Josh Sung Joon Park Professor Wallace Literature Core April 24 2015 The Intricate Weave of ‘Horseman’ In the story “Horseman,” by Richard Russo, a young English professor, Janet Moore, explores the complexities of her marriage, academic, and social life. The plot of the story, which jumps around the presence and the past memory, may seem diverse and confusing. However, in the end, Russo deliberately combines those layers, illustrates the interrelations of Janet’s experiences and relationships, and efficiently delivers Janet’s thoughts and her self-evaluation. Two days before Thanksgiving, Janet confronted James Cox, one of her students, who was caught plagiarizing. Because Janet was already feeling sexist attitudes from her students, James’ …show more content…
She was surprised that he was telling his personal story to them, so had a debate about the importance of ‘person’ against Tony. Unlike tony, she strongly took a stance that the literature professor would never should give irrelevant personal anecdote to her students and considered a waste of time to do so. When they were having arguments, Tom Newhouse, professor emeritus, stepped into the Hub Pub. Although Janet did not wanted obnoxious Newhouse to disrupt them, Newhouse did actually recognized her and came up to their table. In the middle of conversation, he brought up James Cox and how he deliberately wrote the paper. However, Janet’s question whether James, who was caught for plagiarism in her class, actually wrote the essay or not, upset Newhouse and made him leave the …show more content…
Their son Marcus forbid any physical contacts and did not have any emotions other than fear and anger. Also, Janet believed that he chose Robbie, her husband, over her. After Marcus and Robbie went to get pizzas, Janet kept recalling the incident with Bellamy when they had helped the blind boy, William, and dropped him at the Newman Center. Janet had tried to avoid having conversation with Bellamy; his kindness had stolen the anger that rose after his criticism and just left her hollowed. The flashback struck her hard; she started sobbing and drove to Hub Pub without any thought. In the pub, Newhouse was still drinking by himself. Janet came up to him and invited cranky, old man to Thanksgiving dinner. They talked about James Cox again with relieved emotions. She did not accuse James like she did before, but carefully told Newhouse the possibility. This time, Newhouse accepted the possibility and thanked Janet. As she was coming back to her home, she thought of Bellamy and about what he said at a bar where everyone recited a greatest lyrical poem. When asked for explanation, he replied, “Because when I speak those words aloud, my father is alive again." Janet finally understood what he tried to teach her; literature gives the chance to see what it’s like to be someone else. “What it feels like. Literature.
In indian horse,Saul goes through a lot of issues and problems.In the end he ends up realizing that they helped him get to who he is today. Topic
In a world where showing a bit too much shoulder was forbidden, came Susan Glaspell. Glaspell was an American playwright, born in the cruel times of oppression. This influenced women’s opinions on certain subjects which caused them to be silenced by fear of rejection from society. “A Jury of Her Peers” was based on an era where women felt as though it was unreasonable to speak up if they felt it was not absolutely dire. Harboring these pent up feelings could cause a person to act antagonistic. Minnie Wright was an example of this. She killed her husband and was subjected to the judgement of her peers. As the group investigated Mr. Wright’s death, there were two stories unraveling. The in depth explanation that the women figured out and the simplistic version the men had seemed to pick up (Glaspell). People would benefit from reading this story to begin to understand the struggle of what this and other women had gone through. Penn Manor American Literature students would benefit from having Susan Glaspell’s story “A Jury of Her Peers” in their curriculum because of how she expressed feminism through her writing at a time when it was new and discouraged; her ability to emphasize the themes with her settings and characters; and her literature that follows a protagonist that navigates through a sexist world.
In Zora Neale Hurtson’s ethnography, Tell My Horse (1938), she uses her research and field notes from her year in the Caribbean islands to study how the political atmosphere and culture tie into the religion of Vodoun. Being one of the first in her field to study this religion, Hurston hoped to expand research upon the subtle nuances within the African diaspora and increase the people of Caribbean’s acceptance of their African identity. In doing so, Hurtson found her research discouraged the idea of Pancaribbeanism and diminished stereotypes of Vodoun being a religion based upon only evil possession and pagan sacrifice.
Everyone has a different way to deal with overwhelming situations. It can be more difficult for people with mental illness to cope with the hardships of life. For instance, in “Horses of the Night,” the character of Chris has dissociative symptoms that can be linked to his depression. Margaret Laurence’s short story tells the story of Chris, a young teenager who moves to from a small farm to the town of Manawaka in order to go to high school. The story is told by his younger cousin, Vanessa. As she grows up, she learns that Chris is depressed. The author uses the theme of fantasy to show that he does not cope well with reality. The horses, Shallow Creek, and the children are symbols that show us the fantasy that Chris lives in.
Since “Annabel Lee” and “The Highwayman” are both narrative poems, the speakers of each story influence certain features of the plots. The narrator of “Annabel Lee” is also the affected lover who is recalling the catastrophic incident that is his lover’s death. Since he is actually a part of the storyline, he conveys the plot the way he had experienced it as it began “with a love that was more than love” but progressed onward to the “killing [of his] Annabel Lee”. The passionate narrating establishes his reliability as a narrator as the audience can truly sense his pain. However, the narrator of “The Highwayman” is not involved with any aspect of the storyline and, therefore, tells the story from a bystander point of view. Even though the narrator is not directly impacted by the events, they are still able to captivate the audience by utilizing lifelike elements, such as the “tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot” of the horse, to institute their trustworthiness as a narrator. Therefore, both narrators within “Annabel Lee” and “The Highwayman” add different elements of persuasion to their narratives to establish an authentic storyline.
