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12th Grade Summer Reading 2021 AP ENGLISH IV The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz • Required for all AP ENG IV students • Multiple narrators tell the story of Dominican American Oscar de León and his friend Yunior and sister Lola. • Diaz uses flashbacks to tell how Oscar’s family escaped the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and how they are plagued by a curse. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy In addition, all Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia students must read one of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood these titles: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and activist. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997. The novel tells the story of a multi- generational household in Kerala, India. Roy explores complex issues of the caste system, British colonialism, and India’s long history of religious strife as these play out in the family of fraternal twins Estha and Rahel. Mexican Gothic • Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian author of several books. This is a gothic horror novel set in the 1950s in the Mexican countryside. • Noemi, a debutante with a love of fashion, receives an urgent call from her cousin, asking for help. Noemi travels to the remote family home of the Doyles to rescue Catalina from her new husband and his strange family. • Strange occurrences and frightening events begin as soon as she arrives. The Blind Assassin • Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer. The Handmaid’s Tale is probably her best-known work. • The Blind Assassin is a story of two sisters growing up in southern Ontario. It contains a novel-within-a-novel, which itself contains a science fiction story. Salvage the Bones • Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for Fiction for this novel. • In rural Mississippi during the weeks leading up to Hurricane Katrina, 14-year- old Esch and her brothers do what they can to prepare. • Getting by on very little, with almost no help from the adults in their lives, the siblings work to protect their family and their dog, China, and her litter of puppies, as the storm bears down..

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Roy's Criticisms Towards the Caste System As Reflected
ROY’S CRITICISMS TOWARDS THE CASTE SYSTEM AS REFLECTED THROUGH THE MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEIR CONFLICTS IN ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Sarjana Sastra In English Letters By IRINE CAHYANING TYAS Student Number: 044214019 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2009 ii iii God is in every tommorow, Therefore I life for today. Certain of finding at sunrise, Guidance and strength for the way. Power for each moment of weakness, Hope for each moment of pain, Comfort for every sorrow, Sunshine and joy after the rain... Anonymous iv I dedicate this thesis for My Beloved Parents, My Little Brothers, and Edo Baskoro who always support me in accomplishing this thesis. v vi vii Acknowledgements I would like to express my biggest gratitude to Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary for the blessings, strength and miracles They have been giving in my life, so that I am finally able to accomplish this undergraduate thesis. Thank God for answering my prayers. My gratitude is also directed to my advisor, Ni Luh Putu Rosiandani, S.S, M.Hum. I am also grateful for her guidance, patience, and especially for the time she has spent for reading and correcting my thesis. I also thank to my co- advisor Elisa Dwi Wardani S.S., M.Hum. for your guidance in finishing this thesis. I really appreciate all things she has done in process of writing my thesis Furthermore, I deeply express my gratitude to my beloved parents for their love, prayers, support, both financial and spiritual and good advices.
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A Stylistic Approach to the God of Small Things Written by Arundhati Roy
Lingnan University Digital Commons @ Lingnan University Theses & Dissertations Department of English 2007 A stylistic approach to the God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy Wing Yi, Monica CHAN Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Chan, W. Y. M. (2007). A stylistic approach to the God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy (Master's thesis, Lingnan University, Hong Kong). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.14793/eng_etd.2 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English at Digital Commons @ Lingnan University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Lingnan University. Terms of Use The copyright of this thesis is owned by its author. Any reproduction, adaptation, distribution or dissemination of this thesis without express authorization is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved. A STYLISTIC APPROACH TO THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS WRITTEN BY ARUNDHATI ROY CHAN WING YI MONICA MPHIL LINGNAN UNIVERSITY 2007 A STYLISTIC APPROACH TO THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS WRITTEN BY ARUNDHATI ROY by CHAN Wing Yi Monica A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy in English Lingnan University 2007 ABSTRACT A Stylistic Approach to The God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy by CHAN Wing Yi Monica Master of Philosophy This thesis presents a creative-analytical hybrid production in relation to the stylistic distinctiveness in The God of Small Things, the debut novel of Arundhati Roy.
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id14791789 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software - a great PDF writer! - a great PDF creator! - http://www.pdfmachine.com http://www.broadgun.com Södertörns University College C-essay English Department Spring 2005 Supervisor: Dr. Claire Hogarth Crossing Lines: The Theme of Transgressing Social Boundaries in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Naz Shakely Table of Contents Introduction 1 Ammu Transgressing Boundaries 3 Velutha Transgressing Boundaries 6 Ammu and Velutha Breaking the Love Laws 8 The Love Laws 9 The Gender Issue 10 Punishments 12 Conclusion 14 Works Cited 17 id14803105 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software - a great PDF writer! - a great PDF creator! - http://www.pdfmachine.com http://www.broadgun.com 1 Introduction Everywhere we turn, we come across moral boundaries that we at least think we are not supposed to cross, but that we do cross nonetheless. “As ye sow, ye shall reap” is a proverb we all have heard sometime (Roy 31). But is it really true? Do we get what we deserve? And if so, who decides what is right and what is wrong? Who decides what we should and should not be punished for? In Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, most of the characters cross moral boundaries. Eventually, they all get punished for doing so. In this novel, Roy presents two kinds of morality. One of them is social morality, which can be defined as what a group thinks is good and right or the way one should behave. The other one is individual morality – what oneself thinks is the right way to act.
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May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays.
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The Voice of Subaltern: in the Novel of Aravind Adiga's The
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The Position of Women in Arundhati Roy's the God of Small Things And
Vol. 3 No. 1 December, 2014 ISSN: 2320 - 2645 THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS AND ANITA DESAI’S CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY M.C.Subhashini Research scholar, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram- 608 002 Abstract In these novels Clear Light of Day and The God of Small Things Anita Desai and Arundhati Roy portrays Indian women as marginalized facing challenges and burdens imposed by patriarchal society. They resemble colonial subjects whose lives are fractured. Among the female characters Bim, Tara, their mother and Aunt Mira, all are subordinated by a male-dominant culture which underestimates female subjectivity. The women in The God of Small Things are mostly confronted with marital and family problems. Estha and Rahel’s mother, Ammu, marries Babu in a beautiful ceremony; however, her husband turns out to be an alcoholic and even urges her to sleep with his boss, Mr. Hollick, after which Ammu leaves him and returns with the twins, Estha and Rahel, to Ayemenem. Then she has a secret love affair with Velutha, an untouchable, and so she is banished from her home and dies in another place. Her situation could represent the typical problems an Indian woman who is dependent on her husband can face. These papers illustrate how these women manage their precarious situation and stand up to a society controlled by men. This study reflects on these women’s lives to see how they find different ways to assert their existence. One way in which these female characters survive is by entering male dominated society and adopting their language and culture.
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Time and Sense in Anne Enright's the Gathering
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