Kimberly Fujioka, M.A.
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I'm an English Instructor. I teach part-time at several universities in Honolulu. I have been teaching since 1982. I am the author of several chapters in a book on Japan entitled To Japan with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur. It was released on Nov 1, 2009. I also write and publish book reviews, articles, and essays.
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Answered a Question in Edward II
Yes. The main concern inthe play, is not the homosexuality; it is the diversion Gavston represents to the royalty. Edward's over involvement with Gaveston is a threat to the kingdom. Edward isn't... -
Answered a Question in Into the Wild
One very telling quote is : "One of his last acts was to take a picture of himself, standing near the bus under the high Alaska sky, one hand holding his final note toward the camera lens, the... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
His strength is his shrewdness. He can make apt political decision. He is good in his ability to work with Antony. He is very decisive in his ability to step up to the plate, to meet with Brutus... -
Answered a Question in The Grifters
The story is set in Los Angeles' seedy side, featuring a crook or grifter, Roy Dillon. He had been hit by a baseball bat after trying to swindle(con) someone. His mother Lilly who just so happens... -
Answered a Question in The Alchemist
The Alchemist is a fable. A fable has a meaning; it is a cautionary tale. The main character is Santiago which means "saint" in Spanish. He is a shepherd man. He has a dream over and over. It... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Nuck comments on the people that come and go from Gatsby's home. They are having parties, constant parties. A good quote that shows this is: "I believe that... -
Answered a Question in Waiting for Godot
In short,"Waiting for Godot" is neither comic nor pessemistic. It is absurd. Estragon and Vladimir wait and wait and wait for Godot. But what amounts to their waiting? Nothing. This... -
Answered a Question in Henry Wotton
He saves himself from bad deeds by not thinking dishonestly and not lying. (See first stanza) How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought,... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
Alienation from society is a major theme. The main character, Jimmy Porter, was shut out of a meaningful position, even though he went to an excellent university. He was not born into "the... -
Answered a Question in Jude the Obscure
Hardy portrays women in this novel as manipulative and self-serving. According to him, they use the conventions of society to get what they want. Examples are of Jude's marriage. Jude's... -
Answered a Question in Literature
It depends upon the author. In Michael Cunningham's book The Hours, women's lives are the subject of the book. It is the a story of three women's lives. It focuses on the life of Virginia Wolf and... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Through literature we can see into other people's lives and become more understanding or tolerant. Everytime I read a novel or a poem expressing a new way of seeing something, I feel like I've... -
Answered a Question in Keeper'n Me
Garnet Raven is the subject of the story because he was taken out from his home at age three. Because of the building of a hydro plant, they moved to the city. Garnet says, It was natural in my... -
Answered a Question in Love Among the Ruins
Iambic pentameter in "Love Among the Ruins" has a really piercing effect on the poem, in that, the longer line reads smoothly, then the shorter, three syllable line emphasizes meaning, in a... -
Answered a Question in The Youngest Daughter
It is a beautiful poem about a mother-daughter relationship, where the mother is elderly and the daughter is a grown woman, taking care of her. At the beginning of the poem, the narrator realises... -
Answered a Question in The Woman Warrior
Brave Orchid is Maxine's mother. She is full of stories that reveal family sagas as well as heroes and heroines. Through Brave Orchid's tale of her sister-in-law who committed adultery she tries to... -
Answered a Question in Exile
In Julia Alvarez’s poem “Exile” she thinks about her family and how they left their homeland. She had to adjust to NYC and this is a concern in the poem. The voice in the poem is very innocent,... -
Answered a Question in The Sniper
The Sniper isn't a traditional plot line in that there is a conflict and a resolution. It is a surprise ending that heightens the message in the story--that war is senseless because if all the... -
Answered a Question in Possessing the Secret of Joy
Yes, there is racism and misogyny. The last chapter sums it up. Tashi is talking before she is going to be killed for killing someone. In the letter to Lisette she writes about all the suffering of... -
Answered a Question in Sharon Olds
In the first stanza the narrator of the poem doesn't like the fact that her mother planned to conceive her. She didn't want to be brought into the world by such extreme preparation, as when her... -
Answered a Question in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Díaz writes in The Brief Wondrous Life...about the Trujillo dictatorship time period of the Dominican Republic and about contemporary New Jersey. He blends these stories using different character's... -
Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
In short, Achebe has a total disdain for the mindset of the people of the colonialising countries because they entirely disregarded the culture they were entering. Things Fall Apart(1958) was... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was the greatest playwright that ever lived. He wrote comedies and tragedies; and the comedies are more tragic than the dramatic plays. As You Like It is a comedy while Hamlet is a... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Imagery in poetry refers to the pictures or images that are conjured up in the readers mind, by the words that a poet uses in his or her poem. For example, instead of saying "wealthy woman with a... -
Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest
