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The American writers during this time wrote a great deal of fictional stories that goes into in depth detail. Mark Twain in the story “life on the Mississippi” talked about how the whole town revolved around the ships, and during that he went into great detail how the town was. During Mark Twains story “Notorious Jumping frog of Calaveras County” he gives us a good look on the type of person Jim Smiley was and how big of a gambler he was. While Mark Twain went into detail about his characters…

Consider the role of the narrator in both Benito Cereno and Bartleby. Follow your leader – three words that echo through both of these texts and symbolise Melville’s role as a narrator in distinct ways. His narrative diction in Benito Cereno and Bartleby is mechanically impressive but speaks volumes as to how he felt in relation to the new capitalist society America was rapidly evolving into and the problem of slavery to which the old America was clinging to. In these texts the lawyer in…

In Immanuel Kant’s “Duties toward Animals, Spirits, and inanimate objects” he makes his stance on animal rights very clear. He believes that we have no direct duties to animals, yet we have indirect duties towards them in order to benefit mankind. Though many philosophers agreed with his way of thinking, many modern day philosophers and scientists are able to find flaws in Kant’s arguments. Kants belief that “we have no duties to animals, plants, material objects, or the environment as a…

The distinctively visual text aims to show us the way we discover and understand images we see. Distinctively visual techniques are shown in both ‘run Lola run’ composed by Tom Tykwer and the movie ‘Happy death day’ directed by Christopher Landon and written by Scott Lobdell. Both of these compose use important techniques such as colours and lighting. These techniques help with highlighting the importance of both texts such as love, hope and most importantly time. Throughout the text of ‘run…

Forrest Gump: Book vs. Movie Written in 1986 by Winston Groom, Forrest Gump was made into a movie in 1994 and actually won an Academy Award, which is cool. Both the book and its film have the title character in it, is a man who goes through many obstacles and a number of signifigant historical events around the world. Although both works explore the character of Forrest Gump and his lifelong journeys, the original book has many different things that go on in it. The film portrays Forrest Gump as…

In Part Two of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, we witness Milkman’s journey into maturity and responsibility as he learns who he is. Through his exploration of family history, he begins to find his place in a community and in turn becomes a more mature and caring adult. Milkman first journeys to Danville in order to find the gold from the cave, which he believes will change his life and allow him to live independently, however, his journey quickly turns into a quest for self-knowledge and…

Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley is the main character and this story revolves around his adventure. Analyzing the story, Ripley imitates somebody to change his own personality to avoid his shameful and unwanted past so that he does not return. This is an attempt to steal a new personality, where he is more successful and affluent, such as his friend Dickie Greenleaf. Ripley feels the need to mimic people because he has the need to escape from his actual life and identify…

show off a trait off the south. He uses the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons to show how violent and aggressive the south was. He also included the Duke and the King with how there was no trust and good law enforcement in the south. Lastly, he included Tom Sawyer's Aunt and Uncle. They show how the south wasn’t all made up of bad people and save owners. So inn all Mark Twain criticizes the hypocritical culture of the pre-Civil War south through his depiction of Huck and Jim’s interactions with the…

Nirmal in his journal uses the metaphor of mohonas to bring together rivers of language: …the mudbanks of the tide country are shaped not only by rivers of silt, but also by rivers of language: Bengali, English, Arabic, Hindi, Arakanese and who knows what else? Flowing into each other they create a proliferation of small worlds that hang suspended in the flow. And so it dawned on me: the tide country’s faith is something like one of its great mohonas, a meeting not just of many rivers, but a…

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