Doctorow

Cagle DeGraffenreid English 102 5, October 2015 Synthesis with "Why We Are Infidels" and "Imagine There's No Heaven" In the essays "Why We Are Infidels," By E.L. Doctorow and "Imagine There's No Heaven" by Salman Rushdie both authors give hidden meanings when reading between the lines of each essay. The authors Rushdie and Doctorow might have completely different writing styles, but they both focus on humanism when it comes to these two writings. With the idea of humanism both writers heavily use

the effects to a terrorists attack similar to that of 9/11, in regard to civil liberties. Doctorow claims, “This book is meant to be something you do, not just something you read.” He takes this opportunity to provide readers an education of security systems, computer

the characters Doctorow created or without the author's conscious prior awareness, a careful reading of the text will reveal them.  In this way, these same assumptions and prejudices test our

citizens. In Ragtime, the family of Tateh embodies these citizens. Doctorow also follows Father, a character of middle class America with a family and passion for exploration. Both of these paternal figures and their families have their share of problems to deal with, whether they have an advantage of social and ethnic background or not. The differences between these Father and Tateh, whether ethnic, social, financial, and even

novel, Ragtime author, El Doctorow, depicts America during the Gilded Age. Jacob Riis, one of the characters in the book, is a journalist who exposed the condition that immigrants lived in during the 19th century. Jacob Riis photographed the tenements that immigrants settled in and how they were all clustered into one small apartment. During this era, Robber Barons such J.P Morgan controlled the financial industry and resources in the United States. Despite that El Doctorow creates an appearance that

obvious fact that we have had, and still have, our fair share of problems. In Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow unabashedly exposes some of the worst aspects of American life in our more recent history. Doctorow doesn’t hold back anything, providing detailed examples of human cruelty and sacrifice, and the evolution of American society. While critiquing American society was not the sole purpose of his novel, Doctorow does expose and examine many issues that people tended to ignore like the

free like champagne" (Doctorow 37). After the bombs went off Marcus and his friends ran for cover and where hiding in the sub way, they soon realized they where not safe down there and decided to leave in hopes of finding a safer place. This is important because it helps to show how crazy and dangerous the atmosphere of the novel was when the bombs went off. [Style-Onomatopoeia] "Smash! The screen-panel fell off shattered into millions of pieces, exposing the keyboard" (Doctorow 169) At this point in

in the novel, Little Brother by Doctorow, San Francisco seems to be turning into a dystopian society, leading to the decline of human freedom. Doctorow’s view on technology is strong to a certain extent displaying how the misuses of technology can harm the human race. In the novel, the issues of technology and human freedom are widely discussed in a way that shows how technology takes away human rights by the use of face recognition, codes, and other means. Doctorow illustrates how face recognitions

of their skin. The acts of racism that were committed in Ragtime relate to several incidents that have taken place in society today. Criticisms by Brian Roberts and Barbara Foley both argue that history and events involving racism influenced E.L. Doctorow when writing Ragtime. Both Roberts and Foley also argue that

the heroine of Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage. Through the metaphor of the gun as the embodiment of masculinity, both authors closely examine the complexities of the sexualized relationship of a frontierswoman to the men of her society. Doctorow mirrors the tensions present in Grey's novel though Molly acts as an extraordinarily different vision of what the West required of a woman than Jane Withersteen. Both novels reach a sexual climax as the heroine engages the men of her society in