CRITIQUE ABOUT BROTHERMAN

A Comparison between the Setting of Pride and Prejudice in the book Brother Man. The most important elements of a novel must include the setting. The setting indicates the time, place and the literary context of the novel. Therefore it can be said that the geographical and social background of the novel is significant as it dictates the structure of the novel and the narrative techniques used. It even affects how the characters are represented in the novel. The geographical and social background of a novel tends to be incorporated into its setting. There are many types of setting such as the geographical setting, the social setting and the political setting. Pride and Prejudice is an 18th century novel that was set in England. At different times in the novel, there was a change in setting from the country to the town. The geographical and social setting of Pride and Prejudice is significant as one reads.

THE RELIGIOUS ASPECTS IN REGARDS TO RASTAFARISM AND HOW THEY ARE SEEN IN TODAY’S SOCIETY.

The Rastafarian movement is a "messianic religion-political movement" that began in the Jamaican slums in the 1920s and 30s. The most famous Rastafarian is Bob Marley, whose reggae music gained the Jamaican movement international recognition.

Generally said to be November 2, 1930, the year Emperor Hailie Selassie I (1892-1975) was crowned, but based in a movement of the 1920s. It was founded in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), a black Jamaican who taught in the 1920s and is considered a second John the Baptist.

In today’s society there is significant variation within the Rastafarian movement and no formal organization. We as well as  Rastafarians see Rasta more as a way of life rather than a religion. The Rastafarian movement has a belief in the divinity and/or messiah ship of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I (whose birth name was Ras Tafari Makonnen. (The God of Rastafarians), the influence of Jamaican culture, resistance of oppression, and pride in African heritage. Rastafarians still as the hope of returning to African which they refer to as their homeland, also they are grateful of that opportunity.

The Rastafarian lifestyle usually and continue to includes ritual use of marijuana, avoidance of alcohol, the wearing of one's hair in dreadlocks, and vegetarianism.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY OF ROGER MAIS

Roger Mais was on August 11, 1905 in Kingston, Jamaica and died on June 21, 1955in his birth land. He was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1951, Mais had won ten first prizes in West Indian literary competitions. His integral role in the development of political and cultural nationalism is evidenced in his being awarded the high honor of the Order of Jamaica in 1978.

Mais launched his career as a journalist and contributor for the weekly newspaper, Public Opinion from 1939 to 1952, which was associated with the People's National Party. He also wrote several plays, reviews, and short stories for the newspaper Focus and the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, focusing his articles on social injustice and inequality. He used this approach to reach his local audience and to primarily push for a national identity and anti-colonialism.

 Mais has published over a hundred short stories, where most can be found in Public Opinion and Focus. Other stories are also collected in Face and Other Stories and And Most of All Man, published in the 1940’s. His short stories were collected in a volume entitled Listen and The Wind, thirty-two years after his death. Mais play, George William Gordon, was also published in the 1940s, focusing on the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865. It played an important role in the rehabilitation of the eponymous character, who was in conventional colonial history described as a rebel and traitor, but who would be proclaimed, on the centenary of the rebellion, a National Hero.

The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953) is written in the style of a narrative. It takes place in a "yard" consisting of individuals and families living in a confinement of shacks shaped squarely, leaving a yard in the center. In this yard, daily and public life of the tenement unfolds. Mais took inspiration from Trinidadian C.L.R James's novels Minty Alley and Triumph, which illustrated "yard" life. The Hills Were Joyful Together is basically a depiction of slum life, portraying the upset of poverty in these yards. Mais claimed that he was "concerned with setting down objectively the hopes, fears, and frustrations of these people". He wanted the novel to be "essentially realistic, even to the point of seeming violent, rude, expletive, functional, primitive and raw".

shalniel: FORMS OF PROSE FICTION

shalniel: FORMS OF PROSE FICTION: "NOVEL is a long fiction almost alway concentrating on character and incident and usually containing a plot. NOVELLAS applied to a story tha..."

