Clarice Hunts Buffalo Bill in Silence of Lambs

The Silence Of The Lambs Essay
The Silence of The Lambs
Clarice Starling, a student preparing for a life in the FBI, hunts a serial killer by use of vague
information given to her by an incarcerated psychologist. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter relays
information to Clarice in exchange for information about herself. The killer, known only as "Buffalo
Bill", kidnaps large women, keeps them alive for a few days, and finally skins them.
Clarice works against time as Buffalo Bill takes his newest victim, a U.S.
Senator's daughter, and the countdown to death begins.
"The Silence of the Lambs" was chosen for the title because it is
Clarice Starling's ultimate goal for the bloodcurdling screams of the lambs in her nightmares to
cease. When she was younger,...show more content...
From disobeying direct orders to pursuing a serial killer in his own dungeon of a basement, Clarice
is finally satisfied with herself and could care what someone else thought.
"A census taker tried to categorize me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big amorone"
– A quote from the prestigious Dr. Lecter that must occasionally be recalled to mind to serve as a
reminder that no matter how helpful Lecter is to Clarice, he is also a monster.
As a result of this book I realized some odd, yet successful methods used by the FBI to catch killers.
I also discovered how corrupt some branches of the government can actually be.
I don't believe I received any enlightenment from this book. I did, however, feel pretty good that I
actually finished it.
This book did affirm a few of my views on life. such as "Never judge a book by it's cover." No matter
how much someone appears to be your friend, you can never be absolutely sure.
I didn't receive anything from this book except the sheer enjoyment of reading it. And also a new
found respect for our justice system.
I must disagree with the main character's choice of pursuing Buffalo
Bill through his own basement. I, myself, would have called for backup. She could have easily
been killed by him and Catherine's chances of living would have died with her. This is a classic
example of rushing in without thinking, like playing a
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Essay on Kindred, by Octavia Butler
The novel under the title Kindred is a magnificent literary piece created by renowned
African–American fantasy writer and novelist of contemporary times Octavia Butler. This superb
piece encompasses the most burning issues and problems faced by the African–American
community. The novel throws light on the pathetic condition of the black slaves and vehemently
condemns domestic violence and slavery inflicted and imposed upon the black stratum of the
American society. The novel also discusses atrocities and hatred exercised upon the African
Americans on the basis of racial and ethnic discrimination prevailing in the society. Butler points out
the communication gap between spouses and family members, which adds to the misery of the black
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Tom Weylin's sexual assaults on his female slave Tess and selling out her children reflects the
miseries of the helpless blacks at the hands of the white population. Though Tess has lost her
children, yet she has to comply with the orders and wishes of her white master. (The Fight, X) In
addition, Weylin's consistent whipping on Dana, Tess and Alice also reveals the existence of
butchery and domestic violence by the whites. Particularly stripping of the Black women and
beating them brutally serve as the black mar on the very face of the white community. (The Fight,
XIII) History is also replete with the examples of butchery and cruelties inflicted upon the Black
slaves in the USA, northern and central Europe, Russia, Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) and other
parts of the world, where sexual exploitations, whipping and torture were the orders of the day.
Hence, Butler has portrayed the exact picture of the situation prevailed in the olden past in her novel.
Being the member of African American community, Dana maintained serious reservations for the
whites. But she is astonished to find his community members praising and admiring the ways
adopted by his ancestors Tom Weylin and his son Rufus. However, she is surprised to note that the
black community rebukes and censures Tom and Rufus in their absence and mock at the ways
adopted by the Weylins while crushing the Blacks. (The Storm, XI)
The protagonists Dana and Kevin belong to Black and White communities

