very confusing way. The reader has to be actively reading the story or you will miss something which I did the first time reading through it. I was lost until I got to the end and understood the way the author structured the story. I was challenged as a reader at times because the story was written out of order on purpose. Being written the way it was‚ the story gets a more interesting edge and pulls the reader in‚ it intrigued me a lot. After reading it a second time the reader can see that certain
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wealthy or not‚ his violence touches anyone who is a bad person or commits heinous crimes against others. In fact‚ I think the violence contained in the series is the least interesting aspect of the show. The villains who end up on Dexter’s infamous table all die in the same way and the mechanics of the act aren’t important. I think what is interesting is the fact that each of the killings add complexity to Dexter the character and the narrative. In fact‚ most viewers are left feeling as if Dexter is
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ENG-101-W03 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood 23 January 2013 Reading Response 1 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood is a short story about a trauma that had a tremendous effect on the life of a young girl named Lois. The story begins with Lois living alone in an apartment. She is a widow with two grown children. Lois collects paintings of landscapes and she likes her apartment because they all fit on the walls. I do not believe that Lois likes the paintings‚ but she seems to need
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The Welcome Table Nadine Robinson Eng 125 – Introduction to Literature Instructor Mirranda Saake May 2‚ 2011 Electing the short story “The Welcome Story”‚ by Alice Walker (1970) for me was an easy choice for me to write a critiqued essay about. I am using a reader response approach in my critical essay. I like this approach because of the initial dedication to her sister Clara Ward‚ “I’m going to sit at the welcome table‚ shout my troubles over‚ walk and talk with Jesus‚ tell God how you
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Self-hatred can ruin your life if you let it control your thoughts and actions. This is one of the many themes in “Mirror Image” and I think it is the most important. Humans have a tendency to dislike themselves and only see their faults. The first sentence‚ “If only there were no mirrors” talks about how she doesn’t actually want to see how she looks and that life would be easier without seeing how you look all the time. Alice had a brain transplant and since she has a different body she has started
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Disturbing‚ Anger and A Little Bit of Happiness Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ a great American gothic writer‚ wrote many different‚ amazing stories including the classic novel‚ “The Birthmark”. The Birthmark is about Aylmer‚ his wife Georgiana and the birthmark that lays upon her cheek. One day‚ Aylmer asks his wife whether she has ever thought about removing the birthmark on her cheek. She cheerfully says no but grows serious when she realizes that he asked the question seriously. Many people have told
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To Kill A Mockingbird—Response Harper Lee’s book‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” is‚ in my opinion‚ a book with a diverse collection of messages‚ skillfully woven into an interesting and engaging story. It seems to me‚ though‚ that the book is very focused on symbolism. The symbol of mockingbirds is reoccurring in the book. It appears in the title‚ it is suggested in various characters and situations‚ and in parts of the book it is stated explicitly. For example‚ on page 90‚ Atticus told Scout and Jem
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tired of looking like a boy’. The wife goes through some internal struggles and wants to break out of her current life to make some huge changes‚ first by altering her appearance. She also mentions changing her lifestyle such as ‘I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles.’ The husband‚ George‚ shows no particular interest or even gets annoyed when his wife shows these changes after trying to get the cat. He pays no attention as her wife is saying how much she wants to get a new
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New Criticism vs. Reader-Response A piece of work can be evaluated in plenty of ways. Critique methods such as Reader-Response‚ Deconstructive Criticism‚ New Criticism‚ and many others act as examples of literary evaluations. All of the critique methods share similarities‚ but differ in other ways. Reader-Response and New Criticism‚ for example‚ share characteristics but they are also two very opposing things. Reader-Response focuses on attention towards the text influenced by the reader’s thoughts
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Although the actual motive for killing was different in each of the novels Perfume and Frankenstein‚ it seems there were a few underlying similarities in the events that led up to the each character becoming a serial killer. In spite of the fact that each novel is about the progression of the main character’s serial killings‚ I still believe there is a clear moral message present in both the novels. In the novel Perfume‚ Grenouille is a young man who grows up never knowing a sense of belonging
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