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION: "NARRATIVE TECHIQUES are simple the technique in having narrative skills, styles of writing used by the writer. POINT OF VIEW refers to the ..."

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION: "NARRATIVE TECHIQUES are simple the technique in having narrative skills, styles of writing used by the writer. POINT OF VIEW refers to the ..."

shalniel: LITERARY DEVICES

shalniel: LITERARY DEVICES: "IMAGERY refers to the description language that evokes sensory expense. SYMBOL is something that represents something else. IRONY is sayin..."

shalniel: STRUCTURAL DEVICES

shalniel: STRUCTURAL DEVICES: "STREAMS OF CONSCIENOUSNESS is an attempt to contain all the content of a character line. For eg. feelings, mind, thought and etc. INTERIOR ..."

shalniel: TYPES OF FICTION

shalniel: TYPES OF FICTION: "REALISTIC FICTION is stories that tae place in modern time. MYSTERY/SUSPENSE is stories usually realistic, about a mysterious event which i..."

shalniel: LITERARY CONTEXT

shalniel: LITERARY CONTEXT: "SOCIAL is of having to with humsn beings living together as agroup in a situation which they deal with one another affect their common well-..."

LITERARY CONTEXT

SOCIAL is of having to with humsn beings living together as agroup in a situation which they deal with one another affect their common well-fare.

POLITICAL is of or concern with government; the state or politics.

HISTORIAL is of or concern with history.

RELIGIOUS is characterized by adherances to a religion devout.

ETHNIC is designated or of a population subgroup having a common history.

MORAL is a practical lesson about life right and wrong conduct.

INTELLECTUAL is the ability to reason or understand.

CULTURAL is he training and refinement of the intellec, interest, taste, skills and arts.

TYPES OF FICTION

REALISTIC FICTION is stories that tae place in modern time.

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE is stories usually realistic, about a mysterious event which is not explained or a crime that is not solved until the end of te story to keep the reader in suspense.

SCIENCE FICTION is stories that includes futuristic technology.

HISTORICAL FICTION is stories which take place in a particular time period in the past.

FOLKTALES/TALL TALES/FAIRYTALES are stories with no known creator.

MYTH FICTION is stories that usually explain something about the world and involve god and other supernatural beings.

POETRY FICTION is verse written to create a response of thought and feeling from the reader.  

STRUCTURAL DEVICES

STREAMS OF CONSCIENOUSNESS is an attempt to contain all the content of a character line. For eg. feelings, mind, thought and etc.

INTERIOR MONALOGUE is an attempt to convae in words the process of conscienousness or thought.

FLASHBACK is a sudden jump back in time.

FORE SHAWODING is the use of hints that suggest events that are to come

TIME FRAME is a given interval of time when something is to happpen.

MOTIF is some aspect of lierature which occur frequently.

JUXTAPOSITION is to put side by side or close together.

LITERARY DEVICES

IMAGERY refers to the description language that evokes sensory expense.

SYMBOL is something that represents something else.

IRONY is saying one thing while meaning another thing.

SATIRE is literature which exhibits or examine vice and folly and makes them appear comtemptile.

ALLUSION is a figure of speech that makes a reference to be representation of a place, event, literary work, myth or work of art either directly or by implication.

ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION

NARRATIVE TECHIQUES are simple the technique in having narrative skills, styles of writing used by the writer.

POINT OF VIEW refers to the way in which a narrator appproaches his or her materials.

CHARACTERIZATION is the way in which the writer creates character in a play.

SETTING is the time, place, environment and surroundings, circumstances of an event of a short story or a play.

THEME is the central ideas of story.

PLOT is the arrangement of incident or plan in a story.

STYLE is the manner in which a writer expresses his or herself or the particular manner of an individual literary works.

FORMS OF PROSE FICTION

NOVEL is a long fiction almost alway concentrating on character and incident and usually containing a plot.

NOVELLAS applied to a story thast is somewhat longer than a short story, but not long enough to consider a novel.

SHORT STORY is a story that is short.