![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise, by choosing to use Bolivar, Napoleon, Robin Hood, Dick Bong, Jesus, and Jomo Kenyatta as descriptors of how the lower classes thought of the Harlequin, Ellison is able. Published in Harlan Ellisons 1969 short-story collection, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, A Boy and His Dog is one of. For example, Ellison's opening passage from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" not only provides the image of the hero into the story, it also embeds the whole notion of civil disobedience, Thoreau's metaphor of marching to the beat of a different drummer, and the incident of Thoreau's night in jail for his refusal to pay income tax, among other ideas and events. Moreover, allusions serve as a sort of intellectual shorthand by inserting an allusion in a story, the writer succinctly inserts an additional text, or history, or philosophical system into his or her story, in just a word or two. Literary allusions are references to familiar characters, real people, events, or concepts used to make an idea more easily understood. View Questions to Consider - Harlan Ellisons Repent, Harlequin Said the Ticktockman.docx from LIT 2000 at Daytona State College. ![]()
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