The concluding paragraph. It is the last part of the essay, it summarizes the entire essay in a few sentences and also it gives an opinion: a prediction, recommendation, solution or a personal opinion. It reminds the reader of the main ideas expressed in the thesis statement or the topic sentences, it reinforces the argument and finally it makes sure that the reader understands what the essay is talking about. --There are two parts on the concluding paragraph: -1-Summary: It restarts what has been...
#1A telephone call: She is thinking aloud. An interior monologue ("stream of conciousness"). The woman is nervous, anxious, desperate, she needs that call; we know this because of lots of repetitions of words, short sentences, her mind is running. It does not have any descriptions which make the text be slower, no adjectives, and very few adverbs. Emotional language: God, emotions
#2Special Damage: Omniscient narrator, knows everything. Its about a woman who is in a hospital, Mary, she has an...
The poem ‘On Home Beaches’ written by Les Murray talks primarily about body image and the extreme, absurd importance attached to it in a consumerist society. It describes the unfair and debilitating humiliation suffered by people with a less-than perfect figure, especially on places like beaches where the body is nearly completely visible. // The poem is a contemporary sonnet in form. Sonnets are generally about love: soft and gentle. The poet ironically turns the very concept of a sonnet inside-...
Achebe’s "things fall apart" // narrator · The narrator is anonymous but shows sympathy for the various residents of Umuofia. // point of view · The narration is in the third person, by an omniscient figure who focuses on Okonkwo but switches from character to character to detail the thoughts and motives of various individuals. // tone · Ironic, tragic, satirical, fablelike // setting (time) · 1890s // setting (place) · Lower Nigerian villages, Iguedo and Mbanta in particular...
// Written in the first person narrative point of view, the poem “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka is a poetic satire against the widely-spread racism in the modern Western society. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poetic persona seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African. The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation, therefore, is employed by the...
“Miss Bill” by Katherine Mansfield(1888–1923) AUTHOR: She was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand. Mansfield left for Great Britain when she was 19 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Mansfield reflected in her work loneliness, illness, jealousy, with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her...
Middle march: AUTHOR: Eliot spent 21 years of her life among people that she later depicted in her novels. She was educated at home and in several schools, and developed a strong evangelical piety. She took up work as subeditor of Westminster Review. In Coventry she met some intellectuals who introduced her to many new religious and political ideas. She died in 1880; she published several novels that gained quite success. YEAR: 1871, published 1874
TOPICS: -Education: The book examines the...
Mary: A Fiction: AUTHOR -Feminist writer and intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in London. Brought up by an abusive father, she left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. -When her friend Fanny died in 1785, Wollstonecraft took a position as governess. Three years later, she published her most famous work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, an educational reform, giving women access to the same educational opportunities as men. -She had two daughters,...
-->CHARACTERS involved in the fragment: -Henry Dashwood: Husband of Mrs. Dashwood, and father of Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret; also has a son, John, from a previous marriage. He dies at the beginning of the novel, leaving his wife and daughters little money and his son his estate. -John Dashwood: Mr. Dashwood's only son, he is selfish and miserly and mostly unpleasant to his half-sisters. Married to Fanny Dashwood, who is even more selfish and mean-spirited than himself. -Mrs. Dashwood: Mother...