Munshi Premchand

A Comparison of Two Poems Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt

his journey to get an education. With the education of engineering, he became a surveyor and

He left after 7 months to go to India to find spiritual enlightenment in India

In the introduction of the book, he goes through his own life and what he has gone through to get where he is in the present. He is a journalist turned novelist, and met many people and challenges on his way. The introduction is very technical with not much of a storyline like most fiction novels. In many instances, he alludes to the face of India as being happy and prosperous in opposition to the normal lives that most Indian people lead.

His first book was The Garden of Abdul Gasazi in 1979. He showed the world that he was a talented storybook writer. The public responded by buying more than a million copies. This book also received a Caldecott Medal Award. He would follow up with wonderful books such as The Mysteries of Harris Bur*censored*.

strong effect towards the reader as a very inspiring story. He was a young Indian child living on a

He says, “Despite all the books I read, I’m still surprised I became a writer” (1998, p. 3). He transitioned his love for reading into a career of making works that others can enjoy. He uses his time devoted to teaching Indian children the art of creative writing. Harkening back to his childhood, he was never taught to write poetry, short stories, and novels (Alexie, 1998, p. 3). He wants them to experience the joy of putting pen to paper and creating something, anything that may be enjoyed. He goes on to say, “Books…Books…I am

Literature is the key to our world or language. Many writers have emerged from this subject such as Homer who wrote The Odyssey and Euripidies who wrote about the evil Medea. Also mentioned in this paper are the Thousand and One Arabian Nights which is a collection of folktales and stories that are compiled into one. Each of these works of literature has a woman character that has many similarities in solving their problems. In The Odyssey the woman character that will be in comparison is Penelope which is Odysseus’s wife. In the story of Medea, Medea is of course the character we will be discussing and Shaharazad is the woman character from the Thousand and One Arabian Nights that will also be in comparison. Each of these women find

There are two famous and amazing writers. Their names are Doris Pilkington and Katherine Boo. The two authors have written very sad and great stories, but, there is only one story that may grab a reader's attention. That story would be “Behind The Beautiful Forevers’’, Katherine Boo. The reason why Katherine Boo’s story gets her point across is because she shows the difficult things Abdul had to face in his life. Abdul had to go threw garbage and find things he could sell to get money for his family. In the story “Rabbit proof- Fence”, Doris Pilkington tells the challenges his character faces. The challenges that Kundila had to face was the White Raiders coming in and taking their children. In the “Behind The Beautiful Forevers,” Katherine

Little 1 Auzurae Little Professor Strange English 103 17 September 2014 Knowledge is Freedom People pay a lot of attention to their community and surroundings, especially as young children. They pick up habits and daily rituals from their family and friends. People talk like their loved ones using the same slang in relation to their area. Authors place of origin tend to influence their work.

He left his position at the school and went on a lengthy search, which took him to

According to a story Extraordinary People From Around The World, Masih used to go undercover as a factory worker and receive information from the children. “He helped free 3,000 children from bondage in textile and brick factories, tanneries and steelworkers.”. After becoming a teen activist Iqbal finished four years of school in just two years. Masih eventually became an inspirational speaker and was invited to the United States of America to receive an award. He was ambitious, Iqbal attended different schools to spread a message and inspire people to raise awareness about child labor. Unfortunately, shortly after visiting the U.S. Iqbal was shot and killed in a village named Rakh Baoli. Thus his death Iqbal Masih was hard-working and ambitious in order to help lots of young people like

Hisham Matar, a well-known and awarded author, came to the university to discuss his novels In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance. He also read an excerpt out of his memoir The Return about returning to Libya to look more deeply into his father’s mysterious disappearance. His first two novels somewhat mirror what happened to him in his personal life. When asked about this coincidence, he said that people tend to draw from their own experiences. Although there are some similarities in stories, he said that his first two books are fiction. We got the chance to ask our own questions after hearing what he had to say about his work. Hisham was asked if he had any rituals he did in order to write his stories. He told us that he doesn’t

Iqbal is a boy that got dead wordsold to a carpet company when he was four for $12. A word for Iqbal is efficient one reason why he is efficient is because he did six years of work in two years. Furthermore they were not allowed to talk when they were working because they might get distracted. Iqbal says from children’s world, “I had to sit in one position for many hours.” This proves that the carpet industry owners were very strict. Next, Iqbal got freed from labor at the age of ten by the BLLF which stands for Bonded Labor Liberation Front. He gave many speeches about how child labor should be banned. When Iqbal was done with his speeches he decided to go back to Pakistan and finished what he had started. One day when he was riding his bike he got shot and killed when he was 13 by a drunk farmer.

A man who allegedly stabbed two people at a London subway station Saturday has been charged with attempted murder. Prosecutors called the attack an act of terror.