He covers all his ground of the major battles in Russia’s eastern front, while also giving the lowdown on the happenings inside the Russian government, military, and society. His myth busting strategy created an interesting twist to his style. There were some points that the average reader could find himself or herself lost. During the part where he was getting into the depths of the Russian military, I found myself losing track of what his original point was, mainly because I am not savvy when it comes to the topic of military structure. There are other times that I found myself losing some interest, especially in the parts where little fighting was going on.
1. The two sides of the debates in Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor” are who can handle freedom the most. Christ gave human beings the freedom to choose weather or not to follow him, but almost no one is strong enough to be faithful and those who are not will be cursed forever. The Grand Inquisitor says that Christ should have given people no choice, and instead taken power and given people no choice, and instead taken power and given people redemption instead of freedom. So that the same people who were to scared to succeed Christ to begin with would still be stuck, but at least they could have joy and security on earth, rather than the impossible burden of moral freedom.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury- The most recent book in my literacy journey, the book that opened my eyes. I believe that a great book teaches you a life lesson. It leaves a mark of wisdom on you. For me, Fahrenheit 451 did just that.
What’s your favorite book? Think about what draws you to it. Is it the wording that appeals to you, or is it the theme? Each person has different opinions on various pieces of writing depending on the personality of the reader. Equally so, the attitude of the writer and the time period it was written shows in the overall theme of the piece.
How to Read Literature like a Professor Analysis This was a very informative book that pointed out a lot of aspects of literature I had never really paid attention to. It really showed me how important it is to find similarities between works of literature. It especially made me realize how while all three of my summer readings were drastically different, they shared common themes, plots and even sometimes character developments.
Tolstoy’s ability to interweave the environment with themes of materialism and death makes The Death of Ivan Ilych stand out as a piece that criticizes societal values. In his article “Tolstoy and the Moran Instructions of Death,” Dennis Sansom focuses on the influence of fighting chaos in Ivan’s eventual acceptance of his own death. Socrates wrote, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” and Ivan’s life mirrored this until the end (qtd. in Sansom 417) .
The death of Ivan Ilyich, explored by Leo Tolstoy is comparative to the Buddhists concepts of suffering. I shall begin to explain this through breaking down each Buddhist concept of suffering and comparing it to Ivan Ilyich. The first Buddhist concept we learn is from the Four noble truths. “All life is Dukkha” Dukkha is usually interpreted as suffering but is means more then this. It can be referred to the basic fact that something about human existence is ‘out-of-wack’.
As the nature of this letter implies, I have finished Thomas Foster’s book, How to Read Literature like a Professor. It was intriguing and helped me to see things that otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed. Even some of the topics that seemed common sense were given greater significance after he explained them. For example, the chapter on the seasons the concepts/meanings are commonly known yet seeing how they fall into play in an actual story is fascinating. I never considered that the seasons could be incorporated in such complex ways short of plot, theme, mood, and setting.
In the text, Irony is used to really create a lot of the conflicts in the
“Master and Man” (1895) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy is widely ranked among the greatest writers of all time with such classics as War and Peace (1869), Anna Karenina (1877), and the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886). His output also includes plays and essays. In “Master and Man,” Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a landowner, departs from the village of Kresty for a short journey with Nikita, one of his peasants.
Tolstoy includes several important details in Ilych’s
During this time learning about three great writers Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and Baudelaire. They all talked about life situations in different settings, themes, and content. There was naturalism, realism, and symbolism in this romantic period. Each one of these writers use one of these literary movements to write their stories. I will tell what I learned from the writers work.
Suffering and horror confront Gorianchikov in the hell-like bathhouse: “what one now felt was ... a burning sensation, as from boiling pitch. The convicts shouted and howled to the accompaniment of the hundred chains shaking on the floor” (265). Cramped disfigured bodies, steam-colored, and Isaiah Fomitch self-flagellating while singing in a “hoarse falsetto” (267) characterize the scene. This descent into hell, however, culminates in compassionate imagery significant to understanding Dostoevsky’s redemptive vision. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Memoirs from the House of the Dead expounds on a concept of the possibility of religious/spiritual salvation within a dehumanizing landscape.
Tolstoy portrays to us that Ivan’s life is soon coming to an end by providing us (readers) with many recollections and details from his childhood. Tolstoy also demonstrates how Ivan will die without truly living because he never thought about how death would turn the corner and take him and never lived his own, unique life. Throughout his adulthood, Ivan made choices and completed actions, not for his own sake, but because that is what society accepted, and he wanted to be accepted by society. The details in Ivan’s life are present, but he doesn’t notice those details and goes right along with his work and card games; never showing any emotion towards practically anything in his life.
The first and last stanzas of the poem almost perfectly mirror one another except for one word. The word “Could” (4) becomes “Dare” (24) in the final stanza which suggests that Blake is asking how dare God create such a terrible beast. He even questions if there is a sadistic motivation behind God’s creation of the Tyger; “Did he smile his work to see?” (19) However, there is a redeeming gem of hope embedded in the poem.
