LUCKY 13

QUESTION 1

Gregor is in a dilemma of whether to leave his job as a travelling salesman or to continue working at it. If he chooses to leave his job, he risks not being able to raise his family. If, on the other hand he refuses to let go of his job, he will continue being held prisoner by a job which he hates.
QUESTION 2
The novel revolves around the life of young German soldiers who go to world war 1 and are in constant anguish from the injuries and constant danger that accompanies them. The Nazi regime protested the work of Remargue due to its realistic portrayal of the war terming his work as unpatriotic.

QUESTION 3
Wiesel argues that God can only be found in the heart. He says this due to the fact that regardless of the injustice he finds with God, he still feels attracted to his God.

QUESTION 4

Cummings in his novel uses the metaphor of a car to represent the woman. She is a ‘brand new” car while the man is her driver through a sexual experience.
QUESTION 5
It is almost certain that Godot refers to God. Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for salvation. They have been waiting for a long time and are likely to wait much longer.

QUESTION 6
The poem is about a man who finds himself “by mistake” in the wrong paradise. His worst problem is that he has nothing that would be considered significantly important for his fellow men. He stays at a well and every day requests a woman to let him paint on her pitcher. Initially she refuses but eventually accepts. He paints and assures her that the painting has no meaning. She is very fascinated by her discovery of something has no meaning. The following day he weaves her hair hence provoking the anger of the authorities. They decide that he should be taken back to the earth and he readily accepts. The woman on hearing this also seeks to go with him. The woman’s choice to go with him portrays the human nature of people to embrace variant ideas if they are presented to them.

QUESTION 7
Hughes believes that dreams dwell on earth with mankind. If someone has a dream and does not nurture it, it is likely to haunt him. Dreams in this case are aspirations. They are often deferred when people either have doubts or are unwilling to engage in the act of doing what their dreams entail.

QUESTION 8

Differences
a) Martin Ruther King sought to have non-violent confrontations while Malcolm X argued that there existed no such thing as a non-violet revolution

b) King seeks to achieve integration while Malcolm seeks to achieve nationalism

Similarity

a) Both men were fighting for the rights of black people

I feel that King’s perspective was more relevant owing to the high number of lives that are lost to violent activities associated to human rights.

QUESTION 9
Women in fictional writing

Woolf argues that women lack the prerequisites required for them to participate in writing. First, women did not have the education that would otherwise form a foundation for their writing. Second, women lack the necessary finances that are associated with getting a book published. Third, women have little time to participate in writing. Finally, women lack the privacy that would be required if writing was to go on.

QUESTION 10

The poem is about choices that are made and which eventually lead to a future. The problem with theses choices is that one cannot tell what changes a choice will bring about until it has already taken place. One is then only left to look back at the future he left behind and, probably, compare. The author argues that the road less taken is more advantaged but harder to walk.

QUESTION 11

The second coming refers to the coming of Christ. This conclusion on the mention of Bethlehem as the place of His birth. The poet also argues that the revelation is near. The poet was influenced by the violence that is associated with the early years of the twentieth century especially the WW1. Presumably, he thought the war was a sign of the return of Christ.

QUESTION 12

The author feels that it is honourable for a great man to die silently in bed at old age. He argues that for this reason, death should be resisted rather than silently accepted. I feel that death is not for us to decide. It is up to the maker and fate to decide its rightful time. Resistance should however be offered to avoid that which can be avoided.

QUESTION 13

The narrator is the one who claims to be invisible. His invisibility is however not physical but rather the result of others choosing not to see him. This enabled him, for example, to steal power from the monopolized power company.