In his essay‚ “The Importance of Writing Badly‚” Bruce Ballenger encourages students to write freely and to not worry about finding the “perfect way of saying it.” I feel by saying this he means to not worry about what you’re writing and it may not necessarily be perfect‚ but that you write what you are thinking and continue writing even if it’s bad or may not make sense. He means to put all your thoughts down on paper and start from there. Ballenger gives his students permission to write badly.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. It has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people‚ being able to stand things. In Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness the theme of tolerance is well presented by literary techniques and by the characters as well. Nomi Nickle‚ the protagonist‚ who goes through tolerance in her everyday life. Nomi has to tolerate with the ridiculous rules they have in East Village. “Before the purges occurred and the Mouth took over
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This short story written by Hemingway is titled Cat in the Rain. The title suggests that something weak (‘cat’) is trapped in a difficult situation (‘rain’). Since cats are generally very afraid of water‚ being in the rain can be such a torture to them. From the title‚ it is hinted that the story may be related to some characters having to go through difficulties and struggles. In the story‚ the American wife cannot find the poor little cat when she goes outside of the Italian hotel to try to
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Expository Writing 6 November 2013 Reader Response to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” John Donne’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a very deep poem‚ and it’s difficult to understand if you only read it once. It focuses on how all humans have a connection to one another; if one person dies‚ the entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the
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prose text may‚ to some extent‚ control reader response to themes within the text but the reader’s context may also influence the way the text is read. It is particularly evident in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale that by examining the experience of women within the world it is evident that women are more repressed. The characterisation of Offred may control reader response to theme because her own personal experiences are projected onto the reader. In Gilead‚ women are repressed by male
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New Criticism vs. Reader-Response A piece of work can be evaluated in plenty of ways. Critique methods such as Reader-Response‚ Deconstructive Criticism‚ New Criticism‚ and many others act as examples of literary evaluations. All of the critique methods share similarities‚ but differ in other ways. Reader-Response and New Criticism‚ for example‚ share characteristics but they are also two very opposing things. Reader-Response focuses on attention towards the text influenced by the reader’s thoughts
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other woman other was a pacifist. There was one incident where there were two men‚ drunk‚ talking loudly about what they would “do” to them. Local campers did not react to this‚ assuming they thought it was a joke. Even the Park Ranger thought so. Readers might even find that in this scenario‚ Linda takes things a little too far with the gestures that the two men made. As others would have taken it as a joke like the campers and Ranger did. There was one another incident where she was driving home
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Professor Boniecki English H102 30 January 2013 Reader Response Paper #1: After reading all of the assigned poetry and having sincerely vivid images accompany almost all of them‚ I settled on “Dawn” by James Laughlin for my first writing assignment. Hearing the writer’s disheveled thoughts‚ spilling out and changing lanes without signaling‚ reminds me of my father who up until recently I was very close to. Thomas [Last Name] is an older man at seventy-five whose thoughts and memory
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“Mugged” By: Jim Crocket : Reader Response In the essay “Mugged” by Jim Crockett he talks about his relationship with his coffee mug. This essay is about building relationships and how almost everyone has something they cling to. In the beginning he makes it sound like he was mugged by some people and lost all his money‚ but that wasn’t the case‚ he lost something more valuable to him‚ his coffee mug. Jim thinks he has an addiction to coffee itself‚ but in reality its with the coffee mug. People
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