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In John Updike’s story “A&P,” the reader is brought through a casual summer day of work at a store named “A&P.” The story is told by the perspective of a normal young worker, Sammy, and he brings the reader through the rather boring lifestyle of a cashier at a convenience store. On that specific day, there are three beautiful girls who walk in the store wearing clothing that was against the clothing policy. At first Sammy, as well as all the other employees, was enjoying the sight and taking it…

superior to her husband, making their relationship unhealthy, as proven by "She was an unhappy woman, like any woman who has married someone she thinks is inferior to herself" (de Maupassant). Meanwhile, her greed is proven by "Mathilde suffered endlessly, feeling she deserved to enjoy every delicacy and expensive luxury" (de Maupassant) and by her mind trip to a world where she's rich and lives a luxurious life in the fourth paragraph of the text "The Necklace". The second clear difference…

Structuralism Essay The Flowers by Alice Walker uses several structuralist concepts that can help the reader better understand the story. There are three different structuralist terms emphasized while reading the story: sign, code, and symbol. A sign, in a literary sense, is a thing that makes you think of something else without an obvious connection between the sign and object. Codes are a set of ideas, rules, letters, numbers, symbols, etc., that are used to represent another thing. A…

citizens. The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, talks about gender, how women are considered secondary, and how society has identified thinks that specify as masculine and feminine. Discourse on Colonialism, Aime Cesaire, tries to describe the impact of colonialism on the colonized and the colonizer. Lastly, Second Letter on Algeria by Tocqueville, which talks about how people are uneducated and do not have any manners. These readings have supportive points to Scott's…

In the excerpts from his book, Paul Frankl introduced the concepts of symbols of mean and symbols of form. Separated into two sections, Frankl establishes a difference between the two and explains the “three degrees” of symbolism within a cathedral:1) natural objects, 2) works of man, and 3) symbols. In his exploration of these two types of symbolism, Frankl takes a great care to address linguistics and point out specific word choices he is making to avoid confusion. Throughout these excerpts,…

We have all been guilty of doing something bad and not realizing it because we are easily blinded by people and things. Almost anything can blind us: love, looks, and even wealth. Being ignorant and innocent while obviously doing something wrong is one of the many things in the story “Nairobi.” In “Nairobi,” the author Joyce Carol Oates, tells the story of Oliver and Ginny who fake being a couple and go to dinner with some of Oliver’s friends. The theme of cheating in this story is illustrated…

Is Doping in Sports OK? 73 home runs in a single MLB season. That is almost an unthinkable thing to accomplish at the highest level of baseball. When Barry Bonds completed this feat in 2001, many people speculated on whether or not he was helped in any way… they meant steroids. Doping, which is the use of steroids, is now a major issue within pro sports and has helped many athletes accomplish feats they might not have otherwise done. Even though doping does not always make that much of a…

Guy De Maupassant’s short story,”The Necklace” portrays Mathilda, a French middle-class woman, as someone who is very unhappy with her life. Throughout the story, the protagonist’s actions and Maupassant’s direct characterization demonstrate Madame Loisel’s transformation from a shallow and insecure girl, to a matured self-accepting woman. The theme, pride can be a personal obstacle, is reflected throughout Mathilda’s journey into becoming a strong, and changed woman. Initially, Mathilda is…

well-known dictum that everyone has heard and everyone has found conflicting. Mom always said it is true. Not everyone is honest if the truth could cause trouble. Madame Loisel struggles with being honest in the short story “The Necklace.” The author, Guy de Maupassant, displays the reality that honesty really is the best policy in the story through the use of irony. Mathilde Loisel was embarrassed about being poor, but if she was honest about her wealth she would not have had the initial…

Paying a greater debt than necessary is utterly ridiculous. In the story The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, the protagonist and in a sense the antagonist as well, Mathilde Loisel, loses a borrowed necklace that she believes costs 40,000 francs which in today’s dollar amount is approximately $151,000! She foolishly does not think about her situation, and immediately starts working to pay for an assumed synonymous necklace (the necklace was in fact worth only 500 francs). Her prideful attitude…