Notes from Underground

does not meet the intensity of his loneliness. Yet, he turns his sadness towards others, attaching people mentally. It is not until Robert pushes himself into the narrator’s life that the narrator understands he is lonely and desperately seeks more from life. Isolation/Loneliness represents in this story, the narrator gives Robert credit for anything is when the narrator accepts that he is finally happy to have company in his home. Robert shows the narrator the amusement of freedom and quality,…

collected funds from around the world. Most people know that Tagore wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh - 'Jana Gana Mana' and 'Amar Sonar Bangla' respectively. But few know that Sri Lanka's national anthem is based on a Bengali song originally written by Tagore in 1938. It was translated into Sinhalese and adopted as the national anthem in 1951.One of Tagore's students at Visva-Bharati University, Ananda Samarakoon, translated the lyrics of Nama Nama Sri Lanka Mata from Bengali…

contradictory elements possible: a scream, a laugh, and finally, a question. The scream takes place at the dinner party, uttered by Lou Levov, who has been in the kitchen of Swede’s house doing his awkward best to stop the inebriated Jessie Orcutt from, in his view, making a complete fool of herself. Distressed by his arrogance, she stabs him in the face with a fork, aiming for his eye and missing by only an inch. But by injuring the family’s father, Jessie is symbolically attacking the…

instantly but they never recovered his body. This shows that if the escapees did die, their bodies could have easily never been found. Another interesting thing is that on the SS Norefjell, a Freighter ship reported seeing a body about twenty miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. The crew saw something bobbing in the distance and used binoculars to confirm this was a body. They said the body had full length denim trousers which were worn at the prison. This sighting took place five months after the…

area but not necessarily accurate nationwide. Quenqua tried to ease any doubt that the readers may have that this study is not an accurate representation of the entire nation by using another appeal to authority. In paragraph seven he uses a quote from Dr. Harrison Pope, who was specifically mentioned to not be part of that study, to assure the readers that this study only supports the fact that “There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years”(qtd. in…

rigid ideals of the Victorian era, however, she undergoes a metamorphosis and gains the courage to defy the conservative values of the 19th century. Through reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” it is apparent that an idealistic love is only achievable once societies values are questioned. Gatsby is the victim of the values of his post World War I society. He aspires to achieve an unattainable dream, which is founded…

“From day one Temple wanted to crush her like a bug. He was cruel” (Cornwell 353). In the quote describes how Temple completely despised his twin sister Rachael. In the book the reader learns from Gault’s parents that Temple practically harassed Rachael and tormented her in many ways. One of these ways was when Temple killed the family dog and left it on Rachael’s bed. Throughout the book I always felt on the edge of my seat because every other page it seemed that Gault killed someone.…

A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s struggling to support themselves each and every day from paycheck to paycheck. When the play opens, the Youngers are waiting to receive an insurance check which comes from the deceased Patriarch of the Younger family, Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Mama and Walter have an idea as to what he or she would like to do with the money they are about to…

survived or if they drowned on their way. Evidence has shown that Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin survived their escape (Hopkinson 6). This paper is going to explain why it is that they did in fact escape. According to an article by (Escape from Alcatraz by Hopkinson, Deborah) three men managed to escape Alcatraz on June 11, 1962 leaving no evidence whether or not they’re alive. Those three men were Frank Morris, and John And Clarence Anglin. They were more clever than any other…

that when a conflict arose with C.P. most of the times it was not addressed by any of the staff members. Most of the time there busy trying to assist other children with challenging behaviors. • What might you be able to infer about the child’s play from what you observed? Based on the observations I have gathered C.P. seems to be the leader in several activities. C.P. had a difficult time resolving interpersonal conflicts. “Children need to learn how to resolve such disagreement in a…