Open City by Teju Cole

In chapter 2 entitled “Living is for Everyone,” Davidson presents Jimmy Teyechea, a cancer fighter who has shown the readers an important yet neglected issue of the life on the border. The health problems found among the people who live in the borderland has raised questions of industrial contaminations since various cases of cancer happened. The waste disposal from the factories has apparently become a big issue and the fact that “properly disposing hazardous waste cost several hundred dollars a barrel” (62) opens an interstice to some irresponsible acts which in the long run pollute the environment and affect people’s health. With LIFE, an organization he formed with other cancer victim, Jimmy tries to look for the answer of the mystery within

The fundamental characteristic of magical realism is its duality, which enables the reader to experience both the character’s past and the present. In the novel, Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson uses this literary device to address the the trauma and mistreatment of the Haisla community in Canada by unveiling the intimate memories of the protagonist, Lisamarie, and the resulting consequences of this oppression. Monkey Beach illustrates how abuse in the past leads to another form of self-medication in the future - a neverending, vicious cycle for the members of the Haisla community. Many characters in Monkey Beach are scarred from childhood sexual abuse and family neglect, and resort to drug and alcohol abuse as a coping mechanism. These

The novel that I have decided to make a report on is the book Ashfall by Mike Mullin. My reaction to the book Ashfall was "Wow, Alex is really brave". If I was in his situation , I don't think I would have reacted the way he reacted. Alex took control and focused on one thing and that was finding his family.

The book assigned to all incoming freshmen of the College of Charleston to read over the summer was a poignant look into the prejudice-scarred past of the American south. Named for those few months in 1964 that redefined freedom and equality in America, it included many noble and inspirational characters, and choosing one to write about was no easy task. However, reading Freedom Summer, I found myself drawn to one character in particular: Chris Williams. The youngest of those who ventured into the heart of bloody Mississippi that summer, this 18-year old boy grew into a man by the time that summer was through with him. I cheered him on as he left his comfortable home, his high school diploma, and even his hippie hairstyle in Massachusetts. I was in awe of

The children’s book, Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg explains the importance of having a clean environment and what the consequences will be if you do not take care of it. The story opens with Walter eating a jelly doughnut and throwing the empty bag it came in at the fire hydrant. This displayed how Walter did not take littering seriously, but at the end realized how important it truly is to keep the environment pollution free. Allsburg takes us on a journey through Walter’s dreams explaining what you should and should not do to the environment through words and the detailed illustrations.

There were many facets of the book that helped provide to the flow of the storyline. These include the use of flashbacks to build the structures of different characters, dialogue within the mind of the protagonist (further explained in next paragraph) that foreshadowed future events, and the suspense that was always building up under the surface. It kept the reader entertained and the conflicts never felt prolonged.

There are certain basic elements that keeps you feel good about the book. they are: there are so many characters and plot lines that was left wanting. Vishnu's slow death that was entwined with

The story line had things that I didn't like and things I liked. Something that I liked about the book is how it is written. The author wrote the book in a way where at the end of every chapter, the book leaves me with curiosity as to what's awaiting for me to read in the next chapter. Something that I disliked about the book is the story line happening in one book. The book is telling two different story. The first story is about how Nancy tries to find the stolen stone and the book also focuses on other story which is Nancy trying to find the missing boy. It was sometimes confusing to

Films reflect all aspects of life, like the depiction of law in society. This much is true in the 2005 film “North Country”, directed by Niki Caro, based on a fictionalized interpretation of the first historic class action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States, Jenson v Eveleth Mines.

I believe that having a visual stimulus in your environment is important. For example, if I'm walking down the street I want to see an eclectic mix of buildings that I find exciting to look at, rather than rows of uniform houses. David Harvey, in his book Rebel Cities, describes the value of this connection between people and their environment, writing 'animated by neighbourhood life, squares full of people, children relishing the river bank'. This idyllic vision makes me want to create equally vibrant spaces for people to enjoy. This ideology influenced a design project I completed while on work experience with PTE architects (October 2013). I wanted to create a building that would both excite its users as well as onlookers. The house I designed

The word ‘dark’ can be defined as somber in color, simply lacking light or brightness, or in more ancient texts used to describe something evil. However, defining life has always been a tougher task for any member of the scientific community, and glossaries in textbooks across the world can vary drastically. Combine the two words, however, and an entirely new and even more complex topic exists.

For the first time reading this book, it gives a very involved and present reading experience. As I read on and find new things, the book seem to get more intense and intriguing. Some may say that being told in different perspectives makes it hard to follow, but it expands . Each chapter is somehow related to the others, and some reveal hidden information from other

Living for the City, written in 1973 by Stevie Wonder, and its genre of music is Soul. This song had a single version that rose to #1 on the Billboard “Hot Soul Singles” chart and also # 8 on the “Hot 100” in 1973. That tells you that this song was very popular at that time. The form of the song is a modified compound AABA. That means, the A sections are made up of one instrumental bridge for each two verses that are performed.

The main character of Bright Lights, Big City relies on what the world offers on the surface in order to make an attempt to create an identity for himself. However, his actions are merely creating an illusion based upon his assumptions of what the world expects of him. In Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City, the main character fears what is beneath the surface, believing that the illusion that he creates for himself is better than trying to initiate real change in his life. There are several indications to show that the main character is going through his life by skimming over the surface. One such indication would be his relationships with girls and women.

Never let me go is a fictional book written by a Japanese-British born writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. The book is a narration by the key character Kathy where she narrates her life right from her childhood to her adulthood. The main theme is good life out of cloning technology. Kathy and her two other friends are clones who are taken into a pure clone school where they are being taught about art only. Their main purpose of clones in the school is to become donors but Kathy becomes a care. Throughout the narration, the book unfolds more about the cloning technology and its purpose in the society. The main theme of the book is developed by the life of Kathy and her two partners who are presented as true clones and donors. There are many issues related to the main theme where some of them are the morality behind the cloning technology, how cloning lead to good life, difference between humans and clones and the ethical issues behind cloning technology. The above issues can only be understood through application of different theories and that is why the paper will apply different types of theories in the book Never let me go. Some of the theories that will be applied in the paper are; moral theories, consequentialism, virtue ethics theory, right based theory, natural raw theory, Kantian moral theory and many other theories that are applicable in the book. Generally, the objective of the paper is to apply different theories in the book Never let me go in order to examine the main theme