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In the New York Times Bestseller, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer writes an incredible story about the terrorist attack of 9/11 and its effects that it has on Oskar Schell and his family. Throughout the novel, Oskar, a very intelligent and precocious, nine-year-old boy living in New York City, is on this journey to try to figure out what this mysterious key that he found in his dad’s room belongs to. He hopes it reveals some sort of secret or connection to his father…

Each coin has two sides ,among those characters in Kite Runner.From my perspective, Amir has the strongest emotion in this story. Based on how they are presented, each character is playing a different role ,everyone is unique and different in many way ,I would like to compare Amir and Hassan, those two of the main character in this novel.Above all, I think Amir is the one which his emotion is persistent. To begin with,When the novel first portray Amir's childhood, He got a great friend in…

"Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses" (New York Times para 2). Florynce Kennedy was born in Kansas City, Missouri on February 11, 1916, to Willey and Zella Kennedy. Her father was a Pullman porter and waiter, but later in life owned a taxi business. Flo grew up with five siblings, all of them girls. (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Flo's childhood was relatively uneventful with one incident that she recounts in her autobiography, Color me Flo.…

Anglian fiction. Flood of fire is about a world of sepoys sahibs and rajahs who are travelling from Assam to Calcutta to Canton. “Vikrm Seth attained dizzy height of success with The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitably Boy (1993). He stunned the literary world with his novel. Upamanya Chatterjee, with his novel English August (1988) was a great success”. Chatterjee’s tone was ironic and shown all the administration. Chatterjee brightly uses Indianised English in the novel. His contemporary…

The "American dream" from the Start - to take root and direct is the American nation ideal and pursuit of this, it has strong vitality, but why go to the disillusioned? Gatsby story tells us that if such a dream come true - has only the pursuit of material and to become a 'superpower' longing but lack of why wealth and have a wealth of survival after what some have the ultimate human significance of thinking about it, so that eventually come true a mirage, it also will be short-sighted and…

James Bond as a Representation of Normative Society James Bond, a character introduced in Ian Fleming’s novels, has been considered as being one of the most mass-mediated characters of the last century. He is a popular hero, an icon of adventure, a guru of male style, the last word in gadgetry, and a loaded symbol of sex and violence. However, these features and attributes are not necessarily a fixed part of the James Bond character. Throughout the last century one can see that the character…

And yet, when Winston returns from the woods, his awakening does not effectively translate into action. The novel that opened with a man’s bold words of dissent, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER,” —closes with the same man’s declaration of love: “he loved Big Brother.” How does this radical transformation occur in Winston Smith—and moreover, what can it tell us about the power of language in totalitarian states? To answer these questions, let us turn, once again, to Hannah Arendt. In The Origins of…

Title- What is it significance? The Great Gatsby is a man named Gatsby who went from being poor to being able to gain a large amount of wealth. Throughout the book, his qualities that are shown could be seen as great. Gatsby was known for throwing huge parties to attract the love of this life Daisy as well as being able to maintain his humbleness even when he became rich. The title can actually be ironic because Gatsby wasn’t even his real name and he became wealthy through illegal…

When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…

You may have read Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at some point in your life. Whether it be in your youth, when your high school thought it'd be educational, or in your adult life when you've run out of things to read. At any age, Death of a Salesman sends a clear message on the American Dream, the idea that from any origin, with proper work and dedication, one can achieve anything. The titular salesman, Willy Loman, finds himself grappling with this very concept, and whether or not it still…