Beyond this general idea of progress, the narrative of oil is also associated with individual success and is overall seen as a savior that can perform miracles for humanity. However, it also is the cause of some social and environmental injustice. An other narrative that is also frequently assumed to be a universal-solution to peoples’ struggles is the narrative of religion. In Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie drama There Will Be Blood, those two narratives are depicted as opposing forces and are
This found in the totalitarian and regimes in Haiti, as well as, the lives in America. The betrayal of women by men could be part of Danticta’s own personal life experience bleeding into her novel. Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to America at age twelve, to settle in New York. The author being a female from Haiti is important to understand why she uses female protagonists in her novel that suffer
ulterior motives. The Bundren family represents key aspects of modernist literature, allowing Faulkner to sharpen this dysfunctional family purposefully jagged while commenting on larger themes, both creatively and realistically. Told through multiple narratives, readers acquire fragments of the truth as Faulkner introduces, propels, and negates facets of these characters all within pages from one another. The decision to split these perspectives permits the freedom to depict individualistic stories that