Christopher Trubilla
Honors English 11
Mrs. Given
February 5, 2018
Response #3
The novel expresses storytelling as multiple main functions of a human, through the different views of two of the Prices. Orleanna thinks that storytelling is the only happiness humans can have. Happiness is a very important part of human function, and some philosophers argue that it is what keeps us living. This is because without happiness there is only sadness, and sadness brings about death. Orleanna therefore pretty much states that human life revolves around storytelling, since happiness revolves around storytelling. Meanwhile, Adah’s view of storytelling on human life is derived from her mother’s actions. Adam sees how her mother constantly makes up excuses
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Ruth told Orleanna to move on and keep living and that she forgave Orleanna, and she continues on by asking Orleanna to forgive herself.
In the same sense itm is revealed that the Okapi lived another year or so after it was scared away, because it was scared away. This goes to show that it may be best to leave thing alone, as they would live better without interaction wit others. Therefore, the Okapi represents what the Congo could have been, as it would be doing better had it not been ‘caught’ by the U.S. The final chapter serves to answer all the unsolved question in the novel, and reveal some of the powers at work behind the scenes of the novel. It impacts the reader by answering unsolved questions, and effectively can change one’s view on most aspects of the novel in just the last chapter. The significance of the quote is stating that Ruth May is a spirit of the forest. This is significant because the book starts in a forest and that is where chapter one started. Ruth May is answering
Orleanna’s question in the same place it was originally asked, a forest in the
Congo. Ruth also says that the only reason Orleanna feels guilty is because she won’t forgive herself, not because she doesn’t know if Ruth May forgave her or
Anthropologists learn about a culture through participant observation. They often experience cultural shock when encountering with different cultures. Horace Miner in his essay Body Ritual among the Nacirema wrote about the unusual rituals and beliefs of the Nacirema. He describes the Nacirema as a North American group whose rituals originated from their magical beliefs. When I first read the essay, the practices of Nacirema seems ridiculous to me. However, I was amazed when I found out that Nacirema turns out to be the word American, but spelled backward. I then reread the essay and realized that the culture hero, Notgnihsaw and the temple, latipso are also the wordplay of Washington and hospital. After all, the essay was a satirical essay
contact the reader has with people in the book is in the passage in which the
also the story that is implied by the author’s emotions and implications. One of the main
The author begins and ends the book on a porch where Janie is telling her story to her friend Pheobe Watson. The book begins in the morning on the porch and then ends at night, symbolic of beginning and end. In between these two times Janie is telling her story which travels through the state of Florida.
...it up to each reader to draw their own conclusions and search their own feelings. At the false climax, the reader was surprised to learn that the quite, well-liked, polite, little convent girl was colored. Now the reader had to evaluate how the forces within their society might have driven such an innocent to commit suicide.
reflects upon the theme of the novel. As it highlights the fact that if people in the society
... also allows for deeper plot development with the characters back stories and ties two seemingly unrelated events into one flowing story removing the need to use in medias res. The shared point of view is extreamly important in connecting the story with the theme and allows for the reader to pick up on the foreshadowing and irony present throughout the story.
In the beginning of the book, it starts off in London where Ada and Jamie lived with their mom, but there were buses taking kids to the countryside of England because of the war. In the countryside, jamie and Ada are placed in a household with a woman named Susan who
...r with seemingly no real purpose in the novel turns out to be the key to unlocking the whole plot. This technique was very popular in Victorian mystery.
The intimacy in the last paragraph of the chapter represents a unity holding on to each other bravely, as strength to survive what may happen to them. Atwood achieves this intimate effect by cleverly summarizing the chapter as a whole paragraph to emphasize love, intensity and courage for them to stay alive and not fade away like the gymnasium.
The one of the main themes in the epilogue, and in the entire novel is
Throughout the novel the reader finds out that one cannot stew over a negative situation, but instead, find the positive in a negative situation and move on to better things. In addition, people should always be themselves because we all matter, no matter what our differences.
the beginning of all the bad events that occur in the remaining of the novel.
to go on. This is the most important event in the book, and the most
the end of the novel as both the women in his life have other men at