Robinson Crusoe

We all know that special person in life that isn’t to bright but you know that they can change this world for the better. Charlie Gordon, a man with low intelligence and high motivation, had the power to change society. If life handed you the opportunity to become three times smarter than your current I.Q., making you more intelligent than many of the geniuses in the world, would you take that grand leap? Well, brave 37-year-old, Charlie Gordon took the chance and this giant step towards a new…

Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority,…

Against masculinity When I was a small, school-age child, perhaps 7 or 8, I brought a new book to class for morning reading. It happened to be “Baby Island,” a 1937 novel that Wikipedia describes as “Robinson Crusoe… but with four babies.” My intention, on that brisk fall morning, was to pull the paperback out of my backpack and open it to my bookmark. “What is that? Why are you reading that?” someone asked. A cluster formed around my desk, to see the boy who was not reading a very boyish book…

like Barbary Pirate (1949) and Old Ironsides (1928). They were also immortalized in literature in the form of plays, poems and captivity narratives. These throw light on their conquests as well as the social and economic conditions of the time. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, The Algerine Captive by Royall Tyler and The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas along with others mention the Barbary…

Blood Brothers After they finished washing clothes and had supper started, Nancy saw Charity fingering the pages of the tablet the census taker had given her. “If you’d like, we can start doing some lessons each day,” said Nancy. “Oh, yes ma 'am,” exclaimed Charity, “I would like that very much.” Nancy could see that Charity was going to be an eager student, and as quick witted as she was, she should be a good one. She was right. Charity took to schooling, like a duck to June bug; she…

The title of this book is ‘Hatchet’, written by Gary Paulsen, and this book has received “Newberry Honor Book” award. It was published in 1987 and named “the bestselling classic survival story”. The genre of the book is coming-of-age adventure novel. Children aged 10 to 15 will enjoy reading it very much. In the beginning, the story takes place in the small airport in Hampton, New York, where the main character is from, and later in the Canadian woods by the lake. The story is about a teenager…

One way the author marks a division of space, is the elaborate way the protagonist describes the fox pens, barn and white washed basement, the areas in which her father works which are carefully constructed over a few paragraphs (Munro 1-3), showing she favours male space. In comparison, the kitchen, her mother’s domain, is limited to one short sentence, “I hated the hot dark kitchen in the summer, the green blinds and flypapers, the same old oil tablecloth and the wavy mirror and bumpy…

Ever since Gilgamesh had immortalized his life adventures in that still-living epic, men and women throughout ages have been trying to pour their experiences into literature, dreaming of eternal existence. Each writer walks the road with an inexhaustible voice that distinguishes them from mortal creatures and from each other. Whether doing prose or poetry, writers convey their view point or their voice through various devices that constitute their distinct writing style that speaks with…

Watt’s theory of the novel contested. Many of us have read at least one novel in our lives; however, few of us may have asked ourselves the question when the first 18th century novel was written and how the novel differentiates itself from earlier literary forms. The aim of this paper is to provide an outline of Ian Watt’s theoretical framework that explains the rise of the novel together with a critique of the same. An attempt will be made to explain how someone’s personal experiences and…

of in camera, and formal lobbying. This underlining narrative consequently guides committee decisions and policy acceptance; it relies on the basic assumption of a political community iterations more complex than Stone’s throw-away example of Robinson Crusoe landing on a beach with presumably little else than a fig leaf, an apple and rational decision-making. Bridging across communities simply requires political motives to be discrete enough to tie the various cultural communities and political…