In The Importance of Being Earnest, the characters' actions satirize the notions of the rich who have nothing to do with their time and also make fun of Utilitarianism (the moral worth of an action... -
Answered a Question in Self-Reliance
Emerson means that people punish the nonconformist but it doesn't matter because the self-reliant person should stand up against public opinion. He says: For nonconformity the world whips you with... -
Answered a Question in Stanley Kunitz
The poet is speaking about the presence of his father and how that molded his entire life. He never knew him because he committed suicide before he was born;however his entire life, he felt the... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
The play was revolutionary in its time because it broke out of the subjects that were usually dealt with in plays of that time.Two images are striking throughout the play: Alison silently ironing... -
Answered a Question in Carl Sandburg
When Carl Sandburg says "They" he means the words. Actually, he is cautioning writers not to show off using long non referential words in poetry. It is not easy to call them back means the reader... -
Answered a Question in History
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Mauryan Empire in 326 b.c.e. His battles unified the entire subcontinent, except for part of Afghanistan. This helped to establish the great empire of... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
The poem's narrator is struggling with how to name England because he is not from there. He thinks he is supposed to say "England" and then to know what it means. But he only sees a large city like... -
Answered a Question in Animal Farm
They respect each other writing their tenents on the barn wall, one says they are all equal. They work togther, each one has a role and carries it out. The Old Major teaches them to revolt against... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus doesn't overreact. He questions them, taking the sissors away. His authoritative actions --rolling up a newspaper and smacking it against himself-- demonstrates to the the children that he... -
Answered a Question in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Simon Legree is the owner of a Louisiana plantation, Tom's last. Legree is greedy. He is evil and cruel. On his plantation he beats his slaves daily. They are not fed well. They are overworked. He... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Many of the characteristics of Fahrenheit 451 are reinforced by our society. For example, the video games and news shows are so short and quick, based upon presenting information that is... -
Answered a Question in Civil Disobedience
Thoreau criticizes society and democracy. Especially he challenges convention, in that , he thinks people should act from within their own, internal value system, not rely upon the government or... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Oedipus doesn't really have any choices: he is only reacting to fate, that which he has no control over. He is concerned about Thebes and so sends someone to Apollo to find out, in order to make... -
Answered a Question in Revelation
The moment of grace is after Mrs. Turpin has complained to the black women about the girl at the doctor's office, then she goes down to the pigpen and shouts at the hogs. The problem is that she... -
Answered a Question in The Sniper
The main theme is of civil war in "The Sniper." The story's setting is Dublin, Ireland. It is the Irish Civil War that began in 1922, after the Irish Parliament voted to divide the island of... -
Answered a Question in Robert Louis Stevenson
He starts the poem by asking to be given the life that he loves. Then he describes the life on the road, sleeping outside and swimming inthe river. Inthe next stanza he says he knows he will die... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
"The Most Dangerous Game," is such a gripping read because the author uses elements of the gothic tale to heighten the sense of danger in the setting. The setting is ominous which is the usual for... -
Answered a Question in Middlemarch
There are a lot of good themes in this novel. The main theme of the novel is charity. The kind of charity whereby the person is not recognized. Saint Theresa is spoken of at the beginning is... -
Answered a Question in Othello
In Act 3 scene 3 the mood is dark as in betrayal. Iago says how much he loves Othello but he has bad news. He says to Othello, don't you remenber that Desdemona lies very much ? She lied to marry .... -
Answered a Question in Night
In the beginning part you are referring to they are being transported from one ghetto area to another. Wiesel says: The barbed wire which fenced us in did not cause us any real fear. We even... -
Answered a Question in Ode to My Socks
In "Ode to My Socks" there are several figures of speech, for example repetition. He repeats the word two and uses images of two also. For example, two socks as soft as rabbits and two cases, two... -
Answered a Question in European Colonization of North America
When it was first built it was successful because they did farming which was good. However there was trouble because one of the guards treated the Indians badly and raped a chief's wife and killed... -
Answered a Question in History
Your question is very general so I will answer it in one way. For the African Americans it was a failure. As you know slavery was abolished however African Americans were not entirely free.... -
Answered a Question in Secession and Civil War
The Civil War had an enormous effect on industry in the North. As a result, it helped change the U.S. from a country that was farm centered and plantation-centered to one that was mechanical and... -
Answered a Question in Essays
A great attention grabber is citing a newspaper article about someone who was a famous beauty queen. For example, if you want to write that being a beauty queen is exploitive you could start off... -
Answered a Question in Barn Burning
The most noticeable literary element Faulkner uses in "Barn Burning" is sentence structure. Faulkner's sentences are very long and have many interruptions. They flow like stream of consciousness...
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