How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? “How could it be a comfort that the pain I went through because of my love for Hanna was in a way‚ the fate of my generation‚ a German fate…” This quote from Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader illustrates how and why two main social groups are represented in a symbolic way. In other words‚ Michael and Hanna’s love story is an allegory for the relationship between different generations in Germany: those who experienced the war first-
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Expecting to grow properly and learn what one must when put in an unfamiliar generation‚ is as if trying to teach a person to walk through the example of a whale-both are mammals but are impossible to compare. This is evident in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader‚ where fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is involved in a secretive‚ intense‚ and passionate relationship with thirty-six-year-old Hanna Schmitz. Hanna is leading the relationship so much so that when they fight‚ regardless of who is right or wrong‚ Michael
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Gatsby and Reader Comparative Essay The values of each age are reflected in the texts which are composed in them. Both The Great Gatsby and The Reader are written with the values of each age in mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby examines the culture of the 1920s and the context that surrounded Fitzgerald whilst writing the novel. Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is an investigation into the post World War II generation of Germany and the views from each generation. The Reader is written
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Percy: The Common Reader and the Complex Reader Walker Percy ’s "The Loss of the Creature" is a work to be read and read again. He questions language and understanding or belief. He writes "piling example upon example" (qtd. in Percy 462). He speaks of the rare sovereign knower and the unique sovereign experience. One will never fully recover an entity into the understanding of the primary founder ’s‚ as try he might. There will only be one sovereign experience. There are many opportunities
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to elicit a desired response from the reader‚ for there are two types of readers an author must consider: the implied reader and the actual reader. The implied reader is “assumed and created by the work itself” whereas‚ the actual reader brings his/her own experiences to the text and thus each reader takes away a different message from a text (MacMannus‚ para 1). Du Bois’s narrative‚ “A Mild Suggestion”‚ attempts to ensure a certain response‚ from the reader‚ by including a description of the passengers’
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Patrice Flowers Professor Arzola English 1302 Friday‚ February 22‚ 2013 Critical Analysis of Nora Ephron “The Boston Photographs” Nora Ephron author of “The Boston Photographs” reaches out to her readers by touching their emotions by some gripping photographs. She claims “Photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism‚” this theory is proven in her writing. In Ephron essay‚ she discusses the photographs that Stanley Foreman took of an attempted rescue that turned to a devastating
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Readers Reflection John Hamilton English 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Clinton Edwards April 21‚ 2014 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Readers Reflection Walter Mitty‚ who in this story‚ is an imaginary character however‚ his character does remind me of myself and many other individuals that I know. The main focus of the story is Walter ’s imaginary behavior or day-dreaming. Walter tends to get distracted from the real world and
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Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in
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E-readers and e-books may have seemed like a fad‚ but clearly they are not going anywhere. There are a number of styles and types to pick from; the Nook and Kindle each have various versions and options‚ for example‚ based on your budget and your needs. Debate rages about which is the best e-reader‚ but this is about the advantages and disadvantages of an e-reader regardless of the one you buy. Advantages For starters‚ we will look at the benefits of e-readers. Do you travel a lot? If so‚ an e-reader
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1 Topic: Strategies for Reading / Grades 3-5 Resource Book: Strategies for Struggling Readers Author: Jo Fitzpatrick Publisher: Creative Teaching Press Inc. www.creativeteaching.com Year: 2007 ISBN#: 13: 987-1-59198-434-4 Book Description: When I am hired as an Education Assistant‚ I would like to have extensive resources or strategy
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