There is a fine line between, drawing inspiration from a piece, and plagiarizing from it. In the short story, “Ice Wagon going down the Street”, by Mavis Gallant, the piece revealed the struggle of adjusting to a new environment, and learning who and whom you truly are. The story, emphasizes the modern social caste, and a tale between a man named Peter and Agnes. The differences in their believes and achievements, an unlikely pair, who lead each other to finding their purpose. This great theme, and story line was replicate by a more recent author, Sadia Shepard writing the short story, “Foreign Returned”, who’s story line is uncannily similar to that of “Ice Wagon Going Down the Street”. Shepard tells the story, with Hassan and Hina, two Pakistani-Americans, …show more content…
Shepard had taken her story, omitted some minute details and resubmitted the story as her own. Even though Quinlan had originally given her the benefit of the doubt, the resemblance of the two was too great for her as well. Looking further into Quinlan’s reaction to the piece, Quinlan points out the similarities between the plots of the two stories, to further show the plagiarism that had taken place. She created two lists that outline the plot line of either story that aids to show the similarities. The outlines show how between the pieces it was the same series of events, however with small minute details that were changed to appropriate each piece accordingly. This helped to articulate the consensus ,made by Quinlan, that Shepard had copied too much of Gallant’s story. As the amount of Gallant’s piece Shepard used was too great. This deprived the originality from her own story, revealing it to be rather plagiarized. Rather then drawing inspiration from the piece as Shepard hoped, she had instead copied too much of the story to call it her own. Plagiarism, is a crime under U.S. Law, under this law it can be argued that Shepard had plagiarized from Gallant’s work. The law outlines several different rules or criteria that a person must break in order for it to considered to be plagiarized. When looking under the infractions of that law, it can be found that, “copying so many words or ideas from a source …show more content…
I believe that it is a black and white topic, either you plagiarized whether it be you copied it form word from or you or copied the ideas from another piece. Shepard had copied too much Gallant’s piece. This infringed the ability for someone to say that she inspiration from their piece. Under both the definition and the U.S.A. laws for plagiarism, the copying of someone else’s ideas is considered to be plagiarism. Shepard plots coincided with that of Gallant’s too greatly. Similary, Quinlan pointed out in her article as a reaction to this, that the similarities between the two pieces revealed it to be great and taking apart Gallant’s story and adding a small twist to call it her own.
● Frozen River is based on the life of working class families that live in mobile homes in Massena, New York who are trying to survive, solve struggles and meet their needs. One of the families consists of a single mother name Ray trying to raise her 2 children on her own. Ray works part time at a retail store as a clerk. She has worked there for almost 2 years hoping to become a manager. With the disappearance of her husband she struggles paying her bills, providing food for her children, and not being able to finance the purchase of a new mobile home.
Two stories with two different settings, plots, and characters and yet they have many similarities, with of course a few differences as well. There are many realistic similarities and differences between “Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “the Outcast of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte. Between the characters, plots, settings there are exceptional similarities and differences . The regionalistic qualities really shine through in all of these things.
Many times in literature we can make assumptions in which a few major characters from two completely different stories can have much in common. Authors like Coraghessan Boyle of Greasy Lake and Raymond Carver of Cathedral demonstrate this perfectly. We as readers of these brilliant works can find ways to compare and contrast these in the sense that they are quite similar. From what we can tell both the narrator in Greasy Lake and the Narrator in Cathedral have a lot in common even though they come from completely different worlds. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake”, the narrator tells a coming of age story of himself and two other teenage boys who think that they epitomize the image of “cool” and go to the Greasy Lake to
The poem, “Stopping by Woods…” speaks of a time that the author paused during a trip to simply enjoy the quiet and beauty of nature. During this short stop, he contemplates mortality and his life so far. Frost also cleverly uses the poems form and sounds to enhance the poem, to entice the readers senses, and immerse them in the scene.
