“MAUS” Commentary: Page 82-83 ‘’MAUS’’ is a two part story written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. He started working on the book in 1978 and the first part was published in 1986. Spiegelman retells his father’s story within his own life story. In this graphic novel the author Art Spiegelman uses very original and interesting ways of designing his story in order to show the past and the present. By using different illustrations for the past and present‚ Spiegelman can display more easily the
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Even though they were out of the war zone‚ when they found out that the other group of boys was on the RUF side they started a fight. Without asking any questions they got out there Bayonet out‚ grenades and what not else they had. 6 people were killed that day and they hadn’t even been fighting that long yet. It took me by surprise to see the reaction of these kids and that right away without hesitating they started shooting‚ cutting and trying to kill each other. Right away you can see the extreme
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Poem Commentary: Before Summer Rain A storm can provoke many emotions in a person. Rainer Maria Rilke in his poetry cleverly insinuates themes of nature‚ religion‚ and childhood‚ from a personal aspect to a collective one. The poem‚ Before Summer Rain‚ describes the narrator’s experience of the encroaching storm‚ as he/she stares out of a window. Rilke‚ in his poem‚ Before Summer Rain‚ evokes emotions associated with witnessing a storm and how these feelings compel him to recollect his childhood
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The Serial Podcast as a Commentary On Surveillance and Ideology This past weekend my fiancée and I both began and finished listening to the first season of the Serial Podcast. I think a little background on this is necessary before continuing on my broader analysis. The program is a weekly podcast which focuses on one particular narrative. In this case‚ a murder in 1999 in which a 17 year old Pakistani male‚ Adnan Syed‚ manually strangled his ex-girlfriend‚ Hae Min Lee in the city of Baltimore after
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Larkin Poem Commentaries Here My feelings for ‘Here’ have much to do with the recent video prepared for the Larkin25 anniversary‚ which should be seen in conjunction with what I have to say here. Sir Tom Courtenay’s reading together with the images of Hull and its surrounding areas‚ leave me with the sense that while this is not just a hymn to Hull‚ although it is certainly that – and written when Larkin had first come the city – it is a place which is constantly surprising the poet by the interplay
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"Out‚ Out" - commentary "Out‚ Out" is a poem by Robert Frost about a tragic event. Frost conveys the theme of his poem in the form of a story: a boy is working with a buzz saw‚ when he cuts his hand off with it when his sister calls him for supper. The loss of blood results in his unexpected death‚ and his family returns to their daily lives. The tragic event shows the boy’s sudden and premature loss of innocence‚ While narrating the story‚ the speaker implies that he sees the
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Violence erupted in the Cambodian capital‚ Phnom Penh‚ on Sunday‚ as thousands of opposition activists protested the government’s victory in a disputed election. Human rights activists said one protester was killed by a gunshot to the head during a street battle with police. The violence marked an escalation of a political crisis that has gripped Cambodia since official results from July’s election gave a victory to the party of longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen‚ albeit with a reduced parliamentary
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Song Analysis for First They Killed my Father In Phnom Penh a little girl named Loung and her family had to leave everything behind because of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. Loung Ung wrote a book of her life in Cambodia and three themes for the book are confusion‚ pain‚ and hope. This book is called First They Killed My Father and the song I chose that goes with the book is called Gone too soon by Daughtry. For the song I choose three parts from the book. The parts include when Loung had memories of
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this as a mean to attack. By showing what happens to her characters‚ O’Connor shows what is wrong with these aspects and how her characters are afflicted by them. For example‚ Mrs. Turpin is hit in the face with a book and an unnamed grandmother is killed by a
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rest‚ making it hard to stay strong while traveling. Over the course of several years‚ the family becomes separated and several members die‚ leaving Loung Ung to question the concept of her family. From Loung’s perspective in her memoir‚ “First They Killed My Father”‚ her family is vital although they are forced to separate and start new lives. However‚ after all of the losses she is forced to cope with and the separations of different family members‚ she remains loyal to her family and does not forget
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