interested in history. (Gutshot was not exactly the most popular tourist attraction in the country.) After Hollis met the boys and instantly loved them, she felt they would be great candidates to help her with her “top secret project”, so she offered them board in her giant pink mansion for the rest of the summer in exchange for their assistance in her project. The story takes place in modern times which I inferred...
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...Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a well-known modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 Katherine left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls' High School magazine (the family returned to Wellington proper in 1898), in 1898 and 1899. In 1902 she became in love of a cellist, Arnold Trowell, although the feelings were largely unanswered. Mansfield herself was an accomplished cellist, having received lessons from Trowell's father. Mansfield wrote in her journals of feeling disturbed in New Zealand, and of how she had become disillusioned because of the repression of the Māori people. Maori characters are often portrayed in a sympathetic or positive light in her later stories, such as "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped”. In 1903 she moved to London, where she attended Queen's College along with her sisters. Mansfield recommenced playing the cello, an occupation that she believed she would take up professionally, but she also began contributing to the college newspaper with such dedication that she eventually became its editor. She met fellow writer Ida Baker (also known as Lesley Moore), a South African, at the college, and they became lifelong friends...
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...became less of a mum word and more of a buzzword. Hollywood jumped on the drama surrounding the disease, and soon films like Terms of Endearment and Beaches were keeping tissue companies in business. Novels and magazine articles highlighted survivor stories; television started adding characters afflicted with illness. Even Sex and the City's carousing Samantha had her share of chemo. In recent years, the trend has gone one step beyond talking about cancer — the goal now, at least for pop culture, is to find the humor in it. Fortunately, John Green is the kind of writer to deliver it. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. Ton Koene Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. He writes for youth, rather than to them, and the...
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...I will analyse a piece of literary text written in the format of a short story titled “A CUP OF TEA” "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield is included in the 1923 collection of her work, The Dove's Nest and Other Stories edited by Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry. There is a very moving introduction to this collection in which Murry lets us know details about the next ten stories his wife was going to write. There is a temptation in reading Mansfield to see her work as artistically peaking in 1921 and 1922 given that we know these are her last stories. The story has a narrative presentation with elements of a dialog. The subject of the extract is drown from life. The main characters are: Rosemary Fell a rich woman, her husband Philip and a poor girl - Miss Smith. There are some secondary characters too: a housemaid and the seller. Young and rich woman Rosemary invites a beggar to her home on the "cup of tea" just for fun. The beggar is the young girl. Her name is Miss Smith. And when Rosemary’s husband discovers that uninvited guest - a young and very pretty girl, Rosemary finds a reason to show the door beggar. The text can be divided into 3 parts. In the first part there is a description of Rosemary, her appearance and family. At the second part we learn about her desire to help the poor girl and in the last part we learn about Rosemary’s worry for Philip’s words. I think that this story reveals the women’s essence and not every man can understand...
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...Miss Brill's “Miss Brill,” written by Katherine Mansfield in 1922, introduces readers to a lonely woman who talks to herself, who imagines herself as an actress, and whose only friend in life seems to be her fur. Even though we see these actions, we as readers can understand the life or situations of Miss Brill. Through Mansfield's use of point of view, characterization, and plot development, Miss Brill is portrayed as an elderly woman whom is happy and satisfied with her life. By telling the story from the third person Mansfield allows the reader to know Miss Brill's perceptions and to understand that those perceptions are (what?). Miss Brill's view of the world on this Sunday afternoon in early autumn is the setting and we are invited to share in her pleasure of watching people. And yet, because the point of view is the third person (that is, told from the outside), we are also able to see Miss Brill for who she really is: Miss Brill is just a lonely old woman with nothing better to do than watch other people and make up their lives in her head. Knowing her thoughts and seeing her actions, the reader can see Miss Brill as someone who just needs a friend. Mansfield reveals Miss Brill to us by telling us what Miss Brill does and thinks, but we never hear what she says to other people because she does not have a relationship with these people. She doesn't really know anyone because she characterizes these people by the clothes they wear: She thinks that two woman were...
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...an unplanned pregnancy after being careless during her night out. The Waitress is about a woman in an abusive marriage who ends up getting pregnant, as well, and is not happy about it. The Waitress is far superior to Knocked Up, because of the realistic plot, a believable theme, and a captivating performance from the actors. First off, you have to look at the realism in the plots in these two movies. Both plots are similar in the sense that they have to do with an unplanned pregnancy. In Knocked Up a successful woman, played by Katherine Heigl, has a celebratory night out with her sister to celebrate a promotion. She ends up meeting a man while out, and after unprotected sex, winds up dealing with an unplanned pregnancy. In The Waitress a waitress at Joe’s Pie Diner, played by Keri Russell, also ends up having an unplanned pregnancy. The two plots differ from one another when you consider the type of man they are with. In Knocked Up when Katherine Heigl meets a stranger in a nightclub she is way out of his league, and this makes the whole concept comical. Whereas in The Waitress, Keri Russell is in a terrible, abusive marriage which is a much more likely scenario for a woman in her position, making it more realistic. Secondly, you have to look at the believability of the theme. The main idea in the film Knocked Up is that a successful woman is attempting to build a relationship with an unsuccessful man, whom she is having a child with. In The Waitress, a woman who does not...
