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    When it comes to learning, the most important point is to be able to read. With reading, there has to be some of the material or the reader will be confused. Literature is in some cases the hardest to read and can be hard to interpret. If the reader understands what he or she is, reading it can be enjoyable. In modernism and post-modernism, there are absurd passages. How did the writer come to put these passages in their literature? This was a hard era for any person due to the war because

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    The German writer Franz Kafka once said, “A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” Kafka is saying that a novel presents a medium for people to connect to millions of thoughts, words, and actions all around us. I believe that opening a book exposes a person’s mind to the ever-changing world around us—that is the blessing of a novel. How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie has served as a manual for people of all ages to learn the art of communicating

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    the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kauffman (who’s writing directed the direction and main theme of the film), the poem, Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold, and Franz Kafka’s literary classic and masterpiece, The Trial. Our first text is Charlie Kauffman’s directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. The postmodern melodrama attempts to depict every aspect of the human condition, therefore, making the film itself, a synecdoche of the human experience. For example, in

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    childhood in South Africa. Therefore, many people think that his novel “Waiting for The Barbarians” is an allegory of the situation of South African in a time of apartheid (Head 75). In addition, Coetzee is strongly influenced by the famous author, Franz Kafka. As a result, it is not surprised that “Waiting for the Barbarians” has many similarities to Kafka’s “In The Penal Colony”. In terms of intertexuality, this essay will discuss the ambiguity of characters in Kafka’s ‘In The Penal Colony’ and Coetzee’s

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    childhood in South Africa. Therefore, many people think that his novel “Waiting for The Barbarians” is an allegory of the situation of South African in a time of apartheid (Head 75). In addition, Coetzee is strongly influenced by the famous author, Franz Kafka. As a result, it is not surprised that “Waiting for the Barbarians” has many similarities to Kafka’s “In The Penal Colony”. In terms of intertexuality, this essay will discuss the ambiguity of characters in Kafka’s ‘In The Penal Colony’ and Coetzee’s

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    "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. 5 writers in the existenalism movement are Jean-Paul Stare, Karl Jaspers, Soren Kirkgaard, Fredrich Nietzche, and Frank Kafka. Satre believes human beliefs and ideas come from experience. This is stated in his Nausea book. Jasper states in Philosophy, he believes a person can gain humanity through confrontation of limit situations. Kiekegaard wrote Either/Or and believes

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    innocence, not truly knowing the cruelty of the world. Her father, Atticus Finch then takes on a case about how a black man named Tom Robinson supposedly raped and assaulted a poor white girl named Mayella Ewell who lives with her drunken father. The trial eventually takes place and during the story Scout becomes more mature and soon able to understand things. Who is or who are the real victims? Orwell, George. Animal Farm. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. Animals have taken over a farm

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    containing a wide range of components. Multiple aspects of this system are reflected in “The Trial” by Franz Kafka, “Darkness at Noon” by Arthur Koestler and “The Drowned and the Saved” by Primo Levi, but there is one component of the system that stands out of the crowd, freedom. In the first place, Freedom, one of the main components of Totalitarianism, is reflected in Kafka’s book. The protagonist K. in “The Trial” fights the totalitarian system in multiple ways and he is trapped. The concept that K

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    , 2015 “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" and “The Metamorphosis” Literature work always has some lesson for the people that could even leave a thought-provoking effect on their lives and compel them to understand the reality of the world. However, there are some people, who just read literature as a source of entertainment, but the real meaning, of the reading or encountering any literature work, is realized when a reader understands a message. Which writer intends to give to a reader. It is

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    nonparaphilic and/or paraphilic sexual desires, urges and behaviors as evidenced by the complementary/exclusive use of the internet as a tool to provide comfort when experiencing dysphoric mood states and/or stressful live events (Winkler et al, 2013; Kafka, 2010). As with substance use, misuse and dependence, hypersexual adults with OSA experience symptoms on a continuum of engagement (i.e., experimental, recreational, regular and dependent/compulsive) (Cooper, Galbreath, & Becker, 2004). Persons with

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