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Closing Of The American Mind Brother Clifton
1,705 words... n he "wakes up in a black man's skin" (Griffon 161). According to The Closing of the American Mind, all identities "depends on the free consent of individuals" (Bloom 110). A president holds his identity only because people elect to see him that way, otherwise he is like any ordinary Joe; even if he thinks of himself as really nothing more than of common flesh and bones, he is no less a president because his identity is for the public to perceive and not for himself. Even if there is a singl...
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Blind Man Blurred Vision
857 wordsThe narrator in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" has two fully functional eyes, in which he chooses never to use to their full potential. The eyes of the narrator are biased, insecure, jealous, and very limited in what they choose to see. This inability to see is made apparent when he is forced to meet and converse with a blind man. The narrator's perception of the world around him, and blurred vision, is resolved by a great irony in the story when Roger helps the narrator see past his prejudice out...
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Fear Of Death University Of Chicago
1,129 words... ay the dead bee, when the narrator encounters another death of an animal. This death of a rat is much more cruel and deliberate than the natural death of the bee. This death can be seen to be representing murder; or any death where a third party deliberately robs someone of their life. The rat had a skewer of some sort thrust through its neck, and was trying to climb a stone wall out of a river, while people threw rocks and laughed at it. It was interesting to notice Shiga's mentioning the d...
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First And Second Give The Reader
1,010 wordsThe Use of a Narrative Voice in Conjunction with Sympathy and Rejection The narrator's job is to speak to the reader in a way that gives him / her a sense of emotion. Although the reader is first led to sympathize with Kugelmass in the beginning, s / he later rejects him because of his insensitive personality. This is the emotion that the narrator is putting forth on the reader. The narrator tries to give the reader the implication that we should try to sympathize with Kugelmass at first glance....
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End Of The Story Brick Wall
805 wordsStarting with the narrator's claim that he was going to relate a story about Bartleby, "the strangest [scrivener] I ever saw or heard of, " Melville begins where everything but Bartleby is discussed in some detail. The result causes Bartleby to be discussed more as a causal force than as a human. While the narrator admits he has limited information about Bartleby, he makes little effort throughout the course of the story to discover anything about him. He appears oblivious to Bartleby's slow det...
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An Analysis Of The Film Fight Club
1,557 wordsFor years, David Fincher has been turning out some of the most stylish and inventive thrillers to ever hit the American screens. In spite of critical and public backlash, his Alien 3 remains the most technically interesting of that series, and Seven stands as the suspense film upon which all other modern suspense films are based. With The Game, he proved himself more than a one-movie wonder and emerged as one of the most original filmmakers working in Hollywood. His new film, Fight Club, however...
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Edgar Allan Poe Timothy Findley
1,039 wordsThe human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thou...
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