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8.2. If Suzan decides to declare bankruptcy, what can she keep? If Suzan and Mr. B had been living in Odessa,

seemingly in their own separate worlds. We follow the story of each character -- the Monkey King, Jin Wang, and Danny -- for a little while before switching to the next character’s plot. The author uses several plot elements in order to construct an emotional, plot-heavy story, and in this essay, I will examine a few of them.

Summing it up, Chetan Bhagat once again has followed his typical love story line in this novel but the plot has been excellently designed to interest everybody. The book is full of drama, love and mystery. Though the usual wit and humour is absent yet Chetan Bhagat has definitely managed to impress the

M. Atwood confuses a reader purposely. Sometimes it seems like the author writes two or three, or even more stories in one, but there are two stories presented in her work A-story and the B-C-D-E part is a second story: one

While he was struggling about whether to shoot the elephant, a thought came up in his mind that if he did not take a shoot, he would be laughed by the Burmese. Therefore, the author mentioned “when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.” Which reflects that the conqueror has to impress the natives and to meet the natives’ expectations in order to keep his rules. Conqueror is not in control, but the will of people governs his actions. In the story, the elephant was a victim of the imperialism and colonialism. Its death process was described in details. Metaphors like “The thick blood welled out of him like red-velvet” and “The tortures gasps continued as steadily as the ticking of a clock” reflected the evilness of imperialism. The more bitter the elephant suffered, the higher sin of imperialism, also serious contradiction the colonists

It was a hot day and the caravan train stopped early, and Arjun was tired of the slow, seemingly perpetual walk. So he went on a small walk by himself, and encountered a drooling, wide eyed tiger, who had just ripped apart an innocent deer for his midday meal. Arjun backed away, and

The audience can perceive the human complexities found in the characters’ lives, as the book reveals their inner feelings. For instance, Lahiri includes one of Ashoke’s painful memories, the train incident: “Being rescued from that shattered train had been the first miracle of his life. But here, now, reposing in his arms, weighing next to nothing but changing everything, is the second (30). Ashoke’s memory of his near-death experience during the train-wreck in India helps the reader comprehend Nikolai Gogol’s impact on Ashoke’s life and explains the reasoning behind the origin of Gogol’s name, which becomes a main topic of conflict in the story, as Gogol develops discontent towards the name. After Gogol confronts his father about the need for a name change, which he justifies as being due to no one taking him seriously with his current name, he realizes that “the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his name…was Gogol” (100). As a teenager, Gogol’s uneasiness towards the lack of his own unique identity led to a dislike for his birth name. Lahiri includes his perspective regarding his namesake to demonstrate how the conflict causes Gogol to change his name to Nikhil. With the viewpoints of both Gogol and Ashoke, the audience comprehends the main conflict and the reasoning behind each of the characters’ decisions,

As far as the eye could see, the dark jungle awaited our presence. Abruptly, a powerful growl came from the south. The growl intensified to a grim, breathtaking roar. In the midst of absentmindedly running, I tripped and fell on a pile very heavy papaya’s, just as the robust tiger pounced. Lafitte threw one of the papaya’s at the tiger’s head. His aim was accurate, and saved our lives. The tiger was knocked unconscious. The papaya exploded into a rain of gold and jewelry. Immediately, we scrambled to break open as many papaya’s to collect the gold. Then, shockingly Laffite began to act upon his pirate nature and his greed began to take hold of him. As soon as I started to protested, he became even more aggressive, and this worried me. I carried on protesting and pleading “We must equally share the gold.” Just then I saw a shadow of a beast. I found myself feeling an intense pain in my side and throbbing in my veins. I was incredulous to the fact that I was dying, but I knew one day death would take me. I was always wary to the fact that since i had taken the lives of so many others, mine would have to follow. A faint calmness collides with the pain and blackness covers my eyes like a coat of winter snow on the tops of trees in

In this essay the author lives the conflict, where, pushed by the burmanist he has to kill an elephant that had run violent in lust throughout a village, if he doesn’t he will have to face a population of burmist looking at him as a fool.

