The Appointment By Herta Muller

“We must reject the idea that every time a law 's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Reagan 's principal objectives were to reduce the size and role of the government, which exist to serve people. To aim

“I think government is the worker that works for the people who tell them what they want them to do by the way they vote at the election poll. I don’t like it when people in the congress don’t do what the constitution said.”

Today there is no need to protect ourselves from government take over. We handed them ourselves our lives our education. They control the way we live and raise our children among a lot of other things weather we agree with their input or not.

Memory is used as a powerful conduit into the past; childhood experiences held in the subconscious illuminate an adult’s perception. Harwood uses tense shifts throughout her poetry to emphasise and indicate the interweaving and connection the past and the present hold. By allowing this examination of the childhood memories, Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death.

For this essay I aim to show the importance of memory and of remembering the past in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale is a ‘speculative fiction’ first published in 1985 but set in the early 2000s. The novel was in response to changes in US politics with the emergence of Christian fundamentalism, the New Right. Atwood believed that society was going wrong and wrote this savage satire, similar to Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’, depicting a dystopia which she uses as a mirror to hold up to society. I will be focusing on the main character and narrator, Offred, “a handmaid who mingles memories of her life before the revolution with her rebellious activities under the new regime” (book group corner), as she

The responsibilities of government are to protect its citizens by such means as our armed services or military weapons. Government is to ensure there is a way of fairly maintaining order as an example our police, National Guard, and to ensure every citizen has equal access to items, products, goods such as schools, and highways. However, government or politics often has a negative connotation too many as it is viewed as a way for lobbyists and those with money to make policies that are important or in some way helpful to them. Many view politics as dishonest and that politics is a manner in which someone or group benefits for their own advantage and not for society as a

All books are based on previous memories. Forster states, “There is no such thing as a wholly original work of literature.” To show this

One way the novel’s portrayal of history in relation to modern day can be viewed by analyzing the similarities

Like his dear old dad Paul turn to alcohol to cope with his pain caused by the death of his mother. The death of his mother caused him to be going through an identify crisis (he has always defined himself to how his mother sees him). Mrs. Morel didn’t just provide Paul a sense of identify but also a sense of purpose. Now sense that is all gone he doesn’t know what to do with himself.

* How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.

However, she moves from a literal experience and memory to pensive reflection in order to create a contrast between the younger and older character. This is used by writing about movement from the past to the present and including its effect on the future. The varies of tense further highlights the changes over time as she focuses on the dualities of self and the universal emotions.

"I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it, I am struggling to especially to prevent others from overthrowing it." - President Lincoln.

In the short story ”Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier the author uses several literary devices to create narrator’s voice and point of view. Collier uses flashback to create voice in several examples. When the narrator states “When I think of the hometown of my youth” (16) she is referring to a memory from a long ago in a flashback. This creates a point of reference for the reader to understand that the following story will be told from the narrator’s point of view as an adult. And the author uses flashback to cite some past scenes. When the narrator states “I remember fishing for minnows in a muddy creek and watching sadly as they eluded my cupped hands, while Joey laughed uproariously” (17) she is referring to a scene happened as in the past.

Trace three of the following threads through the novel. In two paragraphs for each explain the various literary effects of each of the threads and how each is related to the theme. Use quotations from the novel to support each analysis.

The purpose of this analysis is to show how the themes of the novel are loosely based on the events in the soviet union, and the similarities between the world of big brother and Joseph Stalin’s communistic leadership.