final essay question my term and quote of choice are Janissary and “Beware the dark side‚ Young Skywalker”. The choice of this term and quote combination was made because I feel that they represent the core messages showcased by Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s protagonist is a prodigal Princeton graduate named Changez‚ who‚ like Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars‚ is engaged in an internal battle of self-identity and place of loyalty throughout the story. Both Anakin Skywalker and Changez are
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Esteban’s narration is biased and unreliable‚ but through the use of Clara’s notebooks we see the other side to Esteban’s time at Tres Marías as the patrón. When Esteban recalls his leadership at Tres Marías he says‚ “no ones going to convince me that I wasn’t a good patrón”(51) and that he
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man’s mental deterioration and decent into madness. The story focuses on the narrator and his obsessions. The story is told from the first person point of view. So the reader knows what the narrator thinks and sees. The narrator reveals his insanity through his obsessions. The narrator’s obsessions include obsessions with the old man’s eye‚ beating heart and the narrator’s own sanity. The story is about the narrator who for eight consecutive nights goes to the bedroom of an old man. He stands
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stories can be centered around the theme of losing innocence as both characters partake in actions that they thought they would never do or see. In fact‚ both characters are similar in the fact that they both are allured by temptation‚ proven as unreliable‚ commit unspeakable acts‚ and To begin with‚ both main characters are allured by temptation. In the plot of “Young Goodman Brown‚” Brown goes on a journey through the woods that makes him question
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about perspective. Although Mark Haddon does not specifically relate to readers that Christopher‚ the main protagonist and narrator of the text suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome‚ the text explores how the fifteen-year-old teenager views the people and events which surround him. Taking this disability into account and as readers explore the text‚ readers realise that the unreliable narration of the first-person perspective is made even more skewed because of how differently Christopher views things‚ so
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revealed‚ and said to be he is fourteen years old. During the summer he develops a crush on Sheila Mant who have rented a large cottage next to theirs. Sheila is seventeen and the middle daughter. The narrator is enchanted by Sheila and her family and wishes to be invited to their parties which the narrators mother finds loud. He often gazes at her when she is sunbathing and knows her body language very well. He swims laps almost everyday in an attempt to impress Sheila bit they go in vain because she
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He can be considered an unreliable narrator. This is because his deeds do not match his words. He states‚ “From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition” and “I was especially fond of animals‚ and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets” (514). He then gouges the eye out and later kills the family pet‚ a cat‚ in cold blood by hanging it from a tree. He states that he is not mad. Yet he commits the deeds of a madman. The narrator uses flashback in his description
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Pleasure or Bliss: Reader Reaction to Christie ’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd In The Pleasure of the Text printed in 1975‚ Roland Barthes defines two kinds of text. According to Barthes‚ the "text of pleasure" is "text that contents . . . that comes from culture and does not break with it‚ is linked to a comfortable practice of reading" (14). The "text of bliss" is text "that discomforts . . . unsettles the reader ’s historical‚ cultural‚ psychological assumptions‚ the consistency of his tastes
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are the events seen? | Is it a first-person or a third-person narrator?Who is the narrator: age‚ relation to characters and events?Omniscient/ unintrusive/ restricted?Narrative modes: dialogue‚ description‚ report | What is the narrator’s attitude to the events and to the characters?What do the other characters think: are we told about that‚ or must we guess?Is the narrator reliable or unreliable?What if the story had had another narrator? | Put the text and your interpretation into a larger perspective:ThemesAuthor’s
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Analysis The "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic example of Poe’s unreliable narrator‚ a man who cannot be trusted to tell the objective truth of what is occurring. His unreliability becomes directly evident in the first paragraph of the story‚ when he insists on his clearness of mind and features any signs of madness to his nervousness‚ particularly in the area of hearing. However‚ as soon as he finishes his statement of sanity‚ he offers an account that has a series of apparent logical gaps that
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