Thursday, October 16, 2014

What does Frederick Douglass mean when he says "Bread of Knowledge"?

In Chapter 7 of
The Narrative of the Life of , Douglass describes his life in Baltimore as
a young slave in the city. His mistress teaches him the elementary steps of reading, as she does
not yet realize that the society around her condemns the teaching of slaves. The society
believes that reading will corrupt them and make them unfit as slaves. 


Douglass writes, "I used also to carry bread with me...I was much better off in this regard
than many of the poor white children in our neighborhood. This bread I used to bestow upon the
hungry little urchins, who, in return, would...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF INDIANNESS IN NISSIN EZEIKEL'S POETRY.

I think
that the term Indianness has to be defined in clearer terms.  I am not certain as to what this
is.  Certainly, with the advent of globalization, the concept of Indianness has been filtered
through a cosmopolitan lens and there is much there where differing conceptions, unclear and
potentially competing, reside.  In poems such as The Night of the Scorpion, Ezekiel writes of
a world where India is present.  The small villages, the conflict between modernity and
tradition, the role of religion in such a setting where there might not be much in way of
singularity might be a part of what can be considered Indianness.  When he writes of how
different forces of people and of ideas converge on the individual, rendering them a bit
incapable of making a clear and decisive judgment about the situation, Ezekiel might be writing
of something that might fit the conception of Indianness.  Yet, I think that one has to be
careful of such a label, for individuals might simply seek to reduce the character and identity
of what it means to be Indian to these assertions, not truly recognizing the complexity of
their thought or of Ezekiels work.  Given the face that complexity and divergence of thought
seems to be present in his work, Ezekiel might suggest that the same principles be applied to
the concept of Indianness.

Monday, October 13, 2014

In To Kill a Mockingbird, when does Judge Taylor appoint Atticus to defend Tom Robinson?

Although
it is obvious that Judge Taylor must
have appointed Atticus to be the defense attorney for Tom
Robinson long
before the beginning of the trial in 's novel ,
neithernor
 discovers this fact until just before the trial. Atticus
previously warned his children that
they may face trouble at school because
of the case, but he never tells them that he was
appointed as defense
attorney. They first learn of his appointment inwhen they sneak into the

courthouse hallway to see the excitement first-hand:



...The conversation was about my father. />    "... thinks he knows what
he's doing," one said.
   
"Oh-h now, I wouldn't say that," said
another. 's a deep reader, a mighty
deep reader."
    "... Lemme tell you
somethin' now, Billy," a
third said, "you know the court appointed him to defend this
nigger." />    "Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him. That's what I don't like

about it."
    This was news, news that put a different light on things.
Atticus
had to, whether he wanted to or not. I thought it odd that he hadn't
said anything about it--we
could have used it many times defending him and
ourselves.


Atticus had previously told
his brother Jack in , but Scout apparently did not fully
understand their
conversation:

    "Atticus, how bad
is
it going to be? You haven't had too much chance to discuss it."
    "...
I
really can't tell at this stage, Jack. You know, I'd hoped to get through
life without a case of
this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said,
'You're it.' "


In the film version of
the movie, this fact becomes evident much
earlier, when Judge Taylor comes to
Atticus's house to ask him this favor
personally.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

What is the name of Indian politician Mohan Singh's father?

I'm not
sure which Mohan Singh you are referring to, but here's what I could find out;


If it's the contemporary politician, his name was Mahendra Pratap Singh.


General...

Examine how the theme of innocence and experience is portrayed in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

Traditionally, the theme of innocence and experience is shown in literature when a
character loses their innocence in a world of experience. Boyne's depiction of Bruno in
defies this. The theme of innocence is shown to be a force that can
withstand the horrors of experience, proving to be a transformative quality to demonstrate what
can be in the face of what is.

Bruno views the world through the lens of
innocence.  The questions he asks in the midst of Holocaust reflects this.  For example, Bruno
questions power through his understanding of innocence:  "What exactly was the
difference?...And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the
uniforms?   Another example of this is in the way in which Bruno views human beings:  "In
his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for
you. There was such a thing as manners after all."  In these descriptions of Bruno's
thinking, one...

Saturday, October 11, 2014

What final ambiguity surrounds "Young Goodman Brown"?

Hawthorne's use of
ambiguity permeates all of
his work. Near the end of this story, he says:



Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a

wild dream of a witch-meeting?

Be it so if you will; but, alas! It
was a
dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly
meditative, a distrustful,
if not a desperate man did he become from the
night of that fearful dream.


The
reader is left to wonder whether Goodman Brown's experience in
the forest was
real or only a dream. Regardless of which it was, however, the effect was the

same: he became a man who was suspicious of everybody--his wife, his minister--everyone.
He
lives the remainder of his life in misery, believing that no one can be
trusted because of what
he believes he saw in the
forest.

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"Good" is a subjective word, and instead you may want to speak in terms of
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