In the story "So Much Water So Close To Home" a young girl is raped‚ killed and found in a river where four men are fishing. What makes this story interesting is that after discovering the body they did not report it until after they left‚ three days later. When one of the men who discovered her‚ the husband of the narrator‚ Stuart returns home he doesn’t tell his wife about the incident until the following morning. Because of this‚ Claire believes that all men are responsible for the murder of
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In Raymond Carver?s short story So Much Water So Close To Home it begins with Claire the narrator‚ describing her husband the main character of the story Stuart Kane. Claire is a very eloquent speaker and usually can?t agree with Stuart so she keeps to herself. Stuart and three of his friends Gordon Johnson‚ Mel Dorn‚ and Vern Williams had planned a fishing trip to the Naches River just like they usually do every spring. How ever the events that would happen on this trip would affect Stuart?s and
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Jordan Williams Sara Howe English 101 17 September 2010 “So Much Water So Close To Home” In So Much Water So Close To Home‚ Raymond Carver explores the hardships that society brings upon us by using dialogue and character development to reveal that men and women alike have difficulty reconciling the differences in ethical and moral values. Carver is able to do this by relating to topics that demonstrate the character’s difference in morality. These include such things as death‚ gender stereotypes
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Larkin is a misogynist who hates marriage and children. Discuss how far you agree. I agree with this statement to some extend but not fully. I think Larkin can come across in these ways however to put a definite label on him would be an assumption. Also I think that by saying he hates children and marriage is too much of a strong statement and perhaps he personally never chose to do these particular things in life or couldn’t understand them. Larkin comes across as a misogynist from the way
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simply a misogynistic view on woman however is in fact a satirical poem which mocks modernity through quantifying love as expressed in the use of the line ’gave a ten Guinea-ring’. Larkin was a well known hater of the modern world and to an extent the romanticised idea of ’love’ as seen in ’Self’s the man’ and ’Mr Bleaney’‚ so through the use of the conversationalist tone that the persona of the poem creates the reader is presented with the concept of this poem either expressing Larkin’s flippantly misogynistic
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Compare and contrast the ways in which death is portrayed in Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Days’ and ‘Ambulances’ and Sylvia plath’s ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Death and Co’ The poems i am going to analyse are: • Lady Lazarus • Death and Co • Ambulances • Days It is understatement to say that both Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin have immense depth and subsidiary meanings to their poems‚ both writers expertly structure their poems and used varied techniques to convey their themes of death and instil their messages
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With reference to three poems studied so far discuss how Larkin presents the theme of illusion and reality. The poems Sunny Prestatyn‚ Essential Beauty and love Songs in Age‚ are all presented with the theme of illusion and reality. Illusion is a false impression or delusion‚ so when an illusion is used within a poem there is a deeper meaning or reality behind the words. Because of this reality‚ the reader can see what Larkin is really trying to convey in the poems is shown and we understand what
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x-ray fluoroscopy‚ is embedded in several products of Philips Healthcare. For example the MultiDiagnost Eleva or the Juno DRF (http://www.healthcare.philips.com/us_en/products/xray/products/fluoroscopy/psg_diagnostics_index.wpd‚ 2012). In these products the current technology plays a very important part. In fact‚ it is the centre part of where the rest of the product is built around. The production process of these products is arranged so that the current technology is put to use as effectively
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