When comparing the two articles “Campus love” and “Norwegian wood” it is fundamentally important to point out that the intention is to demonstrate the similarities and differences. Besides the messages and the communications made in the texts, it is imperatively ostensible that the authors employed certain stylistic devices in their presentations that make their works similar in some respects and different in others. Every literature serves the important purpose, which is dynamic in nature. It would entertain, warn, remind, educate or inform the audiences in a given matter, and in fact, that is the reason as to why literature is referred to as the mirror of the society. In this study, the focus is placed on the stylistic devices, messages, and the target audiences to elucidate the similarities and differences.
Similarities
There are commonalities that are vivid in the two pieces of literature. To begin with, “Campus Love” by E. C. Osondu is transmitted to the readers in form of dialogue. The speaker tries to
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The theme and subject of love are examined, but the impacts that address the readers with the message of caution. The main audiences are the youths, more so those in their tertiary levels of study who must be on the lookout to ensure that their feelings do not overcome their ambitions. Even though they are presented from different cultures, the stories, in a nutshell, seeks to communicate the message of cultural diversity, which indeed helps the society to grow in one way or another. Factors pointed out as the weakness of one culture and strengths of another are some of the elements that make them unique and diversified, something that should be respected, embraced and adored as such, and to be communicated intelligently, and not vilified. The two articles are important and present essential messages to the
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The essay will analyze and discuss the linguistic features, argumentative features and the forms of appeal in relation to the author and his background. In the end the essay will come with a conclusion
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Going to the universities’ library earlier this month to rent three films, - 500 days of Summer, Annie Hall and High Fidelity- was the first step to my critical writing and analysing process. I spent some time at home, to watch these three completely different movies. Although there is one theme that captures the common motif in these three movies, the theme Romance. The standard model suggests that a film wherein the plot revolves around the love feelings and love between two protagonists can be defined as a romance film. It is a well-known fact that love makes people do strange things, Shakespeare himself even said: “Love makes blind”.
The analysis of this short story reveals a narrator of an Afro-American community who wanted to be part of the white culture but in vain, because he was confronted to tragic events, such as his brother’s imprisonment at an early age for drugs’ deals. This event makes him realize that he is part of that society where even in the school students are addicted to drugs. The story focuses on the necessity to accept its own community’s heritage as a factor to reach any political social o economical purpose. The narrator finds peace really when he reconnects with his family and his heritage that he tried hard to sacrifice in order to live.
Ray Bradbury and William Golding have very similar themes in their books. All the way from human interaction and social conditioning. Lord of the Flies consists of a story due to the lack of social conditioning and Fahrenheit 451 portrays what it's like after too much too powerful social conditioning. Connecting the overlapping ideas of social conditioning, knowledge, identity, and truth in these two novels leads to a better understanding of human behavior.
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The book relates to what high school students are going through now and reminds those who may have forgotten the struggles they faced. Moreover,
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Although his writing can be engaged to an audience who reads the situation the boy is encountering with his neighbors ,but to analyze themselves instead of another person. Therefore the intended purpose of this writing is to not analyze or criticize how a person live, but to analyze themselves , as they could be living their life differently such as being greedy. ”You should look at yourself. I mean really look at yourself ” .Therefore the author notifies the audience of the situation he was in throughout his life,through the use of emotional appeal using personal experiences in his life and humor
This paper aims to compare and contrast the similar themes of “The Heart of the Salamander,” focusing on the dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury published in 1953 to the 2014 American science fiction film adaptation, “The Giver.” Moreover, the paper reiterates the post-apocalyptic and post-modern theme. From the title itself, “Fahrenheit 451” pertains to the temperature of which books burn. Upon reading the “Heart of the Salamander”, the plot comprises of a dystopian society that oppresses its people by using parlor rooms for the government to feed its viewers with propaganda, medication, and discouraging intellectual ideas by burning books therefore keeping the population ignorant.
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Books vs. Movies The constant battle between watching a movie and reading a book has lead to many disagreements. Many valid arguments can be made in favor of each as well as each having it’s own disadvantages, yet the question still remains unanswered. Books and movies have many similarities and differences when it comes to experience, development, and imagery. To begin, there are a variety of reasons that make movies not as good as books. The experience, the depth, and the imagery are the three main aspects one needs in order to understand why movies are not as good as books.