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Rohinton Mistry: A comparison of his Works. (books read: "A Fine Balance" and "Family Matters" both by Rohinton Mistry.)
... was damaged by Coomy and Jal to force their step father to stay with his biological daughter for awhile and before ... unnatural and vicious. Most are murders or "accidents". Shankar, a legless beggar, loses control of his rolling platform which speeds into ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
"Pygmalion" and "Wide Sargasso Sea" essentially project a patriarchal society, where the female succumbs and the male prevails" Do you agree with this statement?
... shown when he cuddled Antoinette and rocked her like a child, indicative of father-child dominance over her. He showed his ... the end, although they have a very different ending, with Eliza gaining more independence while Antoinette loses hers in the form of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
The Quest for Racial Identity in Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea"
... a father, Antoinette can only call him her "white pappy," indicating again her distance from his whiteness and his power. The "big Pappy" refers to a ... s. The theme is the fear and the possibility of losing one's whiteness. The very first sentences of the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Return of a Native Summary
... give every sister a thousand pounds however his wife makes him accept that this is not important on the grounds that his father never even ... to his wife and does what she says that he'll lose her because apparently he has great feelings for her. On the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
... the youngest among them all. Marwan's father divorced his mother for a woman whose father had money and he stopped supporting his family ... Iraq but Asaad never found him. This incident makes Asaad lose his trust in people. Asaad reaches Iraq by himself with ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Remains of Day; Steven's Journey of Doubt
... a blind loyalty to his Lord Darlington. However, with the death of Stevens's father, Lord Darlington, and the absence of an old-fashioned staff, he loses ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Robert Frost
... his father, William Frost Jr., impacted Frost's life which in result affected his poetry. Frost's father was a journalist and a teacher ... him to write the poems "A Masque of Reason" and "A Masque of Mercy" ("Robert Frost"). Losing his wife and four of his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
The Iliad
... a beloved priest. Agamemnon, King of Argos, and Achilles have kidnapped his daughter, along with Brisies, refusing to take her fathers ... heroic endeavors (129). Throughout the fury of battle, Paris loses heart and shrinks back into the ranks of the Trojan ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
What effect and impact does poetry induce?
... that the poet led a somewhat religious life, assumedly due to the fact that her father was a perpetual curate. Finally, ... or dying. Even though they are slowly deteriorating and losing abilities: "blinding sight", Thomas declares that the "grave men" ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Vision and its Relevance to Tragedy, this goes into the heros journey, the Appollonian and Dionysiac worlds, and how it relates to commonly read novels.
... a sudden "she seemed to see the vanity in her father's pride." Her lack of respect for her father makes it easier to pass on such a ... like it is a common occurrence. Horrible things happen in life, millions are murdered, lose loved ones, lose homes, yet all ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature