Essays on Hyena

English

We always come across the term ‘intertextuality’ even though we may not realize it. It refers to the relationship between different texts, most of which are literary texts. Such literary relationships are very common in novels and their various themes. The movie and novel, Life of Pi is a great example of a story having intertextual relationships. Written by Yann Martel, Life of Pi is a story based on how a young Hindu boy is separated from his family when a storm sinks the boat they were travelling in. However, Pi, the young boy does not survive alone. He is accompanied by a Bengal ...

Work of art, a gallery

A work of art that under discussion is one that was is known as the An Index of Saskatchewan Fauna and Other Curiosities. The exhibition was done or was curated by Caitlin Mullan. The project was coordinated by Jennifer Matotek, who is the director or the Curator of the Dunlop Art Gallery. Apart from Matotek, the exhibition was also directed by John Smell, who is the Manager, Public Programmes in the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. I visited the museum on December 6, 2014. The art was quite appealing to the eye, and I was attracted to it. The caption of ...

In the story The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, Pi shapes animals to represent people to lessen the anguish of the loss of his family: the orangutan being his mother, the hyena is the cook, and most uniquely, Richard Parker, a tiger, as Pi's will to survive. Piscine Molitor Patel represents his character as a tiger and as Richard Parker. He is the protagonist of the story and he is a shy person who tells how a shipwreck happened when he was young. As Pi, he is a lonely child who spends most of his time in the zoo watching animals and ...

Introduction

Policy makers and the general public have been at pains to answer the questions they are confronted with about the intricacies of lesbians and gay men. Questions are abound ranging from whether they are mentally ill to whether the much publicized conversion therapies result to a change in orientation. Questions have also been asked about their stereotyped propensity to molest children. Such scathing thoughts and remarks are fed by stereotypic cultural undertones that many a times depict gay men and lesbians as criminals, immoral, sick and every description that falls short of what our society considers ‘normal’. The implicated individuals have ...

Take Back the Night Film Series is a sequential presentations on the fight for the women freedom in the society. It is majorly concerned with the rights that the women feel that they are being denied by the men. This is the society and calls for the cooperation of all women to take part and work against the ruling of man. The major concerns are in the rape of women, how women can defend themselves among others. This brings the connections with the rape cases that were made in form of presentations in class. Ever since the saying has ...

The Pokot is a tribe in Africa living in both Kenya and Uganda. However, most Pokots live in the Northern part of Kenyan Rift-Valley which lies along the Kenya /Uganda border. An interview with Daniel Lotodo, a 78 year old man from the community revealed a lot about the ethnography of the community The Pokot for a long time are predominantly pastoralists’. Their occupations of cattle keeping has been necessitated by environment factors. The area is semi arid and agricultural produce can hardly do well. However, through barter trade with neighboring communities such as the Samburu and the Marakwet, the society would ...