Irony

Comically Crude The line drawn between comedy and vulgar references have become blurred in today's society. A comedian may make a joke which offends a great body of people all for the purpose of making a few laugh. Famous comedians make a living off of exploiting both groups, and individual peoples, with derogatory comments in order to make large masses of money. In the past, comedians would cross social lines and force society forward using both obscene language and seemingly deranged or lewd…

Noor Saket Prof. Abid Vali ENGL 221 19 Apr. 2017 The Unromantic Side of Innocence According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, the word “innocence” is defined in three different ways: “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil,” “lack of knowledge,” and “lack of worldly experience or sophistication” (“Innocence”). These three definitions apply to the persona of William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper,” which was featured in his poem collection Songs of Innocence. The chimney…

William Shakespeare, George Orwell, and Joseph Conrad compare and contrast different ideas to help bring together his or her thoughts. Light versus dark, Denmark and Norway, Memory and the Past, are examples how an author may compare and contrast situations that may be important to the meaning and understanding of their novels. Besides those meanings, corruption is also a very important theme within these novels too. It shows and explains that a certain act can happen in real life. The three…

The Fate of Tessie Hutchinson The term lottery creates a vision of winning something of value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the townspeople. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that…

Those who have ever been in a serious relationship knows communication is essential, and at times can be extremely difficult with the opposite sex. Most often men look at situations from a logical stance along with speaking their mind. Alternatively, women view situations from their emotional side, and at times speak in code, a code for which the male intellect lacks the key. In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” there are two Americans traveling in Spain. The setting of the scene is a…

Within legendary author, Ernest Hemingway’s work, a concept called the Iceberg Theory is present. The Iceberg Theory is the concept that within a story, only twenty percent of the information is directly written, the rest is not given straight to the reader, but the meaning is there. Much like an iceberg, with the majority of it underwater. This theory is demonstrated effectively through Hemingway’s short stories. Hemingway’s “A Canary for One” is a prime example of the use of his Iceberg Theory…

When you win the lottery, it is supposed to be a good thing. Imagine a place where winning the lottery is not. Well, in the story “The Lottery” winning means getting stoned to death by friends and family. This leads to the theme of “The Lottery” which is that things are not always as they seem. Some of the narrative elements that give to this theme are setting, tone, and symbolism. One of the largest contributors to the theme of “The Lottery” is setting. The setting of the story contributes to…

Humor and satire are a part of our everyday lifes. Without humor and satire our lifes would be boring and dull. I would define humor is anything that makes me laugh. I think humor is anything that is unexpected, witty, amusing, etc. Humor is important to me because it is a way to forget about what is going on in the world right now and just relax. We need humor in the world because without it the world would be dull and life would be too serious. I would define satire as someone making fun of…

I enjoyed reading the story from Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door by Robert Fulghum since it was an interesting narrative with eloquent language that teaches a valuable and powerful lesson about daily inconveniences. In the story, Fulghum is a hotel front desk clerk who is aggravated after his employer serves him sausage wieners and sauerkraut for lunch 7 days in a row (the horror). As a result he articulates his anger into a lengthy rant to his coworker, a wise…

High school is both daunting and menacing. Walking into the school on the first day, most underclassmen are too nervous to look into how teachers act and react to the students. As you go through the year, you start to figure out which teachers like sports, which ones are funny, and which ones do not allow being in the hall without a pass. My first day of seventh grade went as bad as any other middle schooler with the bad luck of going to a junior high attached to the high school. I had walked…