First published in the Madras‚ India‚ newspaper The Hindu in 1960‚ ‘‘A Horse and Two Goats’’ did not achieve a wide international audience until 1970 when it became the title story of R. K. Narayan’s seventh collection of short stories‚ A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories. It reached an even wider audience in 1985 when it was included in Under the Banyan Tree‚ Narayan’s tenth and best-selling collection. By this time Narayan was well established as one of the most prominent Indian authors writing
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Irony in Rocking Horse Winner The world famous story Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence tells a story of a family filled with inner conflicts about money all portrayed through the innocent of a young boy. Affection and attention is something that all kids wanted‚ so did the protagonist in the story‚ Paul. He tried to get his mother’s attention and love by seeking ways to find luck that brings all the money‚ so she can be happy again. In the end‚ he succeeded but still didn’t get his mother’s
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In his essay‚ "After the Genocide"‚ Philip Georevitch describes his experience in Rwanda during the county’s genocide. He wrote this essay to inform people about the mass ethnic killings in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis tribes. He tells outsiders that the situation in Rwanda in not as simple as a dispute between two tribes but is more complex than that. The author returned to Rwanda many times in order to make sense of what happens by interviewing people who witnessed this genocide. This
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This is NOT a Horse There were a hundred painted shapes on the ground. We looked at eachother in doubt. “How is this ever going to fit together?”said Maddie. “I have no idea”. Last summer I went to arts camp in Michigan. My friends Maddie‚ Eleanor‚ Jessie and I had been working on this modern art piece for a week and the art opening was in two days. So far we had about one hundred wooden shapes covered in “cream cheese”‚ a mix of plaster like paint and acrylics. I had tried to lay out so they went
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where the horse is. Second‚ it shows how ambition does not ever stop. Responsibility‚ generosity/greed‚ and the Oedipus complex are the main themes of The Rocking Horse Winner. The tone is one of mysterious irony. The Rocking-Horse takes great pains to create a generally realistic atmosphere and to have its characters respond to external stimuli in the ways that “normal” people would. Details such as the picking of winning horses through a frenzied and debilitating ride on a rocking-horse‚ are central
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Theodore Taylor‚ is about Philip‚ an 11 year old boy who gets in a terrible accident by virtue of World War II. Philip’s character acknowledges that through many conflicts‚ he developed matureness‚ open-heartedness‚ and independence. After experiencing his time on the island with a black man‚ Philip exhibits open heartedness as evidenced in the novel when he wishes to interact with contrasting people from himself at the end of the story. When Philip first
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Philip Larkin – The Trees Commentary by Merve Hilal Taş The Trees by Philip Larkin is a 3 stanza poem observing the rebirth of trees. The trees are used as a metaphor for life in general symbolizing our hopes that we try to achieve to be reborn before eventually dying. There’s also a message within the poem implying that even though we as humans observe the trees to be reborn‚ they actually grow older. This poem shows that growing old and changing is inevitable. It also has a rhyming scheme of
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Case Analysis Philips versus Matsushita: A New Century‚ a New Round Summary This analysis is based on two corporations‚ N.V. Philips (Netherlands) and Matsushita Electric (Japan). The two companies both have experienced big changes and have different strategies and organizational capabilities now. With their distinctive operations and management‚ they got success and continued to compete with each other and occupied the leader position in global markets nowadays. The analysis discusses how
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The Rocking-Horse Winner Growing up in my small town of Kaufman‚ Texas I never paid attention to the name brand material items everyone had to have. I could have cared less about the newest “fad.” If I had food to eat and a roof over my head I considered it wealthy. I hadn’t the slightest clue about name brands or the fanciest televisions. Those were the golden days‚ where you weren’t judged by the amount of money you had or the brand of the jeans you wore. Individuals knew you by your characteristics
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There is a scene in The Horse and His Boy‚ one of C. S. Lewis’ Narnia chronicles‚ in which the fugitive‚ Aravis‚ explains why she fled her homeland. As she begins‚ she switches to a style of speaking that is florid‚ poetic and quite captivating – for in her country‚ children are taught how to tell stories‚ just like English children are taught how to write essays. “The difference”‚ Lewis tells us‚ “is that people want to hear the stories‚ whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays
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