The process of change can be overwhelming challenging and traumatic but once ones initial fear is conquered there is a great potential to a better life Change can be brought on by many things an event the coming of age realisation or by a catalyst Two texts in particular The Catcher in the Rye and Secrets and Lies both explore similar aspects of change the difficulty of growing up fear refusal of change and rebellion The Catcher in the Rye published in 1951 by JD Salinger is a novel which consi
Alice Walkers short story Everyday Use is a tightly woven tale that brings together many disparate elements of the story to reinforce the thesis put forward by W E B DuBois that black Americans are trapped in a double consciousness between their African heritage and their American citizenship Walkers story is about the bifurcation between a mother and a daughter between America and Africa and between the two cultures battling for one identity Beyond the obvious identity confusion expressed in t
The Color Purple is a powerful book which shows some of the African American experience early on in time Alice Walker created Celie the main character of this book that has many paths she has to travel to become successful The way Celie became successful was to change physically spiritually and emotionally One of the ways Celie changed was physically In the beginning of the book Celie was raped repeatedly and abused by a guy named Pa He started to choke me saying You better shut up and git used
Colonialism and Beyond in Chinua Achebes An Image of Africa Racism in Conrads Heart of Darkness No Longer at Ease Things Fall Apart Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness Emmanuel Nelsons Chinua Achebe Postcolonial African Writers Willene Taylors A Search for Values in Things Fall Apart Colin Turnbulls he Lonely African This course on colonial and post colonial literature satisfies my cravings for thought and literature that falls outside of the mainstream of the Eurocentric view of things Achebe Wal
The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey is the story of a man named Chief Bromden and his experiences on an extremely problematic ward of a mental hospital during the mid 1900s Early in the novel when it becomes evident that Chief is a classified schizophrenic it raises the question of whether or not anything in the novel is actually happening or if all the events that unfold are just creations of his imagination There are a large number of events that took place in the novel that
Precis The Poisonwood Bible is a 658 page novel written by American author Barbara Kingsolver in 1999 The novel sets a stage of a missionary father Nathan Price that brings his family to Africa during the 1960s Nathan is on a mission to spread Christianity and convert American customs to everyday African customs Kingsolver shows a parallel in how a family is able to be torn apart by conflict and customs to actual occurrences of this in real life Is the expense of an innocent life worth the beco
No one wants to live in a dystopia so people strive for a utopia like world Sometimes society tries too hard like having a string central government control too much technological control or just having excessive rules And so it ends up becoming the citizens worst nightmare These kinds of situations are what the novel 1984 and the movie Brazil deal with In 1984 and Brazil though both protagonists were in similar situations their characteristics and government bureaucracy contrasted greatly Thou
Literary Analysis for Everyday Use In Everyday Use Alice Walker writes about a family and their heritage The mother and daughter Maggie are getting prepared for a visit from Dee Maggies sister and her husband Hakim a barber While they are visiting Dee begins to look for old belongings that were in the last house that was burned down also where Maggie was burned The most valuable thing the Dee wanted was the quilts that Grandma Dee and Big Dee her aunt made long ago She could not get them becaus
Out With the Old And In With the New in Everyday Use In the short story Everyday Use the conflict between Mama and Dee helps to reveal the stories theme Mama is very old fashioned and hard working while Dee is young arrogant and educated Mama and Maggie are content with tradition because that is all they know but Dee has the opportunity to go to college and lets it go to her head She seems to forget where she came from and takes the blessings in her life for granted This story was written in th