What were the problems the Jurgis family has to face in America in The Jungle?

The Rudkis
family faces a myriad of problems when they arrive in Chicago. They immigrate to the United
States from a forest village in Lithuania under the assumption they can grow rich in the land of
opportunity. However, they are innocents, wholly unprepared for what they are up against in a
brutal urban environment.

Sinclair was a socialist and wrote the novel as a
plea for a world with protections for the lowest strata of society, protections we have largely,
if not entirely, implemented since that time. The family, unprotected, is easily cheated and
exploited. They don't understand the terms of a mortgage when they try to buy a house nor do
they realize how shoddily it is built. They don't realize that their "home ownership"
is a scam and that the terms of their repayment are set up to make it impossible for them to
afford the payments on the house so that it is quickly foreclosed on and "sold" to the
next unsuspecting victim.

The novel is also a plea for unions: Jurgis thinks
he can...

What is the overriding theme of "Our Casuarina Tree" by Toru Dutt?

I would suggest that the
main theme of this poem has to do with the existence of a harmony between human
beings and nature. The tree is associated with the animals who live and play in
itthe baboons and the kokilasas well as the cows that enjoy its shade. The tree's shadow also
covers the body of water beneath it, where water lilies grow in such great number that they look
like snow. The speaker goes on to describe the way she and her "sweet companions" used
to play beneath the tree's boughs. The tree rises up in her "inner vision" and brings
her happiness and peace, perhaps because it does symbolize the union of nature and humanity,
achieving a unique kind of beauty, meaning, and innocence. Many descriptions make this tree's
home sound like the Garden of Eden, but there is no tragic fall from grace to be had here: the
snake is only a vine wrapped around the tree that is covered in flowers. Grace survives as the
tree brings all beings together in harmony.

Analyze the painting of "Still Life With Three Puppies" painting by Paul Gauguin by using art language.

"Still Life with Puppies" by Paul
Gauguin is
divided horizontally into three zones. At the bottom there is a still life
comprising
some loose pieces of solidly colored fruit on a cloth and two more
in a small bowl. In the
second zone, diagonally bisecting the picture, is a
row of three opaque blue goblets, each with
an apple at its base. At the top
of the painting is a large black pan from the far side of which
three puppies
are drinking.

The fruit and the goblets provide a focal
point
of bright, solid, saturated color, drawing the eye downwards from the
puppies. This, together
with their comparatively small size and drab coloring
makes the puppies in the title seem a
comparatively minor element in the
composition of the painting. Each puppy, however, has a
small, bright dab of
broken color on its face: one has a red right ear, another has a yellow
left
ear, and the last has a yellow nose.

The background is a white
table
cloth with faint prints of leaves. These prints are picked up by the
darker markings on the
puppies' coats. Although the coats themselves are
drab, the the puppies are thickly outlined in
blue, a detail which emphasizes
the note of unreality in the composition.

In 1984 when Winston has "capitulated" nearly completely, how can you tell? Page 227.

First off,
it states that he has in the narrative itself.  It admits outright that "He had
capitulated; that was agreed."  So, there is that.  Thus far, the narration in this book
has been reliable, relaying exactly whathad thought and believed all throughout the book. So, we
can trust that Winston had indeed capitulated because the narrator indicates it was so.  Then,
they were letting his body recover--if he hadn't given up and caved, they would still be
starving and torturing him to get him to that point.

Beyond this, however,
look at what he does in the next page.  In his earlier life before the imprisonment, he had kept
a journal.  In that journal, he had written down his thoughts of rebellion and questioning. Now,
the only thing that he can write is the Party's different pieces of propoganda:  "Freedom
is slavery.  Two and two make five.  God is power."  His own independent thought have been
almost eradicated by then; when he tries to express himself, he is only expressing the
sentiments of the party.

Then, if you look at his reasoning in the pages that
follow, it mentions over and over again that "he accepted everything" that the Party
said; he even doubted the laws of nature and gravity, becausesaid they were not finite, but what
the Party said they were.  Then, beyond believing these things, he actually practiced shutting
his mind down when it tried to logically argue against such impossible statements as two and two
make five.  He was actually self-training himself to be submissive to the Party's
assertions.

So, his recovering body, his absence of independent thoughts as
reflected in his writing, his belief in illogical statements of the Party, and his self-training
to truly believe those statements are all indicators of his capitulation.  I hope that helped;
good luck!

Discuss Forster's portrayal of Indian society in A Passage to India.

Much of
the focus of the novel is on the educated Muslim class, as represented by Aziz and his closest
social circle. However, overall the novel provides quite a comprehensive picture of Indian
society. The other major religion of India, Hinduism, is also well-represented with several
characters, most notably the enigmatic Professor Godbole. The first part of the novel is titled
'Mosque', indicating the focus on Aziz and his circle; the final section is called €˜Temple
where the focus shifts to Godbole presiding over a riotous Hindu festival.

It is true that the novel really only shows us male...

How would "Girl be different if it were called "Boy? Discuss the cultural assumptions behind your response.

Amira Lind, M.A.

Structurally, we could infer that a short story titled "Boy" would look
completely different. If you recall, the actual short story, "," is written as one
dense paragraph of directives given by a mother to help her socioeconomically disadvantaged
daughter in a patriarchal society. Because the daughter effectively has no voice in this
culture, she has little to no voice even as the subordinate to her mother; when she does speak,
it appears as slight interjections in italics, effectively lost in her mother's desperate rant
to protect her daughter from mistakes that would lessen her status in their culture.

However, in a short story titled, "Boy," it is likely the structure would
appear as a dialogue rather than a directive. Multiple paragraphs would be present, as well as
dialogue tags and quotation marks, making it evident who is speaking and that it is an equal
exchange. Even if the socioeconomic status of the "boy" in this imagined story was the
same as the girl in the actual...

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Explain why the following selection from The Stranger is important: "I had been looking at the stones in these walls for months. There...

There is
much in way of meaning within the excerpt from Camus's . Its meaning can be
set against some of the thoughts that the Priest offers earlier to him:

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never
looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched
among have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to
see.

In Mersault's response, his rejection of
conventional totality is evident.  The claims of the divine are posited to Mersault, something
that he simply repudiates with his notion that there was nothing within the stones that
he...