Howard Frank Mosher was an American writer that wrote literary fiction set in the North East. Mosher was born in Kingston, New York to Helen Emily Trapp and Howard H. Mosher. He referred to his hometown as a ghost town, a dying mill town where he spent most of his happy memories secluded behind his house catching trout from as early as four years. His father was a schoolteacher with wanderlust who moved the family more than ten times before Howard joined high school. However, the moving around had one silver lining as if they had never moved so much he would never have met his future wife in Cato, New York.…
Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a 16-year-old boy who is an African-American and is on trial for felony murder when a drug store holdup has gone down with James King and other Witnesses including Osvaldo Cruz and Richard “Bobo” Evans. In this book, we go on a crazy adventure on how to get Steve and others out of jail with the help of the powerful voices of Kathy O'Brien, Steve’s lawyer And Asa Brigg, James King's…
¨Only I could have done that. I am glad I am me.¨ Brian thought, The Boy Who Could Turn into Things by Stuart Baum. In the story, Brian is strong hearted. I know that because brain is lonely, he has no friends.…
Emotions of negativity trail with Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, as Gregor’s body slowly transforms into a bug-like body size of a human; resulting in undesired “torture” from his family and himself. Although change isn't always followed with horrid results, it's hard to adjust to, since pain, suffrage and misunderstandings create obstacles. Discomforts of a specific situation leads to pain- state of being hurt- when something in movement is not welcomed. To feel loved is necessary in a human-being’s life; once loneliness wraps around one’s life, things begin to shift; and others surrounding one, gradually begins to be affected. For instance, when Gregor overheard that his sister, Grete- which was the only one who ever cared…
In part one, chapter six of The Stranger, Camus utilizes a multitude of literary devices in hopes of describing and explaining Meursault’s killing of the Arab. Although Camus employs the use of a plethora of literary techniques, some of the most conspicuous include those of foreshadowing, imagery, and intricate diction. In the final chapter of part one, Camus makes use of various literary devices to present the notion that Meursault’s needless murder of the Arab lacks a rational explanation, though the reader attempts to find one. Across the course of chapter six, Camus makes use of foreshadowing as a means of hinting at the disastrous course that Meursault’s life will take at the end of the chapter.…
A bildungsroman is a novel about the coming of age, with the character experiencing difficulties which allow them to gradually gain maturity. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor slowly starts realizing that his family is dependent on him and that is something he does not want to accept. Through a series of events which contribute to the overall growth of the character, Gregor gains self realization, ending in his death. The Metamorphosis is an example of a bildungsroman, emphasizing the power of money in society.…
In the book, The Metamorphosis, there are three unnamed men who rent out Gregor’s home. These three men are all monochromatic individuals who strive for absolute perfection and cleanliness. Upon first glance, these men seem like displeased and quite frankly annoying house guests. However, these men are a personification of Gregor’s obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD for short. This is possibly one of the main reasons Gregor feels he has turned into a bug, as his OCD has gotten worse with the contact stress from his job and his abusive…
Victor Frankenstein had been interested in science from a young age one day after an electrical storm the idea sparked in his head to create a monster. After many years of school Victor finally creates the monster in his apartment. Victor's little brother was murdered and Victor had to return home. Victor later finds out that his monster murdered his brother so Victor decided not to reveal his invention. Justine, the Frankenstein's house keeper is charged with the murder.…
James Baldwin was an African American novelist born in 1924, and passed away in 1987. He wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions, during an important time of history when these topics were finally being more widely discussed. Though he is an African-American writer, one may think Baldwin specifically wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions in solely America, but he actually travels over the world to tackle these issues. One of his works that covers those issues abroad is A Stranger in The Village, a short story about Baldwin’s time in a very small, sheltered, and predominantly white community up in the mountains of Switzerland. The people of this village treat him differently because he is an outsider, and they especially treat Baldwin differently because he is an outsider with a look…
Metamorphosis, The Stranger, Hunger all focus on grappling with alienation due a massive change in their lives, struggling with the void in relationship to each character’s imprisonment, and their eventual deaths and their feelings about it, but each novel takes different existentialist…
The author makes it clear that Frankenstein abandons the monster, and the violence of the monster is the response to this feeling. Frankenstein, the scientist who created the monster, casts his creation away due to his ugliness. When the monster kills William, the reader is shocked, but can also see why the monster committed this act. After all, Frankenstein abandoned him with little hope of survival simply because of his imperfect looks without seeing if he had a good heart. The reader identifies Frankenstein’s abandonment of the monster as a parent abandoning a child, something that is despicable in the eyes of the readers.…
The Strange Character of Meursault In what perhaps is Albert Camus’s most notable work, The Stranger, the main character Meursault can be considered as a vessel for the philosophy of existentialism, an idea prominent in the time period in which the novel was written. Though at first glance Meursault may come off as a simple, uncaring man, as the story progresses, the reader is able to see Meursault as a complex and intriguing person. While in the beginning of the book Meursault is focused only on completing his physical needs, when his ability to fulfill them is taken away from him in prison, he is forced to truly think about his life, becoming fully absurdist in his philosophy. From the very start of the story, the author…
Matt Blair English 4, Ward Period 3 The Forlorn Path In life, individuals and generations set social norms which others follow. Existentialism is a philosophical idea that goes against many of these norms, and places emphasis on individual freedom and one's ability of free choice. The authors Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, and Steve McQueen attempt to reflect these existential ideas in their respective works of The Metamorphosis, The stranger, and Hunger.…
The Metamorphosis written by a German author Franz Kafka is viewed as one of the most analyzed works of literature. It is an incredible story that explains the process of transformation from human into a massive insect of Gregor Samsa. This story continues to be an inspiration for many imaginative pieces of literature. The aspect of Metamorphosis has transformed it into a puzzle of contemporary imagination. Popular culture has always shown the difference between functional and dysfunctional families to provide the factors that influence their information.…
He was always busy with work. The only person that could be said to be close to him was his sister, who would turn on him later in the story. Upon metamorphosis, Gregor could no longer provide for himself, which wasn't a problem, or his family who, he was most worried about. From the point of this major physical change from a human to a beetle, his family starts to turn on him. This is due to the fact that Gregor had no longer acquired the ability to work to work and provide for his family.…