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Other critical thinkers like Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Michael Jordan have openly questioned this approval of violence by the bible and Jesus himself. According to Jordan religion has been used as an excuse for numerous acts of bloodshed and devastation in the world as evident in the prevalence of crusades and jihads from ancient times to present . He concludes that people feel justified to use violence from a religious standpoint and this is one of the reasons why religion is increasingly

This article lists the best 10 tips you will ever receive about how to fail in relationships. Paying great attention to them is a sure way to understand how to keep sabotaging your relationships over and over again. Read and internalize with the fullest attention. 1. Never take responsibility for your part in the failure of your relationships. Always blame your partners. Taking responsibility shows that you too might be wrong. This can take away some of the respect and love your partner feels towards

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

There is a quote from an author named Salman Khan from his book about education, his book is called The One World Schoolhouse where he talks about education reimagined. In this quote he talks about education and wrote: “Why has it been accepted as gospel for so long that homework is necessary? The answer, I think, lies not in the perceive virtues of homework but rather in the clear deficiencies of what happens in the classroom. Homework becomes necessary because not enough learning happens during