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saving someone from evil or an action to clear a debt. This theme emerges repeatedly throughout the novel Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher and Gabriele Mucciano’s film Seven Pounds. The novel Whale Talk is a story of an adopted American teenager, The Tao Jones (T.J.), who forms a swim team in Cutter, Washington. While the film Seven Pounds follows Ben Thomas on a quest to atone for for seven deaths he caused. In both works, the author and the screenwriter integrate the rhetorical triangle to better…

Modernism and postmodernism literature The 20th century can be separated into two distinct periods; one characterized by the modernism movement and the other by postmodernism. Some consider that postmodernism was a response to modernism and therefore consider them as two aspects of the same movement. The Modern Age in English Literature started from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it followed the Victorian Age. Modernism refers to cultural movements of the late nineteenth and…

In the world of writing, it goes without saying that certain writers pave the way for others in terms of their success and because of this, influence those that come after based on the movements they create and the stylistic choices they either make or break. Especially when it comes to modern poetry and its evolution, there are always those who are influenced positively and negatively by others in the community – no matter how many generations apart they may be. Having said that, the influence…

Strawberry Margarita Pound Cake I’ve been dying to share this heavenly Strawberry Margarita Pound Cake recipe with you guys because, well, I nearly killed myself taking the pictures. LOL But seriously, I wore myself out the day I made this cake because I was taking pictures for another recipe and editing another post. And I almost fell backward off of the stool I use to take pictures. Y’all, I wasn’t aware of just how much work goes into a food blog! I’m definitely not complaining because I…

A Tale of Two Siblings 43 An Eight Pound Rival, Continued An Eight Pound Rival, Continued For the next eight years, John dominated all the attention. Every time there was an argument, or even a fight, Mom took John’s side. I had to share a room with A.J., my older sister, for a while after John was born, and then I had to share a room with the Devil himself. I was not impressed. So what? Yeah, he’s extremely cute and only four years old, but he was annoying me!!!!! Who made up the rules about…

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26h in the year 1874. Frost started to become interested in poetry during high school and Harvard, even though he never officially received his college degree. Frost later became good friends with Ezra Pound who helped get him obtain a desired reputation, and helped publish his work. Frost then moved back to the U.S. from England and was recognized as one of America’s finest poets during World War I. (Poets.org) Who can really say what the intent…

T.S Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” Eliot 's poem, “The Waste Land” (1922), embodies the essence of this quote; take from what is already there, and place his own updated interpretation for the modern audience to provide their own temporal relativist view on top of the already layered meaning of the original work quoted within Eliot 's poem. The…

There seems to always be big important people in everything. For example, these people exist in sports, businesses, and even poetry. The American poet, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was one of the four major American poets or in other words, one of the big guys. Williams always loved literature; however, he went to medical school in hopes of becoming a physician. Despite his schooling, Williams still enjoyed writing. With his love of writing and physician degree, he really had a huge…

The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings describes the life of a man who the townspeople do not care for because they obsess over improving their own lives with insignificant objects. The man lives, falls deeply in love, and eventually surrenders to death. Yet, the townspeople pay no attention to his death because they “are busy folk,” running around infatuated with things that do not matter (line 27). Little do they know that death will soon take them also. E. E. Cummings,…

The period of modernism in the literature has brought the new forms and the new ways of expressing the ideas. With the development of the imagist movement in the poetry, the free verse and the clarity of expression as well as clear language came to the foreground. The poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams is one of the best examples of true imagist poem since it places value on the simplicity of the created image and on the imagery in general, instead of prioritizing some…