Kurt Vonnegut

Discussion 5: Captives When I first read the title of this poem I thought that it could be referring to prisoners of war, taken to captivity by their enemy because in war soldiers that are captured alive are imprisoned by their enemies for their own benefit. In order to place this poem in its context I needed to conduct a little research on the author and his contributions to the First World War. I did this to determine whether the author’s knowledge was intimate or perceptive, so that I would…

Long Thai Nov 30 T. Washington and Fredrick Douglass "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it", Albert Einstein said. Indeed, T. Washington and Fredrick Douglass are two typical examples about this talk. Even thought they were born in the slavery, all of them had several different ways to achieve their goals. I am going to explore some similarities and differences between T. Washington and Fredrick Douglass in this essay. First of all, their backgrounds are…

Catch 22 was written by Joseph Heller, who is well known for writings satire novels. Joseph Heller, the author, uses many different examples of satire.Catch-22 is usually called a comic satirical novel. A comic satirical novel is a literary genre in which comedic forms , exaggeration, are used to focus on human weakness and societal problems.In Catch 22 the author takes the reader on an emotional trip through the extended use of satire. Satire is the use of humor to expose others stupidity…

The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first published novel, released in 1926. The novel displays the effect that the horrors and casualties of World War One had on the character's views on love, justice, religion and morality. The Sun Also Rises follows the characters Brett Ashley, Bill Gorton, and Jake Barnes, two of which greatly exemplify the great affect World War One had on the religious faith of those who it harmed. This shift in their religious and moral views dictates how they cope…

The piece is very tragic, many personifications is used involving children this emphasizing the dread and fear for the refugees, and how soon they will have almost no freedom. The lament "Refugee Blues," was written by W.H. Auden in 1939, in the beginning of World War Two. The word “Refugee” in the title means a person who has to run away from his or her country, due to be treated badly. The word "blues" refers to slow and sad songs that were first sung by African slaves. Each stanza has…

Jay Prof. Patrick Johansson Writing 3 2017.10.23 Homework 1 Task 1 Most of people want believe world is fair and integrated multiracial. Even some of people enjoy to argue how society was equal. This ignorance shows that they want run away from reality. The reality is cruel, and bitter like Wole Soyinka’s poem. The “TELEPHON CONVERSATION (1962)” is quiet, but powerfully exposing the ugly truth. The poem is a provocative interrogation of racial prejudice. he writes using a simple phone…

In any sort of post-nuclear situation, it is a life or death circumstance for any survivors of the disaster. This is what Montag and his group of fellow knowledge preservationists from Fahrenheit 451 and the group of people in “The Portable Phonograph” have to go through. There are similarities and differences between these two stories, such as the world that the characters are living in, the priorities of the survivors, and types of endings that they have. In Fahrenheit 451, the post-nuclear…

Wilfred Owen, an English soldier during World War 1, experienced horrific events during the war, and decided to write about the nightmare that he experienced. Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” is a testament to the nightmare and horrors of war. Through visual, auditory and gustatory imagery, Owen brings his readers back to the time of war, and into his nightmare. Owen uses visual imagery to reduce the men from heroes to weaklings. They are now weak, fearful, and sick. In the poem, Owen writes,…

The Round Table Essay #1 Introduction Throughout the Arthurian legend, the Round Table has symbolized how much power King Arthur had. There were only one person that chose who can sit on this very table, and that was the one and only King Arthur. The sphere shape of the historical round table represents what Arthur was trying to complete for the people that saw him as an almost Christ like figure though his rule. The thirteen knights that sat around it were only the most kind (to women) of all…

Quite often Hollywood exaggerates any given movie. It needs to be something interesting, dramatized, and “based” on a true story. Although in the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, they say in the beginning, “More of this is true than you believe” (Amazon). Watching the movie, the viewer could blow it off as just a bunch of conspiracy theories blown up by Hollywood. Especially since The Men Who Stare at Goats is about a government project to make super soldiers, or as they call it in the movie,…