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Identifying One's Self
E3 Haroun Alice
by kanders2

Salman Rushdie’s and Lewis Carroll’s, respective novels, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Through the Looking-Glass beg their reader to form a response to Shakespeare’s famous cliché: what’s in a name. Rushdie and Carroll take the mundane and transform it into the fantastical simply with the twist of a...
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May 12, 2005, 09:13 AM
Naming Conversations
8 Carroll
by kanders2

Of the title given to the song the title that strikes me the most is “The Aged Aged Man” (243). This is because I feel it reflects the way Carroll has chosen to name of his chapters except for this one. Most of the other chapters are named after the...
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May 05, 2005, 02:17 PM
Naming Logic
7 Carroll
by kanders2

No passage in Through the Looking Glass plays with names quite to the extreme that the scene about insects does. In insect in the real world changes from a Horse-fly to a “Rocking-horse-fly… made entirely of wood, and gets about by swinging from branch to branch” (173). A horse fly’s...
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April 28, 2005, 02:01 PM
Braided Together
E2 Possession
by kanders2

As shown in A. S. Byatt’s Possession, hair is one of a woman’s most defining physical characteristics. Byatt links many of her characters together by hair color, such that we may visually perceive their connectedness. The importance of these women’s hair is further accentuated by the attention others pay to...
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April 26, 2005, 02:18 PM
Only 'The End' For the Reader
6 Rushdie
by kanders2

The ending of Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a happy one. Haroun is able to bring closure to every conflict was laid before him during the course of the tail: “Kahani” (209) is a happy city, Haroun’s mother has returned, “the Gift of the Gab [has] returned” (206)...
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April 21, 2005, 12:41 AM
Keeping One's Self for One's Self
4 Byatt
by kanders2

What is most important to Christabel LaMotte is to have possession of herself, to control herself and her life like a hockey player controlling a puck, thus disallowing anyone else to own or control her. She has or attempted to “renounce the outside World –and the usual female hopes” (205)...
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March 29, 2005, 02:08 PM
Communication: The Fluttering of Noise
E1 Pale Fire
by kanders2

One of the many reoccurring themes in Pale Fire is the question of how we are connected to the deceased. Shade and Kinbote both dwell on the destination of the human spirit once a life is past; Shade even reaches out to the spirit of his daughter, bagging for understanding...
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March 07, 2005, 10:04 PM
Mirror Oposites
3 Nabokov
by kanders2

Although the only apparent link between the writer of Pale Fire, the poem, and its commentator is the commentator’s word that there is one, the reader sees through the image of glass and sight that the poet and the commentator connect by reflecting each other. Shade is an artist looking...
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February 17, 2005, 02:16 PM
Observation without interaction.
2 Wallace
by kanders2

David Foster Wallace pushes us to feel disconnected from his characters by making them two dimensional from the very start of the short stories. In the second paragraph of Adult World (137) we are given our first real introduction to Jeni, which sets the stage for how we are exposed...
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February 10, 2005, 01:34 AM
It was personal.
1 Wilde
by kanders2

In the world created for us in The Portrait of Mr. W. H., there is an undeniable link between believing in Willie Hughes and death. Cyril Graham believes in Willie Hughes and kills himself in demonstration of “how firm and flawless his faith in the whole thing was” (195). Erskine,...
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February 03, 2005, 12:03 AM
Kat's Test

by kanders2

Hello to all. This is my test entry. It is an entry to test whether or not this “blog” is working. Apparently it is working. Let me know if you can’t read this. Good-bye to all....
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January 30, 2005, 03:20 PM