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    Animal House Chucky Essay

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    Analysis of Animal House, the Wizard of Oz, and The Curse of Chucky The manifest functions refer to those expected consequences in a film while the latent functions are those that are unintended or recognized in a piece of film. Often in films, we realize that the author or the performers have a certain intention. However, apart from being able to implement the intended message and pass it across to the audience, there is the unintended message where the artiste is an audience too. He/she did…

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    The Hobbit: Through Reader Response- Ideal Reader. The Hobbit is a grand adventure with magic, heroism, and imagination. It is often significantly difficult to think that one small individual in the huge world can make a difference. The Hobbit demonstrates to the reader that this is not the case and that often the most unexpected heroes are among the last that you would expect. The Hobbit, exemplifies that everyone has internal battles and that only the strongest of individuals can overcome…

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    Daisy is one of the most noticeable characters who is under pursuit as her affection is targeted by Jay Gatsby. This is essentially the main focus and conflict of the novel, as Gatsby who spent years amassing a vast fortune, just so he would have a chance with Daisy. There are also those who are being pursued for the sake of prosperity. Tom would be a prime example as he is being pursued by Myrtle, purely for the fact that Myrtle no longer wants to live a life in a run-down auto shop, but a life…

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    class and doing multiple theories of analysis, I have decided the theory that I best relate with is reader response. The reason behind me choosing reader response is that throughout reading all the novels assigned I always tended to make a comparison to my modern day teenage life. As multiple of my previous analysis and explication videos have shown I tend to relate to the character struggling or the character that is in the pressure situation. Reader response is the theory that I relate to the…

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    ABSTRACT Literature is the art of life. It is fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language. Literature reflects an interest in the world of reality as well as imagination. Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru is an Indian author and one of the best known Diastolic writers in Indian English Literature. His novels mostly deal with multiculturalism, globalization, technology, political and social problems, terrorism, diaspora and cultural identity. His second novel “Transmission” is one of…

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    How often do we recognise ourselves in a book that we are reading? How often do we realise that we actually face the same challenges as its protagonist? This realisation happens quite frequently, especially when we stray far afield in our reading. One famous writer once said: "Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self" (Kafka). His name was Franz Kafka, and he was struggling with social anxiety, which resulted in him being an unhappy man who believed in…

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    Narrative perspective, also called “point of sight”, is the angle, postion and viewpoint of the narrator applied to observe and narrate stories. (邵萍萍, 廖小云 ) It is widely used in the modern narrative works cause it can helps to arouse interest, conflict and suspense, so choosing different perspectives can make differential effects. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consists of nine chapters, and each chapter has a brief subtitle to summarize the main plots. In the first seven parts, Stevenson chooses to…

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    History is a subject based on story telling. Sometimes, it is based off letters and written documents. History is not written down for others to learn in a nonbiased opinion in the present moment. Historians must go through these documents later and decide what is biased, and what is not. They must read about an event from multiple perspectives and try and pick out what happened and what is an opinion. With the information they have, they must make connections and guesses to fill in the missing…

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    Some may argue that all pieces of literature can be related to one of Thomas C. Foster’s chapters in his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, in which Foster analyzes varying ways of looking at and connecting literature pieces. The novel Things Fall Apart by the venerable and eminent Chinua Achebe is a good example to how a piece of literature can be related to Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor or HTRLLAP. Specifically, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart can be correlated…

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    speed, aperture and ISO, etc. While still, in some great photography books, it is difficult to find any description about photography skills, such as the masterpiece, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. The author, Roland Barthes, a French literary theorist, semiotics and structuralist, apparently referred the photography to the metaphysical height to think in the book. The essay is going to demonstrate my understanding about Barthes book, mainly focusing on his two elements, “studium”…

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