Stardust Analysis
Gaiman, Neil. Stardust. EPUB ed., New York, Harper, 2007.
Neil Gaiman's novel Stardust is the epitome of a great fantasy story. The story begins in a small
British town called Wall named after the large stone wall that divides our world from a
mysterious wilderness beyond. In the town there is a hole in the wall which is the only point of
communication between the two worlds, and every ten years a market is held on the other side
of the wall. Living in this town is a boy named Tristran who is born a product of residents from
both sides of the wall. One day when he is walking his crush Victoria home, he asks for her hand
in exchange for the shooting star that had just flown overhead, she agrees and thus Tristran sets out
into the land on the other side of the wall, and he amazed by its splendor. After returning to Wall
with his star, Tristran realizes that Victoria doesn't love him, and instead marries Yvaine, the star. I
will use this novel to demonstrate how people are clueless of their surrounding world, just like the
villagers of Wall who despite living right next to a fairy land, remain entirely clueless of its existence.
Heshmat, Shahram. "What Is Confirmation Bias?" Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 23 Apr.
2015, www.psychologytoday.com. Accessed 11 May 2017.
This article from Psychology Today defines confirmation biases, and gives great examples of
instances where a confirmation bias leads to misconception. The author explains that confirmation
biases lead to humans disregarding all evidence that works against their belief system, and leads
humans to believe whatever we want to believe, engaging in self–deception. The author also explains
that there are both positives and negatives to self–deception, writing that when "dealing with certain
illnesses having positive thinking may actually be beneficial such as cancer", but in other cases
self–deception can have dire consequences, such as when smokers constantly tell themselves that
they could quit at anytime. The author also describes another side of the confirmation bias in that it
is counterintuitive to try to prove one's self wrong. I will use this article to help prove my idea that
for most people it is incredibly easy to disregard something

To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie Analysis
To Kill a Mockingbird's book and movie are similar in some ways, but they both have very
noticeable differences from each other. The setting of the story is not described as in depth in
the movie as it was in the book. The plot progression of the movie seems to be disorganized
compared to the book. Many of the characters who were included in the story originally were not
included in the movie, leaving out portions of the story from the movie. Overall, the book did a
better job at presenting the story in a way that wouldn't confuse the reader and entertained the reader
instead, whereas the movie's lack of organization could cause the reader to become confused if they
were to watch it after reading the book. In the first chapter of the story,

What do readers think of when they imagine a Fantasy book? Do they think of dragons and quests?
Or perhaps magic and long journeys? Fantasy, a genre of fiction is usually set in an alternate
universe outside of the typical world. The vast majority of readers have seen the typical three ways
that the authors of fantasy usually set up their worlds. In the novel, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien,
the world starts and ends in the fantasy world while in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by
Lewis Carroll starts in the real world and moves into the fantasy world created. Finally, some
fantasies are set in the real world but there is still elements of magic and fantasy like in Mary
Poppins. However, some fantasy books can be considered superior to others, the best fantasy books
are often detailed, so much so that the readers could picture themselves there. However, the best
fantasy books have a massive amount of detail, diverse characters, and do not follow the typical
assumptions when readers think of a fantasy novel.
To begin, the amount of detail in Fantasy is necessary, without it, the genre would be at best
subpar, when talking about other worlds you want others to believe them as much as possible.
For example, Ursula Le Guin talks in her open letter about detail, she states, "Then there is detail.
The more realistic, exact, "factual" detail in a fantasy story, the more sensually things and acts
are imagined and described, the more plausible the world will be. After all, it is a world made
entirely of words. Exact and vivid words make an exact and vivid world." (Guin 1) For example,
in the novel, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis, the fantasy world is just as
realistic as the typical world because of how it is introduced. Lucy, a young girl finds the
wardrobe and tells her siblings about in which the tell the homeowner and have a conversation:
"If there really is a door in this house that leads to some other world [...] I should not be at all
surprised to find that that other world had a separate time of its own; so that however long you
stayed there it would never take up any of our time. On the other hand, I don't think many girls of
her age would invent that idea for themselves. If she had

