Reviews of Literatures and Movies

Rizal Saryadi 1.       Plot Summary When Mr. Dashwood dies, his house, Norland Park, passes directly to his only son John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs. Dashwood, and their daughters,  Elinor ,  Marianne  and Margaret, are left only a small income. On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters; however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to renege. John and Fanny immediately take up their place as the new owners of Norland, while the Dashwood women are reduced to the position of unwelcome guests. Mrs. Dashwood begins looking for somewhere else to live. In the meantime, Fanny's brother,  Edward Ferrars , a pleasant, unassuming, intelligent but reserved young man, visits Norland and soon forms an attachment with Elinor. Fanny disapproves the match and offends Mrs. Dashwood with the implication that Elinor is motivated by money rather than love. Mrs. Dashwood indign

The Great Gatsby was written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in 1925. It was one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/context.html).  In this novel, the present writer thinks that Fitzgerald wrote it based on his own experiences. The characters Nick Caraway and Jay Gatsby are the evidence of his existence in the novel. As taken from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/context.html, it was mentioned that Fitzgerald shows himself through the character of Nick Carraway as a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war (sparknotes.com). Besides, as taken from the same web, Fitzgerald also shows himself through the character of Jay Gatsby as a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stat

Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in the novel of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. His role in the Charles’ novel attracts the present-writer’s attention to make some criticism regarding his characteristic in social life. In line with this objective, there are four statements which support the idea of this criticism. 1. Life for wealth Charles Dickens, in this case, puts Ebenezer Scrooge in higher class than other communities around.   His whole life is of course just dedicated for wealth. He works so hard to collect the wealth more and more through his company which was established together with his friend, Jacob Marley, who has died for seven years ago.   On the page 7, Charles shows the evidence through the dialogue between Scrooge and his nephew, Fred, who invite him for dinner in his home as the celebration of Christmas. Through long conversation that Scrooge denies his invitation then he says, “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without mone

By Rizal Saryad The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a French language film produced by Pathé and France 3 Cinéma in association with Banque Populaire Images 7 and the American Kennedy/Marshall Company , and in participation with Canal+ and Ciné Cinémas. This film was released on March 23, 2007 in France and November 30, 2007 in United States directed by Julian Schnabel who had won the award for best director at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival , a Golden Globe , as well as BAFTA , a César Award , two nominations for the Golden Lion and an Academy Award nomination. The cast were Mathieu Amalric ( Jean-Dominique Bauby ), Emmanuelle Seigner (Céline Desmoulins), Anne Consigny (Claude Mendibil), Marie-Josée Croze (Henriette Durand), Olatz López Garmendia (Marie Lopez), Patrick Chesnais (Dr. Lepage), Max von Sydow (Mr. Bauby Sr.), Isaach De Bankolé (Laurent), Marina Hands (Joséphine), Niels Arestrup (Roussin), and Emma de Caunes ( Empress Eugénie ). Plot Summary

Rizal Saryadi               The word “nevermore “ (is the most interesting aspect in this poem. “Nevermore” here is depicted as the heart or the point of the poem because this word comes from the raven. According to the title “The Raven”, the presence of the raven as one of the characters in the poem is something eagerly awaited and of course the word “nevermore” has strong relation to the primary point of raven's presence which is said as the point of the poem in advance.             On this paper the writer will present reader response approach as the guide in analyzing the poem. Specifically, the writer only focus on the word “nevermore” which is very interesting to discuss based on reader response approach. The writer tries to see the deferent responses among The Raven's readers in electronic media towards the meaning of “nevermore”. After that the writer will try to conclude the final result of their responses by combining them in a sentence.