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...In "Miss Brill," Katherine Mansfield portrays a lonely and sensitive woman who finds Sundays very enjoyable and comforting. She tends to go out to the park on those particular days and observe all of the people out there. She’s very interested in the lives of others and enjoys being part of their lives for only moments long just by eavesdropping on their conversations or arguments. This could be due to the possibility of her life being dull and lacking excitement. She tends to temporarily escape her realities by drifting off and joining the realities of other individuals. In order for us to really understand Miss Brill we need to look her closely as a character. Miss Brill is portrayed as an elderly woman whom is happy and satisfied with her life. On Sundays she enjoys taking walks in the park where she watches and observes other people and momentarily takes a step and participates in their lives. Of the title the character, Miss Brill, Mansfield tell us, “Only two people shared her “special” seat a fine old man in a velvet coat, his hands clasped over a huge carved walking- stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered apron.” (72). She refers to a special seat in the park where she always sits to observe every detail, every move that people does, pretending that is part of the play. When Miss Brill was in the park she said she felt as if she and everyone else were all part of a “play”. She also likes to listen in on the conversations...
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...The protagonist of Miss Brill, a short narrative written by Katherine Mansfield, is an elderly middle-aged woman who has very peculiar perception of the world. Katherine Mansfield short narrative Miss Brill is a very simple and yet truly deep story. The story is simple because there is little action in the plot and the plot itself is relatively straightforward. When I first read it I thought there was nothing special about the narrative and it was only later when I read the story the second time that I really grasped the little inconspicuous elements and details that constitute the essential meaning that the author intended to convey. What the author wanted to communicate to the reader is the perception of the outside world and the inner self of Miss Brill. This woman is a very special person in the sense that there is so much similarity between her perception and that of a little child. Miss Brill’s perception of the world is very peculiar and subtle. It is similar to that of an infant who only notices the good things and not yet affected by the negative aspects of life. Miss Brill is naive and unsophisticated; a character trait that is so much akin to young children. Yet she is very vulnerable and cannot withstand the emotional pressure imposed on her by the cruel society. Her life is very dull and every single day of it is very similar to all the others. Every Sunday she seems to engage in the same activity. All she ever does is put on...
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...The Character of Miss Brill In “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, character is important. Miss Brill’s sense of her own character is based on her attitudes toward others. She seems to live a simple life and has her own colorful view of the people around her. Her views change drastically throughout the story when her attitude changes. Miss Brill started her day very deliberate and optimistic. She prepared her beloved fur collar with care. As she walked to the park, “She felt a tingling in her hands and arms, but that came from walking, she supposed. And when she breathed, something light and sad—no, not sad, exactly—something gentle seemed to move in her bosom.” She was ready to have a wonderful day. When she reached the park, she was very entertained. It seemed the band was playing to the crowd’s every emotion. Miss Brill observed many different people and different things until she realized she and everyone else was on stage. “They weren’t only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday. No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance.” Miss Brill believes she has a role to fill and is a part of something bigger. Soon after this realization, a young, beautiful couple sits next to Miss Brill on a bench. They have a conversation while Miss Brill listens. She overhears the couple saying rude comments like: “Why does she come here at all—who wants her? Why doesn’t she keep her...
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...(1) (a) What are the benefits to Boeing of outsourcing so much work on the 787 to foreign suppliers? - risks associated with technological gamble – 70% to foreign nations - in return for a share of the work, partners would contribute toward the 8b in development costs for the 787 - tap into the expertise of the most efficient producers, thereby driving down the costs - Boeing believed that outsourcing to other countries would help it gather sales in those countries - believed that by outsourcing the design of so many components, it will cut the time to develop the aircraft from six to four years (b) What are the potential risks? - 17 partners from 10 countries were selected to produce parts for the aircraft - the rear fuselage was to be made in SC, the middle fuselage sections and the horizontal tailpieces were to be made in Italy, three Japanese were to produce the plane’s wings, the nose was to be made in Canada - these were bulky pieces – shipped to Washington state for final assembly - cracks in a globally dispersed supply chain - mid 2007 – might be a few months late – 12 mths for first delivery - additional in 2b developmental costs - possibility of millions in penalty costs for the late delivery - several key partners were not able to meet boeing’s schedules - were the partners – technology ready to produce - component parts did not meet the required quality standards - language barrier – instructions...
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...Senior policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, Katherine Kersten, in her article “Undisciplined” (March 19, 2018) addresses the flaws of Minnesota Department of Human Rights plans to “reduce black and Native American discipline rates.” Kersten then counters that just reducing the types of actions that can result in disciplinary action will do more harm than good, and students should be disciplined no matter their race. Kersten begins by describing why the MDHR is calling for change and past places where this has been tried before and failed. Then, Kersten goes on to “expose three deeply flawed premises” than MDHR’s campaign is based on. Her first counter is that students of different family backgrounds do not misbehave at the...
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