Analysis Of The Book ' Wonder '
The book "Wonder" written by R.J. Palacio follows a young boy named August Pullman and his
struggles in fifth grade. The struggle of being the only kid who looks the way he does. The
struggle of being the only kid at his school who has Treacher Collins Syndrome. Even with all the
obstacles in his path, August's overall experience at Beecher Prep has had a positive impact on
his life. Not only does August have to deal with bullies because of his facial abnormalities, but he
also has to adjust to a "real" school. August was always homeschooled due to his 27 surgeries. No
one sees August as ordinary, well, except himself. Everyone else is blinded by Auggie's looks and
for awhile they can't seem to look past them. But when...show more content...
And boy will I tell you Julian deserved it. With all the stuff Julian puts Auggie through Julian
deserved worse. On page 267 Amos stood up for Auggie by saying, " Leave him alone dude." It was
really strange for Amos to do this since he was on Julian's side for awhile.
Near the end of the book Auggie feels accepted. On page 282 we find evidence of this when he
says, "It was like I was one of them." When he says "them" he is referring to the other students.
Auggie could finally feel "normal" and it is necessary for August to feel this way because people
have always seen Auggie as strange because of his face. At a point August even forgets he has
Treacher Collins syndrome. On page 307 we find an example of this, "I wasn't even thinking about
my face. I was just smiling a big happy smile." August felt like it didn 't matter what his face
looked like. It just mattered that he was happy. For once, Auggie didn 't feel like everyone was
trying to get away from him; on the contrary, he said, "It kind of felt like everyone wanted to get
close to me." (pg 308) August can finally feel like a "normal" kid.
Some may argue that Auggie's experience had a negative impact because of the bullies, but in the
end he had everyone on his side. Plus with the conditions there will always be people who give you
those long stares, or those people who do that look then look away

The Novels of Jose Rizal
Rizal, for all the agitation his writings produced, never called for outright revolt against the Spanish
colonizers. On the contrary, his explicit statements never ceased to sustain the hope that Spain
would allow the Philippines the freedom and means to develop its intellectual and material
resources within a colonial partnership. A Philippine revolution, in Rizal's view, would be
unsuccessful and yet inevitable, should Spain continue to delay in granting the kind of reform that
would ensure security, freedom, dignity and education for the Filipinos. If a revolutionary, then,
Rizal remained a cautious one to the end of his brief life. Regardless of these reservations on Rizal's
part, the Judge Advocate General Pe=F1a, charged with passing...show more content...
To complete this strange apparatus of framing the narrative proper, an epigraph credited to
Ferdinand Blumentritt, Rizal's Austrian mentor, ambiguously remarks: Facilmente se puede
suponer que un filibustero ha hechizado en secreto =E1 la liga de los fraileros y retr=F3grados para
que, siguiendo inconscientes sus inspiraciones, favorezcan y fomenten aquella pol=EDtica que
s=F3lo ambiciona un fin : estender las ideas del filibusterismo por todo el pa=EDs y convencer al
=FAltimo filipino de que no existe otra salvacion fuera de la separaci=F3n de la Madre–Patria. (my
emphases) By attributing the idea of separatism to only a supposed filibustero, his inspirations
followed unconsciously by Filipinos –– and by using subjunctives to emphasize the hypothetical
status of that inspiration –– Blumentritt reinforces from a distance the notion of revolution without
openly espousing it or assigning it unequivocally as a thesis to Rizal's novel. Alerted by these
unusual framing devices, one can verify that a shift in

To Kill A Mockingbird Book Vs Movie Analysis
The movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird is very similar to the novel. Some of the strengths of
the film is being able to actually see what the characters look like. Also you can understand things
more clearly and see what relationship the characters have with one another. Another good thing
about the film is they introduce new characters such as Tom Robinson's family to help the
development of the story. However turning a story written in first person into a movie is a very
difficult task. The directors did a very good job completing this, but you don't get the same
connection with Scout as you do in the novel. Another drawback to the film is that you are limited to
the amount of time the movie can last. So therefore many of the of the

features of Victorian novel
The Victorian Novel: main features
First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel.
It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people, its plot was more interesting than
any other literary forms, the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so
that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told, the writer and his readers shared the same
opinions, values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class, the setting was mainly
that of the same city where readers lived. In conclusion the novel was a kind of mirror which
reflected society and where a self–identification of the readers was possible.
Of course the middle class readers were the most avid...show more content...
In this sense "didacticism" was the dominating aim of most of the novels of these years. As a
consequence the narrator is generally omniscient: he operates a marked division between good and
evil characters, he judges people and actions, he makes its stories finish with a wise distribution of
"punishment" for the evil characters, "retribution" for the good ones.
The plot of the novels was generally very long and complicated by many sub–plots: the writer also
wanted to give a marked impression of reality so that he presented not only the adventures of the
main characters, but also those of the secondary ones.
Victorian novel features
1) Omniscient narrator provided a comment on the plot and erect a rigid barrier between right and
wrong (didactic aim)
2) The setting s the city (symbol of industrial civilization, anonymous lives and lost identity)
3) Long and complicated plot
4) Creation of character and deep analysis of their lives
5) Retribution or punishment in the final chapter
Dickens – a town of red bricks
The description of the modern city is depressing and repetitive. The city is rational, based on fact
but the quality of the life is not good. Ten hospitals but no instrument for happiness. The life is
boring, always the same, the life in the city swallow with lives in it. Irony in the description.
A part of the society lives in a different way from the Victorian's canons:
Miserable, emarginated. Didactic aim: he creates characters,

Essay about Night by Elie Wiesel
Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences as a
prisoner during the Holocaust. Our teenager named Eliezer grew up in the small community of
Sighet, located in Hungarian Transylvania. It's here that Eliezer studies religion, both the Cabbala
and the Torah. At the beginning of the war Eliezer was dedicated and absolute in his belief of God,
but throughout the events of World War II his faith slowly starts to wither away. Eliezer's main
conflict that governs the story would be sustaining his belief in God. This becomes especially hard
throughout the book, as he has to face more and more challenging issues. Moshe the Beadle is the
one character that Eliezer learned about his faith from, Moshes...show more content...
It's in these moments that Eliezer has lost all faith he had in humanity and religion, which he had
previously learned from Moshe. One point in the story that Eliezer questions his faith in God is
when they are forced to watch the hanging of other prisoners, one time the Gestapo even hangs and
kills a small child for being associated with the rebels. It seems that during this point the prisoners
start to react for means of survival only, family members were turning on each other. The prisoners
turn cold hearted and cruel towards each other because now their only concern is survival. Because
of the horrific events in the concentration camp and the ever–present risk of death does Eliezer begin
to lose his faith in humanity and his God. Eliezer has a tough time understanding how the world
and the Gestapo can be capable of this much fury. Because his teachings tell him that God is
good, and since God is everywhere the world therefore must be good. Another strong theme from
the book is the importance of family bonds, especially if that's all you have left in harsh
conditions. Eliezer has a hard time watching the other families interact because they no longer
share a special bond of love but instead share the idea of selfishness. More than once Eliezer
experiences the rupture of the bond a family shares between both the father and son. He describes
his bond with his father as a support system; they both ensure the other has enough to survive

Why is Frankenstein such a popular text? Essay
Why is Frankenstein such a popular text?
Frankenstein is a science fiction novel written by Mary Shelley during the time of the Romantic
Movement. It has remained popular ever since it was first published and still sells well today, with
many reprints of the book since the first edition.
One of the main characters of the story and probably the most
(in)famous, Frankenstein's monster, has become an icon of all that is monstrous and wrong. The
story has been adapted and interpreted many times all in different ways, causing the monster and the
stereotypical view of him to become intertextual. The most popular and well recognised
representation of the monster and the one that most people would attempt to draw for you if you
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Frankenstein is popular for a number of reasons. The most prominent I believe is the fact that it
was the first type of story of its kind, and what is now referred to as sci–fi, short for science fiction.
Some people also claim it to be a horror novel, due to the monster and his hideous creation, but it is
generally classified as science fiction.
Science fiction works are based loosely on actual scientific principals and discoveries. For example,
Mary Shelley had seen experiments where electricity was passed through dead creatures and they
twitched slightly. This was the starting point of Frankenstein and the first time a text of this nature
had been written. It single–handedly created a whole new genre for writers to discover. She wrote
the story as the result of a challenge that was set to her, her husband and a group of their friends.
The challenge was to write the most terrifying story that they could, and the scariest would be the
winner. The story predicts the future uses of man's ever growing scientific knowledge, to further
preserve life and, in the most extreme cases, actually create new life artificially. It tells the tale of
Frankenstein's experiments and his eventual success in creating a new human man from the body
parts of other dead people. The new human, however, becomes a "monster", killing the innocent in
his search for

Frankenstein and the Epistolary Novel Form
Q: "Examine the effect of the epistolary form of writing throughout the novel Frankenstein. Do you
think the epistolary novel form of writing are an effective form of telling the story? How does the
epistolary form affect plot development and character development?"
Mary Shelly, the author of the novel Frankenstein, writes Frankenstein in epistolary form which is an
effective way of integrating the reader into the story, introducing writer bias [character development],
and furthering the theme of communication.
The epistolary form of writing allows the reader to feel as if they are receiving an actual account of
the story. This type of writing makes the reader feel as if the character is writing to them. The plot
seems more realistic and...show more content...
Walton's final decision to turn back after listening to his crew also mitigates the harshness of Victor
Frankenstein's story.
The epistolary structure of the novel and the subsequent use of multiple narrators forces the reader
to judge for themselves what is true and what is dramatized from the letters. Due to the story being
retold from the point of view of Victor the reader is more likely to understand why Victor and Walton
deem the monster a malevolent and insensitive brute.
(Favert 1) We must begin to read Frankenstein more as a well–wrought "baggy monster" of
correspondences, and less as a singular, alien phenomenon. If we read it as an interactive
combination of tales, rather than one linear narrative, we can refrain from casting the novelist into
the narrow role of a "young girl" with "so very hideous an idea." Frankenstein is Mary Shelley's
novel; it is no more her story than Walton's, Victor's or the monster's. Within the text, the various
narrators slide from their own stories into the histories of others, and with each movement, we are
asked to extend our "willing suspension of disbelief." As the novel multiplies its story–tellers and
listeners, it renews the problem of narrative authority. Whose story do we believe? –– the novel
defuses such a question. The fantastic nature of the stories preclude rational explanation or
judgment, and we do not,

Reflection Of Graphic Novel
I will be the first to admit that I am not much of a graphic novel reader. Although I've always been
interested in alternative storytelling and the potential for diversity graphic novels provide, I've
typically stuck to more traditional literature courses. However, when I saw graphic novels listed
among the course offerings last semester, I decided to take a chance to learn about a medium I
hadn't previously paid much attention to and explore these unique forms of representation. Yet,
despite my attempts to keep an open mind, I quickly realized I had my own biases against graphic
novels, valuing the narrative over the visuals and failing to recognize the value of the graphic novel
as a form in which the narrative and visual components are both integral. Throughout the semester I
have tried to pay more attention to the ways the visuals and story work together to enhance the
themes of each graphic novel. However, this medium not only allows these novels to represent
complex themes, but also allows readers to relate to the characters on a visual as well as narrative
level and recognize the humanity of the groups represented in these stories. In this paper I hope to
not only reflect on the ways that the art in graphic novels allows authors to explore themes of
representation such as identity formation, the process of "othering," and trauma, but also how
they've impacted the ways I view these issues in my own life. One of the themes I found most
personally relatable in this

Ghost Fleet: A Brief Summary
P.W. Singer and August Cole's 2015 novel, Ghost Fleet, demonstrates how the American military's
trending dependence on high–tech, networked warfighting may be vulnerable to foreign near–peer
and hybrid threats. Merging expertise from Washington–based foreign policy think tanks and defense
technology sectors, the authors weave a fictional, yet plausible depiction of a near–future war
featuring the United States, China, and Russia. Set predominantly in the Pacific region, the events in
Ghost Fleet play out across multiple domains: sea, air, land, outer space, and cyberspace. The
successor government to communist China boldly claims newly discovered energy resources in the
Western Pacific and uses new technologies and subterfuge to preemptively destroy U.S. satellites and
much of its navy, paralyze its computer systems, and neutralize weapon systems...show more
content...
To be sure, a surprise strategic Chinese attack is a valuable worst–case scenario to study, but
protracted multi–dimensional U.S.–China competition for Pacific influence–akin to the
contemporary era–is arguably more likely and, thus, a more sensible scenario against which to
wargame. Also, despite its plausible portrayal of a localized insurgency, the novel stops short of
depicting mass civil unrest elsewhere and social stability considerations that would almost certainly
accompany a future world war. Nonetheless, Ghost Fleet's technical narrative provides ample
realistic content for today's security and defense officials to balance and refine tomorrow's warfare
strategies. Singer and Cole's near–future depiction of U.S. technological vulnerability in warfare
should spur those officials to enable American innovation and adaptation in warfighting solutions
well before the onset of strategic

