Epigraph

lives so that they will not be forgotten. “Mea culpa, my fault, mea maxima culpa!” This the epigraph that starts the first chapter in the book. This Latin phrase is used to indicate how Olga blames herself for letting her family die in the Holocaust. She is saying that it is entirely her fault with this message. This gives an aura of guilt from Olga that is present throughout the entire memoir. So, this epigraph foreshadows the tragic events that are to transpire in the first chapter and in the…

The Serpent and the Rope, winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in the year 1963, is considered a milestone in Indian-English fiction, its form showing a successful orchestration of Indian and Western methods. The Cat and the Shakespeare, a metaphysical comedy, is an exemplar of theoretical fiction. The Chessmaster and His Moves are characterized by a range of momentous symbols. Here ‘The Chessmaster’ himself and his ‘moves’ are what he makes man do. Raja Rao’s place in the empire of Indian…

The American Dream in the Great Gatsby The American Dream is a national ideal that emphasizes freedom and making a better life for oneself and family through hard work. Many immigrants came to the United looking for a better life and they described their success as part of the American Dream. Throughout history the dream has changed and evolved as the nation has matured. During the 1920s, the economy was booming and thousands of soldiers had returned from World War I. This change in American…

someone who attempts to know what he desires and how to get it, but whose social anxiety and lack of self-confidence thwarts either of these possibilities. Eliot starts his poem with an epigraph of Dante’s Inferno. These words are spoken to his alter ego and they are proof of Prufrock’s insecurities. In the epigraph, it says that no one ever returns from the underworld and so he is not afraid to say the truth because no one will hear it. Although the poem addresses the reader…

doesn’t wish to receive any help because she feels that her life has needs no help. Even in one of the busiest and prosperous cities in the world, she is perfectly happy with (what seems like to me) a hard, depressing, down-on-her-luck life. 2) The epigraph in the beginning of The Glass Castle explains how darkness is the journey that ultimately leads to light. For Jeanette, she truly had to endure a childhood filled with darkness and strife to enter into a place that is the light. The light is…

Purpose: In Into the Wild, while Jon Krakauer shows the consequences of choosing living differently, he clarifies that Chris McCandless’s different life philosophy results in his overall happiness. Jon Krakauer uses Into the Wild to show that being ambitiously different causes overall happiness for the individual. McCandless believes happiness is connected with new experiences; therefore, the key to a happy life is to consistently go through change and chose a different life style (Krakauer…

Ruth, who are sold a cruel household owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lockton, and managed by a housemaid named Becky. In this book, on page 3 of chapter 1, One can see that Isabel learned certain habits from her mother, like seeds implanted in her brain. The epigraph for this chapter is “Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals”-Thomas Paine. The relevance is shown when the author writes “The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they…

expressive culture there. In addition, the writer states that Brazil is one of the world’s six largest musical market. In “A Song for All Seasons” part, the writer states that the title of the present introduction and the lyric that serves as an extended epigraph come from a 1959 song that captures and synthesizes in unassuming fashion several long standing concerns of musicians, critics, and listeners of Brazilian popular music with regard to internationalization. In “popular music studies”…

Nikky Finney: Up-Close and Personal Nikky Finney is a black women poet who has challenged and redefined what southern means for our time. She believes that stories are important, that they keep us alive and allow us to transition to the next chapter of life. Finney is the author of Head off and Split, a book we have been reading in class. Watching this book-reading by Nikky Finney has helped the book come alive and has magnified all of it’s meaning. Seeing her read her own poems and share…

Ironically, rarely anyone in the novel besides Baby Harper does this. For the most part, only Baby Harper views Linda as her own person. To validate this assertion, refer to the epigraph and the similarity between his name and the author of the epigraph. From this one can see that Monique Truong purposely correlates Baby Harper to them in order to tie in the theme of truly seeing someone to his character. Thus, this demonstrates that he is one of the few characters…