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Adichie, C. (2009). The Danger of a Single Story. The talk ‘the Danger of a single story’ by Chimamanda Adichie is about the harm associated with looking at things from one perspective. Chimamanda implies that people tend to look at things as they have been taught, even if the lessons passed may be a stereotype. … Read more
Dear Ms Bleakley, I am writing you to in regard to the stage 6 syllabus of the potential inclusion of the novel ‘Infinite Jest’ by Davis Forster. Infinite Jest is a pronounced text that is incontrovertibly ideal to be integrated into the stage 6 syllabus. Infinite Jest is a prestigious novel, making “Time Magazine’s top … Read more
Adapted from the 1998 novel “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, the movie Arrival (2016) as the name suggests, is the story of an extraterrestrial invasion on earth. The movie follows a linguistics professor, a physicist and a team of US soldiers whose main goal is to find the reason for the aliens’ presence … Read more
The world today is much more diverse than it used to be. This is the same case with America wherein people of all nationalities can be found. The mingling of all sorts of people has generated challenges and difficulties in communication. This is true in the case of English as a second language where most … Read more
The end of 1980 was a significant moment for the fans of Sherlock Holmes. The copyright for Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories expired. All of his works,produced before 1923, were now in the public domain. This fact was almost immediately used by Granada Television, who in 1984 produced the television series The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. … Read more
Roald Dahl When I say the name Roald Dahl, I doubt many of you have any idea who i’m talking about. But I would be willing to bet every single person in this room has heard of some of his books. Roald Dahl is the author of several classic childrens’ books, including James and the … Read more
The book that I am choosing to evaluate this time around is The Secret Garden. The Secret Garden is a coming-of-age story in the Children’s Literature genre that is told in a third-person point of view. The Children’s Literature genre is one that is very specific with it’s target audience as well as the story … Read more
Dear RI English Head of Department, I am writing this letter to justify my view of why Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart should be included in the English literature curriculum for students in the school. Things Fall Apart is a Greek tragedy, where the main character’s moral flaws bring him to ruin in a … Read more
Orwell’s thesis acknowledges how writers use degraded and inaccurate language to express a thought. The modern form of English writing contains unnecessary elements, ultimately degrading the quality of a written text. Furthermore, Orwell specifically explains the pretentious diction and meaningless words used in writing. Though Orwell’s thesis is evident throughout the passage, he does not … Read more
Purpose ‘The Most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists’ V.S. Pritchett, The Times The book is a detailed story of life changing as well as moral crisis of Henry Scobie. Graham, a British Intelligence Officer working in Sierra Leone, drew from his experience while writing the novel. Although, the location was not mentioned in … Read more
The body is a parasite to the soul, feeding off of its intellect and distracting it with desire. While in human, mortal form, the body and soul are bound together, and the soul must cope with the needs of the body. In Plato’s Phaedo, Plato uses Socrates to explain the harmful effects of the relationship … Read more
Question 7: Knowledge of the social, historical and cultural context of a text and its writer is often indispensable in the reader coming to grips with the central themes of a text. Discuss with reference to Heart of Darkness Literary critic Nathaniel Hawthorne statement that “in Heart of Darkness, Conrad takes his deepest look into … Read more
In The Great Gatsby, dreams and illusions epitomized and personified a paralysis between two realities: between an irrevocable past and a transitory future. Arguably a blessing and a curse, such dreams and illusions are born from yearnings, pursuits, and dissatisfactions. Also part of two worlds, worlds that are mavericks to governing dualities like light and … Read more
The moral values of humans’ life are far more important than any war or a country’s agenda to gain resources. In both the show Game of thrones and Bartalome De Las Casas writing “The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies”, both displays a scene of human torture and slavery. To which neither … Read more
In his essay “Mr. Lytle,” John Sullivan does not state a certain opinion, important from the social or public perspective, neither tries the author to teach or impose some knowledge to the audience. This particular essay is rather a reflection on the period when Sullivan, still a young man in search for calling, a university … Read more
