English 021 Creative Reading

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Through the Looking Glass into a Sea of Stories
E3 Haroun Alice
by jsimpson

Jonique Simpson English-021 2005-05-12 Salman Rushdie, the author of Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and Lewis Carroll, author of Alice and Wonderland’s Through the Looking Glass, are two very talented writers both of whom have perfected a craft and managed to affect readers by taking them into fanciful worlds...
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May 17, 2005, 04:25 PM
gated in
8 Carroll
by jsimpson

The setting of “It’s My Own Invention”, basically takes place on a gate. The White Knight, in his poem, describes a man who sits on a gate as he questions how the man makes his living. Throughout his spiel the man remains on the gate. The poem even ends with...
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May 05, 2005, 02:40 PM
Happiness in Stories
6 Rushdie
by jsimpson

“What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true”? It seems as if the tale begins with this inquiry however it begins before it. The book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, is the exact tale that Rashid Khalifa told the people in the Valley of K. Even though...
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April 21, 2005, 01:00 PM
Seeing Through the Glass Coffin
E2 Possession
by jsimpson

The Glass Coffin is one of the many myths that contribute to Possession. In the story a traveling tailor is desperately in search of some business. He finally, after wandering the forest, found a small house of which he knocked on the door. The tailor requested for work and...
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April 14, 2005, 01:04 PM
Hiding behind Prose
5 Byatt
by jsimpson

In quoting a poem from Yeats, Fergus reveals how he feels in regards to poety. This passage in the book is evidence that Fergus feels that poetry provides something more or less than mere words. Instead of quoting Yeats, Fergus could have simply told Maud to grow her hair out...
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April 05, 2005, 02:34 PM
Possessed
4 Byatt
by jsimpson

Copper can be described in terms of definition 3a. There is evidence that he is in some ways becoming or being possessed with the spirit of Ash. He himself feels that his own identity is visible through Ash's. Montimer Cropper, fluently documenting every last item of the days of Randolph...
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March 29, 2005, 03:06 PM
death is inevitable
E1 Pale Fire
by jsimpson

Jonique Simpson English 021 Creative Reading March 8, 2005 Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a conspiracy. In examining Kinbote’s commentary the connections evident between it and Shade’s poem are uncanny. In choosing his words, as early on as in the Forward, Kinbote inserts...
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March 08, 2005, 12:07 PM
United in Color
3 Nabokov
by jsimpson

While it seems as though Kinbote’s commentary fails to establish any correlation between it and Shade’s poem, in all actuality there are connections that can be made. An abundant use of colors in the imagery by Kinbote in “the turquoise dome of the Observatory, wisps and pale plumes of cirrus”...
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February 17, 2005, 02:50 PM
Connecting After All
2 Wallace
by jsimpson

Despite the ostensible lack of connection between Jeni and her husband throughout Adult World, by the end of the story Wallace manages to establish the antithesis of such. As the story progresses so does the “young” (137) wife’s suspicions that her husband may be cheating, as well as her doubts...
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February 10, 2005, 12:34 AM
People die...it's a part of Life
1 Wilde
by jsimpson

“You never believed in it yourself. If you had, you would not have committed a forgery to prove it.” In this statement to Cyril, in the mist of ironically contradicting himself, Erskine manages to prove the antithesis of the statement in question. “There is something fatal about the idea”...
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February 03, 2005, 05:06 AM
HEllo
Test
by jsimpson

My name is Jonique...
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February 01, 2005, 04:20 PM