In Our Time

as mean or informative based on the individual person. For a person who is studying to become a teacher, this book gives mixed messaged for our day and age. Given that Monro Leaf is an amazing author and the “Can Be Fun…” books are very informative and helpful for young children. This book “Being an American Can Be Fun” can be viewed as offensive in the time we live in now. Leaf had covered many topics in his book ranging from democracy to values of an American to how to act as an American.…

the novel In Our Time, written by Ernest Hemmingway, there are many criticisms that are present in each chapter. Specifically, the Marxist theory is prevalent throughout the novel. The Marxist theory is based upon the economic and cultural values of Karl Marx, but it focuses on the social classes that are present in a novel. As well, the Marxist theory focuses on the historical changes that have taken place between these social classes. Many of the short stories within In Our Time contain…

In The Hero of Our Time, Pechorin uses fate as an answer when it is convenient and this bars him from developing a sense of responsibility. Lermontov helps us understand Pechorin’s stance on fate when we read the story of the Fatalist inside Pechorin’s journals; we learn of the inconsistency in Pechorin’s metaphysical beliefs, and how they affect his attitude to consequences of his actions. Pechorin’s statements constantly flip-flop between belief and doubt in fatalism. Pechorin takes a stance…

disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first.” This quote may be interpreted as how just a small push of encouragement can help a person reach their goals. The quote is also relatable to John Edgar Wideman, author of “Our Time.” In his essay, Wideman speaks of his gangster brother, Robby, and the poor decisions he made. However, instead of helping his younger brother during his rough patches, Wideman stays in another city and does not involve himself with his family,…

After viewing the short film “Our time is up” by Rob Pearlstein, I was able to place the five components of the plot structure diagram as presented in theatre class. The five plot structure is, exposition, inciting event, raising event, climax, and falling action. The exposition is the beginning of the plot, it sets the foundational background of the main character or the story. At the opening of the story, you see a time clock set, an immaculate environment where everything is not just clean…

The book “China in Our Time” talks about many different things that happened to China in the twentieth century. The major ones are events before communism, Mao Zedong’s era, Deng Xiaoping’s era, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. These events and people changed China dramatically. At the beginning of the book, it jumps around the twentieth century, about some leaders of China, and a little of what Ross Terrill, the author of the book did in China. The book talks a little bit about the Vietnam…

In the essay,” Our Time,” Wideman talks about the discrimination of the African Americans in Homewood because they were seen by the white discourse as unclean and uncivilized groups of people. Wideman proclaims,” The value of black life in America is judged, as life generally in this country is judged, by external, material signs of success.” ( 420). This is quote of Wideman says the African American were often been judged by the white discourse. Wideman even mentions in this statement that the…

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway delves into the true cost of war on the individual. World War One, also known as The Great War, is one of the biggest wars in the modern history. Generations of young men were exposed to the horrors of warfare without being aware of the cost it would have on them. The war took a sense of innocence not only from these soldiers but also from the world. “The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight. I don’t know why they screamed at that…

In Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, one of the recurring themes represented in this story is that relationships just don’t last. Throughout this compilation of short stories, several of them entail relationships beginning and ending for a common cause… one of the people in the relationship believes that the relationship is done with nothing to save while the other is optimistic about the couple's future. An example of this in the fourth story called The End of Something, in this story Nick…

gives orders and information to people who do not have power or people who are lower in power. Pratt uses transcultural to describe the dominant groups or cultures because there are so many groups and cultures that are dominant in this world. “Our Time” is a transcultural…