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Read the PDF, choose ONE of the following two questions.
1. What function might this text serve within its particular historical and cultural context? How is it responding to problems, dilemmas, or anxieties specific to that context—to the country and moment in history within which it was first written? Does it offer a way of responding to a situation, a strategy either for coping with or overcoming the problem that it addresses? If so, what is it? Why, in other words, might, the work have been appealing to readers living within the same context as the author?
2. How does the text resonate with your own life experiences as a twenty-first century New Yorker? Have you been in a situation similar to the one described by the author? Have you faced the same kinds of challenges? Have you found yourself viewing the world in the same way as one of the characters or the narrator? How has your life experience helped you to understand the text? And how has reading the work affected your way of thinking about the problems that you have confronted in your own life? Has it offered you a new understanding or attitude, a new way of addressing particular obstacles? Has it influenced the way you feel about a particular situation? If so, how? Please try to come up with a specific concrete example from your life. You will need to offer a first-person account of your own experience so as to explore how the text is relevant to that experience. Your paper, in other words, should combine an analysis of the text with a personal narrative and explore the connections between the two.
Please choose only #1 or #2 (not both). Since I am now asking you to address a larger context—either the text’s own cultural context or the context of your own life—in addition to offering an interpretation of passages within the text, you may need 6-7 pages. It should be an essay not small paragraphs,
The articles within the PDF are short stories, you may need to choose 1 or 2 from it and wrtie about it.
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The Contexts of My Life
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The Contexts of My Life
The half a day and other short stories have made a significant impact in placing utilitarian
values in literature, helping people to sharpen their critical thinking skills, and acquiring a
comprehensive understanding of the surrounding societies in the 21st century. These short stories
resonate with my life as a twenty-first-century New Yorker at a personal level through subtly
illuminating psychology and individual character. Most of the authors have been unable to
match up with the well-structured message that is delivered in these short stories, aspects of
human growth and development, and the disappointments that one faces in adapting to a new
environment. As a twenty-first-century New Yorker, these short stories showcase the nature of
the state and its inhabitants in terms of the way a given society works, and the overall quality of
the nation. New York City is a great place and a busy state of the United States of America. The
relationship of the text and a 21st century New Yorker is exemplified through the challenges that
the character is undergoing through. Through these short stories, the author stresses out that a
New Yorker is faced by increased vulnerability to homeliness and emotional stability, traffic
congestion in New York roads, and lack of adequate supervision in public roads, which is most
likely to cause accidents or increase mortality rate. In overall, these stories typically illustrate
what an ordinary youth of New York in this 21st century is encountering in his/her life.
Yes, I have been in the same situation like the one described by the author. I have been
under the supervision of senior people who were mandated to punish me when I was not abiding
the law. All this happened when I was forced by circumstances to leave my home and attend to
several duties that required my skills. Although I had a hard time contemplating whether I should
leave my house or not, I managed to establish good relationships with people I was working
with. However, by the time I was done with the project, I found so many...
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