A. Rose Miller 11/06/12 1st Reader Response The first eight chapters of Candide are undoubtedly interesting. I like particularly because of the philosophical ideas that appear in every other page. It is clearly meant to be humorous or satirical but, I don’t have much of a liking to those two concepts. This book doesn’t remind me of anything in particular, other than the unusual streak of bad luck that both Candide and myself share.
Judging by the cover of Mark Haddon’s, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, I did not think I would enjoy this novel. Though, as I began reading this feeling soon became a polar opposite. This is truly one of the best books I have ever read… and I haven’t even past page 79 yet. It is interesting that it is written in first person. It helps us as readers better understand Christopher but it gets confusing at times with all the riddles.
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt is actually quite an engaging book once you really read it and learn to be open-minded about it. The first half is very confusing, full of digressions and confusing changes of scenes as it is. Despite this, once you get past the bewildering twists and turns of the point of view, and the perplexing dialogue, you start enjoying the wit and intelligence portrayed in the book, especially by the main characters, Sibylla Newman and her son Ludovic. Sibylla is seen using unorthodox ways of teaching Ludovic about the world. She starts educating him at a young age about things that would normally be taught to youths a decade older than him.
Fifteen, sixteen are the age when you can get influenced easily by others. Charlie lost his father, this affect him quite a bit because his father was a person who was influencing on him the most. My father had massive influences on myself, even though my parents aren’t together anymore. Charlie won’t see his father anymore and I don’t see my dad at all. But somehow, his influences are still around me.
A Wrinkle in Time Reflects the Cultural Clime: Madeline L’Engle and America It is virtually impossible to pigeonhole A Wrinkle in Time. It is, first and foremost, a children’s novel. Its subject matter, however, deals with good and evil on a universal scale, tackling matters that confound many adults. It was groundbreaking in its approach, assuming that children would be more than capable of grasping its moral and scientific concepts. In fact, the scientific concepts themselves were quite revolutionary in their presentation.
In the end, they managed it together and each of their hopes comes true. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture. Children like it because it is a kind of good story, full of fun characters and exciting adventures. Adults, in case of its field and history, also like the novel because they can read between. When we concern on the symbols in the novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is no longer an innocent fairy tale, it has underlying meanings that symbolize various ideas of political interpretations as evidenced in its intrinsic unsure and its relation with ironic portraits of America in that era.
I could relate to Maya as in how he’s really nice and caring, and likes to have fun. This book wasn’t predictable you could never really guess what was coming next and that’s one of the best things about the author. I think Maya wrote the book to entertain people, while showing people that theirs always more in life, and that people should really make the best out of their lives. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy books and voice like the author has. It’s an amazing book and filled with funny enjoyable moments that will leave you reading wondering what’s next.
The Great Gatsby Passage 2 Commentary F. Scott Fitzgerald gave his novel The Great Gatsby much more depth than is first observed by the reader. One can read the novel, and be completely enthralled by the story without noticing the complexity it contains. A closer look at the novel reveals so much more to the reader than could be imagined, by examining the careful word choice chosen by the author. In this passage, Fitzgerald makes particular use of his language to make evident the theme of pride. Pride can be a good thing, but it can often have negative connotations.
Not all of the literature during this time was challenging or demeaning. Much of it was soothing or calming in order to improve society’s morale. It allowed society to escape from the harsh conditions of the world and into the world of literature, where it can be interpreted as the reader desires. Two of the best selling novels of the decade were set in earlier eras, induced with a romantic setting: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936) and Hervey Allen’s Anthony Adverse (1933). These kinds of stories were highly upheld by the public because it had given them the opportunity to temporarily forget their own troubles and fantasize about the fortunes of others.
He’s living at home in the beginning, but gets kicked out by his parents because of his drug addiction. Though he is only fifteen he knows a lot about drugs and dealing, and the writer makes him sound like he has been doing drugs for a long time. The environment he is born in, the environment we all are born in is not self-chosen. We don’t choose were we are born and which conditions we are born in to, but the question is, can we break out of the environment we are born in to a better environment? Or perhaps a worse environment than