Reflective Statement: Question: How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral. The interactive oral discussion that took place in class today on the infamous Chilean writer‚ Pablo Neruda‚ significantly increased my background information of the poet and has shed light on aspects of his life that I was not aware of. During the discussion a fellow classmate discussed Neruda’s childhood and it was made evident that his childhood
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Action: When Lane’s husband falls in love with his patient Anna‚ Matilde and Virginia try to help each of them deal with their new life situations while also trying to find their own selves in the process. Act 1 Scene 1: Matilde tells a joke in Portuguese to the audience. Scene 2: Lane tells the audience about how her maid doesn’t clean her house‚ and that she took her to the hospital to be medicated. Scene 3: Virginia tells the audience how she loves to clean her house‚ and that she
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presents his lover in ways that most people could not even fathom. Metonymies‚ metaphors‚ and ways of hypothetical speech(not to be taken literally) are used in their entirety to most effectively portray Neruda’s unconditional love for his wife‚ Matilde. In our modern day society‚ the word love is used much too loosely. Love can be described as an intense feeling of affection towards someone or something. Most people take the time to notice the little things about their beloved‚ and express their
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Neruda” Poetswww.poets.org) (“Pablo Neruda” Wikipediawww.wikipedia.ord/wiki/Pablo_Neruda) “If You Forget Me” was written in 1952 while Neruda had been exiled from his country. Although it has been rumored that this poem was written for his last love Matilde Urrutia‚ it really
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that goes into depth about love. In this poem he explains how love can last a lifetime. It is quite a short poem compared to the longer ones I have read and only contains six stanzas. After some research‚ the poem is directed to a woman who is named Matilde Urrutia‚ and this will later be important. The style of the poem is free verse‚ and it contains signs of alliteration all throughout the poem. After looking it over countless times and looking up the meaning‚ there appears to be a great meaning to
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distinct social classes primarily determined by one’s birth. It is about a woman who can not come to terms with her position in the middle class. Although she knows she can not escape her class‚ she refuses to accept it gracefully. It is through Matilde that Maupassant develops the story’s irony. This is reflected through Matilde’s daydreaming‚ which only serves to torment her‚ the loss of the necklace borrowed for show‚ which only worsens their economic position‚ and finally‚ their unnecessary
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Jessica Buchanan Dr. Tatum English 1302 NTDCB 19 January 2012 How Little a Thing It Takes To Save You or Destroy You Matilde Loisel was a charming young woman who spent most of her day in her longing thoughts of being rich and desired. One day‚ her husband brought home an invitation to a ball. Matilde was embarrassed because she had no jewelry or fine clothes. Her husband agrees to give her money to go buy a dress‚ but that still was not good enough. She also had to borrow a beautiful necklace
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importance and personal growth from this quality. Despite the differences in the plot both stories “The Necklace” and “Carry Your Own Skis” show how important it is to be responsible. In the first story”The Necklace” Matilde lost a necklace she had borrowed from a friend. When Matilde realized she had lost the necklace she and her husband went out to buy a new one to replace it‚ that cost her and her husband to go into debt. “After ten years they had made good on everything‚ including the unserious
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Matilde appears in the movie as a strong female character that is pursuing higher education as a student in Juan’s class. Here she represents a female figure that is independent and hardworking‚ but she is shut down by Juan while she is solving a complex
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Nine Guardians Throughout time man has oppressed his own kind. In The Nine Guardians man‚ in this case the Spanish man is oppressing the Mexican Indians. Just like history before the oppression of the Mexican Indians the oppressed revolt. In The Nine Guardians when the Indians revolt it causes death‚ degradation of a family‚ mental strain to the point of insanity and property damage‚ just as revolts before it. Death is caused by a revolting Indian‚ attempting to stop a "help letter" from
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