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Society doesn’t worry about people with disabilities. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, follows the theme of “sometimes people are born with disabilities, but it’s communities that handicap them.” Christopher is put in a school where he is not thought of to be as smart as some of the other students because of his disability. His dad disables him by telling him a bunch of big lies when he told Christopher to never lie. Mark Haddon disables Christopher just by…

Trump’s cabinet appeared, the old novels about dystopia begun to best sellers. The most famous work is Jonathan Sift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” I wondered what the author criticizes in each country. According to S. N. Gillani, Gulliver’s Travels is a great work of social satire. There is a satire on politics, human physiognomy, which is the assessment of character or personality from a person's appearance, especially the face, intellect, manners etc. In the age of Swift, corruption was rampant and…

J.D. Salinger portrays Muriel and Seymour Glass’s marriage as distant and noninteractive. The quote “The marriage between Seymour and Muriel is shown as one that is unhappy, empty, and distant” (Kerr) explains how bad their relationship. The author shows they probably do not talk that much or interact. “I don’t know, mother. I guess cause he’s so pale and all,’ said the girl, ‘Anyway, after Bingo he and his wife asked me if I wouldn’t like to join them for a drink. So I did” (Salinger ). The…

power relations among interlocutors, whether superior–subordinate or balanced (Ayres 2009; Gligor, 2011). Before language features in Betrayal are examined, it is crucial to, first of all, demonstrate that applying a single pause or silence can make a great…

Cadence Lee Kasey Lutrell English 11:B 5 February 2018 Literary Analysis: A World of Pure Discrimination Set in the 1930s, the classic novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck follows the actions of two men, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, as they yearn for and work toward their American Dream. They meet many characters that have been unable to achieve this dream for various reasons. Candy, a poor, old, one-handed swamper gives the two men hope, when he offers to pay a large portion of the…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, and be respectable.” (Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray). This is a light-hearted and humorous musing of the appeal to be young again, which summarizes the hedonistic worldview of Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray that may ring true to others. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that is set in Victorian era London; a society in which appearance and wealth are held at an extremely high…

Friendship is a part of everyday life that everyone tends to experience. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn friendship plays an important role. The Author, Mark Twain, writes about two major friendships. These two friendships are between the protagonist Huck Finn and with either his friend Tom Sawyer or the other protagonist, Jim who is a runaway slave. Tom Sawyer and Huck have been friends ever since their previous adventure in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Although Tom and Huck…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon. The story, written in a tone of fifteen years old boy Christopher, who is suffering from Asperger’s symptoms; limit his personal social ability and affect his relationship with others. In Christopher’s world, everything is so simple that has no access to complicated information, so he does not understand metaphors or human face expressions. That’s why he likes math, because it’s all reasonable, logical, and give him a…

“Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a writer who has imposed himself and his life story into many of his characters. Most notably, his famous novel called The Great Gatsby, is about a man who feels unhappy despite his wealth. However, there is another story in which Fitzgerald uses himself as the main character, a short story called…