The Street by Ann Petry5/21/2023 Working as a maid for an upscale white family exposes Lutie to the idea that money solves problems. What does the story have to say about “the American Dream” relative to racial differences? It is a chilling-pardon the pun-portrait of oppression in symbolic form. Ultimately, it is practically impossible to ignore, avoid or misinterpret the imagery as a metaphor for the control and authority exerted over black Americans by white society. A “cold November wind” blows in the opening line and from there proceeds to become an unstoppable intrusive force culminating (thematically) in the image of it lifting “Lutie Johnson’s hair away from the back of her neck so that she felt suddenly naked.” This particular passage goes on to implicate Lutie’s interaction with the wind almost as a sexual assault. that is essential here as what is occurring there. Many books will begin with a description of the setting, especially focusing on how a character is reacting to it, but it is not so much the setting of 116th St. The opening pages are really a textbook example of how to commence a novel with imagery and metaphor. What kind of all-inclusive thematic metaphor is being created here? The novel opens with several paragraphs of imagery-laden personification of wind blowing through the streets of Harlem. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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The guest list author5/21/2023 The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.īut perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favours, the boutique whiskey. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The bride ‧ The plus one ‧ The best man ‧ The wedding planner ‧ The bridesmaid ‧ The body Jagannath by Kerry Alan Denney5/21/2023 Growing smarter with each human it absorbs, the Reaper transforms into monsters created from our darkest nightmares-and it loves tormenting its victims. An amorphous creature that has nearly wiped out civilization, growing as it feeds, the Reaper assimilates its prey’s intelligence when it consumes flesh and blood. Twelve-year-old Lily walks the deserted streets of Savannah alone, ever since the Reaper absorbed her family-and tried and failed to absorb her-a year ago. The year is 2037, and Corporal Kimi Jayden has one chance to rescue the lone refugee girl who is miraculously immune to Reaper absorption. The monster from your nightmares is here. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural, Paranormal, Post-Apocalyptic, Suspense, Thriller, Action/Adventure, TEOTWAWKI Disclosure: This post contains compensated affiliate links and/or sponsored content. The Hoax by Sophie Masson5/21/2023 As the house took shape again, the golden lit flesh reknitting over its beautiful stone bones, this room became a hallowed place, a place of light and shadows, cool in summer, warm in winter. A great collector of books old and new, many on esoteric or obscure subjects, he had had a room set aside from the beginning in the cavernous old place he and my mother had bought when it was not much more than a haunted ruin, for just this purpose. The first library I remember was my father's, in our house deep in the green, wooded countryside of southwestern France. Edited version of an address given at the Alia 2000 conference 23-26 October 2000 As a place of enchantment the actual library, with actual books, will continue to work real and extraordinary magic in the 21st century. At a time when many people, including unfortunately some librarians, seem determined to misrepresent the literate, it is important to remember that the digitised and electronic library is not going to interest those people who are not readers already. Vladimir m zatsiorsky5/21/2023 When COP feedback was given in addition to the visual target, the postural control system did not control stance better than in the condition with only visual information. Without vision, drifts in the COP data were observed which were larger for COP targets farther away from the neutral position. This variability also increased when vision was removed in relation to when vision was present. The variability of the COP displacement, quantified by the COP area variable, increased when subjects occupied leaning postures, irrespective of the kind of visual information provided. The following variables were used to describe the equilibrium maintenance: the mean of the COP position, the area of the ellipse covering the COP sway, and the resultant median frequency of the power spectral density of the COP displacement. Different types of visual information were tested: continuous presentation of visual target, no vision after target presentation, and with simultaneous visual feedback of the COP. Subjects ( n=11) stood in 13 different body postures specified by visual center of pressure (COP) targets within their base of support (BOS). Maintenance of equilibrium was