IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as
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The protagonist of Beloved even kills her own baby! Inside of the woodshed at 124‚ “two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an infant by the heels in the other”(Morrison 175). Morrison’s use of vivid imagery purposely makes readers uncomfortable to show the overwhelming power of maternal love that drove Sethe to kill Beloved. Sethe would much rather endure the emotional pain of killing her own child than allow her
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B: Living with Strangers Siri Hustvedt is famous for her essays and an interesting one is "Living with Strangers"‚ where Hustvedt enlightens us with her viewpoints on the two different types of living; suburban and urban. Siri Hustvedt shows exactly what a talented writer she is in this essay. Hustvedt manages to place the essay "Living with strangers" just in between a short story and an article‚ as it’s not purely fiction and yet not entirely literal either. All-though‚ she keeps her main focus
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Georg Simmels’‚ The Stranger‚ gives us an in depth view of who strangers are and how they affect the community they are apart of. It combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of nearness and farness and how they connect to the broader social communities. The behavior of a normal or "inside" group within a society is standard‚ thus causing every other behavior that is different to this norm to be negative. The stranger is valued for his or her objectivity‚ for being able to take a distanced
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personal gain and unjust propaganda‚ but at least not all hope is lost; the Herbert Morrison technical High band sculpture people to appreciate the music way‚ therefore instilling values and morals; that can prepare them for the working world. Therefore this study will look at the Herbert Morrison Technical School Band and how it contributed to the personal development of its members. Topic: How does the Herbert Morrison
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acts of the late 1960s. The members were Jim Morrison‚ who was singing‚ on the guitar Robbie Krieger‚ the drummer John Dencemore and Manzarek playing the organ. At first they arose on birthday or weddings. Then came the day where they signed an contract with Columbia‚ which was dessolved after a short time. The Doors played for little money in pub called "London Fog"‚ where they devoloped their unmistakable music style. In the first time Jim Morrison sang with the back to the public‚ because of
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Talking to Strangers Online In recent years‚ the Internet has proved itself to be a niche of ever-growing clientele‚ offering its users a multitude of venues of entertainment‚ education and other beneficial uses; but other venues of mischief it provides as well. It has been a matter of public discord and a concern of parents and educationalists that millions of teen patrons are now ’online.’ A lot of them use the internet regularly‚ interacting with all sorts of content and technologies‚ and yet
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Jim Morrison "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to letting a person be what he really is.... Most people love you for who you pretend to be.... To keep their love‚ you keep pretending performing. You get to love your pretense.... It’s true‚ we’re locked in an image‚ an act and the sad thing is
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the child in school. It was Jim Morrison‚ lead singer for the the band The Doors‚ who said‚ “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us
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Sisyphus" was the basis for future reference to what literary critics and the like would refer to as the "tragic hero". The tragic hero‚ as defined by Camus‚ is a character in a story‚ play‚ or novel that is forever doomed to an undesirable fate. In The Stranger‚ the story’s protagonist Monsieur Meursault would be defined as a "tragic hero". He is eventually doomed to a most horrible fate‚ he feels no hope for himself or his survival‚ and he accepts what he has to do with no question. As a result of the
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