in everyday life if you ignore the problem or person long enough it can destroy your life or the life of someone very close to you or that you are trying to protect. This is an idea that both Tim O’Brian and Carl Deuker explore in their books‚ The Things They Carried and Gym Candy‚ respectively. The fact that friendships‚ people’s feelings‚ and even human life itself may be at risk‚ makes it that much more important that this ignorance be found and dealt with properly so we may prevent people from
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What others may think of you should not be the force that drives you‚ in Things Fall Apart‚ Okonkwo lived each day trying to prove that he was a strong man even if it required him to make the wrong decisions. Okonkwo was a man of great honor in the village of Umoufia. He was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame was due to his personal achievements. He lived in fear of being a failure or thought weak as his father was; Okonkwo did everything in his power to have the respect
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Kontum high school quarterback Dylan Ross carried his football gear. Standard equipment for the day’s practice; it weighed about three pounds‚ he figured. Cleats. Gym shorts. Mouth-guard. His shoulder brace. The bag was a constant reminder of the feeling. The feeling of a crowd‚ of the game. Of his father’s proud smile from the bleachers. He would thumb through the contents of the bag during class sometimes‚ when no one was looking‚ just looking over the objects‚ making sure they were all there;
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and the standardised institutions which are recognised as acceptable. Consequently a transgression occurs‚ breaking through either traditional or modern values towards personal ideals of worth‚ freedom‚ love and happiness. The text The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy captures this transgression through the social constructs of the 1960’s post-colonial Indian context‚ female under patriarchal suppression and the defiance of stereotypical gender roles. The movie The Piano‚ directed by Jane
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Certainty is not a bad thing because it makes a person passionate and confident. During this scene‚Jurors 3 and 4 were trying to convince 8 how the defendant was guilty. Juror 8 was the only juror to vote not guilty initially. As jurors 3 and 4 were explaining how clear it was that the defendant was guilty‚ juror 3 stated‚ “They proved it in a dozen ways. Do you want me to list them?”(556)This shows how much evidence there actually is‚ Rose intended to do this to show certainty in the jurors. This
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the big cats‚ the evolutionary poison of the vipers‚ and the numbers of the insects. What sets humanity apart is intelligence and the power of community. The ability to act off of reason instead of instinct allows humanity to dominate the world. Things Fall Apart is a novel set in tribal Africa which shows both the power and weakness of human reasoning. The protagonist Okonkwo struggles with a time of change and traditional ideas of masculinity‚ and his actions set against the Kantian idea of rationality
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Is change a good thing? Who wonder if this statement was really true‚ and yes‚ nothing remains the same. Everybody faces changes in life. Change of class in school‚ moving house‚ progressing from a primary student to a high school student‚ and the loss of loved ones. When you ask someone‚ “Is change a Good Thing?” Many people would say “no.” As humans‚ we tend to focus on all the negative changes that happen to us. We do not go deep into these changes and ask ourselves whether there is another
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The Things They Carried is an influential reflection possible experience of soldiers up close and in their minds during and after the Vietnam War. The work is‚ at the same time‚ O’Brian’s memoir‚ but also collection of fictional short stories. Throughout the book O’Brien straightaway shapes the line between fact and fiction by consecrating the novel on to the individual soldiers‚ where the reader soon discovers that they are fictional characters. O’Brian continues to confuse the audience with this
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While reading Things Fall Apart‚ I noticed quite a few differences in culture. There is many different ceremonies and practices in place in the African heritage. The yam growing feast is one example of something we are not used to. To think that you spend the day feasting in hopes of a good harvest seems silly. The men and women both have very distinct roles whereas in America sometimes the roles cross and the lines blur. Women in the African culture were in charge of running the household and
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Rahel was unusually aware of the "small things" going on during the funeral; she believed that that Sophie Mol was awake during the funeral and showed Rahel two things. The first was the unusual paintwork on the ceiling of the cathedral; it showed a blue sky complete with clouds and tiny airplanes. Rahel imagined the artist who painted it falling from his perch and cracking his head open‚ "dark blood spilling from his skull like a secret." The second thing was a baby bat that crawled up Baby Kochamma’s
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