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Default An analysis of: The time we live in is the winter of the world (2011)

Well guys there was a lot of confusion about one of the essay title “the winter of the world.” I wrote my essay on it. The majority of the people interpreted the essay correctly and wrote about the atrocities occurring in the world. I also wrote the same. Few said it is about the global warming. After doing a thorough research after the exam, consulting various teachers, I came to the conclusion that it is not about global warming but we had to write in detail about the atrocities of the world. My analysis is based on the following reasons:

• Since it was an English essay, due respect should be given to symbolism. I am quoting from various sources what winter means in English language and to English writers.

“Symbol is an object, animate or inanimate, that stands for or points to a reality beyond itself. The cross, for example, is often used to represent suffering. Symbols, however, also indicate their own reality. For example, a cross not only stands for suffering, but it also stands for Christian suffering. A sunrise not only represents new beginnings but the beginning of a new day.

The more you read and study literature, the more you will come across words that always function symbolically. The seasons are a perfect example. Winter represents aging, decay, and death; spring is often used to represent energy, birth, and hope; summer is symbolic of childhood, fun, and laughter; autumn stands for maturity, wisdom, and fulfillment.”

At another place it states the symbolic meanings of winter used by different authors:

“Winter is highly symbolic of many things to many people and has been used to represent various things by artists in all media. Some use winter to suggest death, as in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." Some use it to suggest the absence of hope, as in C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where it was always winter but never Christmas.”

• If this is not enough then there are a number of books entitled the winter of the world which highlight the atrocities occurring in the world. I am sharing a few examples. I will quote the tile and state briefly what the book is about:

The Winter of the World
Poems of the Great War
Dominic Hibberd
J (ED) ONIONS


The poetry that came out of the First World War exposed, for the first time in history, the real horror of war. The result is an extraordinary record of passionate feelings and appalling experiences, written by men and women from widely different backgrounds, of unique and enduring importance.

All the major poets are generously represented, Owen, Brooke, Sassoon, Blunden, Gurney, Graves and Rosenberg, but here too are many unfamiliar yet remarkable poems from the less familiar, Joseph Leftwich, F S Flint, ‘Touchstone’; female poets: Edith Sitwell; Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon; and writers not always associated with WWI poetry, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound.

Accompanying notes to the poems, historical events and the poets give precise, relevant information and suggest links to other poems, so the book as a whole forms a fascinating, moving narrative.

The Winter of the World
Remembering the Great War

Ninety years ago an armistice was signed on November 11th to end a conflict which soon came to be known as the Great War. This is an apt designation, for the war that raged in Europe, Africa, the Near East, and the Far East from 1914 to 1918 was a defining moment in the history of the world. It was a bloodletting beyond anything one could have conceived of at the time—over 40 million soldiers and civilians either killed or wounded—and the impact was as much psychological as it was physical. The horror of the war and its aftermath caused people to reexamine traditional values, and the social, economic, political, and aesthetic changes which the war brought have consequences to this day.

Ken Follett’s The Winter of the World. Book Three will be about the Cold War. The whole trilogy will end in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Winter of the World (P.S.)
by Carol Ann Lee

The author of "The Hidden Life of Otto Frank" delivers her debut novel--set in the aftermath of World War I--a tender and heartrending portrait of two people struggling with their darkest demons, desperately trying to come back from the abyss of betrayal.

Thus the paper checker in associating our time with the winter of the world wanted us to highlight about war, atrocities occurring in the world and loss of hope.

Why it cannot be about global warming

I tried to find a connection between global warming and the term winter of the world but could not find a single link. Following are some of the reason why this essay was not about global warming

• Global warming is always accompanied with heat, warmth and increase in temperature and never with winter. People assumed that the checker said that the present time is cold and the future is going to be hot. This assumption is wrong. If you had thoroughly gone through the global warming articles you would become aware that the all scientist said the situation is bad and is getting worse. (i.e. its hot and getting hotter) The never say it is cold and its going to get hotter. They try to convince us that it is hot and going to get hotter. No one compares the present time with winter while relating the effect of global warming.

• Another important aspect is that the severity of the weather is going to be increased both winter and summers are going to become colder and hotter.
Thus most of the severe cold weather in Europe is associated to global warming and it is expected to become colder during the winter and hotter during the summer. Thus to say we will only face hot weather in the future is wrong. Some scientists even predict that due to global warming a new ice age may start.

Therefore the assumption that this essay was about effects of global warming is wrong

I hope I have managed to clear some misconceptions and please do remember me in your prayers
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Looks like you are trying to reassure yourself that you interpreted it correctly. For me, the correct angle is examiners discretion. Take a look at a simple google search

the winter of the world - Google Search

Go through the above results and you will see it indeed relates to Global Warming. However some of your arguments also have weight. In the end, its upto the examiners. Personally, I would never attempt such a vague topic.
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I did yar but again the links i have just mentioned above keep on coming, could you give me an exact link where it uses the phrase "winter of the world" and global warmig together. I am just explaining why i choose the topic and why i wrote the way i did. Never intended to offend anyone
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I did yar but again the links i have just mentioned above keep on coming, could you give me an exact link where it uses the phrase "winter of the world" and global warmig together. I am just explaining why i choose the topic and why i wrote the way i did. Never intended to offend anyone
Almost all the links in the google search above relate to glaciers and ice age. All this relates to global warming
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I did click on the link that you have provided, and the first few links that came up are the title of the books which I mentioned above. And secondly glaciers and ice age does not imply global warming. At least this is what i believe.
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And secondly glaciers and ice age does not imply global warming. At least this is what i believe.
In that case further debate is useless. Good luck with the result
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In that case further debate is useless. Good luck with the result



I think more u debate more ambiguous it becomes.



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dear there is no need to worry on what u attempted.whether ur interpretation coincides with examiner r not,still what u attempted, if it is good composition of English done with exact expression and carrying due economy of words,u have all reasons to expect good score,IRRESPECTIVE OF THE FACT WHETHER EXAMINER AGREES WITH U R NOT.
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In that case further debate is useless. Good luck with the result



I think more u debate more ambiguous it becomes.



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dear there is no need to worry on what u attempted.whether ur interpretation coincides with examiner r not,still what u attempted, if it is good composition of English done with exact expression and carrying due economy of words,u have all reasons to expect good score,IRRESPECTIVE OF THE FACT WHETHER EXAMINER AGREES WITH U R NOT.
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Truly true....
well dunno how they check these papers we have attempted, but its better not to attempt such a topic where ambiguity is...but still if the topic is to be "interpreted" then i think the one shanrafiq has given is correct too....its an open topic, but may be someone with a knowledge of english literature can better explain...
hope they arent strict in the checking thing...
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this essay will xplain all :

http://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/154887.html
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