A Common Reader

17/03/2018 Farahnaz Asad Ullah 9ENG:4 Reflection - [ ] During class, we have been studying the novel “So Much to Tell You” by John Marsden. My chosen theme is ‘Hiding your true self’; we cannot show our whole self because there are parts of our behaviours, personalities that wouldn’t bold well with maintaining appearances for social gathering and connections. Therefore hiding your true self is easy than…

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl is a short story that creates a wave of emotion to the reader. Mary, the protagonist, is a complex character and seems to be a different person as the story progresses. The story’s involvement with a murder scene, a gruesome story would be expected, but instead Dahl puts a twist to the story which makes it not horrifying. The story begins with Mary shown as a devoted and loving wife. This and the constant reminder that Mary is pregnant makes me feel as…

between the appearance and the reality". In Brave New World, Huxley uses all types of irony. Dramatic irony "occurs when the audience or the reader knows something that a character in the story doesn’t". For instance, John is very interested in going back with Bernard and Lenina. He wants to discover the new society instead of the life of the reservation. The readers know that this world is totally different from the life he is used to but John does not know. In addition, John dreams of Lenina…

In the novel Great Expectations the author presents many different forms of love and different approaches to love through various characters such as Estella who communicates distant love to Pip, Miss Havisham who displays selfish love and as well as Pip who learns what love is and how to love throughout the novel. Great Expectations reveals a sort of coincidental relationship. Characters relations and behaviour link from one character to another for example, Estella’s withheld love is a result…

The Importance of Delphin A story would not be complete without two sorts of characters: Major characters and minor characters. While major characters are vital for the development and resolution of the conflict, minor serve to support and add key element to the story. The term minor is not appropriate because they aren’t minor at all; they play essential roles in the story. Also, they contribute to the intrigue of the story and the development of the main characters. The use of certain…

devices tone and parallelism are used in both the memoir, Funny In Farsi, by Firoozeh Dumas, and the graphic novel, American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang in order to entertain readers and develop the over-arching theme of self-acceptance. Dumas uses colloquial and comic tones in Funny In Farsi in order to keep readers engaged and understate the impact of the hardships she faced on her road to self-acceptance. In the chapter “I Ran and I Ran and I Ran”, Dumas tells the story of her trip to see…

powerful because it makes humans think: what do people think when they see someone dressed in a wedding dress versus someone dressed for a reducing class? Making assumptions is a tool that people use to get through life; but O’Connor and Cheever want the reader to think deeper about the pressing themes of family, the meaning of success, and religion to develop an identity for the literary characters based on contextual evidence. Every summer the Pommeroy family gathers at their beach house…

temper the people gathered around the furniture were. The use of a simile helps the reader to compare the people and jungle cats, where the author brings on board the fierce mood that the people had. In addition to this, because of the soothing quality of trinity’s voice, Neo feels it like a drug received through him (Larry and Wachowski, p. 13). With the knowledge of how people feel when they take a drug, the reader gets to picture how Neo heard Trinity’s voice. Just like a drug where one feels…

Family are the friends we do not pick by ourselves, but are born into. “The dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about the sisters Rachel and Flora, and their mother. The story focuses on the deterioration of the sister’s relationship but also on their relationship to the mother. The story also focuses on what happens to a family when it is missing love and communication. Throughout the story, the main topic is a certain dress, and this leads to a dispute having immense consequences. In the…

Girish Karnad’s use of Transfiguration as a literary device in Hayavadana and Nagamandala provides the reader with numerous prospects to explore human consciousness from various perspectives. The theme of identity crisis is revealed through transfiguration. Through his imaginative skills, Karnad introduces transfiguration of characters in his plays to entertain his audience. The objective of this study is to highlight the fulfilment of desires of the characters- Padmini in Hyavadana and Rani in…