Stasiland Analysis

“Mary Moon and the stars” written by Janice Galloway is a short story in which the main character Mary is who we “........................” This is due to the techniques the writer has used these include character, setting, language and symbolism. The author has used the appropriate techniques which results in her success. Mary is clearly restless and anxious when we are introduced to her on her first day of primary school. The unnamed narrator struggles to create a friendship with Mary as Mary is brutally judged by those around her, children and adults included.

Social Injustices Explored in Kettle Bottom At the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States moved from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy based on textile factories, steel mills, and new inventions. The mechanization of America required an energy source, and that energy source was coal. Diane Gilliam Fisher, a sixty-one-year-old American poet, uses her poems in Kettle Bottom to tell the world about the mining community.

Book review: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, published in 1974, is a nonfiction book written by Annie Dillard. The book is a collection of fifteen interconnected essays about Dillard’s exploration and thoughts on nature. The narrative takes place at Tinker Creek in Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Dillard wrote about her pilgrim, her religious journey that took place over the period of one year.

Mary Gordon, a famous author who was born in 1949 in Far Rockaway, New York. She was born into a strict Catholic home by Anna Gagliano and David Gordon (Gordon). In Mary’s younger years she had wanted to be nun, but it all changed after the death of her father David. After David died from heart failure in 1957, Mary’s mother sold the house and took Mary back to live in the house that she has grew up in. They both went to take care of Mary’s grandmother, but not long after the grandmother had passed away Mary’s mother became alcoholic, which lead to Mary being alone most of the time since Mary’s mother’s side of the family never liked her (Gordon).

The essay I read was “White into Black” by Martha Gellhorn. Her thesis, I believe is describing how bad of a location Haiti was. She writes, “Any Caribbean island would have suited: Haiti was a careless choice” (Gellhorn p. 69). Which led me to this conclusion.

The Things They Carried “They carried were largely determined by necessity. Among the necessities or near-necessities were P-38 can openers, pocket knives…carried rations…carried a toothbrush. ”(2) In this excerpt, from O’Brien’s book “The things they Carried”, the word “carried” is repeated throughout, to emphasize the importance of essential items the soldiers brought with them to war. “Pocket Knives” emphasizes that these soldiers are taking the responsibility of becoming a man and the fact that they will soon be taking another man’s life in war.

Many authors, no matter the context, use allusions to help strengthen their point or illuminate a certain aspect of the text that they wish to be more noticeable; Edith Wharton is such an author, and her novel The Age of Innocence is no exception. From the allusions that even the most casual reader could pick up (for instance, when Wharton references certain areas in New York City, such as Broadway or Washington Square) to the historical and biblical allusions littered throughout the book that sometimes require a reader to look up information, every single allusion Wharton selects to use in the novel is well thought out and chosen for a specific purpose. This careful thought is especially clear with her multiple allusions to Pompeii and her referencing of the Bible passage Jeremiah 2:25. By incorporating these two specific allusions into the text at different points in the novel, Wharton further emphasises the theme of doomed love and also comments on whether or not it is truly possible to love someone in a society which is strictly controlled by an obscene amount of rules and rituals.

Gertrudis’ departure sends the ranch on an uproar. In her leaving the ranch it symbolizes freedom. Freedom, because she does not have to obey to her mother anymore. She is her own person now and not a slave to her mother, Mama Elena. “Each year Tita prepared it in tribute to her sister’s liberation and she always took special care in arranging the garnish.”

Jan August Hendrik Leys, more commonly known as Hendrik Leys, was a Belgian artist born in Antwerp, Belgium in February of 1815. Leys worked in his father’s printing business from a young age and showed a passion for drawing and arts. At a very young age he studied under his neighbor who painted furniture, and this later led him to study at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. Leys always showed a particular interest in depicting historical subjects in his paintings. During his early career he worked closely with Belgian Romantic painter Gustaf Wappers, and Leys was later influenced by French artist Paul Delaroche who also worked mostly in Romanticism.

In a country where longing for the past qualifies as a dominant cultural trope - saudade, fado and the long wait for The Desired, D. Sebastian of Portugal are examples of this – the performance My Room / My Rum, premiered at the Condominium Festival, in Lisbon, explores and further unsettles the dynamic between memory and identity. Accordingly, collecting and archiving as necessary means to assert identity are subject to evaluation. It turns out that they both prove unable of determining one’s place in the world, merely disclosing loose traces of life experiences instead. It is fragmentary, non-linear and, altogether, unsatisfying. Seemingly, at a collective level, the Portuguese, still dwelling on the significance of overseas expansion

STRUCTURE: 1. Vicomtesse Anotina The Linds’ays or rather the suitcase lady of Queen Street is one of many homeless citizens in the city of Toronto, Ontario. As a caring soul, she feels passionately for the care of the young, the old, and those who suffer. However, as she sits night after night in the 24-hour doughnut shop while relying every day on others for as much money as she can scrounge.