My Second Excursion to Whangedoodleland: An Analysis of Reader’s Response Theory First proposed by the late Louise Rosenblatt, reader’s response theory is an innovative conjecture on how and why people react in varying ways to a text. Specifically, Rosenblatt states in her work that a reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition when interacting with a text. In her second
Alexandra Wisnios Mrs.Duncan ENG4U0-C November 30th 2015 Vocabulary Analysis 1. Decorum Source: “I hunger to touch something, other than cloth or wood. I hunger to commit the act of touch. But even if I were to ask, even if I were to violate decorum to that extent, Rita would not allow it.” (7) Definition: (n) Behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety. Evaluation: Atwood’s use of the word decorum is literal. She is using it to explain the certain behaviour, in which she could possibly
attitude has changed and developed into a person who is more mentally stable and not volatile. I wasn’t really impressed by Zits at all when I first met him. I pitied him for his horrible and sad life. He comes off as a very negative and demeaning character that seems to have given up on hope and nothing to look forward to in life. He’s 15 year old mixed Indian-American. His father left him at birth and his mother died of cancer at the age of six. Ever since he’s been jumping from foster home to foster
His name is John, during his childhood his mother tried to continue the world states codes this cause her and John to be targeted by the tribeswomen. One night, several women came into John’s house they were there for revenge. At the end John “was crying, because
In Cinderella, the inspirational figure is a female, whereas in Pretty Woman the character that is shaped around Cinderella’s fairy godmother is illustrated through a male. Where the main character is feeling frustrated and upset by the day’s events, the Fairy Godparent comes forward and proceeds to orchestrate a makeover of sorts. Cinderella, for example, is left standing in rags after
collection of short-stories for pocket books. Apart from all of this, his writing on this book has proved to be his most acknowledged piece of work. He also wrote the screenplay for the very renowned film version of the same book, entitled by the same name, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. The film won the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature, as well as the 2013 People's Choice Award for Best Dramatic Movie.
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and