Descriptive Essay About a Place

Do you think a person has two sides? If a person hides the side they feel ashamed of will it come back to haunt that person?In society there are many people who have different sides to themselves in my opinion. For example,when a student goes with one group to another they have different personalities because they can change personalities that quick. Well,in the novel,Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde a mad scientist makes a potion or drug that is impure where he then drinks it and it turns…

Author's many techniques such as dialogue and many other techniques to create many themes for a story or book. W.W. Jacobs uses techniques like dialogue, descriptive words and phrases, and the characters feelings/actions to create the theme of “Wishes can come true but come with consequences” in the story The Monkey’s Paw. He uses dialogue between characters to create a feeling in the book and in the reader which leads to the creation of a theme. In the book a conversation between Mr. and Mrs…

The method for study research is a qualitative research method. The qualitative research method allows for the descriptive and interpretive information be relayed through the interview by following the interview protocol (Yin, 2014). As suggested by Yin (2013), the qualitative research method is the method used to address how and why questions thereby addressing the…

We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart takes place in a fictional island called Beechwood. The island is off the coast of Massachusetts, and close to Martha’s Vineyard. The theme of this book is family. Cadence spends her summers in isolation on an island with only her family for company. Sure, she gets fancy houses and private boats, but all of it comes at a price. Cadence Sinclair, the narrator and main character of this romance and tragic filled novel, lives in a big house in Vermont and has a family…

William Cullen Bryant and Philip Freneau, two poets, were both infatuated with land that was untouched by humans and its unending beauty. This infatuation and their descriptive poems gave America it’s own original art. William Cullen Bryant describes America’s beauty in one of his many poems called “The Prairies.” In this poem, he describes the vastness of America saying, “The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye/ Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase the sunny ridges” (13/14). He goes…

Reading “The Open Window” the narrative set the tone for the time and place in which the story was being narrated. Mr. Nuttel was visiting the home so that he could get acquainted with people who lived in the town. Written language did not convey the message Vera, 15, was playing a practical joke on Mr. Nuttel until I watched the video. In fact, her practical jokes caused Mr. Nuttel to run out of the house in pure terror. She carried her joke to another level by giving her family a farfetched…

Charles Dickins utilizes diction in Great Expectation to express an informed and descriptive feel. Through diction, the reader is able to distinguish between characters an understand more about them that will assist in portraying satire in the novel. The reader is addressed this concept on page 298 where the convict states “I swore afterwards…

Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts, to develop a character, Amanda Beale. Spinelli made sure to put every ounce of detail there was to create this character Amanda Beale, and to imagine her as a kind and caring person. For example, when Amanda brought Maniac home, her parents decided that he was going to live with them. Amanda gave up her room for Maniac, “Amanda was happy to give up her room….” Amanda wanted Maniac to have a comfy place to sleep, and not on…

Have you ever felt isolated from everyone else just because of how you look? Have you ever been labeled because of something that happened to you? Have people ever judged you for something that is completely out of your control? If so, then you’ll understand exactly how Marguerite feels in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. This book is an autobiographical narrative of Maya Angelou’s life with herself as the main character. Other important characters include her older brother…

Tell-Tale Heart, a man is faced with this very struggle and desperately pleas to convince the reader and possibly himself that he is in fact sane, but in his attempt, he only furthers the assumption that he is cursed with madness. The setting takes place in an unknown location where an unnamed man recants his twisted story of murder that led to his assumed imprisonment after confessing to the crime. The events that led to his confession, however, immerse the reader into the mind of…