Use the Phone
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I Only Came to Use the Phone 200 words summary & 200 words personal opinion
Lahiri: A Temporary Matter 200 words summary and 200 words personal opinion
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Compare Doyle’s “Scandal in Bohemia” with Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”
How, in particular are Holmes and Dupin’s methods of deduction similar ordifferent?
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From Plato’s the Parable of the Cave:
Read the first paragraph of the parable. In what ways are the conditions of theseprisoners symbolically related to the conditions of humanity in general? What are the symbolic associations of such details as: 1. living underground, 2. living in thedark, 3. having legs and necks chained, 4. being unable to see in more than onedirection, and 5. seeing shadows rather than things directly?
One man leaves the cave and discovers the “upper world.” What does the upper worldrepresent? Why is it initially difficult for the man to adjust to this new world?
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After reading R.K. Narayan’s “House Opposite” and Hanif Kureishi’s “My Son the Fanatic” consider the following questions:
Both stories deal with the conflict between traditional religious attitudes towards prostitutesand more sympathetic attitudes.
1. In Narayan’s story, the conflict between traditional and sympathetic attitudes takes placeinsde the mind of one man, while in Kureishi’s story, the sympathetic attitude is representedby the father and the unsympathetic attitude by the son. Which method do you think ismost effective in making the reader understand this conflict?
2. At the end of the Narayan story, the conflict seems to be resolved for the individualsinvolved, while in the Kureishi story the conflct has only grown more intense. Which do youthink is a more accurate view of the way such conflicts are usually handled today?
