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Story “The Kugelmass Episode”: About What? Analysis
Humour
Irony
Literature
In the story The Kugelmass Episode, Woody Allen takes the reader on an exciting journey through time and literature that keeps you begging for more. Professor Kugelmass is a middle-aged teacher at City College in New York City. He seems to be unfulfilled and bored with his life as a whole. The real world is…
Chaser John Collier Analysis
Humour
Love
Marriage
Alan Austen, a young man who is passionately in love with a young woman who is indifferent to him, comes to the establishment of a mysterious old man who deals in magic potions. Austen has been told that he can buy a potion that will make the object of his affections fall madly in love…
What You Pawn I Will Redeem Analysis
Humour
Money
Jackson Jackson is a homeless Indian living in Seattle. He was given a chance to win back his grandmother’s powpow regalia. I believe that throughout the story all of Jackson’s intentions to try and get back the regalia were good, although it didn’t seem like it at first. What made me like Jackson was his…
Analyzing The Wind
Humour
Jury
Narration
Religion
Analyzing the WindInherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. LeePlot:Cates is thrown into jail for teaching the beginning of the world contrary to what the bible says. Brady is coming to Hillsboro for the trail. Hornbeck announces he will bring Drummond to defend Cates. Both sides choose the remaining members of the jury….
The Millers Fabliau Tale
Humour
Literature
The Miller’s Fabliau Within Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he exemplifies an example all the characteristics of a fabliau in The Miller’s Tale. Two points, with which he chooses to satirize from the fabliau, The Miller’s Tale, are love at first sight and May/December marriages. In the Miller’s Tale, the main character, John, who is a carpenter…
Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” Analysis
Humour
Irony
Literature
Sarcasm
Satire
Children universally grow-up with stories of “Once upon a time.. ” and “Happily ever after.. ” and with the conception that you will meet a partner, fall in love, and live happily ever after. Margaret Atwood challenges this conception in her short story “Happy Endings”. “Happy Endings” is satirical because it mocks the common misconception…
American vs British Culture
human communication
Humour
Sarcasm
The U.S and U.K are two different countries that happen to have more than one difference besides the common language, English. There are a lot of other cultural, social and economical aspects differing the two. The history of America and The U.K is linked which is why there are a lot of similarities. Although Britain…
Showing Off by Janice Galloway
Child
Gender
Humour
Narration
Prejudice
The article ‘Showing Off’ by the Scottish writer Janice Galloway describes how she overcame obstacles in her life to become a writer and shows that even if you are not blessed with the best oppurtunities in life and suffer from prejudice, it is still possible to achieve your goals. Through the clever use of language…
Reader Response in Exploring Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Analysis
Attention
Criticism
Humour
Novel
Perception
Introduction In 1961, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller was published and became one of the greatest antiwar books to have ever been written. Heller goes into great length about the meaning of heroism and the meaning of bureaucracy through the lens of wartime violence and satirical dark comedy. Set in World War II Italy,…
A Review of the Themes of The Women’s Open by David Sedaris
David Sedaris
Humour
Psychology
Throughout the essay “The women’s open” David’s father obsession for golf is shown. The power of his obsession leads him to forget what should be important to him. Sedaris expresses the lack of heart his father shows towards people and even his children when it comes down to golf. For example the first day Lisa…