Commentary Essay

reduced to a simplistic meaning hardly worthy of Jesus’ teaching.  Above all, it must be understood in its context, with attention to the questions of vv.25 and 29 and to Jesus’ application in vv.36-37,” write Liefeld and Pao (The Expositor’s Bible Commentary 2007: 197).  It is highly important to an exegetical reading of this passage, found in St. Luke’s gospel in chapter ten, verses twenty-five through thirty-seven, that the focus lie on the context of the passage.  The central theme of this passage

Complexity to response to action Support Commentary “ ‘All right, friend,’ he said, standing about fifteen feet away, trembling, ‘you just wait, you ain’t heard the last of me yet,’ and he turned and went off down the quiet street” (O’Connor 155). Shoats is basically responding to the actions of Hazel. He is obsessed with money and sees that Hazel is a moneymaking scheme. O’Connor does this to shame materialism in religion since people will believe anything as long as it sounds nice. She demonstrates

interpreters, we could grow as interpreters ourselves. While I have absolutely no problem with consulting the commentaries, books, and teachings of spiritually minded individuals to help us become better readers of God's word, I think that it is also possible for someone to lean on these resources too much. I remember a time in my life when I was more excited to read from my Matthew Henry commentary than I was to read my own Bible! When it came

perfection of wisdom. At the heart of this training is the realization about the truth about emptiness. Buddhist scholarship involves commentary on the sutras. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a practice of acknowledging one’s teacher and monastic lineage so as to provide legitimacy and authenticity to the teachings. In what follows, I shall give my own commentary of the Heart Sutra, and thus I shall acknowledge the lineage through which this information passed down to me. My knowledge of the

Horror literature and film can be one of the most potent tools as to which social commentary is used, and perfected. Commentary about human life is often amplified if the point is quite literally driven through someone's skull, as has been done many times before. With that being said fear is a great motivator and motivate it does in many stories as scarring leads to insite. Whether it be an ashtray to the head or god-like intervention, what about these stories is so important? In an excerpt from

While reading the entertaining commentary on The secret of bees, my opinions were questioned more than once. Several of the statements I completely agreed with, while others I disagreed strongly. The first statement that came to my attention was that “If I were a South Carolina resident, I would be unhappy since the author’s depiction of the state was unflattering.” This is true, Sue Monk Kidd did not persuaded me to visit. However, I doubt that many would be unhappy. The book took place over

How do I start reviewing a film like this? I mostly just felt very stifled with the rambunctious quips that flow in this film like a breeze and fill it up to the very brim. Its social commentary is analogous to the indomitably obnoxious teenage angst profiled rampantly that is ever so pervasive in this day and age. Things to note after a thoroughgoing watch of this are that it's simply not quite your standard typified internalized drama that sprawls incessantly and instead conjures a very pleasant

is a voice for social commentary. How is this true of the novel 1984”? Historically, literature has always echoed the key issues and themes present during that time. In the period which Orwell wrote this novel, totalitarian government was a popular concept seeing implementation around the world such as Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Mussolini’s Italy. In the novel 1984. While Orwell’s world is a fictional one, it can be said that he uses it as a voice for social commentary, and he predictions as

outfits and the father bestows the role of tzaddick to one of the male children because they practice the Jewish sect of Hadism. Although these two families’ rituals differ, they both participate in the studying of the holy scriptures, a Jewish commentary, each Shabbat, or Sabbath day. OPENER!!!The Malter’s practice their unique traditions, the Saunders’ continue their customs, and the families share the tradition of studying the holy Jewish books. Beginning with the Malter family, Mr. Malter and

In chapter 4, Steinbeck is make social commentary about racism in America with the situation with Crooks. In the scene where Lenny comes into Crooks room Crooks said “Why ain’t you wanted? Lennie asked. Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black(68)”. Crooks represents black Americans at the time and how they’re segregated even in California, a state that is seen as forward compared to the rest of America and especially the south. This is shown when Crooks said