Eliza Pickeny was the daughter of George Lucas who was a British Army lieutenant-colonel and lieutenant governor of Antigua. They do not know that much about her mother. When she was young her father sent her to school which was odd for a women in that era of time. While her father was in the war she had to control the plantations that her farther owned. She teaches of the African American women to read and write so they can teach there kids.…
Margaret Edson author of W;t, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize. I have never seen such a well structured and organized play. This is Mrs. Edson’s first play book, and something that strongly supported her while writing W;t is that she had knowledge and experience in the cancer and AIDS unit while also earning her second degree for elementary teaching. The play W;t is very descriptive in the beginning; it describes what background of the story and costumes.…
Swimming is something that almost everyone loves to do. Whether it is in a pool or the ocean, there is a sense of freedom and weightlessness that we can't get anywhere else. As long as you can float in water you shouldn’t really have any fear or worry. If that water is thirty-two degrees on the other hand, then you might start to worry and panic. In the case of Lynne Cox, after the first page it kept me in suspense wondering, was she just going to die of hypothermia?…
Have you ever felt like an outsider? S.E Hinton wrote a book called the outsider. She was inspired by her high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her school had different types of social groups and she didn’t like that. So she wrote a book about it she was 17 when she wrote it.…
What Is in a Name? Does your name reflect what you do in your life? If you were a character in C.S. Lewis’s book, Perelandra, your name would describe you, and reveal your personality. C.S. Lewis used the names of his characters to portray their significance, and their place in the plot of the story. His characters’ names have been thought-out, making each name coordinate with the overall story, and coordinating with the stories hidden beneath the main plot.…
In what seemed like a few swift moments, the sun sank beneath the horizon, leaving splashes of orange, red, and purple across the sky, I walked along the battlefield, soldiers lying almost motionless on the green and red-splotched grass. Then, I heard a loud cry. “Mary! Mary, my sister!” Other soldiers laid on the ground, their eyes glazed over, pupils heavily dilated.…
In the nineteenth century, women’s right in the United States had not been granted. The era saw the emergence of several prominent female literary figures. Like many other women before Glaspell, they wrote of inequality between sexes and the inability of women to live their own lives without reliance on man. Through this, they helped writers of the twentieth century, such as Glaspell, to write on similar themes. In Trifles, Glaspell's distinctive use of symbols helps illustrate the uprising theme.…
For instance in the opening scene of Imitation of Life, Lora Meredith is frantically searching all around a public beach, with a stranger named Steve Archer, for her daughter Susie. They finally find her and this is where it all begins because Susie is with a woman named Annie Johnson and her daughter named Sarah Jane. Once Lora is calm again because…
Similarly, in Tonio Kroger, the narrator uses the protagonist’s full name when describing his thoughts: ‘it was whom Tonio Kroger loved at the ages of sixteen’ (Mann 1998: 147). However, throughout the narration, there is also the reference to just ‘Tonio’ (144). The narrator’s choice to use just a first name helps familiarize the reader with the protagonist, implying that we get a closer insight into Tonio Kroger’s life than we do to Miss Brill. Also, there are more dialogue passages in Tonio Kroger, displaying an obvious…
These are not happy people living their dreams, and they are attempting to avoid the strife that comes from their conflicting desires. In almost every case of a pseudonym title, narrators either directly refer to themselves or are referred to as the title that headlines the chapter.…
3. Historical Influences There were many important people that influenced Elizabeth Loftus in establishing her career. Richard Atkinson helped her in completing her master’s thesis on learning spelling via computer-assisted mathematics instruction. Her doctoral thesis on the other hand was supervised by Patrick Suppes. These men were both very inspirational to her.…
Many people have used fake names for a variety of reasons but one of the oldest reasons was a method used by authors to publish writing. A alternate name someone uses as an author is often called a “pen name”, an alias or a pseudonym. Authors use pen names so they can be published because for many possible reasons they wouldn’t be published under their own names. Many famous authors have used pen names because they wanted to be taken seriously or wanted to protect their name. For some people using an alias was the only way for them to be published.…
This is just one example of the many uses, or opportunities pen names bring to starting authors, or even authors who are very popular. Many writers use pen names for more freedom of their writing and to bring new opportunities, women would use it for the readers and publishers to take them more seriously, and if a writer would want to change genres without the pressures of their previous writings. Firstly, these pen names allow writers to…
Notable Names within the Scarlet Letter “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.” Solomon expresses in Proverbs that names are to be chosen to represent your true identity, not someone you wish to be. Nathaniel Hawthorne includes Solomon’s idea in his novel, The Scarlet Letter, as he names his characters with symbolic significance. The connotation of light and darkness is established in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter through the symbolic names.…
Identity has always been an important topic throughout literature and real life, for, without identity, you wouldn’t be yourself. Furthermore, identity is a process that is ongoing and is constantly influenced by our environment, the people we choose to hang around with, and our experiences. On the other hand, identity is rarely discussed in society, leaving kids confused on what identity is. Luckily, we have literature to teach us about identity, and it’s important for authors to reveal identity effectively. For instance, effective writers use other’s reactions to the character, their experiences, and their environment to reveal who a character is.…