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  • Commentary on The Guest

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    Theodore Roosevelt once said In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing Roosevelt meant that success is a consequence of action and inaction teaches us nothing other than regret Roosevelt must have been an existentialist The cornerstone of existentialism is that the individual is responsible for his own happiness and success The Guest a short story written by Albert Camus himself a well

  • Reality Invaded by Dreams in American Fiction

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    AMERICAN FICTION LEVEL 3 Reality invaded by dream Borges How apt a title would this be for an essay on representing America Answer with specific reference to ONE OR MORE texts The subject of our study hinges round a quotation by Jorge Luis Borges which encapsulates in a paradoxical phrase two notions which are essential to grasp the gist of American writing about America This antithesis opposing and uniting the notion of reality and reality brings back to mind themes which have been largely pic

  • Minimalism in Cathedral

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    Raymond Carver Cathedral Raymond Carver uses a minimalist style in his 1982 story Cathedral to develop his main character and take the character through a journey to self realization The minimalist style helps to create a main character that is a very minimal person The main character in Cathedral is a very basic man with prejudices against his wifes friend Robert who is blind The narrator who is the main character does not know how to have deep meaningful relationships He is simply existing In

  • Commentary on Desert Places

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    Alone In this poem Desert Places Robert Frost uses aspects of nature such as a desert the title of the poem so to express the ambiguity and the solitude of the surroundings In beginning in the first three stanzas we see how nature can give a sense of death and aloneness but in the fourth stanza we really see how Frost relates all this to himself and his state of mind that gives the poem a depressive tone Therefore this poem is trying to say that isolation and loneliness can give a human a fear

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