Thousand Character Classic

The Temple of My Familiar After a huge success of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1983), another novel, The Temple of My Familiar came which was published in 1989. Though the events in the novel were beautifully woven but it did not receive much acclamation. bell hooks praised the novel and called it a “multivocal experiment with postmodern romance and magical realism (hooks)”. The novel is considered a sequel to Walker’s The Color Purple. Alice Walker herself described the novel as “a romance…

The two films, Midnight in Paris and The Great Gatsby, are effective to the novel because their characters parallel each other and they have similar concepts in both stories. However, the more effective movie was The Great Gatsby movie since it does represent the novel. In the movie, it has some real scenes that would have happened when it played out in anyone’s head and made it come to life. To make a book into a movie, it is not always accurate and not as straightforward to how it plays out…

Symbols Picture being in a relationship and being fought over by two people. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald readers can then picture the image. Going on, the book’s setting was in New York in the 1920’s. Throughout this book Gatsby revolves his life around a special someone for five years and does anything to see her to get her back into his life. While all this is going on Daisy (the special someone) and Gatsby have to make a lot of decisions and even passed many difficult…

In the story, “Good Country People,” there are many themes; however, the main theme is identity. Throughout the story, many identities are shown but by the end of the story the real identities of the characters are revealed. O’Connor enlightens the reader they may often be fooled directly by an individual who is pursuing a separate identity. For example, during the story, the Bible Salesman fools the community by betraying their trust in him, Mrs. Hopewell rudely misjudges others, and Joy…

Peter pan, who is a carefree boy, never grows up. Shown in Barrie’s story, Peter Pan lives in the Neverland which is a fantastic place separating from real life. The unconscientious boy always is naughty, arrogant and naïve, he never cares about other things or people except for himself. In his life, there are many interesting events as well as strange and eccentric things, thus he is too busy to observe all and remember everything. The reason why Peter Pan’s story is so popular is that no one…

dictator El Lider, she starts to think whether what they were subjected to was work or exploitation. However, the primary different in between these two texts are that Viramontes’ character is not forced by family members to work but out of each family understanding of the need to work. On the other hand, some of Garcia’s characters such as Pilars are forced to work. For instance, after Lourdes discovery of the sexual pleasure Pilars had done to herself by use of a shower head, she had to force…

analyzing works of literature. The historical context can give you background to better understand character’s actions in a story. Cultural context can also help explain a character’s action based on his or her beliefs. It can also explain why a character would do something in contrary to what is believed to be right. Two examples of this can be found in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s. This was a time of terrible racial injustice for…

Can you imagine life without your most important morals? Well, Elie Wiesel can, and the “journey” throughout his novel, Night, that led to his decline in beliefs was not so pleasant. As he experiences dehumanization, and as his identity alters, Wiesel reminds us that if you are not careful, your morals and core beliefs can be re-defined completely as a result of traumatizing struggles. To start, Elie’s most important moral was his religion. At the start of the book, Elie hasn’t experienced any…

3.1.3. “Free Radicals” The next short story under analysis is entitled “Free Radicals.” The story is told by a omniscient third person narrator focalized in the protagonist of the story named Nita. The story is set in the past, with no time-shifts to the present or the future. The first pages of the story are devoted to narrate some details about Nitaʼs life. She is sixty-two years old and has unexpectedly lost her husband, Rich, not a long time ago. Nita has been diagnosed with cancer a year…

perceives life. Gatsby’s views are more hopeful whereas Tom, Daisy, and Jordan views are harsh and realistic. Due to their judgment and actions, these characters are viewed as selfish and uncaring, especially towards the end following Gatsby’s fall. To begin with, Jordan Baker can be described as a selfish person. An example of this character being portrayed by Jordan is her demeanor during the dinner with the Buchanans and Nick. Tom…