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From Maya book all instruction will be provided in the attachment i will provide choose a character from the book and write a response as its mention in the instructions. these pages are unclear but this is all i have please try your best

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A Philosophical Response to Fiction For the purposes of our class the response paper is 5 pages. What you need to do in order to fulfill this assignment is: • Create a summary sheet on the fictive piece that includes: characters, plot, themes, and evaluation (for an example see: michaelboylan.net, blog, book reviews)—this will help you start your paper; it is not a part of your paper. • Isolate a single passage in the book that you feel is pivotal to the theme of the book (this passage can be consecutive, for example pages 10-22, or it can be constructed on a common theme, for example pages 135-137 & 192-195 & 238-240. • Briefly go through the scene highlighting character, plot, and tropes (metaphors, motifs, description, etc.) • Try to discern a particular point of view within the passage that mirrors the book • Decide whether you agree or disagree with this point of view • Set out the relevant practical and theoretical philosophical principles at stake and apply them to the problem. • Use 3 philosophical principles to help you create a positive or negative reaction to the author’s theme (in the small and the large realm). If it is positive, think of bringing up objectors and refute them. If it is negative, engage in a dialog with the author—ending up by rejecting position. The theme should be readily understandable from the scene you have chosen. • Reflect on the significance of your position. What abstract general points about the world have now been elucidated? * most important point. At least a page. Rubric. If you represent all eight points sequentially in your paper you will earn some kind of “B” grade (so long as you are also close to 5 pages, i.e., within a half-page under or a full page over). To get a high “B” or an “A-“ or “A” grade you will have to do well on the reflection bullet. MICHAEL BOYLAN Beryl மாயா MAYA AN IRISH-AMERICAN HISTORY
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Running Head: PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSE TO FICTION

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Philosophical Response to Fiction

Michael Boylan in the book, Maya: An Irish-American History elucidates an immigrant
way of life in the United States of American after relocating from Ireland. The immigrant family
first moved to New York then extended to Philadelphia where they settled at long last. Notably,
the new American environment brought immense challenges to the immigrant family mainly
learning the new ways of life of the foreign land. Agreeably, the author developed the IrishAmerican History to display how life was different in the U.S. and Ireland principally throughout
the American Civil War era. To build his ideologies in the book, Boylan applies various literary
tools to clarify the history of the two countries and the immigrants’ way of life after moving to
America.

The only passage in the novel that proves pivotal to the theme is the extort between, after
the birth of Lucy and the scenery where James is reading the book, Tommy. One of the
prominent themes that the author developed in the elucidated scenes is the theme of Death.
Arguably, death surrounds humanity at every corner in their lives. Therefore, there is a need to
accept and adapt that death is existent and unavoidable. In the theme build -up, Michael exploits
Sean, James, Tommy, Aeneas, and Dido as the particulate characters.

Tommy and Sean had just arrived from work and found James reading a book.
Interestingly, Tommy fancies the art of reading especially during his leisure at home, and he is
keen not let his father know about the ordeal. To maintain the status quo, Tommy ensured that he
is the only person who knows the whereabouts of the book, and he hid whenever the father
arrived home from work. Sean interrupted by querying to know the overview of the book, but

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James reluctantly shows discontent not to disclose the story. However, Tommy hastily interjects
to explain the whole story to his father.

Notably, the author exploits the story within a story style in his writing to deliver the
theme of death in the novel. In this narration, the king (Aeneas) betrays her long-term lover,
princess Dido, on the pretense of being too busy with his duty as a king. Devastatingly, the
feeling of betrayal ran deep the being of Dido who resorts to committing suicide by throwing
herself down the cliff. The tale made Sean cough hard to a point where he was losing breath and
blood was oozing from his body. Moreover, the author utilizes the literacy style of flashback to
introduce Sean's response to the boys. In his narration, Sean recalls the death ordeals that
claimed the lives of the boys' mother, Mary and their sister Lucy.

In another incident, Michael tells the story of how the death of James occurred. One early
evening soon after James had lugged his case he strolled to the cathedral of contemplation in the
Big Four Railroad Bridge. He was wondering on the decision to make next. On his way towards
the bridge, a feeling of being followed caught his mind, and he stopped to buy a pack of
cigarettes. With that same feeling of doubt in his mind, James asked the vendor who sold him
cigars for an escort. The vendor agr...


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