The two essays I choose to compare/ contrast effectiveness, and analyze were from the “Facing Death” cluster. The first essay is called “To My One Love” by Chimamanda Ngozi, and it talks about her brief love story before her lover passes away. The second is called “My Periodic Table” by Oliver Sacks. In this essay Sacks discusses his love for science and his terminal illness
In “To My One Love” Ngozi is telling the readers about her college experience in Nigeria. She considers herself in the top class at her university “the staff group”. This group is described as poor, but good at English. There was another group of students at the school, called Omatos. They were the “rich kids” and they were not as good at English. The groups did not really intertwine, the members of the staff group picked on the Omatos due to their suffering English. However, Chimamanda would unexpectedly fall in love with an Omato, Nnamdi. His charming character would swoon Ngozi, sooner rather than later they would be together. However this sweet relationship would be cut short when they started attending different schools. Fast forward a couple months, Nnamdi is shot and killed in an armed robbery.
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Both were emotional, well written essays, but Stakes executed just a little bit better. Stake’s extreme intelligence shined through his essay, capturing the reader’s complete attention. The paired essays delivered great despair and struggle. But, it showed resilience and that even with you’re facing death, there is still a great life to enjoy or have been enjoyed. The essays show the audience that even after death that life still moves on, and it will be better. Whether you are facing death, or a loved one has faced death, you can still enjoy all the wonderful things that your life has to offer. Whether it be looking at the stars, or writing for your dream newspaper company, life is to be appreciated before death is facing
Despite having different views on the topic, each essay holds an alike form to one another. Didion tires to evoke emotion from the audience by putting statistical facts of deaths that
“Champion of the World” Review “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou is a true story of Joe Louis becoming champion of the world. Angelou describes how the fight took place through figurative language and strong, powerful words. Angelou switches from first person point of view to dialogue from the radio announcer and listeners to show the reader thoughts and feelings of people in the story. Maya Angelou captures the audience from the beginning of the story and makes them want to read until the end. One way the Angelou grabs the attention of the reader is by using figurative language.
In the book Letters to My Daughters, poet Maya Angelou wrote “I am a spring leaf trembling in anticipation of full growth” (163). Anticipation is a good description of how I feel about being a thirty-six year old college freshman. Anxiety, self-doubt, and dogged determination are on my list of emotions alongside anticipation, if I were being honest I would add. Providing my children with security, find true happiness in my career, and conquer my fear of failure are just a few things that hold my hand as I take this leap into higher education. Friends and family are surprised that I have gone back to school. In January of 2015 when I applied to South Plains College, I was working for AT&T making a good living. My mother especially couldn’t
Both readings were written in a time of immense promise and hopefulness. But they also both deal with choices and endurance of consequences from
Despite, a separation of age, culture and religious beliefs Rahul Singh courageously speaks on his taught an individual article. Yet, without a personal defense from author Chinua Achebe author to “Things fall apart “Rahul speaks on his personal persona of the book. The Umofias, are portrayed as nonsensical, well illogical including unbelievable superstitious. Through a post-colonial view lenses in both Achebe’s book and a written article (on that of) Rah Singh, Achebe guilt was proven positive towards the eye. Their personal / individual beliefs of religion, fear of what exists within their nightly taught, including their obsession with the power of the land (Umofia, The 9 villages) and its possession. Their fears are reduce to a minimum
The short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaide sends a strong message about how identity should not be prioritized over other people's views on you. The female authority figure in the story tells the girl how to act in front of men that do not know her so that they will not recognize the slut she has been “warned against becoming” immediately. Identity is the thing that makes up a person. Identity is the traits and qualities that make people unique and different from others. Since the girl is being told a specific way she must act to be accepted by people that do not know her, that limits the room for her to express herself. If the girl is unable to express herself, she is unable to show her true identity. The female authority figure is sending
Chinua Achebe was thirty years old when Nigeria gained its independence from Britain in l960. He had been born on November 16, l930 and named Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. However, two years prior to independence his first novel, Things Fall Apart, was published in l958 and it propelled him along with his nation into the consciousness of the world. Things Fall Apart remains the most widely circulated book in modern African literature. By the time of Achebe’s death on March 21, 2013 he had achieved a mythical stature as the greatest storyteller of his generation.
During the first quarter of the year in WMST 1172, the most influential reading I read/listened to would be, The danger of a single story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is because the idea of the single story proposed by Adichie related and linked to my own personal experiences with stereotypes made by others in the dominated white community I lived in for the first half of my life. Correspondingly, according to Adichie, people who know only one part of the story, not the whole story, create stereotypes. In other words, the stereotypes created are from incomplete stories individuals hear. And although they may be true, they should not be used as a way to define a group of people.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells the story of how one unified Umuofian community falls due to its own inner conflicts, as well as to the arrival of Christian missionaries. Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart to change the brutish image of Africa, for the Western world. The use of changing perspectives greatly aided Achebe in accurately portraying Africa as colorful, diverse and complex. For Westerners, viewing Africans as more than tribal and barbaric was a new concept, of which Achebe helped usher in. The story is told through the eyes of many Umuofians, which gives the reader a personal sense for the individuals within the tribe. When all the individual pieces of the story are brought together, the sifting perspectives creates a vast overview of the community, while also deepening the readers since for the tribe by allowing personal details to show through. Achebe captures the complexity of the Umuofia community by changing the perspective from which the story is being told frequently.
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These two thought provoking stories take widely separate approaches on the idea of death. One being
“Because I could not stop for Death” had a stronger impact on me. Relating to this poem is easy for me, I too would not be able to stop. Death would have to chase me, like a game of tag or hide and seek. This poem was more powerful, unlike “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –,” dying is not something that I can make peace with at this time in my life. I could not go easily and patiently, as the flies buzzed above me. As we see from both poems, death comes when he is ready, whether we want him to or not. Death cannot be rushed or evaded.
There are constant struggles between gender, identity, commodification, and class. Among the men and women in many African tribes that still exist today, there are divergences, which will always remain intact because of the culture and the way in which they are taught to treat each other. Chinua Achebe wrote the novel, Things Fall Apart, which is a great piece of African literature that deals with the Igbo culture, history, and the taking over of African lands by British colonization. The ongoing gender conflict is a prominent theme in Things Fall Apart presenting the clash between men and women of the African Igbo society. Throughout history, from the beginning of time to today, women have frequently been viewed as inferior, men’s possessions whose sole purpose was to satisfy the men’s needs. Maybe it's because men are physically stronger than women and have always had the ability to control them that way. In Things Fall Apart, the Igbo women were perceived as being weak. They received little or no respect in the Igbo society and were harshly abused. The recurring theme of gender conflicts helps drive the novel Things Fall Apart by showing how important women are to the men, yet they do not receive the treatment they deserve.
Death is important to both poems because it expresses each character’s reaction and the importance of accepting death. If you don’t you’ll be grieving and angry for a long time. Both poems tie in with each other due to this, but are different because the characters reacted differently.
In the beginning of the story, Okonkwo’s relationship with his son was strained. Toward the end of the story, Nwoye has left is his family and will never see his father again. The elders of the village put much emphasis on family life and helping fellow clansmen. Okonkwo’s family life had increasingly gone downhill as the story progressed. This book can be related to any family, even though it was written in a different time and place. Family problems affect everyone and this story shows the reader how certain problems are dealt with. I don’t believe, however, that Okonkwo’s family took care of their problems in a productive manner. With better communication, Nwoye’s leaving and Okonkwo’s death may have been prevented.