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Edvard Munch painted the famous painting which he named “The Scream” to represent his past. The painting consists of a child standing at the edge of the road facing a different direction from his companions who seem to be walking towards a different direction. The child is screaming while facing the departing companions. “The Scream” is a name given to represent each of the four versions of his paintings which are kept at the Munch museum. The aim of this paper is to analyze the painting. This…

Man on Wire is a documentary/ biography directed by James Marsh and starring Phillippe Petit. The documentary is over a Frenchmen (Phillippe Petit) that had a strange obsession and interest in tightrope walking. He started out tightrope walking just in his backyard; he built building like situations with a wire in between to get the actual feel of tightrope walking. Phillippe Petit was born in 1949 in Nemours, France, at the age of sixteen is when he discovered his passion for hire wire and…

In the novel of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce a künstlerroman written in a modernist style, we see the religious and intellectual awakening of the fictional alter ego of James Joyce named Stephen Dedalus. We see the struggles Stephen are faced with as he grows up and these struggles are his family, morality, religion and nationality. As these struggles between Stephen and the above issues progresses Stephen reaches a point in his life where he decides to reject the…

Chapter 1 Pip is introduced as the main character. He is presented as a poor boy who has a struggling childhood. Within the first chapter, question is brought about when Pip meets a convict in the marshes and is willing to help him. Even though Pip himself has a hard life, he is so willing to help the man. He is also a little scared. Chapter 2 Pip was raised by his sister Mrs. Joe. I thought it was very interesting how much the town looked up to her for sailing him when the parents passed.…

In the short story, “Ball”, by Sam Koperwas, the author teaches us that parents putting their dreams and aspirations on their kids is dreadful thing for the kid and the parent. In the part, where the son gives up on trying to make a basket, the father pulls him by his ear and slams the ball hard into his stomach. Then, the father rambles on about eating an apple everyday and saying prayers can help you accomplish tasks. The father continues with this statement, “Argue and I’ll slap your eyes…

Charles Dickens novel, Great expectations is an account that centres on the life of one man named Pip, as of the time he was seven years old until he was in his mid-thirties. Pip shows us imperative actions in his life that formed who he became. While developing he acquires a collection of different connections and friends that influence him in his decisions and goals for his life. This is a novel of development ,therefore understanding Pip and his evolution is key in developing an…

I read A Dog of Flanders, one of the classic fairy tale. In childhood, I thought this tale is just sad story about a boy and his dog. But, now after growing into a man, this tale is not just sad story, but a profound story about a boy's dream and despair. In a small town of Belgium's Flanders region, 15-years-old boy Nello lived. He lost his parents when two years old, so he did milk delivery with his grandfather in poverty. One day, his grandfather picked up an overworked and abandoned dog…

teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims around by himself and decides to…

J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye, is generally discerned as the story of a sixteen year old boy, known as Holden Caulfield, who struggles to find peace after his brother’s death. Holden wanders aimlessly around New York in the winter for two days and attempts to save children from falling into adulthood and becoming what he calls, phonies. He, generally, will settle until genuine feelings are shown, which leads to his running away. Salinger captures the significance of Holden’s late…

“Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims around by himself and decides to find the tunnel that the boys were swimming through. When exploring the tunnel…