reflect the overall theme of a narrative to readers through the uses of techniques. From the two short stories “Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker and “ The Fallen House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, the use of setting to depict thematic occurrences is implied. Both fictions demonstrate the use of time awareness, weather changes, feelings characters get from their surroundings, colour choices and visual aspects of the setting specific objects to illustrate the narratives inner theme. At the…
engage in a conversation. It is after this that they travel together to the mountains. Under a blizzard, they find a shelter where they take a rest as their conversation ensures. Here we realize that the value of love and cooperation is explored. The friendship that these two create help them to cover the journey to the mountains and become great friends who move together as they share various experiences. They open to each other up to the point that the narrator, who is unnamed, is given the…
Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory is evident within J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book as the notion of the “special world” (Vogler 10) is glorified through contrast in relation to the core themes of the texts. Within both novels, the protagonists are only able to truly experience the themes of family, belonging and the supernatural whilst in the special world, placing an emphasis on this realm. Furthermore, contrast is consistently…
Analytical Essay “First-time author Judy Blume, a New Jersey housewife with two small children, would have laughed if you told her in 1969 that her books would transform an industry, influence more girls than Laura Ingalls Wilder, and sell 80 million copies” (Winer). Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) was born on February 12, 1938, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of Esther and Rudolph Sussman. Blume attended an all-girls' High School but unfortunately, she contracted…
telling the story visually. War Horse is a children’s novel written by the British author Michael Morpugo. Firstly published on 1982, it gained rapid popularity worldwide due to the impressive narrative of the First World War conflict. Some of the most popular features of the book are strong feelings of friendship amongst “vivid pictures of the impact of warfare across different times and cultures” (National Army Museum, 2015). The stage adaptation process started in 2004 when director Tim…
Mom” which is considered as the literacy narrative. It reveals me about my development in my childhood, which was affected by my mom a lot. I realized that I became more mature and independent when I discovered that my mom lost her ability to listen to the world. At the beginning of this essay, I used a flashback after the conversation between my grandma and me because it’s a way to keep readers’ interests and guide them through the main part of the narrative story naturally. Also, I used vivid…
that are undertaking a quest, like Dorothy the main character. The characters maybe aspirational and escapist characters. The story is set in an imagined time like the Emerald City. The iconography of the film includes witches and magic. The narrative is linear or simplistic in nature e.g. (she embarks on a journey to the Emerald City to ask the Wizard for help in returning…
love with her, but the impulsive Catherine chooses Jules at first, and then leads them along an unpredictable journey of affairs and odd behavior for years. The use of the camera in the film is very fluid and swirling, sometimes independent of the narrative, which plays on the morality within the…
The narrative conventions in the novel evokes an emotional attachment not only to the characters but the book and students will have the opportunity to grow with the characters. An engaging text, your students will have the opportunity to learn about Nazi Germany…
There are two stories I will be comparing and contrasting. The first story is called “Two Friends” by Guy De Maupassant. The other story is called “The Interlopers” by Saki. The first element I will be contrasting from the two stories is the character. In the story the “Two Friends” the two friends were really great friends and they would go fishing together every Sunday. While in the story “The Interlopers” Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym are enemies. They are fighting over land and they…