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson Essay
Speak is a cleaver and an ironic title for a story in which the main character chooses not to speak.
The story is written in first–person narration from the point of view of protagonist, Melinda
Sordino. Speak is written like an interior monologue in the mind of an introverted teenage girl,
like excerpts from her personal diary during her miserable freshman year of high school. Instead of
blending in and finding her way through high school. She withdraws and secludes herself from the
other students. She calls herself an "outcast." Melinda is so desperate to hide from the world; she
turns an old janitor's closet at the high school into her safe haven. She cuts classes to hide in her
closet. How lonely could this teenage girl be? All...show more content...
And there is a clique of girls at the school who refer to their group as "the Marathas," that is the
Martha Stewart wannabes. There doesn't seem to be a place where Melinda fits in. Where does a
girl who has been sexually assaulted fit–in? Melinda isn't speaking to anyone, and no one will talk to
her, except the new girl, Heather, who moved from the state of Ohio. Realistically, Heather being
the new girl just wants to make friends. Heather doesn't know what is really going on with
Melinda because she just moved to town. Heather has no idea what happened the night when
Melinda called the police, which busted a summer party. In fact, no one knows, except for
Melinda, what happened to her at the party? She is convinced that because she is a victim, no one
understands her. The whole world, including her world, is out to get her and so it is best for her
to remain silent. Ironically, the person Melinda finds as the outlet to help her express her
feelings is her art teacher, Mr. Freeman. In a class assignment, Melinda is assigned to create an art
project based on a tree. She begins to express her inner angst through this art project. At one point,
she uses dried bones to sculpt a picture of a skeleton. Then she glues broken knives and forks to
the project so that the bones look like the plastic utensils are stabbing them. It is a grim depiction of
how Melinda feels, and is immediately praised by Mr. Freeman.

"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."1 – Mary Shelley Frankenstein,
a novel written by Mary Shelley, was published in 1818, a first of its kind. The novel is considered
to be the first depiction of science fiction, with "infused elements of the Gothic novel and romantic
movement."2 Today this masterpiece largely influences literature studies and popular culture,
especially in the aspect of film creation. Various adaptations of Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein has been
created, but the only motion picture that remains close to the novel is Kenneth Branagh's Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). The novel and film have made many details conspicuous for
comparison and contrast; details that related to the beginning, the monster's creation, and Elizabeth's
death and rebirth.
The novel and film have alike beginnings, yet there are features changed by Kenneth Branagh. Mary
Shelley's novel specifically started off with a letter written by Walton. The author chose letters from
another character to start...show more content...
Kenneth Branagh follows through with creating the same setting as Mary Shelley did in the
beginning of her novel, yet leaves out details about the family's history and the death of
Frankenstein's mother. Similarly, the novel portrayed that Frankenstein did his own work, whereas
the film displays that his work was a continuation of Professor Waldman's. Related to the same
scene, Mary Shelley spoke little about Frankenstein's physical experimentation and how it was done,
where in contrast it was the main focus of the film. One point of clear difference is the ending. Even
though Elizabeth dies in both the novel and the film, Kenneth Branagh takes Elizabeth's character
further. He does this by allowing her to be reborn through Frankenstein's experimentation and by
then killing her off as she sets herself on

Essay on Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard
The novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard, is a story of redemption and reconciliation, facing the past, and
confronts the core elements of human nature. The character going through this journey, who the
novel is named after, is a young man who is part of the lowest level of society in a poor shanty
town in South Africa. Tsotsi is a thug, someone who kills for money and suffers no remorse. But
he starts changing when circumstance finds him in possession of a baby, which acts as a catalyst
in his life. A chain of events leads him to regain memories of his childhood and discover why he is
the way he is. The novel sets parameters of being "human" and brings these to the consideration of
the reader. The reader's limits of redemption are challenged as...show more content...
It is from this inhumane being that the novel begins the story of change.
At the start of the novel Tsotsi knows very little about himself and endeavours to keep it that way.
It is a rule of his to not think about his past or raise any questions about it. "His second rule which
operated then on through every other moment of the day was never to disturb his inward darkness
with the light of a thought about himself or the attempt at a memory" (36). This is because he
doesn't know the answers to questions about his past and instinctually fears memories, the reason of
which is revealed later. But it is Boston, a member of his gang who is the one to raise questions,
which initiates a thought process. He became conscious of the fact that he does not know very much
about himself. It is in this mind state that he discovers a catalyst in his life.
By chance Tsotsi is given a baby. The effect that this baby has on him is life changing, because
rather than abandoning it he cares for it. This involves him learning to look after it, against
everything that he previously knew about himself and at the risk of his reputation. He doesn't know
at first why he cares for it but gradually learns. The baby evokes unknown feelings in Tsotsi, but
more importantly it brings forth the memory of a yellow bitch. This memory has a powerful effect
on Tsotsi and for once he found that "he was curious" (59) about his