tested in conditions when humans assume different leaning postures during upright standing. Nonofficial Asset by William Sewell5/21/2023 A solicitor from the Isle of Wight who seemed a failure at home, beset by family financial embarrassments, he made something of a mark in New Zealand, where he was also able by modest land dealings to recoup his finances. Henry Sewell was a man who faced this dilemma. The emigrants' dilemma was that success, comfort and respect could be found only in a distant colony, while ambition, aspiration and identity were focused on 'Home'. While countless emigrants became reconciled to exile-found fulfilment undreamt of in their homelands-there were many who always aspired to metropolitan celebrity, who hoped to end their days in the land of their birth. Few successful, contented, established men would emigrate-that was for the discontented, the discredited and the failures. It is also often the story of men who regarded themselves as failures. We need to remember that the history of colonisation is the story of obscure men and women, a few of whom were sometimes called to fulfil unexpectedly exalted roles. Yet the successful transplantation of branches of European civilisation in the Americas, the Antipodes and elsewhere should not blind us to the harshness and drabness of the pioneering life. The idea of the 'frontier' has had as deep an impact on some historians as it has on film-makers. THE HISTORY of colonisation has often been portrayed in romantic, even heroic terms. The gustav sonata by rose tremain5/20/2023 On the wall of Gustav’s tiny room was a map of Mittelland, which displayed itself as hilly and green and populated by cattle and waterwheels and little shingled churches. The second-floor apartment, reached by a stone staircase too grand for the building, overlooked the River Emme in the town of Matzlingen, in an area of Switzerland known as Mittelland, between the Jura and the Alps. She would be ‘Mutti’ all his life, even when the name began to sound babyish to him: his Mutti, his alone, a thin woman with a reedy voice and straggly hair and a hesitant way of moving from room to room in the small apartment, as if afraid of discovering, between one space and the next, objects–or even people–she had not prepared herself to encounter. You might pass a lifetime without knowing the first name of your nearest neighbour.) Gustav called Emilie Perle ‘Mutti’. (In Switzerland, at that time, after the war, people were formal. Her name was Emilie, but everybody addressed her as Frau Perle. Dennis lehane patient 675/20/2023 Therefore, participatory delusion and the engendering of the readers ’ dual-subject position vis-à-vis the gaze, Foucault ’ s (1973) theorization of how post-Enlightenment medicine objectifies patients as objects of knowledge, are specific to the graphic medium. In film, there is too little time in between frames to reflect on the character ’ s gestural anatomy, their dialogue, and the mis-en- scene, all of which invite the reader to make associations that resonate with the text and their own personal experience or imagination. In Shutter Island, the longer one examines panels where something seems off, the more he or she becomes invested in Daniels ’ delusion. The painting invites the viewer to contemplation before it, he can give himself up to his train of associations ” (2008, 53n32). The image on the screen changes, whereas the image on the canvas does not. This resonates with early media theorist Walter Benjamin ’ s argument about the differences between the mediums of film and still paintings: “ Let us compare the screen on which a film unfolds with the canvas of a painting. What the graphic novel allows and encourages is extended reflection. Film, on the other hand, presents images too quickly. time and in different orders and arrangements. Looking to score fiona davenport5/20/2023 After a rocky introduction to Molly's family, Scratch and Molly form a tentative friendship. Scratch curses Molly in an attempt to scare her away however, this backfires, forever binding him to her. In the Human Realm, 13-year-old optimist Molly McGee arrives in her new hometown of Brighton, only to discover that her new house is already occupied by a grumpy ghost named Scratch. On August 31, 2021, more than a month before it premiered, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on April 1, 2023. A sneak peek of the show's theme song was first shown on May 1, 2021, during the network's "Halfway to Halloween" event, followed by the show's premiere on October 1, 2021. The Ghost and Molly McGee is an American animated supernatural comedy television series created by Bill Motz and Bob Roth for Disney Channel. TolkienĪ fresh, witty rom-com romp set against the backdrop of a high-profile music competition and a riotous Indian wedding Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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