Rudyard Kipling

On June 4, 1939, at the Third American Writers’ Congress in New York, Kenneth Burke presented a paper—“The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle’”—arguing that Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, a full English version of which was published for the first time that year, deserved a serious rhetorical analysis by all those intellectuals who sought to prevent the rise of Nazism, fascism, and other overtly racist political movements across the globe. Most members of the audience (the majority of whom were affiliated with the Communist Party, and many of whom were Jewish) found Burke’s argument difficult to stomach. At least one listener, though, found the essay extremely compelling. Ralph Ellison, then a 26-year-old novice writer, thought Burke’s mixture of Marxist

5. a.) Revisionism that stresses the faults of great figures can lead to an overwhelming negativity toward some great heroes who ultimately bring lessons of morality to the table. It perpetuates the idea that human beings, even the best of us, are always crawling with gaping character flaws. But, it also helps us humanize these great figures whose reputations often run away with them. It helps us to remember that political success does not equal morality. b.) This trend in historical writing alludes to a growing sense of both negativity and revolution in our society. As we begin to reject common figures of greatness and replace them with our own versions, modern-day youth culture is beginning to establish their own identity separate from current systems. This straying from the norm of decided importance implies a lack of trust or satisfaction with current

Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband has just died, "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment." The character of Josephine is there to represent her conflict against society. As the story starts up, she as Mrs. Mallard turns to her sister Josephine and weeps in her arms after hearing the sudden news of her husband's death. This is her acknowledging the grief that society expects her to feel. Her openness to Josephine represents the acceptance that came with acting in accordance with what society expected. Mrs. Mallard displays her strength, “When the storm of grief … away to her room alone.” The fact that she does not bring Josephine with her implies the conflict that is about to take place." Josephine is the social norms, assuming that she is weak without her husband by her side. Mrs. Mallard's isolation from this assumption represents that she has strength and can stand on her own. This expected strength is confirmed as Chopin writes, "Josephine was kneeling … lips to the keyhole”, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! … before you make yourself ill." The closed door to Josephine shows her decision to close her

In this reading, the narrator talks about the reaction of Mrs. Millard who had heart problems, when she notices of her husband´s death. Louise Mallard is at home with her sister Josephine, when they hear of a rain accident; then Josephine tells Louise that her husband has been killed it in the accident.

When Willie died in 1862 from typhoid fever, Mrs. Lincoln didn’t get any sympathy from the rest of the United States because every mother out there was potentially “losing” their sons (Baker 2002). This caused problems between the married couple because Lincoln mourned his death more privately in Willie’s bedroom as she took it more as a personal blow, he saw it as a “shared grief of the parents and families whose soldier sons and husbands he had sent off to the war” (Baker 2002). Mrs. Lincoln never did anything bland, including mourning the death of Willie (“Family: Mary Todd Lincoln”). She had an eye for fashion, “even during the period in 1862 and 1863 when Mrs. Lincoln was in mourning for her son Willie and wore only black, she managed to go further into debt for new clothes” (“Family: Mary Todd Lincoln”).

Mein Kampf is one of Hitler’s most highly recognizable publishing’s to date. Within his novel, Hitler strategically uses a political tone, while belittling and dehumanizing the Jewish ‘race’ as a whole. His proper and sophisticated style of writing persuaded extensive amounts of the German population to agree with his crooked agenda to exterminate all Jews. Hitler depicted his tyrannical proposals as necessary and described his plans to begin a “…holy war against the Jews,” in order to save, purify and unite the German state (Graml, 37).

The book The Jungle was introduced as a novel by Upton Sinclair was financed and published with his own money. Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California. He was born on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore Md. He was the only child of Priscilla Harden and Upton Beall Sinclair. Upton Sinclair’s childhood was lived in poverty, one where his father was an alcoholic, his job as an alcohol salesman most likely contributed to his disease. And although his own family was extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. By living from one end of the extreme to the other he argued that this is what turned him into a socialist.1

With concern for her heart condition, Josephine cautiously broke the news to Mrs.Mallard that her husband had been killed in a train accident. Mrs. Mallard grieved for a while then decided she needed a minute alone, she went upstairs to where the window was open. As she sat trying to process her emotions, she found herself overwhelmed with joy, she felt free as last from her estranged marriage and looked forward to days for herself. Once she had composed herself, she began to head back downstairs noticing the front door opening as Mr. Mallard walked in. Per the doctors, she had died of heart disease from joy.

The Great Gatsby, an American classic, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a book full of romance, action, adultery, and best of all murder. Some of the main characters are Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s aggressive and lying husband, Daisy Buchanan, Tom’s wife who is nice to everyone and self centered, and Jay Gatsby, the man obsessed with fulfilling his American Dream, which includes the possession of Daisy. Over the course of the novel, Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby, despite their experiences, show no evidence of their personalities evolving into something else until after the turning point, when Gatsby and Mrs. Buchanan get into the accident that cataclysmically ended Tom’s girlfriend's life.

Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness.

Louisa May Alcott was an author who volunteered as nurse during the Civil War. While she was serving she sent out letters to her friends and family. These letters later became a book titled “Hospital Sketches”. In this excerpt of the book, Louisa tells of a patient she took care of named John. She describes him in detail, saying that he was physically and mentally very strong and was determined not to die. “He seemed to cling to life, as if it were rich in duties and delights.” However, John was severely injured with a punctured lung and broken ribs and the doctors said he wouldn’t survive. Louisa was devastated by this and was determined to make his last days as comfortable as possible. When John’s time finally came, she stayed by his side

Robert Frost has been described as an ordinary man with a deep respect for nature, talking to ordinary people. To what extent do you agree with this view?

In Kipling’s original version of The Jungle Book, the jungle monkeys make their first prominent appearance in the chapter “Kaa’s Hunting”. The young boy Mowgli speaks of the jungle

The Jungle Books is a series of classic stories written by famous author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are separated into two books; The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) and were first published in magazines in England in 1984-5. One may say the stories can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. They are fables where animals can talk and live in harmony according to ‘The Law of the Jungle’. However, the stories are teaching moral lessons that are inspirational for both adults and children. The stories contains powers that challenge ‘The Law of the Jungle’ and force the jungle animals to fight while ‘Mowgli’, the stories’ protagonist makes a self-discovery that changes him forever. This essay will discuss this self-discovery with the theme of revenge in the ‘Mowgli’ stories in The Jungle Books.

The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were published in 1893-94. Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30,1865 in Bombay, India to British parents, and brought up by Portuguese ‘ayah’ (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain Kipling with famous and fabulo BHATI 1