In the story The Judgement by Franz Kafka, the role of the friend in St.Petersburg is to emphasize the lifestyle of Georg. If the story did not include the friend, Georg’s lifestyle may seem normal to an average person. The friend can be a character that is easy to compare with Georg.The friend in St.Petersburg remains mostly a mystery to the reader because of the constant indefinite adjectives to describe the friend. He is pictured as a man with “a fully exotic beard poorly concealing the face” and to be a “big child” (57 and 58). The friend remains as a blur to the readers because he is never one adjective. He mingles between two words that contradicts each other and remains there. However, Georg draws a line between who he is and who he is not. He tells himself “That is how I am, and that is how he must take me, I cannot tailor myself into a person who might be more suitable for a friendship with him than I am” (61).
Georg and his friend can be also seen as complete opposites. Georg is successful, but his friend has “fled” to Russia and hasn’t been as successful as Georg. Georg can be seen as having a social life compared to his friend who has “no real ties with the local colony of his compatriots and almost no social dealings with native families” (58). Georg was about to get married and his friend was seen as a “bachelor for good” (58).
Georg’s success, his friendships and his marriage all seem normal and definite whereas his friend lives in a blurry world. By comparing Georg and his friend side by side, Georg’s characteristics are shown better.

Realism is a writing technique that shows the readers the world around them as it is. Naturalism was a way of explaining how people act based upon their social class and the environment they grew up in. It takes a step away from romanticism and shows the reality of different people’s lives.
Hedda Gabler can be seen as a character of naturalism. The way that Hedda thinks and how she behaves can be understood through her background. She grew up in a high social status and got her pride from being the General’s daughter. When her father passed away, she was unable to keep her high status because she was a woman. Women in this time period wouldn’t be able to obtain social status just through their talents. They would need to obtain it through their male figures. Hedda wanted to continue living in a rich and high standard life. In order to obtain this, she would need to make her current husband rich. Everything that Hedda does throughout the play, was to obtain the rich life that she once had. Hedda’s mindset and her behavior could be understood through the environment and the class she grew up in.
The short story Separate Ways  shows a time period where the poor was suffering and just able to get by. The story emphasizes on two characters’, Okyo and Kichizo. This is a realism piece because it shows the world of the lower class in Japan as it was. Okyo and Kichizo were workers who were able to just make a living for themselves. Okyo was a girl in her 20s and Kichizo was a 16 year old boy. This story illustrates how people who were in the lower class was able to rise to the upper class. Kichizo wasn’t able to rise to the high class because he was an orphan with no family. He was able to do the work of a hundred men, but his skills didn’t matter. Okyo was a seamstress and her way of rising to the high class was by becoming someone’s mistress. Their lives shows the reader that people of this time period were only able to become the social class that they desired through connection of family. Kichizo didn’t have any family therefore he wasn’t able to improve his social class. Meanwhile, Okyo was able to improve her social class by “marrying” into the high class.

‘Twas warm-at first-like Us
Until there crept upon
A Chill-like frost upon a Glass-
Till all the scene-be gone.

 

The Forehead copied Stone-
The Fingers grew too cold
To ache-and like a Skater’s Brook-
The busy eyes-congealed-

 

It straightened-that was all-
It crowded Cold to Cold
It multiplied indifference-
As Pride were all it could-

 

And even when with Cords-
‘Twas lowered, like a Weight-
It made no Signal, nor demurred,
But dropped like Adamant.

 

In the beginning of the poem I thought it was going to about lovers, but when I got to the end it seemed more death related. I didn’t think it was more about death until the last stanza where she said “‘Twas lowered, like a Weight- …. But dropped like Adamant” It gave me an imagery of a person’s coffin being lowered to the ground or a person literally just dropping dead. With this in mind, when I reread the poem, it became a lot more clearer.
The first stanza shows a comparison between a living person and a dying one. “‘Twas warm-at first-like Us” shows that the dying person was once just as warm as it’s suppose to be. Dickinson shows that death doesn’t hit a person, but instead creates an illusion of it creeping up on a person and slowly turning them cold. Dickinson doesn’t seem to directly address the dying body until the 3rd stanza. She calls the body “it” and it feels like she’s indifferent towards the dying person. The poem in its entirety feels cold because all the references she’s making to show the chilling body. “Frost upon a Glass”, “Skater’s Brook”, “Forehead copied Stone” all gave me feelings of a cold touch.
Two things I found standing out to me was the way she capitalized some words and the dashes throughout the poem. Perhaps she wanted to emphasize the important words by capitalizing the first letter. The dashes throughout the poem also seem to slow down the pace of the poem. I feel like they’re important because it makes the poem more slow paced and draws out the imagery more. If the poem didn’t have its dashes, it would seem more hurried and I feel as though it wouldn’t give the reader the same feeling the poem gives with its dashes.

1. Simon Bolivar wrote this text when he was exiled to Jamaica. He wrote this letter in order to gain Britain’s support for Latin America’s independence from Spain.
2. The author of this text is Simon Bolivar. He was also known as “El Liberador” which also means the Liberator because he has helped Latin America gain their independence from Spain. He looked up to Rousseau and Voltaire and was inspired by the French Revolution. He wrote this letter to gain support of Latin America’s independence and wanted to unify Latin America.
3. The main argument of this letter is to gain Britain’s support and to show that the people of Latin America are humans that deserve human rights. Bolivar is constantly questioning the reader to emphasize the problems in Latin America. He explains to the reader that they are “still in a position lower than slavery, and therefore it is more difficult for [them] to rise to the enjoyment of freedom.” He constantly reminds the reader the freedom and rights that the people of Latin America doesn’t have and how they feel lower than slaves with constant labor in order to feed Spain’s greed. Bolivar uses these examples to persuade the reader to help Latin America be free of Spain’s rule.
4. The strong points of Bolivar’s letter seems to be when he questions the reader constantly. It directs the reader to the thought that Bolivar wants them to have. He tries to gain empathy by questioning “But are not the people of those islands Americas? Are they not maltreated? Do they not desire a better life?” The weak point of his letter is his conclusion on unity. It feels like he could’ve emphasized it more.
5. I think it is successful in conveying its message because it shows how the people in Latin America are suffering as well as how Spain caused it. This text also gains my empathy because of how the people feel “lower than slaves.” The system that the Spaniards put on the people made them feel a way that they feel weak and hopeless and it makes me want to reach out and try to help them.
6. In the political aspect, there has been some progress. There have been many dictators throughout Latin America that the people have went against and succeeded. Even so, there are still Latin American countries that are unhappy with the inequality they face.