The two story's "Drumbeats and Bullets" and " The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" are very different and very similar in lots of ways. The Battle of Shiloh was a battle that took place during the Civil War. These two story's "Drumbeats and Bullets" and "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" really are totally opposites of how they are written but still very similar. Some of the differences in the two stories "Drumbeats and Bullets" and "The Drummer of Shiloh". One of them is that the story "The Drummer of Shiloh" is in first person point of view well the other story is just going over the outline of drummer boys and how they started to disappeared during middle of the Cilvil War.…
Walter Dean Myers was a very well respected writer. He was born on Martinsburg West Virgin and was raised in Harlem New York. Mr. Myers had written Bad boys, Monster, Slam!, and many more books. He had a speech impediment which helped him to start writing. He would get picked on and teased about the way he talked.…
These 2 stories are comparing and contrasting about how the authors purposes are about. They are very similar but are they really?What are some differences you thought about when reading this. And similarities. One similarity is that the passages both tell us how she got them and got them out of slavery. Both passages really support that she saved and helped tons of people out of slavery,and encourages that she did this for a reason.…
The Stories “Old Ben” by Jesse Stuart and “Fox Hunt” by Lensey Namioka use the elements of Foreshadowing and Flashbacks to develop interesting plots. “Old Ben” is a story about a family who hates snakes, but eventually learns to like them from their new pet snake Ben who ends up dying. “Fox Hunt” is about a boy who has a PSAT coming up and nobody wants to study with him, so a fox comes and helps him study. The stories have many similarities and differences involving flashbacks and foreshadowing.…
Donald Murray meticulously developed and laid out ten writing habits he performs in order to hone in on his writing potential. After a self evaluation I came to the realization I possess similar to habits to those of Mr. Murray, but I also have my own. The habit of awareness and connecting seem to interconnect for me. The book How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster immediately came to mind. Foster discusses various interpretations of literature through quests, communion, themes, and of course symbols because “Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.”…
In her collection of short stories, Flannery O’Connor has a characteristic style that is shown through her narrator and figurative language regardless of the plot or scenario. In the first four novella in the collection, O’Connor introduces the reader to these aspects of her style via similar uses and different elements according to each story she tells. Her novellas have a characteristic style through color imagery, a mean-spirited (but humorous) storyteller as the narrator, strange comparisons, and allusions to Catholicism throughout, which together establish her style as one that is unique among other twentieth century writers. In the first paragraph of her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” O’Connor uses the Grandmother’s comment about a hypothetical situation to suggest and foreshadow the novella’s plot.…
The scholars would get distracted and not participate in the grand conversation properly whenever it is a book they already read before. The scholars would change the story for fun and not talk about what they like or did not like about the book. For when the books they have never heard before, the scholars sat quietly and was paying attention to the story. The scholars also participate in the grand conversation properly when it is a book they have never heard before. The scholar did learn the spelling strategy because he would automatically know what to do whenever the teacher begin to teach him two new words for the day.…
Some towns may seem normal at first, but when people look closer, they may realize how abnormal they really are. If readers just skim over the details of the towns in these stories, they would think that everything is normal; but it is actually the opposite of that. There are many similarities between Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Lottery.” Some of the most striking similarities include foreshadowing, setting, and symbolism. One of the first similarities the reader will notice between the two stories is in the use of setting that appears to be normal.…
The short stories “The Lottery” and “The Destructors” are made up of great details that help to form the scenes in the reader’s mind. One story creating profound images of a beautiful, small town concealed in flowers and exhausted tradition; while the other story constructs a reflection of a boyhood gang’s decaying car-park hang-out surrounded by debris and dilapidated buildings. Even though the short stories “The Lottery” and “The Destructors” leave the reader wanting a better understanding of the purpose of the character’s actions, both stories do provide enough foreshadowing for the reader to understand what the conclusions of the stories could be. Foreshadowing plays a major part in both stories, but more so in “The Lottery”.…
One of the most important, yet seemingly small differences, is the name given to the narrator in the movie, Charlotte. She never names herself throughout the written story. The choice not to name a main character of a story was very well thought out by Gilman. A no-named character gives the readers the ability to relate because they could just as easily be this person as to anyone else. The writers of the film not only chose to name the narrator, but they chose the name of the author of the original story.…
The movie was quite similar to the story. The summary and every action was similar. First, the ritual to the lottery was the same. There were many steps to getting ready for the drawing, so they needed a black box to put all the tickets in. Then the people would place the black box on a stool, and the operators were the same as in the story.…
Would you ever think a member of the Nazi party would save over a 1,000 Jews during the holocaust? Because Thomas Keneally’s novel and Steven Spielberg’s film, Schindler’s List is the account of one such individual. Oskar Schindler was a German manufacturing tycoon in occupied Poland who decides to hire and protect his Jewish workers from certain death in labor camps. In the novel, Thomas Keneally shows Oskar Schindler’s roguish and rebellious personality by describing his manner and appearance with descriptive language, characterization, and dialogue whereas in the movie, Spielberg does this through expositions, point of view shots, and shot reverse shot. Between the two tellings of the same story, there is a common theme in the presentation: attention to detail.…
After both reading and listening to the story “Burd”, personally, I prefer the written version over the spoken version for several reasons. One of the many reasons why I enjoy reading the story myself rather than listening to Stuart McLean read it is because there are far more specific details which lead to an overall better understanding of the text. Although the structure of each version is very similar, I find that the written form was more orderly because it sets out and explains point by point exactly what happens between Dave and the summer tanager in his backyard, which helps to avoid confusion. Likewise, while the author was reading this story out loud, he added a few side comments but also left out many components that can be found…
In dystopian worlds “The Lottery” and the “Tell-Tale Heart” the authors use their writing style to shock the reader. They use tricky tactics, rich writing style, and irony to keep the reader engrossed to the story. Both authors differ in their approaches to writing style, while using the similar techniques. In both stories the authors starts with an ironic title as “Tell-Tale-Heart” either “The Lottery” which tricks the reader to expect something different.…
Both Carson McCuller’s “Sucker” and Eudora Welty’s “A Memory” examine the dream and reality of human relationship. Both authors use adult personas, who is looking back and reminiscing on their childhood, which is to know between dream and reality. Whereas McCuller reveals that dream in conflict with reality will destroy all relationships, Welty shows that dream and reality will ultimately bring a person's view of the world into darkness. Both stories is a frame memory that looks back to the childhood and reflects on it, and they are both written in the firs-person point of view. Both persona’s are in their teenage years and they both have an admiration for someone of the opposite sex.…