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    and important questions that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay ‘’ Liking is for Cowards. Go for what hurts’’ from 2011. The author is a 51-years-old man who puts our daily internet habits into perspective and makes us think critically about what happens to us while we are online. Jonathan Franzen start to hits around the bush for a while before he present the real message. He starts out involving a personal involvement

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    Madeline Allen English 243 February 27th‚ 2013 Annotations of “Agreeable” “Agreeable” by Jonathan Franzen was enjoyable for me because I could easily relate to the story of young athlete‚ Patty. In Franzen’s story‚ Patty struggles with the relationships within her family and she becomes somewhat of an outsider due to her love for sports. Her mother has never really focused on Patty and their relationship is put to the test when Patty is raped at a party. Originally she confides with her coach

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    Delprøve 1a Besvarelse 1a 1. Rettelse: Having heard the terrible news‚ we realized these things could have happened to anybody. Forklaring: Fejl i verbalbøjning. Sætningen er i pluskvamperfektum/perfektum(?) og indeholder modalverbet ’could’. Modalverber skal altid følges af infinitiv uden ’to’‚ i denne sætning infinitiv af verbet ’to have’‚ og når man danner pluskvamperfektum skal man bruge en form af ’have’ + perfektum participium – her ’happened’. Derfor skal det være ’have happened’

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    On May 28‚ 2011 Jonathan Franzen published the story “like is for cowards. Go for what hurts.” in the New York Times. In the story Franzen claims that people are more connected and infatuated with technology than they are with the real world. Since technology takes ups a majority of our lives it effects our ability to create relationships and to love others. Franzen states that technology has advanced so much‚ most people have no desire to go out in the real world and connect with others. Phones

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    Essay on Jonathan Franzen’s Liking Is for Cowards‚ Go for What Hurts “Liking is for Cowards‚ Go for what hurts” is an essay written by Jonathan Franzen who is an American novelist and writer of essays. This essay is based on the speech he gave at Kenyon College in the state of Ohio in USA. And in May 2011 it was published in The New York Times. What this essay is about is‚ is the differences there are between the love people have for consumers technology and real life. “Liking” probably comes

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    Rowling a writer of harry potter‚ Enid Blyton whom children adores and Selman Rushdie whose Midnights children won booker prize. There are others like Isabel Allende who wrote house of spirits and created a writing style of magical realism. Jonathan franzen writer of the corrections that won the national book award 2001. Zadie Smith introduced hysterical realism in the novels. Thomas Hardy writer of Far from the Madding Crowd who is regional novelist that also provide with speculative

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    B: Write an essay in which you analyse and comment on Jonathan Franzen’s essay ”Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. Part of your essay must focus on how Jonathan Franzen tries to engage a young audience and on the message of the essay. Jonathan Franzen’s speech was given to the college students at Kenyon‚ Ohio‚ USA. The introduction part of the speech is Jonathan Franzen talking about his relationship to his newly purchased phone‚ and how he got rid of his old one. Choosing the subject

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    restrictions in airports and many other places. An erosion of civil liberties resulted from the executive powers implied and assumed with the war on terrorism (“Protecting America ’s Values and Freedoms after 9/11”). While examining the thesis of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom‚ it is evident that these historical events are what shaped his work. Franzen’s novel is not only a portrait of the Berglund’s dysfunctional family and the events that shape the individuals of the family‚ but it also qualifies as

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    Jonathan Swift’s Story “Satire is a sort of glass‚ wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” What Swift is trying to convey through this quote is that when people are being satirical and expressing their comments of society‚ they tend to see all the flaws so clearly‚ like a glass. Yet‚ when people do this they don’t pay attention to what they are doing.  Jonathan Swift is one of the world’s best satirist and poet‚ born in Dublin‚ Ireland to Abigail Erick Swift and

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