Shaila Bhave is described as “a pillar—because you’ve taken it more calmly” (977), while the other families are described as “hysterical”(977) and “a real mess” (985). Yet, Shaila feels hysterical on the inside, “I want to say, I wish I could scream, starve, and walk into Lake Ontario, jump from a bridge” (978). In fact, according to her culture she is handling her grief poorly, “By the standards of the people you call hysterical, I am behaving very oddly and very badly” (978). Mukherjee also uses irony to relay cultural misunderstanding. Dr. Ranganathan plucked roses from someone’s garden to play tribute to his wife, who loved roses.

In the touching play of Atsumori we see this astounding tale of faith and adventure. It begins with the death of a young and innocent character, Atsumori. The childlike character was killed by a man who deemed it necessary to the boys’ honor. Atsumori was in a clan that was fleeing an army but Atsumori forgot his flute in the camp site, so he had to go back and retrieve it. He is then set upon by warriors and the main character, Rensho, seeing no way out for the boy give the boy an honorable death.

She does all she can to wipe a tear from the eyes of the poor, the helpless and the innocent tailors and to make a reasonable deal with they which they have been long denied: “For this job, there will be no customers to measure,” she explained, “the sewing will be straight from paper patterns. Each week you have to make two dozen, three dozen, whatever the company wants, in the same style”... “The more dresses you make, the more you earn.”3 We meet Dina Shroff and learn how she became the widow Dina Dalai, living alone in the city stitching scraps of cloth into a quilt at night and trying to keep her dignity and independence from her dominating brother Nuswaan who assumed the role of the head of the family and legal guardian to Dina after the death of her father, Dr.Shroff. A Fine Balance maps out how Dina Dalai, the protagonist of the novel, and the three characters, Ishvar, Omprakash, and Maneck, suffer from a sense of rootlessness. The author brings his readers face to face with the dilemmas of inter-relationship and broken values and 75 customs of society. He tries to re-discover the Indian identity by setting his novel in three different

Each one of Atwood’s tales tell two different stories, the literal one and the one between the lines commenting on the art of storytelling of the classic happy ending love story. Atwood skillfully and subtlety comments on other kinds of stories. Her

In the film “Ballad of a Soldier”, the director Chukhrai tells a story of a soldier who accidentally knocked out two enemy tanks and was rewarded to return home. On the way, he encountered series of events that changed his life forever. The main plot of this film begins with Alyosha running away from the enemy tanks for his life. In desperate moments, he found a weapon and helplessly fired at the tanks. Somehow, he knocked out two enemy tanks just in time when the air support came. This series of events sets the character of Alyosha, in which he was a very immature and inexperienced soldier at 19 years old who accidentally became a war hero. Though he is still naïve, he is truthful and good-hearted young man, as exemplified by his assistance on the invalid during his first leg of the trip. Then he bribed the guard soldier Gavrilkin with a can of beef to train hop illegally to continue his trip. Later, he met the Shura, who was a beautiful young woman train hopping like Alyosha did. As a main character of this film, Shura was an insecure person who feared that other people would take advantage of her. Therefore, she pretends to be mature and told Alyosha that she was going to meet her husband. The two developed a friendship during their trip on the train, and was then discovered by the same guard soldier. The guard soldier was very upset and demanded more bribery. Alyosha was again lucky to encounter the lieutenant, who respected him as a hero. Then, Alyosha and Shura met up

The novel ‘Lion’ is incredible and remarkable; it is an autobiography written by Saroo Brierley. Lion is a powerful novel based on a true story which shows emotion and lets the reader compare Saroo’s life to theirs. It uses first person, visual imagery and sound imagery, allowing the reader to be involved in Saroo’s journey. ‘Lion’ has many powerful moments within the book; for example when he reunited with his Indian family. This essay will discuss these reasons which make ‘Lion’ an exceptional novel.