Fall of Saigon

TS: In the Ibo society, the men express a misogynistic attitude toward women through derogatory language. CD: For instance, by killing a clansmen, “Okonkwo had committed the female [crime], because it had been inadvertent” (105). CM: The Ibo society counts Okonkwo’s felony as a female crime for it is unintentional and innocent which indicates that women are passive as to men are aggressive. CM: In addition, seeing that men are aggressive, they classify Okonkwo’s offense as a female crime which…

1. Okonkwo’s punishment was too harsh. In the culture Okonkwo lives in, everything the people do is too please the gods. Therefore, his punishment too was put in place to please the Gods. He was forced to leave his village for seven years and burn down his huts and his wives huts. I do not think that his punishment was fair. He did not hold the intention of murdering his son. Also, I believe that it was not fair that his whole family had to receive the same punishment as well. They did…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal” (Elizabeth Stanton 295). This quote was given in a speech called “Declaration of Sentiments” by a woman who fought for women’s rights. The quote relates to the speech given by Frederick Douglass who fought for the rights of black people. In his speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July” and in Elizabeth Stanton’s speech that fought for women's rights, although fighting for different groups, equality was…

Jasmine Bessada C 6/7 The Oval Portrait This short story written by Edgar Allen Poe consists of a story within a story which creates and establishes a romantic gothic mood. In Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait", Poe creates a unified effect of mystery and suspense by using gothic elements, juxtaposition, and fatal love. Poe utilizes many diverse gothic elements throughout the story to portray the setting and mood. The gloomy, bleak ambience and…

Over the weekend, a women's march took place in California. It was a march on the raising stories that have recently been shared about sexual assault and harassment. There was an estimated amount of half-million people dressed up in all pink or brightly colored costumes. Between shouting speeches and celebrity revokes, the march was well respected for. The march was set up by the #MeToo movement, their goal is to not ignore the stories of sexual harassment in the modern day world. This movement…

Edgar Allen Poe uses suspense as a major weapon to create fear and dread in The Tell- Tale Heart. One was he use suspense is through Foreshadowing. In the second paragraph in the story the narrator declares “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man” (Poe, 303). The statement creates suspense straight away in the story. The reader will know the old man will die; It is just a matter of how and when. This keeps the reader guessing and on the edge of their seat through the rest of the story…

Character Analysis “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a very tension filled story about a man that lives with an old man. The old man makes him very uncomfortable. He doesn’t dislike the old man at all, but he can’t stand his eye that, “resembled that of a vulture,” (Poe 1). The eye made him so uncomfortable that he decided that he would kill the old man. In this story, the man is insane and unreliable. One event from the story that proves this is when he…

Edgar Allan Poe was an odd man, almost resembling a character from one of his stories. With a life full of depression and illness, he still managed to write such amazing stories. It makes you curious to see what lies inside his head. I’ll be looking through his life, and seeing how it relates to the Tell-Tale Heart, Cask of Amontillado, and Hop-Frog. Edgar Allan Poe lived a life full of sadness and death. With losing almost everyone you get to know, some mental illness could very well come into…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo culture is known for their power and extreme faith of their religion. Manliness is an honorable trait, throughout the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo, the protagonist, lives in a world where showing emotion is considered weak. His anger leads him to physically abuse his three wives. In Umuofia the strongest village is the Igbo culture and it's where this story takes place. In Things Fall Apart, many social groups are marginalized and the main social…

Poe uses dramatic imagery to create a violent picture in his reader's mind. In the short story“The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe uses imagery to describe the narrator’s descent into insanity. An example of this would be “ He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with film over it”. The author uses this quote to express the hysteria of the narrator. The reader can see that the man has begun to lose control of his sanity. This realization begins to draw the man into a violent rage. Poe also uses…