Bridget Jones's Diary

cope with these hardships in a novel by Sherman Alexie. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel about Arnold Spirit, the main character that lives on the Wellpinit Reservation with his family. Arnold struggles with finding his identity through tough times in his life and transferring to a new school, Reardan High School, that is located just off of the Wellpinit Reservation. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie explores that even if people have…

Role of Basketball in Part-time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, is about a young Indian boy, Junior, and his struggle to find his place in the reservation and the white community. Basketball is an essential theme in the story that connects both of Junior’s worlds. Though basketball, Junior gains confidence and perseverance, insight into different ideas and worlds, and realization that status doesn’t determine your future. Junior learns…

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a book written by Sherman Alexie, and about a 14-year-old boy named Junior. Junior lives on a Native American Reservation and has issues ranging from financial hardship to physical disabilities. A scene that stood out to me while reading this novel was when Junior played a basketball game against his old high school, Wellpinit. This is the most important scene in the novel because it contains character insight on Junior and showcases a major…

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Take Home Test Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award Winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, deals with many sensitive issues and topics that teenagers can relate to in their own lives. Dealing with friendships, identity, and bravery, Alexie’s novel constructs an emotional bond with the audience by addressing matters important in a young reader's life. To deprive certain school districts of this piece of literature, is…

traditional femininities which are reviled by feminism. These femininities include domesticity and consumerism. Ineptitude in the kitchen and homemaking can be considered as a topos of chick lit. A chick lit protagonist typically is a bad cook. Bridget is unable to manage a dinner party for five people. She ends up serving her guests blue soup, fondant potatoes “as hard as a rock”, an omelette which Mark helped make, and a very sticky marmalade (217). In the beginning pages of The Undomestic…

The relations between lingerie, feminism and post-feminism. This essay seeks to explore the phenomenon of antagonistic relationship between underwear and feminism, and discuss the role of lingerie in post-feminism. Since underwear has become a necessity and even designed as outerwear, like fashion, it has reflected females constructing their identity by wearing and buying different types of lingerie. ‘ Fashion is a reflection of social, economic, political, and cultural changes, but also that…

cultural issue or idea? Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: “The Edge of Reason" (2000) interrogate these assumptions and characterize as a particularly American myth the ideal of self-perfection. The novels recall in contrast the world of Jane Austen's fiction, in which self-perfection is treated ironically. –Kelly A. Marsh, Contextualizing Bridget Jones, West Chester University, 2004 After reading both Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austin and Bridget Jones’ Diary (1993) by Helen…

Times change. Modern people live in better accommodation; they have another pace of life and different goals if to compare them with people who lived many centuries ago. However, comparative analysis of both Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary shows that mothers wanted their daughters to be married despite the fact that they lived in different ages. An obvious and first reason that comes to mind is that mothers can be relaxed and happy when they know that their daughters’ lives are…

novels. I will answer the following two questions. Do chick lit novels “write beyond the ending” and in that way react against the dominant patriarchal romance tradition? Are the chick lit protagonists portrayed as ‘heroes’ or ‘heroines? Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen…

Don’t Get Caught Making These 10 Common Writing Mistakes, Or Else I know, right? Rules sometimes hinder creativity. This is the reason why some writers don’t like to follow rules on grammar and sentence construction. It’s so hard to play with words if you have to think about the restrictions. But if you 're writing a book or a formal paper, then you need to stick to the rules. There’s no other way to do it since you 're writing for a larger audience and much more formal audience. Now, if you…