As Jeanette‚ the protagonist of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ states‚ “time is a great deadener.” (93) Essentially‚ as time passes‚ people will inherently forget crucial details of history‚ allowing for various interpretations and even inaccuracies to be perpetuated. The aforementioned Oranges‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia‚ and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart all explore‚ in some capacity‚ how certain people or events from the past are
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The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90‚ I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some‚ however‚ have already gained publicity through the papers‚ and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree‚ and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate. Some
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Another feminist aspect Ruth obtains is her protesting. A devoted traditionalist‚ Ruth defends the tribal ways of the A’tsika people and heavily protests Dwight and the corrupt councilmen when they accept a deal from the Japanese to kill a whale and try to cover it up by saying the whale killing will be returning them back to tradition‚ or as Dimitri said "will bring us back to ourselves" (Hogan 69). Even when the men invade and destroy her property‚ she persists in trying to get them to not go
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procession that is life‚ people really should consider throwing around a dash of empathy as opposed to throwing around a combination of fingers behind the aegis that is a windshield when it comes to driving; because‚ in the end‚ we never really know what that crazy driver’s life currently entails. Think about it- we are all common‚ every day people who live in some varying degree of a concrete jungle and swing around on it’s asphalt vines on mechanical horses that drink poison and make mini-explosions
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My Orange Blanket In today’s society usually people are either a cat person or a dog person and a rare few like both‚ but they still always have a favorite either way. Dogs are portrayed as man’s best friend‚ gentle animals that will always be there for you. Cats‚ on the other hand‚ are displayed throughout the Internet in all kinds of ways. There are made up videos‚ pictures‚ and ads‚ anything that will catch your attention and make you laugh. Cats are simple awesome creatures. They have so many
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: very clear on Winterson’s own perspective and opinion‚ conveyed through her own history as the protagonist and the structure of the novel. POST MODERNISM - fragmented‚ discontinuous structure‚ hybrids‚ experimenting‚ and subjective view of truth. Post modernism came about because of the first world war- left Britain broken and fragmented. The massive blood bath changed the mind-set of the country‚ thought about bigger questions‚ ideas about rejecting an overall authority
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then figured out how different film concepts applied to the movie. I got an A in the class‚ but I don’t remember what I got on this paper. I am sure it was an A though. Text: Different camera positions in a movie can have a great effect on the way the audience interprets or feels about a movie. This is also done by the way each scene is composed and designed. In A Clockwork Orange‚ all these concepts help the viewers interpret whether we are who we are because we had no choice‚ or because we were
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In the novel A Clockwork Orange‚ the main character‚ Alex‚ is introduced as a fifteen year old with an uncanny vision for the life he so desires. As most teenagers do‚ Alex firmly believes that he knows all there is to know about the world‚ and believes that he and his "droogs" (Burgess‚ 5) have what it takes to wreak havoc on society. However for Alex‚ it is his actions that speak louder than his words‚ and it is his horrifying yet vivid criminal acts‚ that show that he is a soul without regard
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ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT ELSIE VS MOTHER In a story of a young girl coming of age and finding her sexuality in a very religious community‚ it is key to have a female figure that plays a key role for the character. A mother should play the key role but what happens when this role is confused with a very spiritual role? Where will a young girl turn to when her life goes against the rules society has set for her? Jeanette has lived a sheltered life with no influence on her except
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“A Clockwork Orange‚” written by Anthony Burgess is the story of Alex‚ a egomaniac gang leader who lives for violence. Throughout the novel Alex is seen committing several crimes‚ including robbing‚ raping and assaulting innocent people. Not only does he commit all of these crimes‚ but he also thoroughly enjoys doing them‚ accompanying them all with his own poetic monologue. After being arrested‚ he agrees to be brainwashed into hating violence‚ but in the end he still reverts back to his old gang
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