Bamdad Attarn IB HL English The Things They Carried Commentary: How to Tell a True War Story Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a work of metafiction that manages to test fiction in its very nature through the chapter‚ “How to Tell a True War Story.” The blurred line between reality and the imagination is explored by the given account—the reader is alienated and forced to think‚ does the truth matter in a war story? This chapter alternates in narration between O’Brien as a soldier
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1. What basic assumptions lead to the development of the biological assumption? 2. Identify the research methods employed in the study of the biological perspective? The biological perspective is the approach in which links how we think and what we do‚ to our physical being as a biological organism. There are two basic assumptions which direct us to this perspective; a) the relationship between the mind and body and b) the influence of heredity on behaviour. These two ideas come from two different
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“Then from the moor‚ in a blanket of mist‚ Grendel came stalking” (ln. 710). So begins what I consider to be the most powerful passage in Beowulf: the first appearance of Grendel. Even from this first line‚ readers are getting a sense of the foreboding that follows where he walks. The description that follows as Grendel reaches the mead hall to kill the human men he finds there is full of powerful language‚ subtle alliteration and vivid imagery that make this important passage even more alive on
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The poem "Rising Five" is written by Norman Nicholson. It is about the human tendency to look forward to the future‚ wondering what will happen‚ hoping for the best and anticipating anything positive (at the expense of living for the present)‚ and how people keep wanting to rush through certain stages of life‚ finally rushing to death itself. The poem begins with the description of a little boy soon turning five‚ and his excitement about his impending birthday. The poet‚ Norman Nicholson‚ stresses
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Death Of A Naturalist By Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’ mainly focuses on Seamus’ experience of collecting and watching frogspawn as a child followed by his reaction on metamorphosis of the frogs from ‘jellies specks’ He loses his innocence. This poem’s title is an extended metaphor. The naturalist in Seamus dies as he experiences the transformation from a child to a man. It’s a comparison between the metamorphosis and the transformation of the tadpoles and the child
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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou explores themes of Social injustice‚ Lack of freedom/choice and Shattered dreams in six stanzas of varying length. There is no set rhyme scheme to the poem but there are noticeable rhymes in stanzas two‚ three‚ four and five. Stanza six is a repetition of stanza three. There are half rhymes throughout. Vocabulary and sentence structure is very straightforward. The stanzas alternate between the free bird’s perspective and that of the caged bird with regularity: two stanzas
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Love can be a great emotion full of joy though it is not the case in ’Otherwise’‚ Cilla McQueen seems to cut into one of the rather disheartening issues‚ a long distant relationship. The free verse structured poem written in first person tells the story of two lovers living on ’opposite’ sides of the world. The title indicates that otherwise expresses contrast between what is reality and what is hoped for. McQueen divided her poem to reflect this contrast‚ and uses it to symbolize an essential difference
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One of the most central issues in ’The Merchant of Venice’ is that of the antagonism between the Jews and the Christians. The unconscious‚ inborn dislike of cultures which jeopardise our way of life. Ever since people have left their homelands to settle in other places there has been conflict between different cultures. So‚ in the play‚ Antonio‚ Bassanio‚ Gratiano and many more of the Christians feel resentment towards Shylock the ’alien’. This is partly because of the trap that he has led Antonio
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The given text is an extract from the short story “My Last Duchess” by Margaret Atwood from the anthology Moral Disorder. The story has the same title as the poem by Robert Browning. Gives tells the reader right away that the poem is central to the story they are about to read. It also tells that the writer expects the reader to know the poem before hand‚ implying that the target audience is sophisticated and educated. The story is told from the first person perspective of a charater named Nell.
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In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ it was almost seen as a felony if one was caught with books in their possessions. The mentality was that books were seen to indoctrinate people to believe in unpopular ideas and also that it can cause people to become antisocial. The ironic part of the book was that Montag‚ a fireman who burned books for a living‚ ended having an open mind and started to read books. This is what books are all about. They open up peoples’ mind and educate them to ideas that
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