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    doesn’t just describe the events; it creates characters and conflicts to help the reader better understand the meaning of the events. Modern literature is often linked to ideology, either supporting or discriminating it. George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Salman Rushdie’s The Prophet’s Hair are among the literary texts that attack the ideologies, Communism and Islam respectively. Even though the texts are written in the genres that are usually used to support the principles and ideas of the philosophy they

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    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on seventeen August 1932, the eldest son of a second-generation Indian. He was educated at Queen's Royal college, Trinidad, and, once winning a government scholarship, in European nation at University college, Oxford. He worked shortly for the BBC as a author and editor for the 'Caribbean Voices' programme. he's a Noble Prize-winning British author acknowledged for the comic early novels of island, the bleaker later novels of the

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    Anita Desai 's ' Desai '

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    She finds totally alone and helpless in her husband 's house. Anita Desai 's language is marked by three characteristics of sensuous richness, high sensitiveness and love for the sound words. She is chiefly interested in the emotional world of woman, and her fiction reflects a rare imaginative awareness of the various forces in operation and a genuine understanding of feminine sensibility as well as psychology. Her central characters are sensitive and respond faithfully to the needs of the self.

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    Rushdie has explored many themes and issues in his writing cosmos within the postcolonial perspective in relationship with language, history, politics, identity, migration, and globalization. The present paper is focused on his two famous novels The Moor's Last Sigh and Shalimar the Clown that had taken a reversion from the other works that are based on western countries and characters. He is traversing back from routes to roots, envisioning the Indian subcontinent within his critiques. Rushdie encompasses

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    The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh explores different storytelling forms and complicates the picture of pre- and postcolonial South Asian identity in his fourth novel The Glass Palace1. His ambitious epic tells “the stories of a cast of characters, royal working – clogs, and bourgeois Indians, Bengalis, and Burmese – as they grapple with their sense of place and self while violent historical events reshape twentieth century Burma and India2”. Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace is an evocation of the recent

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    The first example I noticed in the movie was on Halloween when Julian was holding a mask and saying how Auggie looked like the mask. Jack says also in this scene if he looked like him, he would kill himself. This would be an example indirect bullying because they aren’t saying it directly to Auggie, but behind his back. This would also be verbal, because they are talking behind Auggie back. Also on Halloween, Julian asks Jack why he friends with Auggie any ways. This would be an example of relationship

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Zadie Smith's White Teeth

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    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

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