option is within reach. Making sense of your life is difficult when you are young, as you are still in the process of creating yourself and finding your own meaning of life. These issues are also addressed in Anna Hope’s short story “A Gap of Sky” from 2008. At the start of the story, the 19-year-old main character Ellie has just woken up from sleeping.
The protagonist of the story Miss Mackenzie, an elderly yet not a grumbling spinster, rather a polite and a spirited one is shown to share an intrinsic bond with nature. She lives amidst the serene hills in the Himalayan Mulberry Cottage. A cat shares the snug refuge with her
Now” and Kurtz’s reading of the T. S. Eliot poem “The Hollow Men”. Let me begin this short essay by relating the term “hollow” to Conrad’s whole novel. “Heart of Darkness” is basically a story about men with no humanity (or even specific personalities), who go to Africa and blindly search for ivory all their lives. There is a very obvious and important conflict between modernization and savagery in the story. I strongly believe that Marlow represents the European mindless modernity while Kurtz
Many writers have appeared on the literary scene in the post-slavery era and the end of the American Civil War, where the writer was particularly concerned about the living conditions of the blacks and their suffering. In fact, the problem of blacks did not end completely even after the declaration of Abraham Lincolns declaration of slavery was freed in 1862 and even after the passage of the actual law of 1863 of the Declaration of Liberty. The black faced many problems after this period, including
Irengbam Dr Rajneesh Mishra NTCC term paper 24 October 2015 Racial relation To kill a mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee, it was published in 1960. It was an immediate success winning the Pulitzer prize and it is also regarded as a classic in modern American literature. This novel deals with issues of rape and racial inequality but it is also renowned for its good characteristics like warmth and humour. We can see that the characters and plots are loosely based upon the writer’s observation of
Washington Irving (1783 –1859) was born in the year United Stated achieved independence from Britain and he was named after the Father of His Country, George Washington. He is known as the father of American Literature. He “legitimated the writer as writer, someone distinct from other occupations, and he vindicated the artwork as just that, a work of art and not a vehicle for moral or civic instruction” (Gilmore 661-662). He was the American writer who made authorship profitable. "If the American
Whereas, it is under discussion whether since the reunification in 1997, Hong Kong has been gradually transformed into a part of China in terms of culture and identity and, thus, will no longer be a separated imagined community in the future. This short essay will firstly illustrate why Hong Kong is an imagined community till nowadays and then discuss the future of this community. Hong Kong as a community is imagined because, as Anderson states, its members will never know most of
Media theory is the communication theory which is mainly explain how the media spread the cultural knowledge or information to society. Propaganda techniques involved in the media theory which is expanding in the age of propaganda that cause media would apply the technique of propaganda that can create the data more helpful and achievable in broad communications that including online networking, electronic media, print media, communicate media and other. In any case, purposeful publicity method hypotheses
in some cases, the OE and the ON word coexisted alongside each other, with one of them taking on a slightly different meaning. The native word scyrte has become shirt in Modern English; the sc prefix in Old English was pronounced as ‘sh’. The Norse word, skyrta, developed into skirt. The original meaning was probably 'a short piece of clothing.' (Baugh & Cable, 1951) Test of
The Relationship between Morality and Religion This essay explores how religion and morality intertwine. More often, morality is perceived unsatisfactory without religion because why should someone be moral if there is no reward after every day life’s struggles. According to Gaukroger (2012), during the 17th century, it was perceived that morality could not do without religion. This view gradually changed in 1690 when Pierre Bayle asserted that religion is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality