Book Review-a minimum of one double-spaced page review of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Category: Literature
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Book Review-a minimum of one double-spaced page review of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The presented world
Write a Non-mimetic Literature: theory and critical analysis, introduction about A Wizard of Earthsea – the presented world – basic principles of construction: Equilibrium, the rule of names, myths.
Generic inspirations and provenience
Write a Non-mimetic Literature: theory and critical analysis, introduction about A Wizard of Earthsea – generic inspirations and provenience – myth, heroic epic, chivalric romance, fairy-tale, etc…
A Wizard of Earthsea
Write a Non-mimetic Literature: theory and critical analysis, introduction about A Wizard of Earthsea – plot, characters, setting, style, narrative devices.
Functions of fiction
Write a Non-mimetic Literature: theory and critical analysis, introduction about Functions of fiction according to Robert Scholes.
Write a Non-mimetic Literature: theory and critical analysis, introduction about
Definitions of “popular” (“genre”) and “high” (“literary”) fiction.
The portrayal of the lower class
Discuss the portrayal of the lower class. Use “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” by Steven Crane and “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark
Twain. Thesis along the lines of “The lower class of the late 1800s and early 1900s varied greatly from the upper class.” Use the selected works to show the
many differences between upper and lower classes during the time period.
–Identify the title and author of the 2 works assigned.
–Explain how the lower class is treated among each of the texts.
–Explain how each treatment relates to/rebels against cultural norms and context of the period.
–Identify and explain the similarities of the demographic you selected among the works you selected.
–Identify and explain the differences of the demographic you selected among the works you selected.
–Support each part of your literary analysis with MLA cited examples/quotes from each text.
Organize your essay. Keep the following in mind:
A comparative analysis can be organized in a variety of ways (though you’ll want to have a clear and consistent organizational strategy).
Explore organizational possibilities through brainstorming and outlining. Understand, though, that the essay-level objectives listed under each topic can be
accomplished—and organized in your essay—in different ways, and they do not need to rigidly follow the a-b-c-d structure of the objectives noted above.
Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
- What happens during the funeral for Ezeulu? What punishment does Okonkwo get for the incident? Why does a group of men sets fire to Oknokwo’s huts, kill animals, and destroy his barn? Obierika thinks, “Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently?” (959). What do you make of Obierika’s view of the punishment against Okonkwo? Does Obierika question the clan’s custom? Why do Okonkwo and his family move to Mbanta, and why is he no longer enthusiastic about his work in Mbanta? Who is Uchendu and why does he call Okonkwo “a child”? What do you make of Okonkwo’s attitude in Mbanta?
- Visiting Okonkwo in exile, Obierika tells Okonkwo about what happened to Abame. What happened to the people in Abame and why does Okonkwo say, “They were fools. . . .They had been warned that danger was ahead. They should have armed themselves with their guns and the machetes even when they went to market” (964). What do you make of Okonkwo’s reaction here? Were the people of Abame foolish? What does Obierika think of the arrival of the colonizers? What worries him [Obierika] about the influence of the colonizers, based on what he has heard about white men?
Post-war self-destruction
Drawing evidence from any three texts, discuss post-war self-destruction. From alcoholism and suicidal ideation to reckless risk-taking behavior, our texts offer depictions of soldiers returned home from war and at a loose end. Discuss the paradoxical experience of returning to safety while becoming a danger to oneself.
The question should be argumentative in nature and supported by analysis of evidence from the texts.