Ethics.

Identity.

Prejudice.

Fear.

"What are robots?" x

"What makes us humans?"

Jelousy.

Resentment.

Guilt.

Tragic irony.

Greed.

Compassion.

Trust.

Dignity.

Second chances.

Empathy.

Punishment.

Freedom.

Independence.

The role of women in society.

Love and marriage.

Revenge.

Justice.

Freedom.

Passivity vs. action.

Irony in the tittle.

Freedom.

Justice.

Racial perspective.

Courage.

Martyrdom.

Inequality.

Greed.

Jelousy.

Betrayal.

Justice.

Distrust.

Materialism.

Consequences of actions.

Self-interest.

Francis Quinn:

Dr. Susan Calvin:

_Chief of robopsychologist at U.S. Robots and Mechanical men.

_Cold woman, almost robotic.

_ Greedy.

_ "Like the river you are, Owen Parry, slow and deep" says Rhiannon.

_ Dishonest.

_ Mentally weak.

Huw Parry:

_ Honest.

_Blackhaired giant.

_ Bass-voiced.

_ Rock-strong.

_Speechless.

_ Vigorous.

_ Religous man.

_ He has a change of personality.

_ Determined.

Rhiannon:

_Pretty.

_Sympathetic.

_Pliable.

Margo:

_ Brown-eyed.

_ Sheepfarm.

_ Country side of Wales.

Time:

_ In the 80's, probably.

Angela Noel was born in 1931, and now lives in Lancashire, where she runs a livery stables.

Most of her writing consists of short stories for women's magazines in several countries, and she has also published four romantic novels, all set in the English countryside. Her most recent title is Remember Me.

Her story Ricochet was first published in March 1980 in London Mystery Selection. Although the story is set in Wales, the idea for it was originally drawn from a newspaper report about a real-life incident concerning two brothers in Spain, one of whom was accused of murdering the other.

Stone house = how strong was Huw and Rhiannon's relation.

Musty river's cottage = how mentally weak was Owen.

_ Wealthy.

_ 45 year old banker.

_ Balding.

_ Naive.

_ Concerned husband.

Olivia Amony:

_ She is 34 years old.

_ Lovely housewife.

_ Manipulator.

_ Calculating.

Stephen Castle:

_ He is 35 years old.

_ Actor.

_ Handsome.

_ Charming.

_ Opportunist.

_ Lanky.

_ Oat-coloured hair.

_ Lazy.

Old Greenwich. (U.S.A)

New York.

Time:

In 1955, Highsmith published her most famous work, The Talented Mr. Ripley, which focuses on a manipulative, murderous protagonist who assumes the identity of his victims. The book would be the first in a five-part series, accompanied by Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley’s Game (1974), The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), and Ripley Under Water (1991). Highsmith was a prolific author, and her other well-known novels include The Blunderer (1954) and Deep Water (1957). Though she is best known as a novelist, Highsmith also published short stories and nonfiction, generally about the craft of writing itself. Her story collections include The Black House (1981) and Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987), and she published Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction in 1966.

Highsmith was a lesbian at a time when homosexuality was generally ignored or frowned upon, and many of her works contain themes of queerness alongside those of violence and stolen identities. Her personality could be abrasive, and she generally did not maintain close relationships, though some of her short-lived affairs served as inspiration for The Price of Salt, among other works. She died in Switzerland in 1995. Her fiction remains popular. In addition to Hitchcock's adaptation of Strangers on a Train, many of Highsmith's books have been adapted as films. The Talented Mr. Ripley was made into a film starring Matt Damon in 1999, and Showtime has ordered the production of a TV series based on the novels, titled Ripley. The Price of Salt was the basis for the 2015 film Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Highsmith has been the subject of a number of biographies, including Joan Schenkar's The Talented Miss Highsmith (2009) and Andrew Wilson's Beautiful Shadow (2003).

Owen sets a whole plan to kill his brother, but finally the one that ends dead is Owen himself.

March 15, or The Ides of March = is a historical reference to betrayal, impending doom.

Old Orion = symbolize strength, courage, the cycle of life and death, but also immortality. Orion is also linked to unfufilled or tragic love, and gives a melancholic symbolism of desire, separation, and sorrow.

Olivia reflects the way Patricia used to see life. They were bored of the normal life and common people. Olivia was bored of her husband´s banker life and the bankers´parties, that´s why she falls in love with Stephen, an actor. Patricia sympathazised with criminals and anti-heros that created them as nice characters.

