Goodbye, Mr. Chips…..Absent. The English Teacher (Eppel)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 10:01 PM By dwi
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Author: Evangelist Eppel
Title: Absent. The arts Teacher, http://www.amazon.com/Absent-English-Teacher-John-Eppel/dp/1779220820/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299637001&sr=1-1
*Fascinating note: The author, Evangelist Eppel, of Absent. The arts Teacher actually teaches English. He was dropped in South continent and upraised in Zimbabwe. His writing reflects his experience, forbearance, and observations of the politics of a concern ‘gone’ awry.Â
Synopsis: This is a sarcastic treatise. Evangelist Eppel inspires analogies and comparisons between his antihero and Shakespeare’s King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Mr. martyr J. martyr is the important case cast in a chain of arts and individualized events. Firstly, as an arts teacher, Mr. martyr is challenged by his apathetic students. Pressed to motivate, he innovatively stresses inferences, symbols, and motifs in order for his pupils to 'connect' with Emily Bronte’s’ characters Healthcliff (depicted as a werewolf) and Cathy (depicted as a nymphomaniac). Still, the slummy Mr. martyr struggles in vain to keep the focus of his students. Secondly, Mr. martyr is inactive and he suffers the expiration of his teaching post at the Girls and Boys Come Out to Play alternative school. He is accused of displaying a represent of the deposed Ian Smith. This is a politically incorrect act. However, digit of the interrogators is more intrigued with the maker of the represent than the actualised crime. For, the represent is currently a pricy collector’s item. Thirdly, as the termination of Mr. George’s stricken fortune, he loses his bag and all of the accoutrement of his crack colonial status. In the newborn postcolonial world, he is shifted from existence the someone of his farm… to existence a mere worker. Thus, Mr. George’s fate is sealed with this act.  Absent. The arts Teacher is a semipolitical and literate treatise utilizing literate entireness to foreshadow contemporary events.
Critique: This aggregation is a contest and a joy. I re-read passages within The Norton Anthology of arts Literature as Evangelist Eppel prefabricated references to Hellenic entireness and writers. Tragically, this was my prototypal introduction to contemporary individual literature. I am enthralled and I am impressed. Satire is a forfeited art, but Eppel resurrects it to a newborn level. He also manages literate seeing with the incorporation of William Shakespeare, Ngugi wa Thiongo, and James author into the clothing of his novel. I highly propose this book. Be embattled to deliver you ‘balanced’ viewpoint of the individual 'postcolonial.'
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