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CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS
Monday, January 14, 2008. It is history now when we had to prepare critical appreciations of prose and poetry for our ISCE and ISC exams. But the habit I guess has remained. Whenever I read a book and the book has impressed me, I feel merely reading is not enough. I devote some time thinking about it, thinking about the plot, the important characters and ultimately the questions if any the book is able to raise. And then I paper them down.It helps. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Veronika Decides To Die.
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The Fountainhead
Originally written on September 14, 2005. 8220;Man’s ego is the fountainhead of all his progress” this is the idea based on which Ayn Rand has developed her novel The Fountainhead. First of all I would like to deal with the important characters of the novel before talking about the novel as a whole. Great humanitarian, majestic speaker and representative of masses, he is one who I like to associate with the Indian arthashastra guru Chanakya. I feel he rules the whole plot and gives direction to event...
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Atlas Shrugged
Originally written on January 11,2008. There is a reason owing to which I decided to put Dagny at the top of the list of my character analysis. I believe she is arguably the most important character of the novel and the person who represents one climax of. Who is John Galt? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? 8217;s rejection of the conventional split between reason and emotion,...
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The pilgrimage
Orginally written on May 16, 2006. The Pilgrimage is a 1987 novel by Paulo Coelho, which is a collection of his experiences as he made his way across Northern Spain on the pilgrimage to. The novel has a very important place in the works of Paulo Coelho, not just because it is the first of his major books, after which came ‘The Alchemist’, but because of the complete way in which it expresses the humanity of Paulo’s philosophy and the depth of his search. Each of these exercises and the way to do them has...
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The Alchemist
Originally written on August 20,2006. The Alchemist is a ‘once in a lifetime’ books. I got to read this book owing to the recommendation of one of my friends at a stage of my life when I was facing an acute crisis in my life .Today I admit that this single book has changed my thinking overnight, highly influencing me and is been my most favorite book along with ‘The Old Man the Sea’. Talking about the novel. All books describe people’s inability to choose their own destinies. And they end up sa...Every s...
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Veronika decides to die
Veronika decides to die. Originally written on February 12, 2006. 8220;Veronika” changed my life. To some extent the above line is true. Indeed I feel of having a renewed perception of life after going through the brilliant charisma by Paulo Coelho-‘Veronika decided to die’. Veronika is a twenty-four year old, young, attractive girl who lives in. Working as a librarian. One day she decides to die. The reason –. In short Veronika who is young, pretty, has plenty of attractive boyfriends, goes dancing, has...
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Eleven Minutes
Originally written on April 14, 2006. The book is about the story of a little girl Maria from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heart-broken. At a tender age, she gets convinced that she will never find true love and instead starts believing that ‘ Love is a terrible thing. That will make you suffer. 8217; A chance meeting in Rio, takes her to. Where she dreams of finding fame and fortune but ends up working as a prostitute. Fifth orgasm I knew God. Next, Heaven or Hell.
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The Old Man And The Sea
The Old Man And The Sea. Originally written on August 19, 2004. Every next time you read the book, there’s even more emotional intoxication offered by Hemingway, who has created a masterpiece, one which forces us to redefine our definitions of struggle, defeat and death. The recognitions that he achieved for the novel in Pulitzer Prize and The Nobel Prize, the next year for his style of writing in The Old Man and The Sea seem so much justified. 8220; A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The most evid...
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My Favourite Poems
Kinu, the milkman's alley. A ground floored room in a two storeyed valley. Slap on the road, window barred. Decaying walls, windows crumbling to dust in places. Or strained with damp. Stuck on the floor,. A picture of Ganesha,Bringer of Success,. From the end of a bale of cloth. Another creature apart from me lives in my room. For the same rent;. There's one difference between him and me:. He doesn't go hungry. I get twenty five rupees a month. As junior clerk in a trading office. For coaching their boy.
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My Favourite Quotes
Some people are born geniuses, but most of us have to work hard and ultimately we all get there. I respect the latter ones more. Et tu, Brute! Act III, Scene I, Julius Caesar. Happiness is the best revenge! I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both, maybe both happening at the same time. From the movie Forrest Gump. Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”. I love you, too.".
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My Poems
Monday, January 14, 2008. Wordsworth defined poetry as ' spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.'. I have been writing prose ever since my childhood (say when I was eight years old) but I began writing poems only about three years ago when I realised one day that I could try myself at the complex and aesthetic art called poetry.However poetry I believe is much more difficult than prose and one needs to have a very strong reason to write poems. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Poem 3 : The show will go on.
