1915 in literature

Ambrose Bierce: A Strange Writer Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 and died in the year of 1914 in Mexico. He was an American writer, poet, and journalist. His death is a mystery. The people in his time period reported that he disappeared without a trace. All investigations were proven wrong and people at that time period came up with many stories that other people found incredible and false. Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, OH. At one point, he lived in San Francisco. Bierce’s…

Brenda English is a mystery writer who has written the Sutton McPhee series and co-authored "The Intuitive Heart" with Henry Reed, PhD (a dream, parapsychology, intuition, and creativity). "The Intuitive Heart" is all about opening the door to inner wisdom, and developing intuition and psychic ability. Intuition in this case is more than just gaining answers to certain questions about what to do; but also becoming closer to everyone and everything around you. She got interested in writing…

Never Cry Wolf Response Journal Rafid Mirza Farley Mowat has often been accused of fabricating statistics and other facts in his novels. Write an entry explaining your thinking on this subject. My opinion of Farley Mowat fabricating statistics and facts is that Mowat tries to tell the truth. However, he still may have “modified” some of the statistics. The reason why he did this was probably to get his point across. As explained in another journal entry, many people “modify” statistics to fit…

One of the many things that our group enjoyed in The Giver, by Lois Lowry, was the intriguing society where it takes place. We liked reading about the customs, laws, and rules, such as their policies on precision of language. It was interesting for us to hear about how it was focused on in lessons.In fact, lessons were interrupted to focus on precision of language. A book is always more interesting when it takes place in an interesting setting. The society in this novel was very intriguing in…

Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. Her hometown is Ontario Canada. Her parents and siblings are Carl Edmund Atwood, Margaret Dorothy Killam, Ruth Atwood, and Harold Leslie Atwood. She is at age 79. Margaret Atwood is famous because she is an author. She writes famous poet. She is a literary critic. She is a journalist. She is also an award - winning novelist. Interesting facts about Margaret Atwood are she thought of her first poem while walking football field. She wrote a song…

Ladies and gentleman of the jury: The Pigman by Paul Zindel is an exceptional piece of literature that is great for projects. With only a few shortcomings, The Pigman is a great choice for young adult readers looking for a true, raw story and is a favorable pick among schools. To begin, the story is narrated by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, two teenagers in the late sixties. Through a difficult series of events, they learn responsibility. This responsibility is a maturity which is portrayed…

Flannery O'Connor writes amazing stories, he's an amazing author. He wrote this story called “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and that is what I am going to talk about. In my opinion I think that O’Connor uses both foreshadowing and flashbacks to create suspense and tension. Others may disagree, but here's my side. I think that O’Connor uses foreshadowing and flashbacks in his story to create tension because he used a lot of them and also because when you read the story that is how the tension is…

realities of growing up and the changes time and the fragile twentieth-century society begins to have on the turbulent and hopelessly unconventional Amory Blaine. Throughout the novel, themes similar to those described in Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor became evident. This Side of Paradise includes a quest story arc, the symbolism of seasons, Political themes, and a Christ figure as described in Foster’s book. In This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine’s life is a quest.…

In the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the author uses rhetorical patterns throughout the poem. The purpose of this is to entertain the reader and to keep the reader’s attention. It’s also to get the reader’s interested and make them want to read more. One rhetorical pattern used in the poem is repetition. An example of this pattern in the poem is “ So monstrous a mount, so mighty a man”. It is repetition since it uses the words so and a more than once so close together. This…

In addition to intellectual curiosity, being well read is a quality that helped Douglass and Malcolm X become truly educated. Being well read helped both of them to learn vocabulary, spelling, and how to write. When Douglass knew how to read he came upon the word abolition. He didn’t know the meaning of the word so he read the dictionary, and a newspaper until he finally understood the meaning. He writes, “Every little while, I could hear something about abolitionists. It was some time before I…