The writer of this article talks about how the basement isn’t just a hiding place for a Jew or a refuge to learn but it is a place to rebel against authority when Max transforms it into a setting for creative/political activity by painting over Hitler’s Mein Kampf erasing Hitler’s authority and becoming his own authority. Maslin, Janet. “Stealing to Settle a Score with Life.” New York Times, Published by Janet Maslin, Monday 27 March 2006. Wednesday 30 April 2014. This article is a review on the book itself; however the article also talks about important points involving the main character Liesel Meminger “the book thief” and how they dealt with life during the war.
Spartacus Howard Fast M.E. Sharpe Inc., New York (1993) 363 pages A Quest for Freedom Thesis Throughout Spartacus, Howard Fast depicts this heroic slave war, as a war for freedom, a war that could have caused the collapse of Rome’s economy and government. Even though the story takes place 2,000 years ago, it is very clear that this novel was written to relate to the reader of today. By the end of the book the reader slowly but surely ends up with a profound lesson in the dynamics of social change. Fast also makes the point that the true class foundation of ethics in his strong contrast between the preaching of decadent Roman ruling class and the basic Spartacan code.
Analyzing socially critical themes in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Stranger by Albert Camus Word Count: 1469 Cultural and social criticism is a common characteristic of 20th century literature. Conveying critical notions through fiction, allows for artistic amalgamation of the real with the imaginary and of history with fabrication – rendering intertextuality and providing the reader with room for interpretation. Chronicle of a death foretold, a Latin-American blend of literary genres, critiques a culture within which murder is both, tolerated, condemned and arbitrarily judged. The Outsider, a French existential novel of the interwar period examines social bias regarding nonconformists. Despite fundamentally different literary styles, intents and origins, both works reveal postmodern influences adapted to the author’s respective cultures.
The short story collection ‘Viajeros Perdidos’ comprises twelve works by pre-eminent Spanish writers which explore in different ways the theme of travel and associated ideas of loss and alienation. ‘Lost travellers’, as the title literally translates, people these stories, and one writer who takes a very unique approach to the subject is Paloma Díaz-Mas. In her story, ‘La infanta Ofelia’, she successfully blends the traditions of Spanish Moorish ballads with the stories of Shakespeare in an exploration of the psychological, rather than physical, escape and alienation of its protagonist, symbolically named Ofelia. With its brevity lending the language a poetic feel, the story is deliberately resonant of the ballads which inspired it, and as a piece of writing it has the humorous, ironical insight of an epigram, given its witty ending. It is an adventurous piece, using intertextualisation to recreate a traditional literary ambience and in this way to effect parody and make a comment about romanticism and love.
Al-Qaeda would eventually use tactics used by the IRA decades before. Both organizations have political and religious motives and use bombings and killings to spread fear of their group, including purposely targeting civilians within their own borders, as well as different sects of the same base religion. Where Al-Qaeda has orchestrated attacks all over the globe, the IRA has kept its target as the British and non-supporting Irish parties. Both of these groups have been in decline in recent years, Al-Qaeda due to immense pressure from global anti-terrorism, the IRA from a shift in using terrorism as a tool and lack of
49) is developed and must be both conveyed and preserved by future society to ensure that the institutions in place remain “real”. Key Points: (i) “The institutions, as historical and objective facticities, confront the individual as undeniable facts” (p.46). (ii) “Knowledge is socially objectivated as knowledge, that is, a body of generally valid truths about reality, any radical deviance from the institutional order appears as a departure from reality” (pg.49). Reflections: (i) As we begin to explore and understand what “institutionalization” (pg, 42) actually means, it becomes evident that our own views on this topic have been formed through “institutionalization” (pg. 42) itself.
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American dramatic film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. The film follows the life and career of Charles Foster Kane, a man whose career in the publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power. Movie was narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is revealed through the research of a newspaper reporter Mr. Thompson seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word, "Rosebud". Both films, Amores Perros and Citizen Kane are narrated through flashbacks which show at the beginning and at the end. Each character in each Amores Perros had a relationship with there dog.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude By Gabriel García Márquez Annotated Bibliography Table of Contents Introduction 3 Plot Summary 3 Marquez & Latin American Politics 4 Spanish Conquest 5 Struggle for Political Control 5 American Foreign Policy 6 conclusion 7 Bibliography 8 Introduction Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel of repeating fated destiny based around the creation and destruction of the Buendia family and the town of Macondo. This story is one of reality and fantasy entangled and therefore is a model example of Latin American “magic realism.” Latin-American life is particularly rich with the experiences that create Magical Realism: the reality of political oppression and proud familial obligations easily complement the magic of strong beliefs in the divine and supernatural (Finstad, 2002). Marquez has won many awards around the world for his book and it became an instant classic in literature. In 1970, the book was published in English and was chosen as one of the best twelve books of the year by Time (Lee, 2002). Plot Summary The story begins when Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife Ursula found the mythical town of Macondo.
The Stranger: Tone In Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger, various rhetorical strategies are employed to more effectively enhance the novel. The main attitude the novel emits, the tone, dictates the way the piece is perceived by readers. The apathetic attitude radiating from the protagonist of the novel, Meursault, derives from the existentialist philosophy. This philosophy heavily focuses on indifference, detachment, and the irrationality of the universe. A sense of detachment is detected immediately at the start of the novel, when Meursault first hears word of his mother’s death.
Taruna Seebaransingh Dr. Vijay Maharaj Ms. Shannon Julien LITS 2307 16th November 2012 Brewton (2005) defines literary theory as the body of ideas and methods used in the practical reading of literature. In other words, literary theory refers to underlying principles, or tools by which we attempt to understand literature. Therefore, in the novel Midnight Robber, Hopkinson spearheads a literary masterpiece through which the theories of postmodernism and post colonialism is most applicable and can be effectively read. There is no set definition for the theoretical viewpoints, but rather an assorted array of characteristics associated to the terms which can be described as postmodern or postcolonial. Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber portrays a manifestation of various characteristics of postmodernism, such as irony, the incredulity of metanarratives, temporal distortion, pastiche, technoculture, hyperreality, intertextuality, metafiction and histographic metafiction, as well as characteristics of postcolonialism such as Orientalism, pluralism, identity, double consciousness, colonization and resistance.