Chapter 15 of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very significant part in the story It is important in showing how much Okonkwo has changed since being exiled from his village and going to live in his motherland We heard in the previous chapter of his first couple of days but this chapter is set 2 years later when he has become accustomed to the very different atmosphere of the village of Mbanta During this chapter is his first contact with Umuofia his old village which comes in the form o
Another personal virtue that is a major theme in the epic is loyalty The most striking example of loyalty in the epic is of course Penelope who waits faithfully for 20 years for her husbands return Another example is Telemachus who stands by his father against the suitors Odysseus old nurse Eurycleia remains loyal to Penelope and her absent master Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd are exemplary in their loyalty to their master and his possessions Also an excellent if humble host
Speak Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a teenage girl who has to overcome one of the hardest challenges of life Melinda was raped at a party and has to deal with it on her own because it seems as though she has lost her voice By the beginning of her freshman year she has no friends because she called the police on the party she was raped at so she feels like an outcast a nobody Anderson shows Melindas stages of well being through an art project that was assigned to her by her art teacher
Question 2 William Goldings Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novel of modern times Discuss the above statement in the form of reader response essay Clearly explain the reasons why the novel can be considered popular in all aspects such as language style plot themes conflicts and issues with an element of suspense sinister good and evil etc Support your arguments with contextual evidences quotations and facts Your response will be assessed on the following aspects 1
Lord of the Flies To Survive by All Means What if you survived a plane crash how lucky would you be In this novel not all survivors wished they survived because the events after the crash was actually worst then the crash itself A plane had crashed into an unknown uninhabited and wild island Only a group of young boys had survived this horrible disaster With the odds of being rescued slim to none and no adult supervision to create law and order how can these survivors even survive through it As
The Key To Survival The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is divided up into three sections that at first seem fairly inconsequential to one another However shortly into the reading of the second part of the novel a reader will realize the importance and depth reached by bring these two separate pieces of work together One of the most obvious themes of the novel enhanced by strong metaphors and symbols is survival Martel is able to indirectly describe nearly every type of basic survival strategy
Martel gives the reader the democratic choice the desire to believe rather than the belief itself We do not have to agree with the ideology Martel delivers but we can support to the full the way he says it for Martel inspires the readers desire by invoking the spirit of the fairy tale the simple narrative which may reveal virtues and ethics yet is primarily concerned with entertaining the reader or listener as young children often are of such stories in magical ways which powerfully invoke the
Throughout the play Hamlet Shakespeare displays many underlying themes by way of imagery Throughout the story disease plagues Denmark and the people in it shown by imagery that Shakespear delivers consistently throughout In the opening scene Horatio makes an interesting statement As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood Disasters in the sun and the moist star upon whose influence Neptunes empire stands was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse 1 1 117 120 He compared the ghost as a possibl
Could you imagine a world where firefighters start fires rather than putting them out What if you lived in a society where the people do not read books enjoy nature spend time by themselves think independently or have meaningful conversations Instead they watch excessive amounts of TV on wall size sets drive super fast and listen to the radio on seashell sets attached to their ears This is Guy Montags strange world presented in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Mont
Empire of the Sun Empire of the sun is a rites of passage novel about James Ballards life in Shanghai during the Japanese invasion in the 1940s It describes James life from how he changes from a posh and upper class expatriate to becoming a lonely Shanghai roamer and his time at Lunghua camp at which his views of the four main nations in the book England Japan China and America change completely Ballard presents the English at the beginning of the novel as a superpower posh and rich We know thi