1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
Biography of Jonathan Swift
1667~1745
Born and Brought up in Dublin, Parents-> English
Best Education in Ireland
Anglo-Irish Ruling Class
Political ambition and failure
Never forgot he is English
In 1720s, engaged in Irish Politics -> Reaction to the English commercial and political injustices
Gulliver’s Travels
Part 1 :
Voyage
to lilliput
Part 2:
Voyage
to Brob
Ties to Afghanistan
The human capacity for evil
Oppression of women
Resistance through a strong and bonding relationship
The inner strength of women
“Mariam is in Laila’s own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”
Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber
-direction of the international community heading under the leadership of USA
(similar cont
colonial themes and other issues that were present in her earlier stories. What is present in this book is the fundamental presence of the relationship that she shared with affluent employers, white people, the new surroundings and her native island.
Bright-yellow sun
Most natural gesture would call up in me such a rage that I longed to see them all dead at my feet
Wear an old garment
G
writer an hour to hook you.
If he cant, find someone else.
Think you can try that?
If I dont have anything else to do.
Fair enough. Dont be afraid.
A Tale of Two Cities ends
with a beheading, great stuff.
Lost Horizon, magic and places
unknown. Cant beat that.
Whered you live before
you came here, Mr--? Ted?
Some other place
that wasnt as nice as this.
You lived here long?
Yes, sir. Since my dad