For example, "I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals" (Nafisi 1). The author is explaining how empathy is what people use to make connections to one another and how people share a link despite the differences from each other. Next, the author uses huckleberry Finn and the slave to demonstrate empathy between the two; showing how huckleberry Finn was going to give up on the slave, but he thought about the bad condition the slave was in.
Disability Revisited Criticizing misrepresentation in media is much like complaining that a desert is too dry; completely obvious and there’s not too much you can do about it. To voice her frustrations, Nancy Mairs composes a very blunt, matter-of-fact, somewhat satirical, essay scolding media for their portrayal of the disabled. Although her position is understandable, her approach in the essay is slightly jumbled. Mairs tends to use too many different emotions to relay information and her opinions to her audience. As an introduction, Mairs attempts to gain sympathy and personal connection with her readers by describing her physical disabilities due to MS (multiple sclerosis).
Auden utilises satire to communicate the negative perspective of dictators in "Epitaph of a Tyrant" (1939). "The UN speech on Gender Equality" (2014) by Emma Watson combines speech and literary devices to carry forward her representation of gender equality to deliver meaning. In addition, W.H. Auden's "O What is that Sound" (1936) expresses his representation of the threat of communism through poetic techniques. Both Auden and Watson effectively form representations and perspectives through the implementation of techniques within their texts.
Though, it was taken too far when words began to hurt. In the piece, Countee Cullen’s, "Incident", the author expresses his opinions on racism and how a word or a phrase can stick with a human being and change their experience in life. Cullen demonstrates this situation by adding a word in his poem that changes the direction of the piece. By showing us this change, Cullen expresses his
Margaret Atwood’s speech “Spotty Handed Villainesses” explores Patriarchy, feminism and “bad” women in literature. She uses wit and humour to disarm the audience and often uses anti-climatic statements to grab the audience’s attention. Margaret Atwood’s speech resonates through time with her critical study of feminism in a social context and the impact that feminism has had on literature. In the speech Atwood explores the moral dichotomy that exists in Women at the time. She shows how women can only be categorised as either an angel or a whore.
How effective is the setting in revealing information about Maycomb? Settings in a novel is essential for the use the plot of a story and assists in depicting themes found in a novel through the use of characters and descriptive language in the novel. The effectiveness of this, helps a reader sense and determine a character's emotions and behaviours that link back to the theme/s of the novel. Harper Lee's prize winning novel: To Kill A Mockingbird, reveals the setting of Maycomb society around the concerns of ignorance, discrimination and hypocrisy. Maycomb society and it's setting is situated around the concerns of ignorance.
Rachel G True Identity The short story “Flight Patterns,” by Sherman Alexie, tells the story of William, a victim and culprit of stereotyping, who indulges in the typical American life. Alexie, throughout the short story, incorporates vivid diction and characterization in order to introduce readers to the fact that present-day reality involves extreme amounts of stereotyping. The purpose of such incorporation is to allow readers to understand the significance of race to a society. In simpler terms, by analyzing the characterization throughout the short story, one can see that race is a leading factor that causes stereotypes. Race, due to its stereotypical nature, should not be used to portray an individual’s true identity.
205281488 Period 1 Ms.Langenberg Prompt: “What are the writers purposes and which devices are implemented to meet their objectives?” The works, “MOTHER TO SON “ by Langston Hughes and “NATIVE SON” by Richard Wright, both serve one purpose and that is to change the point of view of segregation. The theme that can be applied to both works is racism. Both authors use certain devices to help meet their purpose. Langston Hughes uses ethos, which is appealing to the reader through credibility. Richard Wright uses various techniques one of them being language and another being repetition.
Farmer highlights the inner resilience of her characters as they come to realise their place in the world. In a selected passage from “A Woman in a Mirror”, readers are confronted with a nameless protagonist, a universal emblem of society’s tendency to ignore the torment of illness and death rather than face the truth. The protagonist’s underlying tendency to refuse to acquiesce to the very possible thought of “cancer of the cervix” preferring to “take risks”, “I never took risks” appears to have tailgated her apparent “solitude”. Farmer’s focus on emotional disconnection is a reiterated one, whether it be in effect of the internal isolation, such as “A man in the Laundrette” or the result of cultural displacement “Ismini” and “Pumpkin”. The protagonist’s self-pity is often stressed in her reference of time, “Time was andante” as she procrastinates her shear loneliness without addressing the common cause “Peter had died”, preferring to delve into the intrinsics of the event as the “car glided under the lorry”, rather than acquiesce to the reality of her impeding future.
William Shakespeare and Reginald Rose both use dramatic techniques to make the audience question the world they live in. They achieve this with how they change things like setting and tone which can be a massive eye opener to viewers (about the world we live in today) as the two plays reveal things like racism, justice and sexism. Both plays challenge audiences views on racism. Racism is a key part in both plays showing different societies and peoples (as individuals) views about other race, background and religion. Viewers watching this can see this seemingly made obvious feature of the play may then be able to see something similar happening in real life or relate to it.