Indian English Novel
The Indian English novel evolved as a subaltern consciousness; as a reaction to break away from the
colonial literature. Hence the post colonial literature in India witnessed a revolution against the
idiom which the colonial writers followed. Gradually the Indian English authors began employing
the techniques of hybrid language, magic realism peppered with native themes. Thus from a post
colonial era Indian literature ushered into the modern and then the post–modern era. The saga of the
Indian English novel therefore stands as the tale of Changing tradition, the story of a changing India.
The stories were there already in India steeped in folklores, myths, written in umpteen languages as
India is always the land of stories. However, the...show more content...
Authors and legendary sages have been recognised to have devoted volumes of paper, pen and ink
in priceless poetry or drama, dedicating each meticulous thought to penning down immortal
creations that still arrests attention. However, it was only in the Later Vedic Age that one gets to
witness the foremost and original and initial stages of Indian novel writing under the masters like
sages Valmiki or Vyasa. Indian novels began to be first written in Sanskrit only, with the said literary
body being divided into – Vedic Sanskrit, Epic Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit literatures. Setting
apart the first two ages with their distinctive genres, it was precisely in the Classical Sanskrit age
that the plan and notion of `novels` began to be first shelled out in India, lending a solid shape to the
still–now floating criterion. The Classical age in Sanskrit literature was the time when fables and
fictional novels were begun to be given a distinct shape for the common mass. As such, beginning
from that period and still going on in the current scenario, Indian novels have time and again
impressed upon the reading public as well as fetching esteemed and honoured accolades both the
country and overseas. Indian novels have been unbeaten enough to exhaustively reflect the history,
society, political domain, economic status and tradition of Indian subcontinent, traversing ages.
Indeed, the history of Indian novels has much to speak and state about such an

Romance Romance Essay
Romance begins with an attraction between two people and grows into an emotional attachment
called love. Affection, acts of kindness, words of affirmation, quality time, and sacrifice all
exemplify ways to show love. According to Webster's, romance defines as a love story especially
in the form of a novel. Novels enable readers to dive into a romantic story and experience the love
shared between two people. According to a study from BookStats, "The estimated total sales value of
romance novels in 2013 was $1.08 billion" (qtd. in "Romance Statistics"). Romance novels still
require a high demand with their multitude of sub–genres. More specifically, paranormal, historical,
and contemporary romance entice people to read romance novels....show more content...
Pride and Prejudice, a novel written by Jane Austen, characterizes as a historical romance. The
story takes place in 1813 and displays the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth
Bennet, who overcomes her hasty judgement of Mr. Darcy and falls in love with him (Austen).
The novel exhibits the necessity of marrying for love, rather than financial reasons. In the early
19th century, men and women faced the social pressures of a good, wealthy match. In fact, the first
line of the novel writes: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a wife" (Austen). Published nearly two hundred years ago, Pride
and Prejudice continues to fascinate the minds of modern readers. According to Megan Bruening, a
Ph.D. English Student at Lehigh University, Pride and Prejudice appears near the top of many lists
for "most–loved books", from both literary scholars and the general public (Bruening). History
holds the intent to inform others of events from the past, but when romance associates with history,
it becomes much more; it gives a clearer vision of the reality in history. Contemporary romance
prevails as the largest genre of romance. Jessica Lind, an American librarian, claims contemporary
romance takes place in the time frame of its writing and focuses primarily on the romantic
relationship (Lind). The Handmaid's Tale, a novel written by Margaret Atwood, follows the journey
of Offred, a handmaid kept for

An Object's Memory
The two texts, "Excerpt from Martin Sloane: A Novel", by Michael Redhill and "Ode to a Box of
Tea" by Pablo Neruda have several things in common. These things relate to how the authors of each
text talk about their memories and the objects that go along with those memories.
Both texts and their authors talk about the memories assiciated with the objects that they had or
meaned something to them. One of the examples of an object's memory was, "a piano brought down
from syracuse, the one my mother played as a girl. This shows how the narrator associates the piano
with the memory of their mother playing it as a child. An example of a memeory from passage 2
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