Both were impulsive, they fell in love quickly. In one side, Olivia fell in love with Stephen rapidly (as she did with Loren?). On the other side, Patricia also used to fall in love quickly and also got obsessed with her lovers at the point in which she followed them and wrote the most beautiful line about them, after any time falling out in love and do the same with others.

Patricia used to be a kind of hermit. As Olivia, she used to be a depressed person. But Olivia was an impostor, as she acted to show that she was depressed and then that she was sad because of her husband's death, when she really wasn't; Patricia tried most time of her life to show herself as someone that she wasn´t, what the society and specially her mother wanted to see.

After studying medicine for a time in Nsukka, in 1997 she left for the United States, where she studied communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University (B.A., 2001). Splitting her time between Nigeria and the United States, she received a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and studied African history at Yale University.

Themes in Her Work

Adichie’s writing often explores:

• Feminism and gender roles

• Postcolonial identity

• Migration and cultural displacement

• Love and relationships

• Political history, especially the Biafran War

• Race and racism, particularly in America

• The complexity of Nigerian society

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work focuses on Nigerian culture, African identity in Africa and the diaspora, and feminism.

Shoba.

Conflict: the after of the baby's death.

Climax: Shukumar tells Shoba the baby's gender.

Resolution: both of them crying for what they now knew.

The snow represents freezed emotions, that both of them are unable to express what they feel, and the melting of the snow is a sign that is time to say what they feel.

In her youth, at the age of 19, she moved on to London to write.

She studied in Queen's College.

She had had several partners (men and women) and her relation used to be short and intense.

Once she was pregnant but she had an expontaneous abortion.

In her last period of her life she suffered of tuberculosis.

Her writing style:

• She was more focused on inner world than external actions. Her stories often explore characters’ thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and inner conflicts more than events or “what happens.”

• Instead of big dramatic scenes, Mansfield shows small but meaningful moments where a character suddenly understands something about themselves or the world.

• Her writing often feels like painting with words—using images, sensations, and fragments of observation to create mood and meaning.(impressionistic style)

• Many of her stories do not finish with clear answers. Mansfield preferred to represent life as it is—uncertain, fluid, unresolved.

• She was a modernist writer.

Class division

Maturity

Conflict:

The Mr. Scott's death and the struggle it brings into the Sheridan family.

Climax:

The moment Laura sees the Mr. Scott's body.

The marquee: the need to cover secrets or ugly things.

The band represents the noise the family emits in order to silence the neighbors' problems and existence.

The hill represents the class distance.

Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair, which have been named "the gold standard" of the Catholic novel.

Several works, such as The Confidential Agent, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Human Factor, and his screenplay for The Third Man, also show Greene's avid interest in the workings and intrigues of international politics and espionage. In the early 1930s Greene moved to the left politically. His later political affiliations and convictions were more ambiguous.

Greene left the UK to live in Mexico until after the trial was over. While in Mexico, Greene developed the ideas for the novel often considered his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory.

In 1957, just months after Fidel Castro began his final revolutionary assault on the Batista regime in Cuba, Greene played a small role in helping the revolutionaries, as a secret courier transporting warm clothing for Castro's rebels hiding in the hills during the Cuban winter.

Castro, like Daniel Ortega and Omar Torrijos, was one of several Latin American leaders Greene's friendship with whom has led some commentators to question his commitment to democracy.

Greene lived with manic depression (bipolar disorder). He had a history of depression, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life.

He visited Chaplin often, and the two were good friends.

Greene divided his fiction into two genres: thrillers (mystery and suspense books), which he described as entertainments; and literary works, which he described as novels.

What I actually think is that the innocent in this story is Lola. She has been judged because of her uninterested reaction about the place. It is understandable because she doesn't have any connection with the place.

The incident in the airport reveals us what she will be forced to do, to leave her culture behind.

Addressing her as the "New wife" hints us that is not the first one nor the only one.

Her parents were Bengali immigrants, and she grew up in the United States after the family moved to Rhode Island when she was a young child.

Jhumpa Lahiri is also an academic:

• She has taught at Princeton University.

• Currently involved in literary and translation studies, especially promoting Italian literature.

  
  

  In 2016, she received a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.

Writing style:

Much of the conflict is internal.