parents‚ who had emigrated from India. Enlarge This Image Brian Cronin for The New York Times Related Go to Education Life » Enlarge This Image Peg Skorpinski Sather Gate‚ a literal and symbolic portal on Berkeley’s campus. Readers’ Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (250) » Why was he not top-ranked by the “world’s premier public university‚” as Berkeley calls itself? Perhaps others had perfect grades and scores? They did indeed. Were they ranked
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Expecting to grow properly and learn what one must when put in an unfamiliar generation‚ is as if trying to teach a person to walk through the example of a whale-both are mammals but are impossible to compare. This is evident in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader‚ where fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is involved in a secretive‚ intense‚ and passionate relationship with thirty-six-year-old Hanna Schmitz. Hanna is leading the relationship so much so that when they fight‚ regardless of who is right or wrong‚ Michael
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Questions on Writing Strategy 1. The author uses the "I would..." repetitively to show that his confused feeling as a child was so vivid in his memory. This vivid memory and the author’s way of expressing it makes the reader feel more part of the time period that it was written in. 2. The last paragraph is effective because White uses very descriptive details‚ such as "buckled the swollen belt" to explain the accounts of his son jumping in the water just like he had once done and as the son jumped
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words are called vocabulary words. Reading helps people improve their word range. Readers tend to search for the meaning of an unfamiliar word which improves their vocabulary. Readers are also able to widen their vocabulary when they use context clues. Readers have different vocabulary range. Most of the people have the impression that a bookworm have a wide range of vocabulary. But‚ in reality‚ not all ardent readers have a wide range of vocabulary. So‚ this study aims to know why these situations
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Hitler’s command and his cruel‚ racist‚ immoral Jewish holocaust. Ethics and moral never existed in that country by that time‚ thus Germans only lived under the “law”. One special case of this atrocity was the one of Hanna Schmitz‚ in the movie The Reader. Some people would say that Hanna Schmitz was a right person based on the fact that she helped Michael Berg during his youth and also the fact that she was a disciplined worker. However‚ she manipulated Michael Berg‚ killed around three hundred people
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A good reader will ask themselves questions as they read along‚ using sticky notes for that section. This technique allows the readers to come back to the questions and answer them after reader more of the novel or essay. Also‚ a good reader uses hints the author hides through the passage for the reader to interpret. This lets readers figure out what message the author wants the reader to know. Good readers are active readers which means they use their reading experiences for support by bring knowledge
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be seen through both the novel The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and the film Atonement directed by Joe Wright. Guilt is a prevailing theme in both Atonement and The Reader. In The Reader‚ guilt is persistently explored as a reoccurring theme. ‘and when I feel guilty‚ the feelings of guilt return; if I yearn for something today‚ or feel homesick‚ I feel the yearnings and homesickness from back then.’ (pp. 215) This quote highlights the principle to the reader that feelings of guilt‚ while not always
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Nabokov: Providing a Flood and Lifeboat In Nabokov’s 1948 “Good Readers and Good Writers‚” the reader has the opportunity to view the possibilities of a beautiful collision of a major reader and a major writer. This piece discusses reading and writing: skills that have become standardized and slightly devalued as education has advanced. Literacy has become so expected that little thought is put into what defines a good reader or writer; Nabokov tackles this idea head on. Nabokov’s intention
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Generational Perspectives on the War in The Reader In the book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink‚ the main character Michael Berg encounters several characters that lived in Germany during the Nazi regime. Through these encounters Bernhard Schlink depicts the differences in perspective between the generation born after the war and those who lived through it. These differences lead to awkwardness and conflict and show the difficulty of these two generations to reach a resolution. The
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The relationship between reader and writer is intertwined. Of course‚ a writer can write without a reader‚ but if their words remain unread and unexplored‚ then do the words really mean anything? On the other side‚ a reader cannot exist without a writer. Therefore the relationship is one of symbiosis a relationship of mutual benefit or dependence. I view the writer as someone who is writing for my pleasure‚ and hopefully for theirs as well. To pick up a book and be transported to another
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