Moth Smoke, by Mohsin Hamid

To Smoke or Not To Smoke in Public People have strong feelings concerning smoking in public places. Whether you are in favor of or in opposition to it, smoking in public places is a serious concern that need be addressed. I agree that it is unjust for smokers not to be allowed to smoke where they choose, but it is even more unreasonable for non smokers to be subjected to breathing in the exhaled smoke form someone else(passive smoking). Not to mention second-hand smoke is actually worse for someone…

memories in the past, but every so often nostalgia can have negative effects on one’s mindset. The result of these feelings and emotions can range through many different things, from happiness, to sorrow, to anger. In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid suggests that in difficult times in people’s lives, nostalgia happens, and can evoke different emotions in people. First, we see a sense of nostalgia in chapter six of the novel, when Changez says, “The destruction of the World Trade Centre had…

Yucca Plants and Yucca Moths: A Coevolutionary Point of View Petra Markova 300214198 BIOL 3700: Evolution Maxence Salomon Introduction According to Thompson (1994), coevolution is defined as “the reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species”. This occurs when one species has a significant effect on the survival or reproductive success of another species and vice-versa, leading to the gradual evolution of both species. It is important to study this topic, as it is possible…

Characterization In the short story “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes, the author uses symbolism and characterization to paint the scene of a girl in a literary fiction that has lost her way and ends up finding herself within her Grandmother through the cycles of life. Through the eyes of an unnamed girl we relive a past that has both a traumatic ending and a new leash on life; however, we do not get there without first being shown the way, enter “The Moths”. The author utilizes opposite ends…

creatures that surround us and in the nature that somehow dies in the winter and gets a new life in spring. This battle is impossible to remain unnoticed because it is simply the way of life. In Virginia Woolf’s essay “The Death of the Moth”, she writes about a moth that is trying to get ‘a new life’ by going through the windowpane and run away from death. Virginia Woolf was a significant figure in London modernist literary society and she was considered one of the greatest innovators in the English…

Woolf incorporates symbolism in her essay by describing the moth as life and energy. "So simple a form of the energy" and "taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zig-zagging to show us the true nature of life" quoted from the essay. Another way she incorporates symbolism is by describing the months journey to death. Woolf also describes the scenery, the horses, and the farm itself. The month had traveled from one windowsill…

The Character of Moth in Love's Labor's Lost Like much of Love's Labor's Lost, the young character Moth is full of paradox. When Shakespeare has little Moth play great Hercules in the "Nine Worthies," the playwright offers humor in contrasting the physiques of the actor with his role, or as Armado puts it, Moth "is not quantity enough" (5.2.130) to play the Greek god. However, Shakespeare may also be using this contradiction to compare physical strength with mental. Although physical ability…

Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Culture of Liberty,” and Kanishka Chowdhury’s Globalization and the ideologies of Postnationalism and Hybridity.” Accordingly, Rana Dasgupta’s “The House of the Frankfurt Mapmaker” and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Moshin Hamid, critically challenge the cosmopolitan outlook as questionable fiction. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that everyone belongs to a worldwide community, that there is a hybridization amongst people that serves as a uniting factor and is almost synonymous…

strange nature of life and death. In her essay, “The Death of a Moth”, Virginia Woolf contemplates how life and death are separated by a single thread of “energy” and how eventually the force of death snaps the thread, overpowering life and proving its superior strength (385). Woolf reflects how life and death are two mutually exclusive forces of nature, yet they are intertwined by the law of nature itself. In the essay, Woolf observes a moth, an “insignificant creature” at his attempts to “[enjoy] his…

a net cast into the air only to sink back to earth, and settle amongst the branches once more. Picking decomposing bats off of the ground while amidst giant icicles, some with dead flittermice trapped half-within. Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth” and Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction?” both present the common theme of the death of animals. Specifically, they share the use of the presentation of the death of animals, and vivid imagery to accompany it. There are many differences between…