Critical Response Essay I class‚ we read a short story by George Orwell called Shooting an Elephant. It was a story about courage‚ judgment‚ and the pressure of peers. I personally did not like this story. I found it boring‚ pointless‚ and just another "hasn’t -this -happened -to -you" story about nothing. However‚ it was very well written‚ and if I had to critically respond to this story‚ I would praise the author on a number of things. The story opens by describing the relationship between
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Critical response: A Raisin in the Sun‚ Lorraine Hansberry The play falls under realism the stage design and setting is a representation of everyday life. The characters behaved‚ spoke‚ and dressed like ordinary people. This play brings the awareness of social and political problems‚ which inspires change. The characters of the cast represents real life personalities‚ which shapes the way they behave. The language used in the play is conversational. This play is also a multicultural play‚ which
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Critical response Robert Frost –The Oven Bird This poem contains 14 lines and is written mainly in iambic pentameter with a little variation in some lines. Each line rhymes with some other line‚ but there is no regular rhyme pattern. Nevertheless‚ you can call this poem a sonnet in my opinion‚ because it contains the key features of a sonnet: Iambic pentameter‚ an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines) and a theme linked to nature. As mentioned‚ the base metrical pattern of this poem is
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Lakshika Mudannayake Critical Response to “Children of Men.” The most significant ideas arise from the setting of a text‚ rather than any other visual or oral feature. Some may say that the setting of a film is purely for aesthetic purposes. However‚ after closely analysing Alfonso Cuaron’s “Children of Men”‚ I violently disagree and this essay will argue that the most significant ideas arise from both the physical and social settings of “Children of Men.” While first viewing the film‚ the main
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Critical Response Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the long letter‚ Letters From Birmingham Jail‚ written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ he clears up several misconceptions of the eight clergyman ‚ and speaks out on inequality in the city of Birmingham and United State. King’s preferred audience in this letter is educated southern white males who hold power in their positions‚ however‚ King wants any audience that he can get. He wants to get his voice heard by as many people as possible because he
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tial Name Nguyen Hong Nhung Class: H61111B Student code: L9917997 Rewrite: Why competition is good for everyone. The article by Dr Yi Min Tsai shows the benefits of free trade to Australia. Overall‚ most of her arguments are convincing. However‚ she has some unpersuasive ideas that the trade leads to diversifying choices with lower price‚ creating chances to local producers and perceiving new skills. First of all‚ the author presents an unconvincing idea that free trade agreements
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S.E. Hinton shows positive change in The Outsiders novel through the character of Johnny‚ by showing how a hoodlum became a hero. For example at the beginning of the novel Johnny was afraid‚ this is shown by the quote "Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that" [Pg 4]. Johnny was always afraid because of his experiences with his parents & the socs. The quote also indicates that he needs to stand up for himself to deal with the people in his life. Another example of change is how Johnny is
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"Thus I Refute Beelzy" is a mind-boggling example of a short story that compels the reader’s mind to untangle the fascinating yarn that is spun by the author‚ John Collier. Collier wanted to send a buried message to his readers‚ to let them figure out what he meant on their own. Indeed‚ the significance of the story will be slightly different for everyone‚ effectively a custom story for everyone who reads it‚ yet the main purpose Collier had in mind prevails; that in everyone there is evil.
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In the short story The Story of an Hour‚ the author Kate Chopin focuses on the theme of finding one’s self identity and becoming free and independent as an individual. The theme becomes emphasized in the sentence “But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself” (202). This sentence expresses
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A Midsummer Nights Dream - Critical Response The character that I feel sorry for in the play “A Midsummer Nights Dream”‚ by the great and famous playwright William Shakespeare is Demetrius. The story is about a group of four lovers who get lost in a forest outside Athens. These four lovers begin to argue over who loves whom after Oberon‚ the king of the fairies puts love juice in the two men’s eyes‚ thinking that this would fix their problems but instead this seems to make everything worse. At
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