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    Kamala Das Poem Analysis

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    An Introduction" is Kamala Das' most renowned sonnet in the confession booth mode. Keeping in touch with her, dependably filled in as a kind of otherworldly treatment: "On the off chance that I had been an adored individual, I wouldn't have turned into an essayist. I would have been a glad person." Kamala Das starts without anyone else's input declaration: I am what I am. The poetess guarantees that she isn't keen on legislative issues, however claims to know the names of all in control…

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    Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

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    In the novel, Madame Bovary, Flaubert explores hand gestures to establish the nature of the characters and the power of the relationships between the characters. With the description of the character's hands, Flaubert presents Emma and Rodolphe’s personas. Flaubert also foreshadows the character's future actions or their demise and empowerment over others. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert altars hand description and movement to further enhance the story of the Bovary’s. Through the detailed repetition…

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    Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Mrs. Mallard is fighting oppression through not having the same rights as men in this period of the 1890s. Women didn’t have the right to vote while also having arranged marriages for which they can’t choose their own husbands. An analysis of “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, uses the themes of death, freedom, and irony to show the struggles women faced in the 1890s. The first theme in “The Story of an Hour,”…

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    The Ones We Love? Family; a blessing, or a curse? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel offers many significant themes, but the question, “is family a blessing or a curse,” is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the novel, Wiesel often questions if he should try and keep his father around, or if life would just be better without him in the picture. “‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my…

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    Understanding Gender Norms in Gilead with Feminism and Politics in the Handmaid’s Tale: Jill Swale examines the political and historical context of Atwood’s novel Readers of dystopian will recognize many of the themes and features of Atwood’s novel: war, surveillance, oppression, lack of freedom, underground movements and rebellion. In Jill Swale’s examination of the social and historical context of the novel, she comments on the idea that the novel is and “amalgam of trends” (Swale) that have…

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    The famed twentieth century author Virginia Woolf, wrote nearly fifthteen works that have shaped the evolution of the twenty-first century. The attention to mental illness and social hierarchy that Woolf addresses within her 1925 literary classic Mrs. Dalloway, can be seen as an influential factor in addressing and later resolving these issues within social culture. Woolf emphasizes the theme of repression by addressing the stereotypical British roles of women and the lack of mental health…

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    The reading questions and discussion boards were particularly important in helping me analyze and research especially for my RA. For example, this particular question made me ponder upon several things until I researched and found something interesting to use for my RA. “George Cruikshank – “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper” Q: The stepmother is portrayed as proud, selfish and extravagant which makes her unjust and cruel, in contrast to Cinderella whose “disposition was even better than her…

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    Things By Arundhati Roy

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    In her novel, The God of Small Things, published in 1997, Arundhati Roy succeeds in creating an unorthodox narrative through her refashioning of the English language. Through the novel’s unexpected events, Roy presents the melancholy predicament of untouchables as well as the struggle of a woman in pursuit of romantic love in a patriarchal society. In this analysis, I will demonstrate how the reader reacts to Roy’s art of storytelling and how her unconventional style illuminates the novel’s…

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    “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” - Michelle Obama. The quote connects to the novel Purple Hibiscus by the main character, Kambili, who uses adversity to elicit talents. In the novel Purple Hibiscus, Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie writes about a young girl named Kambili who lives with a religious and strict family and starts to find herself by visiting her…

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