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    Write your response to the first chapter of “Enduring Love” “The beginning is simple to mark.” – The first line of the novel is designed to hook readers and it does. The use of the word “beginning” begs the question‚ the beginning of what? Instantly capturing our interests‚ it also shows the significance of the event as coupled with the word “simple” it shows complexity surrounding this mysterious‚ forthcoming event‚ again capturing our interests‚ and it shows the narrator has replayed this event

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    1. Introduction The present thesis will analyse Ian McEwan’s late novel Enduring Love in light of the theories of postmodernism. The aim is to reveal postmodernity as the subject matter of the given novel. Enduring Love’s inherent debate over the change of the approach to science in aftermath of the demise of the pro-Enlightenment modernity will be identified. The main protagonist’s tendency to suppose an “objective” truth‚ his relentless endeavouring of rationalizing the reality and providing

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    interest and anticipation that will drive the reader to carry on and enjoy it. Readers expect openings to include a couple of key areas like the setting‚ the introduction of characters and interest through a form of enigma or tension. Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love both conforms and challenges what a reader would expect of an opening through opening on what seems to be a climactic point of the book. Opening with the balloon incident immediately creates tension. McEwan’s choice of opening sentence is particularly

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    statement of the novel self-reflexively suggests Joe’s unreliability as our narrator- despite the fact that he is striving for objectivity and truth? He is unreliable‚ simply through the fact of being our narrator. The beginning of Ian McEwan’s ‘Enduring Love’ is not simple to mark. When McEwan was drafting the novel‚ he originally tried to start with Chapter 21‚ the scene where Joe procures the gun. How does this fit with the self-reflexive nature of the narrative and the claim that the beginning is

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    Book review: Enduring love‚ by Ian McEwen Plot: The basic story line to the book is all about a man who experiences a ballooning accident where he and a group of other guys try to pull down a balloon that has a boy in‚ which is the captain of the air balloons grandson...so they are all holding it down trying to get the kid out but a strong gust of wind blows the balloon up and the four guys still holding on are pulled up with it but before it gets too high three of the four jump off to safety

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    Love Without Love 1. According to the first four lines‚ the speaker loved this particular person because they never saw this person coming into their life‚ therefore it was a surprise and they saw a drastic change something called love. 2. The metaphor in lines 5-6 is "I’ve fly you flying through my soul in quick‚ loft flight" and this means that this special person came into their life very quickly like a plane‚ it was in and it was out. The extended metaphor is that this person was looking

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    ENDURING LOVE Ian McEwan A dictionary defines the word addictive as being: wholly devoted to something‚ a slave to another and in a state of wanting more. Ian McEwan claimed that he wanted to write an opening chapter that had the same effect as a highly addictive drug. In my opinion he has achieved in doing this. At the end of chapter one the reader is left needing more information about the characters introduced and what tragedy actually occurred. McEwan took

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    Truly Love? The modern love - A normative critique. Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness‚ compassion‚ and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Love may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans‚ one’s self or animals. In English‚ love refers to a variety of different feelings‚ states‚ and attitudes‚ ranging from pleasure to

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    from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[1] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness‚ compassion‚ and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans‚ one ’s self or animals.[3] Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek

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    Is It Love? Jazmine M Hawkins Georgia Perimeter College Abstract This paper explores the findings of multiple researchers’ theories of love? It breaks down what we can be classified as passionate love and compassionate love? What does love have to do with your attention span? Some researches define love scientifically saying that love is a production of a mixture of hormones and chemical reactants while others say love is self-defined and can only be judged by

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