Jim Sanderson’s Faded Love and Euripides’ Medea come from completely different points in time, yet they show numerous similarities. In this paper I will examine literary elements in both works that help develop the story, the role of tragedy as a theme, and numerous similarities that are listed throughout both stories.
In Faded Love we start our short story in Odessa, Texas at a car dealership where two former University of Texas football players by the names Bailey Waller and Pooter Elam work. Immediately into the story Bailey confronts his boss about wanting to take a job elsewhere at the local middle school as a history teacher and football coach. Bailey’s boss agrees without hesitation and helps him secure the position. Bailey’s love interest is …show more content…
Although the following examples are not the same literary elements they are both used in the same way to intrigue and gain the reader’s attention. In Faded Love Sanderson used foreshadowing early on within Bailey’s character that makes the reader want to read further to garner the information he foreshadows. For example, Sanderson foreshadows an event to occur later in the story by using the phrase, “Though he wasn’t sure and couldn’t explain it, he felt a terror that his life, like Bud’s, was about to unravel”(Sanderson 12). Sanderson keeps the reader on their toes and questioning what comes next. In Medea Euripides strikes the reader with dramatic irony on opening page of the play to grasp the reader’s attention. Medea’s nurse exclaims, “I know and fear her lest she may sharpen a sword and thrust to the heart, stealing into the palace where the bed is made, or even kill the king and the new-wedded groom…”(Euripides 361). Even though the play opens with a statement revealing the course of action for the play, it let’s the audience in on what will become of the characters with just enough suspension questioning when the series of events will
In Faded Love we start our short story in Odessa, Texas at a car dealership where two former University of Texas football players by the names Bailey Waller and Pooter Elam work. Immediately into the story Bailey confronts his boss about wanting to take a job elsewhere at the local middle school as a history teacher and football coach. Bailey’s boss agrees without hesitation and helps him secure the position. Bailey’s love interest is …show more content…
Although the following examples are not the same literary elements they are both used in the same way to intrigue and gain the reader’s attention. In Faded Love Sanderson used foreshadowing early on within Bailey’s character that makes the reader want to read further to garner the information he foreshadows. For example, Sanderson foreshadows an event to occur later in the story by using the phrase, “Though he wasn’t sure and couldn’t explain it, he felt a terror that his life, like Bud’s, was about to unravel”(Sanderson 12). Sanderson keeps the reader on their toes and questioning what comes next. In Medea Euripides strikes the reader with dramatic irony on opening page of the play to grasp the reader’s attention. Medea’s nurse exclaims, “I know and fear her lest she may sharpen a sword and thrust to the heart, stealing into the palace where the bed is made, or even kill the king and the new-wedded groom…”(Euripides 361). Even though the play opens with a statement revealing the course of action for the play, it let’s the audience in on what will become of the characters with just enough suspension questioning when the series of events will