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Rushdie vs. Sanders In response to Rushdie’s essay about moving, Sanders writes “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” where he advocates for careful treatment of the environment ahead of personal interests. Sanders use of direct quotes from Rushdie’s essay as well as strategic acknowledgement of Rushdie’s arguments couple to establish and justify his credibility and position. Sanders further compels the reader to support his position by exposing logical fallacies within Rushdie’s argument

There are a couple of recurring themes in the book by Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Of these, two themes are “Despite how complicated a situation or problem gets, at the end, when it is solved, you are back at where you started” and “ When you are in love you see your loved one everywhere you go and in everything you do. The first theme is the one that encompasses the whole book, although it is more of a hidden one. At the beginning of the novel, the Reader buys the new book

Calvino skilfully uses Magical Realism to bring out the relationship between a book and its reader. He exaggerates circumstances, without straying from the realm of possibility/reality. This adds a certain fictional quality to the everyday process of reading. It has been said that the narrative technique is the soul of the novel. Calvino’s novel is the perfect example of this. He uses the forms of narration in this novel as tools to convey his message. He uses the “experimental” form to pique our

Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju South Korea, at the age of 10 she moved to a city in Seoul with her family. Narrowly escaping the Gwangju massacre, a nine day city wide confrontation between protesting students and armed forces, resulting in 200 deaths and 850 injured. The massacre had an impact on Han as she questions human brutality in the novel that earned her the prestigious literary award the Man Booker prize. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She debuted as a poet and

While there are many themes and deep pieces to analyze throughout Zadie Smith’s engrossing novel White Teeth, perhaps the most interesting is the use of the metaphor of teeth that is present throughout the novel. Teeth are something that connects all human beings. Everyone, no matter their race or gender, has teeth. They vary in size, shape, and even color but they tend to look the same from person to person. But throughout the novel Smith uses the different action each tooth performs in order to

Arundhati Roy Presents a slice of life in a small Indian town where male hegemony as well as Androcentric power relation are prevailing on the other hand, she depicts different types of male and female identity challenging myths. This novel depicts the feministic elements, caste and class gender, political and childhood exploitation. It does not deal with one particular theme. It encompasses all the social issues. The dominance of patriarchal voice and treatment of Dalits and women are mainly focused

The novel “The Back of the Turtle” by Thomas King is relevant to Canada in both present day and history. Through the setting, characters and theme the story is portrayed in a way that makes it sound like a calamitous prediction for the future of Canada’s treasured natural world. Riddled with corporate greed and environmental disaster, the story follows those involved and affected by the catastrophe that destroyed Samaritan Bay. His lifelike characters are tangled with labyrinthine emotions that

The book Children of a New World by Aissia Djebar is a war novel that depicts the events going on during the Algerian War. The main setting of the book is within a Muslim Algerian Town. Within this town are a set of people that are the main focuses of the novel. The significance of these people are their involvement to the war directly and indirectly and most importantly their involvement with each other as how that effects them as well. The book shows a unique writing style because each chapter

Now both him and his son try to find a way to get his ability back. In “The Shah of Blah” by Salman Rushdie the diction used throughout the story conveys the emotions of the characters in the story and this paper will be showing Rushdie does this this is done and how it affects the story. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India on June 19,1947. His father was a successful businessman and Rushdie was able to attend Rugby school and the University of Cambridge. He has produced many works about controversial

According to Salman Rushdie, an award winning British Indian novelist, “The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.” Good literature often strives to evoke various responses from and connect with the reader through character emotions, which allows the interaction between one self and characters to become profound and meaningful. This enables