Dystopia

Teens love that Dystopian Literature Throughout the years, teens have favored different types of literature; thus, teens are able to find their favorite type and dive into it. After Harry Potter and other types of fictional series had their time in the spotlight, but a new type of literature has come into it’s place. A darker, more serious matter, is in favor of teens, dystopian literature. Apart from utopian societies, dystopian societies show a darker, more sinister type of literature, which…

Authorial message in “Intellect” and Fahrenheit 451 There exists a philosophical Greek proverb, “Great minds think alike”. The relation between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Intellect” and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is an exemplary instance of the concept’s realization as Emerson’s poem communicates the identical authorial messages as Bradbury’s dystopian novel. Set in a future American society in which books are legally prohibited, Fahrenheit 451 is about Guy Montag, the protagonist whose…

Summer Reading Questions 1. According to Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, forbid people from reading books is a way to make them happy. However, are they really feel so? Provide evidence from the book to support your answer. From the evidence in the book, even though some people might think that TV wall and seashell is enough, there is still a great portion of them do not feel any happiness within this society. Although they pretend to be happy, actually they just cannot feel that emotion…

Tentative Thesis for Topic #13: Sameness is a central theme in Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver. In her novel, Lowry warns the reader of the danger of conformity by creating a utopian community that operates based on the idea of sameness. This utopian society manipulated people by getting away their right of choices, their emotions, colours, memories of the past, music, and everything that makes them different from each other and makes them to notices other people’s differences. With all of this…

The week’s reading is The Origins of Totalitarian by Hannah Arendt. In this reading, she talks about the origins of a totalitarian state and how they, the power holder, strive for control. Some of the ways the power holders hold power is through the gullibility of the people being ruled and that the fear of their “freedom” being taken. From this reading, there were some questions that I had about it ranging from the rationale to her thinking to the freedoms that each citizen's had under a…

Gender Moreover, Pollan fails to adequately address the role of women in the cooking process. Out of the first one hundred and twenty pages of his novel, Pollan designates a mere paragraph to identify that pit masters and most other professional chefs are predominantly men (Pollan 15). Rather than delving deeper and figuring out ways women interact with fire cooking, Pollan accepted the stereotype and continued with his interviews of male pitmasters. Pollan even admitted that, “certain…

III. The Life of George In this section, FOH demonstrates that both the mugger and doctor subordinate George’s humanity. The former subordinates George’s humanity by overvaluing self-interest, and the latter subordinates humanity’s value by promoting George’s self-interest, and ignoring his reasoning. (Case A): George v. The Mugger Unlike deceitful promising, mugging is transparent. George knows that he would die if he refuses to hand over the money. George also knows that the mugger is…

In Norman Maclean’s text, Young Men and Fire, the reader is revealed an emotional and heart-wrenching tale of 13 smokejumpers that lose their lives on a seemingly ordinary day of wildfire fighting. The choice of recounting this tale in a Greek-story format shows us the academic, intellectual prowess of Maclean and his want to not only talk about the historical facts and testimony, but to meet the reader in his heart and express emotions that fill the empty factual spaces. Maclean says, “A…

The two texts 1984 by George Orwell and “Fake News” by Michael Lynch both discuss fake news and falsified information both including and excluding government affairs and what implications it could have on the people of a society or country. However 1984 is a science fiction text whereas “Fake News” is a non-fiction text that focuses on real world issues similar to those discussed in 1984. However, both texts raises the same question of why do we put so much trust into the government and fake…

In order to show the need for change within American society, one acts with rebellious behavior to portray their emotions. American literature illustrates the desire for change, in which characters act in rebellious manner to try and institute this. The correlation to the maintenance of innocence; a characters strive to achieve their purpose; and the desire to witness to change, manifest themselves into the characters deemed rebellious rejection of societal standards. Holden Caulfield is…