Blue Winds Dance Analysis

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Literary element have huge role in any type of writing. Literary elements helps any type of writing to be better because the elements help the writing to be stronger. Among the short stories we read in this class I choose “The Necklace” and “Blue Winds Dancing” to do my analysis over. Even though the two stories have different setting, the setting plays a huge role by helping the character and plot to be more defined. One of the most important literacy element in “the Necklace” and “Blue Winds Dancing” is the setting because it effect both the character and the plot throughout the story.
“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is a story about Mathilde’s life who always wished she was in a higher social class than she is now. All Mathilde thinks
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The character in this short story is a young Indian attending college, who is going back home. In the story we see the narrator is confused in which world he belongs to “white” or “India.” Later on the story the narrator asks himself “Am I Indian, or am I white”; he is not sure if will be categorized as “white” or Indian” since he has not lived in India for long period of time. The setting helped the character to be seen the way readers see him but if the character did not go back to India the readers could not be able to see how this young college student is …show more content…
The author is in conflict with himself in which the narrator does not know which culture he belongs to. There is an internal conflict in this character because of the ancient Indian conflicting with the modern American expectations. The narrator is searching his identity. The narrator shows his dissatisfaction with “white” society “I am tired. I am weary of trying to keep up this bluff of begin civilized. Begin civilized means trying to do everything you do not want to, never doing anything you want to.” Being civilized made the narrator to become tired of

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