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Title Holes - pg 1-79 Author Louis Sachar Text type a realistic fiction novel by an American author Date started December 13, 2017 Date completed December 13, 2017 Evidence Book has won John Newbery Medal Personal response The main theme is implied at the beginning of the novel to never give up. Throughout the story, the author uses the theme to create suspense in the story. The theme also helps understand how the characters are working and surviving all day long…

Narayan’s ironic vision of life has endowed him with considerable mastery of irony in its diverse forms. The passage in The Guide, which describes the star-lawyer in an ever interesting and memorable manner offers us superb instances of ‘irony of simple incongruity’ which lies in juxtaposing incongruous or incompatible details (D. C. Muecke, p. 6)7. The veteran lawyer described herein had ‘saved many a neck from the nose’, ‘absolved many a public swindler’ and could ‘prove a whole gang of…

expecting a child, her husband finds out that she is an indian spy he dismisses her- she does not confess to him that she is already married to a native of India because she loves him deeply. Parbati decided to finally return to Pakistan after bearing the utter scorn and opprobrium of society. She is rejected by society, by her love. Unfortunately she is stuck at the border and eventually killed. Farkhanda tries to show people that intolerance of society and stereotyping of nationalities (…

While both writings of “ Master Harold” ...and the boys, and Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Lecture included hope,despair ,and memory , it came clear to me that this was true. “Master Harold” and the boys had despair when it came up between Hally and Sam . Hally became unfair and rude towards Sam , when all Sam was doing was speaking the truth. Although Hally had troubles in his family,but he did not have to take it out on Sam. Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Lecture talks about how memory is a gift and…

The Hound of the Baskervilles 2002 Film Adaptation: A Crime or Sublime? There have been a multitude of films made into novels because of their lasting impression on society as a whole, especially on young and mature audiences. The extraordinary list of novels remade into movies contains critically-acclaimed plots, such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, part of The Hunger Games series; the Sea of Monsters, part of the Percy Jackson series; and it would be daft not to mention Harry Potter…

Graphic 1 Activity 1 Theme: Revenge Activity 2 Revenge takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen Activity 3 In the amazing Spiderman we saw when peter uncle got shot at the shop peter wanted to get revenge on the person who shot his uncle. As we see in graphic 1 the girl expression and body language shows that she is going out to get revenge on someone. The girl face expression shows that she is angry and her body language tells…

As we grow up, we start learning that different creatures that we loved and feared, like Santa Claus or the monster that lived under our bed, don’t actually exist. However, the only thing they don’t really tell us is that the ones you fear the most are actually real. Ghost and Spirits are common topics among society. Some encounters can be pleasant, but most of them are so terrifying that they can be hard to believe for those who are skeptical. People may doubt the existence of ghosts and…

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is an adventure novel published in 1844. The genres of this book are mixed up history, adventure fiction and romance. The story is set during the early 1800’s and takes place in olden days European countries but mostly took place in France, Rome and Italy. Alexandre Dumas is a pure French citizen which is why he might have wanted to tell the readers a little about history through this creative novel of his. The main character of this story is Edmond…

Carol Reed’s 1949 film, The Third Man, is a cinematic masterpiece that dives deep into the layers of what it means to be human. The story takes place in post war Vienna, where Joseph Cotton’s character, Holly Martins, travels to reconnect with his longtime pal, Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles (www.imdb.com). Holly arrives in Vienna only to find that his pal Harry is presumed dead – but something about his death just doesn’t add up. The story follows Holly on a journey for the truth while the…

Erving Goffman thesis on stigma was published in 1963, his work was titled, Stigma: management of a spoiled identity. The Greeks originated the term stigma to “refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier.” (Goffman, 1963.) The Greeks cut or burned signs into the skin of a criminal or a traitor, to create a blemished person, this individual must be avoided at all costs, especially in public. The Greeks definition resulted in the…