Since “Annabel Lee” and “The Highwayman” are both narrative poems, the speakers of each story influence certain features of the plots. The narrator of “Annabel Lee” is also the affected lover who is recalling the catastrophic incident that is his lover’s death. Since he is actually a part of the storyline, he conveys the plot the way he had experienced it as it began “with a love that was more than love” but progressed onward to the “killing [of his] Annabel Lee”. The passionate narrating establishes his reliability as a narrator as the audience can truly sense his pain for the loss of his lover. However, the narrator of “The Highwayman” is not involved with any aspect of the storyline and, therefore, tells the story from a bystander’s point of view. Even though the narrator is not directly impacted by the events, they are still able to captivate the audience by utilizing lifelike elements, such as the “tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot” of the horse, to institute their trustworthiness as a narrator. Therefore, both narrators within “Annabel Lee” and “The Highwayman” add different elements of persuasion to their narratives to establish an authentic storyline.
In his essay, “Horse and Gentlemen,” T.H. Breen describes the cultural significance of gambling, specifically in relation to the quarter-horse races, in late 17th century Virginia. Breen primarily argues that the three main aspects of gambling – competitiveness, materialism, and individualism – reflected and reinforced the socio-economic structure of Virginia in this period. The high stakes wagers of the affluent planters reinforced their dominant status in the social structure and the gentry’s right to rule over this colony. Breen’s argument to this effect is supported by letters, court transcripts, documentation of wagers, and other written first-hand accounts. Breen’s case for the cultural significance of gambling has persuasive arguments for its representation of competitiveness and materialism. However, his argument for individualism has contrary elements and his essay would have been improved with the inclusion of women’s role in the gambling culture.
Matthew Fraser, a secondary faculty pupil in Bethel, Washington, conveyed a discourse assigning a kindred understudy for an understudy optionally available office. The discourse was made amid faculty hours as a part of a school-supported instructive gadget in self-government. the intentional get collectively turned into long past to by means of round six hundred college students, a huge range of whom were 14-yr-olds. For the duration of the discourse, the pupil intentionally alluded to his competitor concerning a problematic and specific sexual similitude. The responses of the pupil differed from energetic hooting and hollering to humiliation and bewilderment by using other students within the auditorium.
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormack McCarthy starts off with the funeral of the main character, John Grady’s, grandfather. Due to his death, John Grady’s mother has decided to sell their ranch in Texas and move away. John Grady loves the ranch he has grown up on just as much as he loves the cowboy way of life. Now there is nothing left in Texas for him. John Grady, at sixteen years old, runs away from home with his friend Rawlins. They ride their horses toward the Mexican border, living the typical life of migrant cowboys. A stubborn young man ends up joining them named Jimmy Blevins. Together, all three cowboys cross the Rio Grande River and head into Mexico.
An English professor insulted her writing skills and English language abilities when she accused Marin of paying someone to complete her essay. The accusation was based on the idea/insult that “Mexicans don’t write that well” (p. 162, para. 7). Her reaction: She dropped the teacher’s class and did not care what the teacher believed.
The key claims that the Sadkers’ shared in their book describes how they discovered sexism in schools. While the Sadkers’ begin their research at a prestigious private school in Washington D.C. they did not know what they were
Jack couldn’t even begin to imagine how Phryne, a mother, was feeling about exposing two of the things that she loved most to the horrors the two of them dealt with on a daily basis. He couldn’t help but feel some kind of loss as to what that would feel like as he and Rosie had never been blessed. Of course, Jane and Ruth looked up to him and he treated them like he would his nieces and nephews, but he knew there was a bond between parent and child that he would never understand.
“The Rocking Horse Winner” is a short story written by D.H Lawrence that follows the short and tragic life of a boy named Paul, who assumes he has amazing luck after realizing he can predict racehorse winners by furiously riding his rocking horse until he reaches a trance-like state. Unfortunately, as his family takes advantage of his gift and starts gaining more money, Paul’s luck begins to kill him. Literally. Throughout the story, there are several themes evident, such as wealth, life, conscious, existence; luck, family, and greed. The conflicts displayed are man vs man, man vs self, and man vs. society. The rocking horse has become an obsession for paul and the potential benefits it would have on his family, ultimately not knowing the actual harm it will cause.
Alfred Prufrock (“Prufrock”), a student at London College (“Defendant”) is now the Plaintiff in a suit based on a quid pro quo sexual harassment claim against his Modern Poetry professor under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §1681, et seq. Prufrock was an English major attending London College from September 2009 until December 2013. Prufrock’s plan was to graduate in the summer of 2013 with the high hopes of going to a top law school. He knew how competitive getting into law school was but was optimistic because he was excelling academically. His plans got derailed when he decided to take a Modern Poetry class with April Crewel (“Crewel”).
The sub-plot of ‘Hayavdana; the horse-man deepens the significance of the main theme of incompleteness by treating it on a different plane. The horse-man-s search for completeness ends comically, with his becoming a complete horse. The animal body triumphs over what is considered the best in man, the Uttamanga, the human head!