ESSAY CEMETERY

Style and devices ·        Ambiguous responses SEPTIMUS: Ah. Yes, I am ashamed. Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.  Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n  is greater than 2.        (Pause.) THOMASINA: Eurghhh! SEPTIMUS: Nevertheless, that is the theorem. ·        Paradoxical statements – he says free will but points to it being unchangeable, that is, predetermined THOMASINA: Well, I do. You cannot stir things apart. SEPTIMUS: No more you can, time must needs run backward, and since it will not, we must stir our way onward mixing as we go, disorder out of disorder into disorder until pink is complete, unchanging and unchangeable, and we are done with it for ever.  This is known as free will or self-determination.

Act 1, Scene 1 We are in a country house, Sidley, in Derbyshire in 1809. Septimus, 22, and his student Thomasina, 13, are each studying their own thing, she math and he reading Mr/ Chater's poem. She looks up from her attempt to solve Fermat's last theorem to ask about "carnal embrace". He tells her it means to hug meat. Nokes (landscape gardener) told Mr. Chater that Mrs. Chater was engaged in a carnal embrace with someone in the gazebo Groom hears this Tells Jellaby Jellaby tells cook Thomasina overhears Thomasina tells Septimus. He tells her what the phrase really means and she is disgusted. The butler Jellaby enters with a letter for Septimus from Mr. Chater and relays the message that he will meet him after the lesson. Mr Chater, angry, enters the room and confronts Septimus about bedding his wife, and challenges him to a duel. Septimus distracts him by praising his poetry, and even turns it around by saying a poetry journal appealed to h

Not an Ode: On the Reader-Writer Relationship in Kincaid's A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid's personal essay A Small Place is a highly polemical text. Written by the Antiguan native in 1988, A Small Place encompasses two voices: that of the impoverished, post-colonial Antiguan native and that of the luxuriating, capitalist Westerner. In the text's very syntax resides a meeting between these two very different types: its narrator is an Antiguan native who utilizes the second person throughout the entire text, a style generally associated with poetry, advertisements and open letters. The narrator accuses its presumably Western reader of being a personal contributor towards the suffering of the natives. With its inflammatory language, its breathless-angry style, and unapologetic imagery the text binds its readers to the natives of Antigua through discomfort and guilt. Kincaid creates a debate between the natives of Antigua and the Western tourist, in which the tourist has

I The speaker/narrator addresses a tourist to Antigua. She points out discrepancies in the experience of being a tourist and living there. She walks through the tourist experience, from landing in Antigua to experiencing its various holiday offerings. She describes the corruption in the government, the bad education and health systems and relics from the day of British rule. She lays out the reasons for tourism and the difference between tourism and home life. II She tells of Antigua during British occupation. White people came and flourished in business, and excluded the Angtiguans or made them servants, which made them offensive to the natives. The natives thought the whites were being rude but years later the author came to understand that they were being racist. They partook in British traditions without understanding them and assumed that England was nicer than the Englishmen they encountered. The English are horrible because they took that which was not theirs to tak

Jamaica Kincaid Style ·        Addressing the reader ·        Run on sentences ·        Sarcasm ·        Accusatory tone, hostility Themes ·        Discrepancy between living in Antigua and coming there as a tourist ·        Difference between Antigua and America ·        Cheating tourists ·        Search for authenticity ·        Government corruption in Antigua ·        The paradoxical influence of the british over Antiguans – they wanted and got independence but have deteriorated and become corrupted since ·        Racial guilt transferred down generations ·        Affluent people are foreigners and drug smugglers ·        Weather as friend or foe ·        Difference between tourism and homelife ·        Closed-mindedness of locals ·        Native resentment of tourists stems from their own desire to be a tourist but their inability to do so ·         Accusing the criminal in the criminal's language is problematic ·        The

Francis is grateful to Wilson the hunter, Wilson acts jolly, and Margaret is upset because of the way Francis handled an incident with a lion. After a brief conversation, Margaret leaves, upset. In fact, Wilson thinks he is a coward. Wilson tries to insult Francis so that the couple won't want to spend time with him but Francis admits to his cowardice and regains some of Wilson's sympathy. Margaret comes back composed and says she wants to join the men buffalo hunting the following day. Margaret and Francis are fighting, and having marital troubles and Wilson is well aware and annoyed. Wilson thinks Margaret is cruel and terrible. In the afternoon Wilson and Francis go off alone. Francis shoots an old impala and Wilson assures him it's a worthwhile shot. Lying in bed, Francis feels ashamed. He recalls what happened. The previous night he had heard the lion roaring from afar and was afraid. Francis suggested shooting it at breakfast. He feels miserably challenged by