Plagiarism means to steal or borrow someone’s original ideas without their consent and labelling them your own. It can be done in different ways and has been labelled a serious offense in the contemporary world. Deriving ideas from an existing source in one’s work without citation of the work is a form of plagiarism. Also, using a production without crediting the source and committing literally theft are forms of plagiarism that can be charged in a court of law as copyright issues. It is considered fraud because it is stealing someone else’s work and making people to believe that it is your own. It is possible for different individuals to have similar ideas but the manner in which they are expressed cannot be the same. In writing
Therefore, a similarity that both authors share is how they both connect heritage and ethnicity to the central idea. Like Trumbull stated, “living inside a culture allows members to become familiar with the total cultural heritage of that society, no individual actually internalizes the entire cultural heritage,”(Trumbull, P.8). Also like Williams had stated,” Do I even have an ethnicity? I wondered. It was like suddenly discovering you might not have a belly button. I tell you, I had to go to the dictionary. What were the flavors, accents, and linguistic trills that were passed down to me over the ages?”,( Williams, P.1). They both talk about the heritage and how it affects the culture because like Trumbull said that living inside a culture allow people to come familiar to their cultural heritage of the society. Williams says it differently but the she explains how she tries to learn more about her culture and her families and what they do eat and are like. Another similarity that they
Some authors, such as Greenidge and Allen, believe culture appropriation is a good thing while Bradford believes it is not. Malik believes that it should not even be up for debate and McWhorter believes there are pros and cons to it. Bradford states how “when artists appropriate, they can profit from what they take, while the oppressed group gets nothing” (Bradford 7). He is stating how culture appropriation is not a good thing because the people/culture that is taking ideas from the other culture are only being benefited. Greenidge and Allen share the same opinion because they believe that culture appropriation can be both a good and a bad thing. If an author discusses another culture without using stereotypes and writes with a purpose then culture appropriation can be viewed as a good thing. McWhorter, however, states how this debate is getting out of control and people are taking it too far: “The concept of cultural appropriation has morphed into a parody of the original idea” (McWhorter 6). He notes how someone cannot “steal” another culture unless it can be held, like money. For example, any music industry or fashion can be “stolen” because the person can use their culture as a benefit in getting money. Malik defends culture appropriation because it is taking away from jobs because their writing is being taken down because they are appropriating cultures so this does not allow the
Plagiarism cannot not only be committed in writing research for academic purposes only, but can also be committed in areas of general writing such as in blogging or in song writing. A person who creates an idea or writes a work is the owner and originator of that work. This is the basic idea behind Copyright Laws. Copyright laws also cover such output as images and video clips. Reusing these ideas or words in one’s work without showing readers their source is tantamount to plagiarism.
According to Purdue Owl, Plagiarism “is the uncredited use (both intentional and unintentional) of somebody else's words or ideas.” (Purdue University 2013) Chynette Nealy defines Plagiarism as “presenting someone's words or other creative products as one's own.” (Nealy 2011)
Two examples of plagiarism included “Copying passages from works of others into one’s homework, essay, term paper, or dissertation, without acknowledgement” (Forms of Plagiarism. n.d.) and “Paraphrasing another person’s characteristic or original phraseology, metaphor, or other literary device, without acknowledgement” (Forms of Plagiarism. n.d.). The first type of plagiarism involves direct copying of paragraph(s) to one’s assignment without proper citation of references, whether it is accidentally or intentionally. The second type of plagiarism involves copying of paragraphs(s) which is not your original ideas then copied sentences are remade or paraphrased but one do not cite the references,
There are underlying similarities between literary works that are left hidden, such as in the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and Broadway play A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. There are couples in each work, Beneatha Younger with George Murchison in one and Asalamalakim with Dee Johnson in the other. They are all very alike in nature. Asalamalakim and George are both pompous and uncomfortable around people unlike themselves. Asalamalakim self importance comes from a focus on discovering his heritage. George is self oriented because of his money and pedigree. Beneatha and Dee share the characteristics of fearing in assimilation, using materialistic representation, and renaming themselves as
The story “All Summer in a Day” and the excerpt from “Immigration” are similar in many ways. However, when one reads the two titles, they would not think that both of the texts are similar. From the title of the story “All Summer in a Day”, it seems like the story will be about a happy, bright summer. But, in fact it’s the opposite. It is about a girl who moves to a new place where her classmates don’t really like her. In both texts, the characters migrate to different places and face many different challenges and obstacles.
Some people go through their lives without reflecting about how their decisions have shaped them as a person. The poems “Fire and Ice” and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost both use the importance of decision making and its effects on the way we live to highlight how our path through life is defined by our choices. At the same time, Frost uses the extreme opposites in “Fire and Ice” and the similarities of the choices in “The Road Not Taken” to explore human nature and permanence of decisions.
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both portray weighing of choices in life. The former is about youth and experiencing life and the latter is about old age, or more probably, an old spirit wearied by life. In both poems the speaker is in a critical situation where he has to choose between two paths in life. In “The Road Not taken” the speaker chooses the unconventional approach to the decision making process, thus showing his uniqueness and challenging mentality while in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the speaker seeks a life without any pain and struggle but at the end, he has to comply with social obligation, which reflects his responsibility towards the society.
The true definition of plagiarism is “Using someone else’s ideas or phrasing and representing those ideas or phrasing as our own, either on purpose or through carelessness.”[2] There are many different ways of remedying this problem.