Going Against the Grain: “Unity of Effect” in Updike’s “A&P” “A&P” is a short story by John Updike that tells the story of three girls who enter a grocery store and attract quite a bit of attention from: Stokesie, the manager; Lengel, a checkout clerk; …
The extract from Earl Lovelace’s novel, “The Dragon Can’t Dance”, is a highly descriptive prose which reveals the feelings the character Aldrick Prospect has for the loss of his community’s traditional warrior mentality. The piece of prose provides us with a third-person yet detailed account …
In the work Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe the main character is a resilient and crafty individual who puts his own survival over everything else. His determination exceeds anything that I have ever accomplished, and I consider him a hero. Robison although not perfect he …
Keats belonged to the genre of the Romantics. He penned the poem ‘La Belle Sans Merci’ in the year 1819. Being a Nature poet, a tinge of pathos and the delightful re-creative power of Mother Nature weave through all his poems. John Keats seems to …
The Big Sleep: Analytical breakdown The big sleep represents our class’s first exploration into what is known as “Hardboiled” fiction. The advent of Hardboiled literature means an escape from classic detective novels where all we find are ingenious investigators and mind numbing puzzles designed to …
Literature study Chapter 3 Literature Survey Paper 1: Filter Structures For FIR Filters In this paper Florian Achleitner et Al. had discuss FIR digital i¬?lters, which can be designed in several different ways and construct with different basic constructions. This papers considers some constructions and …
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are brother and sister who live on their family farm, Green Gables, in the quiet town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Matthew is sixty, and since he is getting older decides he needs help on the farm, in which, …
‘Cousin Kate’ is a double ballade, meaning that it is heavily rhymed and consists of six stanzas of 8 lines. It was written by Christina Rossetti in the 1870s. The outline of the poem is that the narrator ‘cottage maiden’ is introduced and describes herself …
In Sherman Alexie’s poem, “Capital Punishment”, a part that was very interesting, yet confusing was when the narrator was being sympathetic. The narrator was very considerate of the prisoners. In the poem, Alexie makes the narrator be a cook at a jail that had the …
Four individuals get together with thoughts on what an ideal society should be in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Blithedale Romance. ” Blithedale was a modern Arcadia founded by Charles Fourier which was eventually destroyed by the behavior of individuals who are only interested for themselves. These …
Ms. Zivas Critical Lens According to an unknown author, “It is not what an author states, but what he or she whispers that is important. ” In other words, every detail in every book or work of literature has a more complex meaning than what …
Jerry Cruncher is a Victorian joker in a tragic narrative. Transitioning from Jerry Cruncher ‘s amusing life to Lucie Manette ‘s tragic life creates a hearty balance go forthing the reader desiring more from each scene. His lower category dark wit contrasts the visible radiation …
The Big Fish is based on a genre, Southern Gothic, where freak nature comes in a role in story telling. The Big Fish have three most common elements in Southern Gothic. Those elements are imprisonment, freakiness, and supernatural. The father would tell a story to …
Brave Chris Colfer’s novel The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns tells the story of two 12-year-old twins, Alex and Connor Bailey, who went on an adventure to save their mother, and perhaps the world, against the will of their grandmother. The Enchantress, the witch …
A search for self in my opinion is the idea of an individual discovering. What he/she truly wants and discovering your true identity of what makes you individual. By building your own identity and choosing which paths to follow. For Kambili search for self is …
William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” and Francis Petrarch’s “She Used To Let Her Golden Hair Fly Free” both deal with the issue of ideal and unconditional love. However, they go about explaining this love in exceedingly different manners. Petrarch often depicts his lover as beautiful and …
Previously, Macbeth had always felt content with his respected position as the Thane of Glamis. However, when his heroism on the battlefield resulted in his sudden promotion to Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth began to lust for power and wealth. Tempted by the promises of the …
Tuesday Great literature is often influenced by the lives of those who write it. Edgar Allan Poe is a clear example of a life influencing art. Two tragic events or afflictions from Edgar Allan Poe’s life that influence much of his writing are violent death …
The Dante Club begins with the murder of fictional Chief Justice Judge Healey, who had avoided taking a position to stop or support the escaped slaves of the South. Found by his chambermaid near a white flag atop a short wooden staff, Healey had been …
The style Stoker uses to write the novel Dracula, in a series of diary/journal entries, newspaper clippings, letters, and other documents, makes the story more horrifying and suspenseful. This is because as written this way, the story becomes personal. The reader gets the feeling that …
The short story “Thank You, Malam and the poem Mother to Sonl, both by Langston Hughes are similar yet differ in many ways. In the following paragraphs I will explain the similarities and the differences. Besides being written by the same author the two literary …
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes the protagonist from depression into insanity. “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is the story about a young woman who is overwhelmingly influenced by her …
Traci L. Pugh Dr. Amber Reagan-Kendrick ENG 45023-SU-2012-OA Seminar in American Literature 8 August 2012 Gothic Literature: The Fascination with Terror People have an intrinsic fear of the dark and the unknown. While each person’s level of anxiety and object of terror are different, the …
People would do a lot for love, especially the two main characters of “The Gift of the Magi.” “The Gift of the Magi” is a short story by O’Henry. Della and Jim are a married couple, and they are poor. It’s Christmas time, and neither …
Irony is defined as a situation, or use of words that involve some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. There are three types of irony: verbal, dramatic, and situational. Verbal irony is almost like sarcasm, because in a verbal irony, the opposite of what is said …
Commitment stands at the opposite pole from compromise. The modern concept of committed literature emerged from the conflict of 20th century ideologies that have reflected the deep social changes of our times – the domination of Nazism and Communism in Europe, the victory of world …
About 2.2 billion people follow the one religious figure that so many recognize by the name or picture: Jesus Christ. Christ was known for his compassion, miraculous acts, and his sacrifices. William Golding allegorically depicts such a character in his book Lord of the Flies …
You’re not important. You’re not anything. ” Granger is talking about how utterly insignificant Montag, and all human beings for that matter, are in the long scheme of time. He continues by saying: “But even when we had the books on hand, a long time …
Revenge should know no bounds Claudius In William Shakespeare s Hamlet, Hamlet vows to avenge his father s death at the hands of Claudius, however, he procarastinates throughout the play and doesn t seek revenge until the end, when Hamlet finally acts by his instincts, …
On the battlefield, innocence is lost and men are transformed; yet all soldiers go through a three-step transformation that turns them into better soldiers, but worse men as well. In the novel “ All Quiet On The Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, and in …
Theme
A literary theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these elements.
Voice
In literature, the voice expresses the narrator or author's emotions, attitude, tone and point of view through artful, well thought out use of word choice and diction. A piece of literature's voice is one of its most defining and important features and can completely change the way a story is read and received.
Structure
What is structure in literature? The definition of literary structure is that it is the organization of a story's various elements, including plot, characters, and themes. It forms a frame that helps a reader understand how a story's elements tie together.
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